Two years later..

Wow, I came upon a link to my own blog.. and I can't believe two years have passed!! I need to see if I can remember how to post pictures.. Lily is now the age Bella was in the last few pictures, amazing! Promise to get an update going here...

December Festivities - picture overload!

What a month! Finally this week, the cold has arrived. BRR! Also, our favorite time of year. So much to do, but it's all in the Spirit of Christmas. I love hearing the kids talking about Jesus' Birthday, and everything else we love about this time of year. Driving around looking at lights is something we do almost daily, even it's just around the neighborhood.

But, before all that, December is special for another birthday! Liliana Grace just turned three! It does not seem like three years ago that she was born. Crazy! Silly girl came two days before she was scheduled to come - I should have known then the independent little girl I'd have!

We had about a week of celebration - Alex's family and my parents came over for cake and pizza about a week before Lily's birthday - and then on the 15th we celebrated at Disneyland, and on her actual birthday, the 17th, she chose Island's for dinner. The next days two of her friends came over and brought her a princess soccer ball! Perfect for my little soccer star!

Bella LOVES the characters at Disneyland (She even got to go last week on a special trip with my parents, overnight. They had TONS of fun !)

Lily was in complete awe of the princesses - she walked slowly towards them and just sat quietly :)

I have to say, one perk of going to Dland on a rainy day is the less than 10minute wait for the Princess pictures.
We also had dinner at Goofy's kitchen. Lily still wasn't sure about the characters, but Bella was totally into it .. except Aladdin! She ran and hid behind Alex. Too funny.

Birthday Celebration at the house...

That's all for today... lots more to come :)

Update coming...

with Lily's birthday pictures, Disneyland pictures, and more!

We're still here!

I can't believe it's been so long! I guess with facebook, etc I don't remember to update here as much - but I"ll do a quick rundown of the last 6 weeks, lol!

Let's see... I found out I'll be having TWO new neices in the Spring - no, no twins :) Jodie is due in March, and Alex's sister in April. What fun! They both have older brothers waiting for them, so I'm sure it'll be lots of fun.

Halloween was fun - here are a couple highlights! Lily was SO excited to be Elmo. She picked it and couldn't get enough! Mommy even got in on the fun one night...

Lily got her first haircut... not too much, and thankfully the curls didn't go anywhere!

Isabella got her first school picture back and I am THRILLED!! She loves her preschool class - they work on a different letter each week and do lots of other fun crafty learning type things!

Promise to be better! Thanks for asking, Missy!

Field Trip!

Isabella's preschool had their trip to the pumpkin patch today... while it was lots of fun, there's just something "not right" about going to the pumpkin patch while it's in the 90's.. :) Where's fall???

Here are a few highlights... (not sure what Lily was looking at, but it sure wasn't me!)

Listening to the tour guide

Little sister soon joined in :) This is Millie the cow...

Train ride! Isabella ONLY wanted to ride with her teacher - Miss Cindy .. so Lily and I followed :)

Petting Zoo

Random

Swim lessons are over ...

so I decided to take a few pics on the last day. Bella loved them! They went great, had about 4 kids in the class.. the only other girl was annoying as anything (yes, I said it) - all we heard for the majority of the class was "Polly*, stop that. Polly, get back in. Polly, get off the wall, Polly...." wow! I felt for the coach, but he kept it going.



Here's my girl!

Listening to "safety"

Walking with her coach -
Making sure she's all ready
kickboard - practicing Butterfly kick
diving practice from the side

Jumping off the diving board!

++ I can't seem to add comments -- the one with just a SPLASH is jumping and getting rings from the bottom.

Lily also had a blast each week, running up and down the grassy hill. Can't leave her out!

*names changed..just in case ;)

We're still here...

Whew! Getting used to the running around is tough - seems like the only "down time" lately is nap/quiet time. We're still here, going strong!
Last weekend Alex and I were able to get away for a few days to his Marine Corp buddy's wedding in Carlsbad. The girls got to stay with Gramma and Baca and had a blast! Lots of swimming/dressing up/books, etc. We had a good time, too, but did miss the girls.
Swim Lessons go on for another week, and then our "busy-ness" will be confined to the mornings, so that will be nice, too.
tt4n!