Thanksgiving Break

Crazy busy past couple of weeks.
First off, poor Liam.
We didn't celebrate his birthday on his birthday.
Instead we spent that entire weekend moving.
We still had til the end of November but I wanted to get out asap.
We were still busy with a couple of appointments but nothing too bad.

The best and most exciting part about the Thanksgiving break was having family over.
I have way too many pictures.
It was hard to decide what to use.
Didn't want to overwhelm ya'll.
I will say though, we did just move so there will be boxes and things everywhere.
Please excuse them.

They got in on a Sunday.
The 24th, of November of course.
I was so sick Casey had to take Eliana with him to the airport.
I could barely get out of bed to shower before they arrived.
Up until Thanksgiving Eliana and I were pretty sick.
Those nights were not the most fun for her.
But we were most excited about the fact that our new place is about double the size of our old.
So plenty of space for people.
My brothers stayed in our basement while my parents stayed in the kids bedroom.
The kids stayed in ours.
The plan was Casey and I would be able to go out dates.
Did not happen.
Even once.
People sick.
Things to fix.
Appointments and others.
Shopping was as close as it got.

Anyways.
Thanksgiving finally came.
Casey is an awesome cook so he made Thanksgiving dinner.
It was just nice to have family.
My mom has been  with us every Thanksgiving since we moved to Utah
I couldn't let her miss out this year.
It was a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner.

 

 

 

November 30
Last day of November we put up our small and adorable Christmas Tree.
Casey thought it would be a great idea if we put up the tree before my family left.
My dad came up with another idea and said we should go ahead and celebrate Christmas together.
To which my mom added the idea to do it as a Family Home Evening on Monday.

 Why yes.
Eliana asked to wear a "Princess" dress and Liam's Ninja Turtle Pjs

Sunday December 1
We finally celebrated little man's birthday party.
Before and after that we spent time with other family.
My mom's cousin had a baby blessing which we attended and then lunch after wards.
After Liam's birthday cake we went to my aunt's house and spent some time with her family.
Eliana was so excited to eat chocolate cake.
She was getting a little frustrated but she finally had her piece.
But of course, not before singing Happy Birthday to him.
Guitar and all.
Look at that handsome little man.

 

 

 

 

 

The next day, while Mom and I were with Liam
Eliana came running.
Her face was just smeared with chocolate.
She had scooted the chair out, climbed on and did this to the rest of Liam's cake.

Yep...

On Monday we celebrated Christmas
We exchanged gifts.
That was mainly what happened.
It was really late and the kids were not in a very good mood.
At least not until cookie decorating and one was put to bed.
We decorated and ate cookies and had a very delicious punch.
One that reminds me of my grandmother from Mexico.
The gift exchange was great because we apparently gave my family exactly what they liked and wanted.
We were thrilled about that.
It was too bad we weren't able to make the traditional program of singing 'til late and Santa Clause and the live nativity scene.
Next time.
It was still a wonderful thing we had family to celebrate it early with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On my family's last night in town it snowed so we went out and took some great pictures.
Our new backyard is lovely so we got some pretty pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

I am going to miss them so much.
I missed them as soon as the entire house was quiet.
Liam loved Tio Cristian
Eliana loved Tio Titere
She ran after him yelling "Tio!" "Tio Titite" "Tio Teteri" "Tio Tatata"
She also yelled "Cristian!" "Chacha!" "Grandpa!"
I think Eliana enjoyed having her uncles to follow and just baby her.
She was also demanding, especially to Cristian.
She would tell him "Sit! Sit on da couch!!" "No, don't care him!" (meaning not to pick her up)
Hopefully it isn't too long before the next time we get to see them.

 
 

 

Chaos

So more chaos has become a part of our life's.
We recently moved out of our apartment.
And moved into a new home.
We are the first renter's, before that it was the owner that lived here.
I was having regrets but once we were moved in I knew we did the right thing.
I don't have pictures to post but I will later.
Just been busy, busy, busy.
It's a two story town home.
I was aiming for a one story home but other things were much more important.
We have a basement as well and so spacious.
I can't wait for spring and summer to spend nights on the balcony and time in the back patio.
The thing that didn't convince me was the red kitchen but I think I have gotten use to it.

My family is also visiting.
It's been so much fun that I forget to take pictures.
I just want to spend time with them and live in the moments.
I am sure I will capture one or two.

The only thing that I do not look forward to is that we still have many many things that we need to pick up from our other apartment.
We have until the end of the month but ugh it's creeping in.

Well I'll update later!

Late

A little late but here is a video when we sang to Eliana for her birthday! Enjoy!!

Halloween

Sorry another late post.
Before Halloween we had some fun decorating cookies and carving pumpkins.
As you can see Liam was just chilling but Eliana had some great fun.
She more of just licked the frosting off her cookie.
But she did dig into her pumpkin and even asked for a spoon.
Of course once she was done with taking the seeds out she put them right back in and started again.
I am just glad she had fun.

This Halloween the kids went as thing 1 and thing 2 and Casey as Cat in the Hat.
I didn't have time to make myself a costume so I was just the photographer.
I bought the fabric and used Eliana's pj's as a pattern to make both of their costumes.
I also bought fabric paint and that is what I used to draw thing 1 and thing 2 on them.
I also crocheted their hats.
I figured wigs would be itchy and their heads would need some kind of warmth.

We trick or treated in the same closed community we trick or treated the first year we dated and the years after that.
It's small, great, not crowded, and big candy bars.
Eliana wanted to walk the entire time and hold both her own and Liam's bucket.
She would not let go whatsoever.
Such an awesome sister.

Moab Trip

Typed it up a while back but hadn't added the pictures until today.
Oops.
Enjoy.
The trip was on Sept 28

Is there a possibility to partially cross something off my bucket list?
This weekend the hubby spontaneously rented a cabin for our small fam.
With so much going on in our lives he decided, and I agreed, we needed a getaway.
Don't get us wrong.
We like Provo and it's not like there isn't anything to do around here but we really needed to be away from home.
Our weekend getaway was in Moab.
I love traveling.
I don't do it often but I love the idea and will one day travel with the hubby.
I especially love nature and its beauty.
We rented the cabin for two nights.

It was fabulous.
I am a very simple kind of gal and our cabin was perfect.
It was more like a little cottage.

We got in late the first night but it was ok because I love watching the stars.
It reminds me of the time when I was still living with my parents and we would take a trip to Mexico.
My brother would lay to one side of the van and I would lay at the other side and we would talk about the stars.
Beautiful memories that I shared with Casey during the trip.
That is another thing.
Casey and I had plenty of time to talk.
Not that we don't talk because we do.
We are always talking but it was just a nice drive.
Every time we talk it is so easy to start where we left off.

We couldn't see much which was great because it was a lovely morning view.
The kids slept great and so did we.
I think it was the first time I have rested well since who knows when.
I even woke up early.
Yes, that is a surprise, if you are asking.

Saturday we couldn't decided where to go first.
So much to do.
We ended up just spending the time at the Arches National Park
and even watched the sunset.
I'll let the pics do the talking

That night we sat outside after the kids were asleep.
The night was beautiful.
The sky looked gorgeous.
Something I will always remember.
And the fact that it lasted only about 5-10 minutes because it was freezing.


Sunday morning we watched the sunrise.
It was a beautiful sunrise.

Before heading home we couldn't miss out on "Hole N' Rock" and the petting zoo.
So we had fun making that stop.

We also stopped by at the Canyonlands National Park.
We almost missed out but it was amazingly beautiful.
Just check the pics.

We made it home late night but it didn't matter.
It was a very well deserved trip for our little family.
If you can make the trip, do it.
Gotta love nature!!!