Christmas 2010

We had a great Christmas vacation (wrong word- that implies relaxation) in both NorCal and AZ. More to come...

Nicholas Cordon

Our little boy is 3 years old, as of yesterday!

He is such a funny, smart little guy full of personality. He keeps us busy and laughing all the time with his funny observations.

We were so happy to have him join us 3 years ago.

Kiki's 3rd Birthday Party

We had so much fun at Nicholas' party this year. When I was deliberating over a theme I tried to think of what he likes the most of all- waffles! A close second is his friends. He is a very social kid and loves his friends. He remembers everything about everyone, including what color their eyes are and their favorite color. And last of course, his favorite thing to wear- Pajamas. Put 'em all together and you get a Best Friends Birthday Breakfast Pajama Party!

We had a great time, and Nicholas was in shock that he got to keep all the cool new stuff.

As a side note- it was nice not to have to get all glammed up myself while trying to get it all ready :)

California Christmas

I am all for a warmer winter season, but this is getting ridiculous!!

Grown-up Christmas List

Besides "no more lives torn apart", and all that other good stuff, I'd really love these for Christmas...

(J Crew Jammies)

And anyone who knows me knows I'd die for my initials monogrammed on the pocket!!

Nicholas has a new favorite Christmas movie. Here is the link to the original clip followed by his rendition. The first time he did it was hilarious. Once we busted out the camera he knew he was being funny so its not as good but it is still pretty funny. "Aw I've been kissed by a dog"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9hBEvFNlM

Thanksgiving in CT

We were so excited to make a trip out to CT for Thanksgiving. The night before I was so nervous/eager to head out at 6 am that I slept only two hours. I couldn't understand what I was so nervous about considering I have flown millions of times on flights even longer, and the boys are pretty good about going places too. When we woke them up at 4 am to go to the airport I noticed Ryker was gagging. I sat with him for a second to make sure he was ok, then he smiled at me and I thought nothing more about it. We were waiting at our gate to board when Ryker walked up to me crying, and I picked him up. Seconds later, he threw up his breakfast all over himself and me. Jared took him to get cleaned up while I scrounged around my bag for a new shirt. We wrote it off as a fluke and got on the plane.

Well, it wasn't a fluke because he was sick two more times on the flight. Once we got to JFK we were desperate to wash our clothes and take a shower. The next day was Thanksgiving, so we made our typical holiday meal, but neither me nor Jared had much of an appetite. That night Jared was sick, the next night my brother was sick, the following night Nicholas was sick, and then the last night to round it out me, my mom and my dad were sick too. All in all, not a bad way to keep off the holiday pounds.

But it wasn't all bad... We had a really fun time spending time with my siblings, watching movies, and we even fit in a little girl's afternoon at the mall. We were disappointed we couldn't do the city one day, but it was very relaxing and enjoyable nonetheless. I appreciated having a washing machine, not to mention tons of people to help entertain my kids or clean up. We saw the movie Tangled and loved it. We even got a tiny bit of snow one afternoon, so we grabbed our snow gear and ran outside.