and the stocking were hung...

...well they soon will be at my parent's house.  I made the boys names with fabic on the silhouette and ironed them on...they look great. 

 hum...I think Phil and I need new ones. 

sushi dinner with Phil's family...

I always joke that my family bugs all the time, but I really do miss them when they are gone.  My parents have been gone for two weeks tomorrow, and my sister and her family has been gone one week.  They went to Lake Tahoe...ah Lake Tahoe...I wish I was able to get time off work and go.  I really miss skiing which is weird since I am afraid of heights.  It sometimes hits me how afraid of height I am while I am on the mountain and then I have a hard time coming down....without help.

Since I was missing my family, we went out for sushi with Phil's family and saw Sandy and Larry's new pad.  Great times!!  We had a great time with everyone.  Too bad it was a Sunday night and had to go to work the next day, or else we would have hung out much later.

Anthony...

...Sandy ...

Ruben, Jordan, Ty, and Darlene...

...Larry and Sierra...

and of course us.

busy working...

Working on my Christmas cards...with my little helper..

Check out the cool gifts I have been making...if you get it, please act surprised!!

Christmas past...

I just wanted to post some pictures of the boys from last year.  I have been busy making holiday decorations and cards...I will finish and show you soon!

Max ...

Eli...

Bryant...

The boys look so different in one year!!

Happy Birthday Jr....

missing you a lot...

This picture was taken on May 13, 2006 while we were vacationing at Solvange during Mother's Day weekend with my parents, Liz and Eddie, my grandparents and Jr. and Michelle.  Jr. passed away June 2007, it has been two and half years, but it seems like yesterday...

December 1 used to be the happiest day...first day to the count down to Christmas, and Jr.'s birthday...but it is now bitter sweet.

Thanksgiving decor...

I did these with my silhouette!!  I also did wine "charms" thanks to Tara's ideas, but I forgot to take photos. 

The top is a leaf wreath.  The bottom says "GRATEFUL" twice in a wreath.

This is the pumpkin place card...

This is the leaf place card.  I alternated them on the plates.

season of...family

Season of Family... Season of Bessing, Season of Thanks, Season of Love. I will show the picture of my door frame next time, which has this saying on it. 

This photo is of Eli, Bryant and Max learning to bowl last night at Game works. We celebrated Phil's birthday at Game works in downtown Long Beach.  I am going to be having my work Christmas party there, so I wanted to get some practice in bowling before the event.  I haven't bowled since high school.  We had so much fun, we will definately want to do this again soon.

The above photo was this morning at breakfast at Geoffy's in San Pedro.  Liz and Eddie want to eat there.  Max has the same love for ketchup that my dad has.  Who would have thougth it was a genetic trait?  We are definately passing our love for breakfast to the boys, yesterday we had breakfast at Schooner or Later.  Funny picture below.  We took a walk after breakfast around the Marina, and Bryant refused to walk, we kept taking a break.  I ended up having to carry his 27 lbs around. 

I didn't have any picture of us at my parent's house for Thanksgiving dinner.  I only took photos of my decorations...I will post those next time.

These next photos are from Thanksgiving with the Calderon's.  Haley took the pictures which is why they came out a little blurry.  I feel bad that I didn't have a picture of my assistant photograph ...well at least I was in the pictures...finally.

This photo was taken at the Miyamura Thanksgiving dinner held on Sunday.  Missing was Wally, who was the photographer of this picture...I should have brought my tripod (not the dog his name is Triton).  Also missing Ted, he didn't come out of his room unfortunately.

Here is Phil's grandmother and uncle with Bryant.  Phil went to visit her before Thanksgiving so she could see Bryant. I can't believe he was sitting on her...although this photo is such a great shot, I love the tender kiss she is giving him!!  

halloween time...

These pictures are from my front door, I made the signs with my silhouette!! I love this machine.

Here is a close up of the signs.

These pictures are from Liz's moms' club event last Saturday. I forgot my camera for my moms' club even which was on Friday. But Bryant looked just as cute!

My mom made the boys pirate costumes including the cute belts!!

bryant's baptism...

I am sorry that I didn't post any pictures recently, but I had been sick with a cold all weekend. Today is the first day I am finally feeling so much better, and not dragging myself to work, meetings, etc. Luckily it was just a cold, and not the swine flu...those poor people that have the swine flu.

Josh, my cousin, with Bryant.

I was holding him while Deacon Carl, poured water over his forehead. He didn't even cry, but he did give me a dirty look. My sister and my bother-in-law, Eddie, are his godparents. They bought him his super pimp daddy outfit, it even included white shoes, socks, and underwear.
My parents with the boys.


My grandparents with Bryant. You can see Bryant's outfit better in this picture. I love his cute white bow tie, vest, and tuxedo pants.

My cousin, David, and his fiancee, Karina, with Bryant.

Funny story, Eddie convinced Josh, David and Karina that they also had to wear white to the Baptism since it was part of our parishes customs. They actually went out and bought white outfits for the event. It was really sweet of them to go all out for the event.

love...

I love Phil for buying me the silhouette for my birthday!!! I love my silhouette!! The first thing I cut out was...my name. I welded the letters and added a flower on the end. It was so easy, I could not believe it, because I had heard so many complaints about the difficulty to use.

but then I finished my project for Liz...you are going to see so many more projects with my sil...

Can I just say how much I love stampin up products and ideas from my demonstrators?!?!

Tara made these goodie bags.

Liz also bought me some inks and Tara gave me my products in this super cute bag!! Talk about doing what you preach. She also made the cutest designs for place settings using the Autumn Splendor stamp set and the Autumn Meadows designer paper.

Julie did these goodie bags. My favorite was the box, I can see so many great ideas from using this box over and over again!! And decorating the candy...

The tough decision is who gets the bags...before Phil opens them up and eats all the candy.

friends...

This weekend was about seeing old friends in San Diego...

On Saturday we went to San Diego for Lilly's baby shower... more pics at my shutterfly website. Actually I posted all the pictures on the shutterfly website.

Later that night we went out for dinner at Casa de Pico and met up with Clara and Carl. It is always great to see Clara.

Then on Sunday we drove back to San Diego to see Mike, Jen and Lucas. Mike and Phil grew up together in Walnut. Yes, I know we should have spent the night in San Diego instead of driving down there two days in a row, but I just started working so we weren't able to afford to stay down there. We had a great time with Mike and Jen and Jen's family at the Wild Animal Park. Can I just say that we have gotten our money's worth from those year passes from the San Diego Zoo!! Nice.