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December 26, 2012

'tis the season

What a great holiday we had, despite Robby being a little "present shy" and sick .... Our holiday tradition consists of 3 different present opening times (lucky him right?!) First we spent Christmas Eve with Robby and Bradley's, Nana and Tata, Robert's parents. Robby had so much fun playing with his cousins/Robert's side of the family that he doesn't see often, plus he scored lots of sweet loot from Nana Mary. After we came home we tried our best to tire Robby out, which if you know him is practically impossible. It was about 11pm and we were finally able to sneak all the presents under the tree, yes we will be instilling the "Santa brings you presents" idea. Christmas morning arrives and its the one day out of 2012 that Robby decides to sleep till nearly 8am (being up till 11pm probably had something to do with it). He wasn't super excited at first, but after mom and dad opened a few he was all for it. The final Christmas "celebration" happened later that day at my parents house with my side of the family. I have to say this year was especially nice because my brother was there to celebrate with us, he has been through a lot of personal struggles the past few years and its good to see him on the other side of it. Anyways, Robby and Bradley both got so much this year, I am so thankful to both of our families. Here are a few pictures of our Christmas....

Robby dressed to impress

Sleepy Bradley

Probably his favorite toy this year... Mater from the Cars movie that blows bubbles!!

What can I say this kid loves cars/trucks!

Momma's boy, for sure

Bradley and Dad

My sister and her 4 kids, my mom and stepdad, brother and us 4....

..... Till next year!

December 26, 2011

Our Three Christmases

Wow, it feels like I haven't blogged in a month! In actuality its been 5 days.... I let myself get swept up in the holidays and just didn't have time to sit in front of the computer and complete a post, sorry for that. I have had a great few days though!! Robert has had extra days off work and we got to see a lot of family.

Our 1st Christmas is always spent with Robert's family, they open gifts and do all the fun stuff on Christmas Eve. It was a lot of fun, as it always is! Plus there is all the tamales and meundo a girl could ask for.... Robby was asleep by the time it came to open presents, sadly. OH and, I was named this year's "present passer-outer" (yes yet another word I made up) I'm quite shy and don't do to much talking so they thought it was funny seeing my face turn bright red.....

Sweet boy sleeping.....

The next "Christmas" was the morning of, and it was just us three..... It was around 6am when Robby woke up so we rushed to sneak the presents under the tree before he came into the living room. (The original plan was to do it after he went to sleep the night before, but we got tired.) He didn't seem to care that much about the presents honestly. I think its because he is like me, and is pretty grumpy the first half hour after he wakes up. Once we sat him down and opened the presents he seemed pretty excited, and started playing with everything..... We got it all on video, I'm excited to see what Robert does with the footage!!! We then made waffles and went back to sleep, bliss.

Lastly, we went to my sister's house for dinner and to finish opening more presents later that day. It's always an experience when my family gets together, the country in us comes out for sure. We get loud and lose most of our manners, but its pretty funny. We had so much food, seriously.... I'm pretty sure there was more stuff than what we made on Thanksgiving! After opening presents and eating my mom comes into the family room with 3 shot glasses of Jagermeister for my sister, myself and her. It was soooo out of the ordinary for her to want to drink, especially to take SHOTS! So my sister and I looked at each other and said "what the hell" and we took our first shots in history with our mom. That wasn't the end though. . . . more shots continued. Before you knew it, I was having a NERF gun war with my step dad from across the house! (I won that war BTW) Then my mom, sister, and I started to karaoke to Fancy by Reba McEntire. I haven't drank like that since before baby was around, it was fun. Robert really enjoyed seeing me let loose too.

My mom and I

My two eldest nieces

I hope all of you enjoyed your Christmas (or other holiday) ..... It is almost time to say goodbye to 2011, I'm ready to take on 2012 especially since there is so much talk about everything changing in '12. I'm moving forward and hoping for a positive change in the world!!!

December 19, 2011

ZooLights!

Another post for today, sorry I'm playing a little catch up with all the pictures I have..... We went to zoo lights last week, I just wasn't able to post about it till now.

Main reason to go to ZooLights: Robby loved all the colors/lights and watching all the people.

Main reason NOT to go to ZooLights: We spent almost as much time looking for a parking spot as we spent inside!

December 6, 2011

Its starting to feel a lot like Christmas . . .

Well the weather dropped about 25 degrees over night almost and it definitely feels like winter in Phoenix finally. This past weekend, I scored on some clothes at Goodwill, love when they have 50% off days! I also I froze my tushy off at the Fiesta Bowl Half Marathon, My eldest niece Camriana (14yrs old) ran her second 5k!! I am so ridiculously proud of that girl! She ended up getting 12th place in her age group and 123 out of the 900+ female runners! I sure hope she keeps up the great work and does more races!! It has inspired me to attempt to train and do a 5k with her sometime in 2012... stay tuned for that!!

thank god for those heaters, it was FREEEEEEZING!

I spy with my little eye....

Her friend from school and racing buddy

My sister, the proud mom

The proud auntie, "Me"

So I decided to make an attempt to "model" my awesome finds this time around since they were all articles of clothing. I use the word model loosely though, I am far from a model. It was so very cold outside and I was trying to look "cute" not "frostbitten" .... hopefully you all enjoy them.