Santa's Helpers

We decorated our tree the other night. As we brought out all the ornaments I realized not only how many we have, but how special each one meant. Our tree looks beautiful and although we have a lump of ornaments in the same general area, I wouldn't change it for anything.

Anyone under there??

So Cute

Two Thanksgiving Meals!!

We were lucky enough to celebrate two Thanksgiving's this year. We spent Thanksgiving day at Paul's parents house. Mark, Kristen, Sam and Yi Yen visited from Laramie, WY (Paul's brother) and Ruth and Oscar visited from Portland OR (Paul's sister and nephew). Some of Paul's aunts and cousins also came to Thanksgiving, all in all 24 people!!! This is all the great grandchildren from Paul's side.

When we got home Brittany and myself wanted to celebrate with my family, so we had a after Thanksgiving meal. All the great food and nothing beats moms cooking! My sister, brother and their families joined us as well as my aunt and her family. My parents have 8 grand-kids and 1 great grandchild. The "big" baby is my great nephew Dylan. He's a repeat of my Andrew!!

Marissa Turns 2!!

Marissa turned the wonderful age of 2 on Friday November 9. Terrible two's settled in long before she turned 2...at least we thought. We didn't think it couldn't get any worse WE WERE WRONG! I swear our child was switched in the middle of the night with a back talking, screaming, crying, does-what-she-wants-when-she-wants child. She suddenly wants to do EVERYTHING for herself, change her diapers, get dressed and undressed, dish up her own food and take her finished plate and cup to the sink (spilling all along the way). Deep down we are LOVING every minute of our life!

Marissa did have a good birthday. We celebrated Saturday with family at McDonald's. She loved all the attention. She still walks around the house singing "Happy birthday to you". She now loves dressing up and walking around in her "high heels".

It's hard to believe she's 2. It seems like we were just visiting her at Eagle's Nest and now she's running talking and acquired a HUGE attitude.

Church Choir

Dominick has joined our Church's youth choir with Brittany and Andrew. We had asked if Dominick could join yet (he's been waiting) the choir director was excited and even asked if we wanted Marissa to sing too...we won't do that to him yet...he is a Church goer!

Dominick knew some of the words and some of the motions. I thought he would of been shy, but he wasn't. He went right up front and loved the attention!