Why I love Christmas...

I know that it's a little early for this post but I can hardly hold back my excitement.
Christmas, cold weather, food, giving and receiving, and the prettiest decorations. As soon as December comes around, I automatically feel the X-mas spirit. I just imagine x-mas trees, presents, snow (even though it doesn't really snow here), x-mas dinner, and just so much more. It truely is the happiest time of the year for me.
This is going to be Josh and mine's 3rd Christmas together. Our first two we were pretty poor so we couldn't afford a tree or very much presents. This year I'm excited to get my first, ever in life, real tree. I'm hoping to make up a lot of ground this year in really getting into Christmas like how I would like to.
Last year we were living at Jason and Michelle's house during the holiday season. We went with them to look for a Christmas tree and helped decorate it. It was a lot of fun and I just look forward to getting our own.
This is also the first year I get to go to San Diego for The Dudley Christmas Eve party. I've never been and I'm super excited to go.


Reasons why I LOVE December:

1. Cold weather, I love to bundle up in a sweater and try to get warm. With as hot as it gets here in the IE cold weather is just what we need. And I've always gone by the thought that it's easy to warm yourself up rather than trying to cool yourself off.
2. The decorations on street lamps. I know it sounds silly but I really is just cool to me. It really makes it look really festive.
3. The smell of pine. With all the Christmas tree farms around you just smell pine everywhere. And again it is just a reminder of Christmas.
4. The food. I love a traditional Christmas dinner. Ham and/or turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, green bean casserole, pie, and all the trimmings. I did however enjoy the enchiladas that we had at Terry and Tammy's last year.
5. The presents. I'm talking about getting and GIVING. I love to shop for people and wrap gifts. It's just so much fun. And I don't care how you are, receiving is just as much fun.
6. The family time. Now that Kaleb is older and my niece and nephew are older it's a lot of fun to hang out with the kids. And now the baby is going to to be crawling around at about that time and it's just a beautiful time of year.
7. I get to spend it with the love of my life. Joshua.

Bar-B-Qing it up!

Here's Josh looking sexy in front of our BBQ. We were dong teriyaki chickens and chicken rice. A favorite of ours cause it's cheap!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Ok not really, it's not my actually birthday. But I like to call it my half birthday. Today I'm exactly half way to my birthday. I know it sounds silly but I love ANY birthday that comes along. I really like to celebrate anything that I can so a half birthday is perfect. I'm exactly 23 and 1/2. It's weird to think that I'll be 24 next year. I feel like just yesterday I was turning 18.

I think I got this idea from Alice in Wonderland. I'm not sure if they just talked about a Happy Un-Birthday. Or something like that. Anyway, so happy half birthday to me!

Halloween!

We went to the mall today to just walk around and have my favorite pizza, Sbaro, that's right I LOVE Sbarro pizza. Anyway, we love the Halloween store that they have every year there. Well they moved it to the inside because they no longer have a downstairs. And I've been wanting to look for Blake's Halloween costume. So, right when we walk in we see the baby costumes, and they were soooo cute. They had a chicken, a tricerotobes, and a whole bunch of others. But we saw this turtle costume and we put it on him and we knew that was it. He looked sooo adorable. It's a little big but hopefully he fill it in a little bit, he's got about three weeks to "make it work."

He's also starting to "scoot." You can think of it as pre-crawling. So if he can master that by Halloween, we're going to have a real turtle crawling around!

Kaleb hasn't exactly decided on a costume yet. He keeps going back and forth between black spiderman, batman, and wolverine. Some kind of superhero. So stay tuned for a superhero update...

I totally forgot!

In my last post I meant to talk about how much of a stud Kaleb is in school. Michelle reminded me about that by saying he's the cool kid in school.
All the little girls LOVE him. He mainly socialized with Bella, Hallee, Guadalupe, and Naomi. And even the boys are always trying to hang out with him.
On Fridays I try and get there a little earlier because they get extra recess at the end of the day. So I like to watch him play. Well on one particular Friday all the girls were sitting on this block thing and they kept trying to get Kaleb's attention to come over there. Kaleb was so cool about it. He's like I'm playing basketball. And he was just by himself. And that's the funny thing. Kaleb is just fine by himself. I think that's why other kids are drawn to him.
Colin, my nephew, is actually his best friend (and cousin), but in school, Connor is his best friends. And Connor is always like "Kaleb hey Kaleb!"
So he is always going to be the "cool kid" in school.

School Pictures

Yesterday I was just saying, "Man, when are we going to get Kaleb's school pictures in?" I calculated it and it's only been like two weeks, I thought it was a lot longer than that. So I thought alright they won't be in for like two more weeks. And what happend when I take Kaleb to school the next morning? His pictures were there! We got the whole sha-bang. The most you can get.

I asked him what did he want to wear for his school pictures. He said his Chargers jersey that he got the previous day at his birthday party. So I said alright. And it turned out sooo cute.

He also got a class picture, which I'm not too thrilled about it. He wasn't really smiling. He had this like deer-caught-in-the-headlights look. But still really cute though. I took it with my camara phone so it came out a little fuzzy.

Oooops!

Josh just pointed out that I don't know how to spell "scrapbook". I've typed "scrapebook", "scapebook", and probably a few other variations. Just so you know I do know how to spell. But Scrapbook is a misleading word to spell!

Look what I did (Part 2)

After I did the scrape book page for Kaleb's kindergarten class I got this itch to finally start my scrapebook that I've been talking about for months. So when Josh came home from an extremely hard day at work, I begged him to go to Target. Of course he said we could. I went straight for the scrapebooking section and Josh went to electronics, to look at wii games no less. I got a book, paper, kits, punch-outs, a cutter, and a lot of backgrounds thanks to the dollar section.

When we got home I went right to work. I sorted out all my pictures and decided which one would make the cut, lol, no pun intended. I picked out the Disneyland pictures from last year when we went for my nieces birthday.

OH MY GOD, I didn't think that it was going to be that difficult, but man-o-man, it took me a whole hour to finish just one page. I thought since it only took me like ten minutues to do Kaleb's I figured it'd be easy. Boy, did I learn my lesson.

I'm not giving up though, I'll get better and hopefully more creative.

Look what I did

So right now, Kaleb's school is doing family week. So we were asked to give them a family picture. Unfortunately we haven't taken any family pictures since Blake was born. So I gathered all the pictures that had a combination of all of us. I remembered that I got scrape booking stuff so I made a page. It was a lot of fun, I've been procrastinating on making a scape book and I think since I see how easy it actually is, I'm going to kick it into high gear.

I thought maybe I went a little overboard but when I gave it to Ms. Luster (Kaleb's teacher) she said it was fine and some of the other parents did the same thing.

So, there'll be more to come, hopefully.