Next I went on Nov 25th(girls got to spend the night at Jons parents house) & got ALL my xmas shopping done-including good deals. Got gifts for the girls and our parents--WHOO HOO!
On Nov. 29th Jon & I went to the movies with Jons parents and we let the girls "decorate" the house. So great to come back 2 hours later to a decorated house-granted it's kid style-but whatever. Im so not a fan of decor clutter..I cant handle all the "extra" stuff around.
All I have left is to make my FAMOUS SEE'S FUDGE--and I will officially be done.
Guess I better back up to Halloween from here to catch us up:
I went as Octomom-HILARIOUS!
this is a trailer that was decorated..our cool neighbors let us ride on it! Our street was AWESOME! people come in from EVERYWHERE and park then go up and down out street--we went on the other streets--TOTALLY dead except our street.
Our neighbors Jim & Gayle across the street opened up the garage where we partied it up! We met these two random gorillas-we had NO IDEA who they were, but of course I needed a photo with them-I love that they completed their outfit with a banana!
Jon created an AWESOME video that we projected on a big white sheet & CRANKED up the volume--IMPRESSIVE!
Becca was a Ghost-again ANOTHER simple costume!
We had the Nuriche Film Crew come to our house to video tape my family & shoot our commercial for the company. It was too much fun. The girls had a blast filming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eS6JsMXG4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgxwbhfzBcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKvEXsla0q8
I have taken up RUNNING--I know, pick your jaw up OFF the floor. I've been consistently running 3-4 miles per day. I ran 10 miles a couple of weeks ago-SHOCKINGI to say the least! It's been fun for me to see what I can do with that. Some days are awesome, some days are HARD.
About 15 of my friends all gathered at El Torito for my bday SO FUN!
We grubbed on down and had lots of laughs--I have such great girl friends!! Even my sister in law Kellie & her sister Becca drove CLEAR from HB to celebrate-I love that about family...we are always up for a good time no matter the drive!!
Jons brother Todd made Partner at his Law Firm-so his wife Celene treated all of the family to Maggiano's for dinner--wow GRUBILICIOUS! It was "adults only" so nice to have so many adult conversations to choose from!
The girls last day of school for Thanksgiving break was Nov. 19th-so on the 20th we headed out to Henderson, NV & we took the girls to see their great grandma. It will most likely be the last time they see her before she passes I imagine. She looked great and is always so sweet. She didnt quite remember who I was. She said "oh wow, you are all grown up now!" -too cute. We then got to hang out with my cousins & their families that live there. They are WAY FUN! Rachel was a good sport and babysit 8 kids so we parents could all go see 2012. By the time we got home, she had them all in bed and the downstairs picked up-I've got her trained well!
We had Thanksgiving Day at my parents house. We took a family portrait.
It's AMAZING that my parents adopted 6 little babies from Brazil & made us all into a family. I love the smile on my Dad's face-he's such a proud Daddy! too cute
After seeing the Blind Side movie TWICE NOW-Jon wants to write a screenplay about my parents & what they went thru to get all of us...SERIOUSLY some AMAZING stories. Just goes to show you that Heavenly Father has his hand in everything!
Well the flu has "caught" our family. Becca threw up in the wee hours of friday morning, and now Sarah & Anna have in the wee hours of sunday morning. We shall see how this all turns out. THANKFULLY it seems to be only a 24 hour thing or less even! Crossing our fingers....
