Emelia's first Snow Adventure

This past weekend Emelia and I went to the snow with my sister Natalie, my brother-in-law Chris, my niece's Jessica and Lola, and Chris' sister Kim and her boyfriend Farbod. We left the boys back at home. The only thing that would have made the trip better was having Jarrod and Jude with us. Poor Jude was sick so I thought it would be best if he stayed behind. We rented a really cozy cabin in Big Bear Mountain. What a fun and exciting trip we had. Emelia ABSOLUTELY LOVED the snow. Her favorite thing I think was eating it and sliding in it, and of course spending time with family. My sister Rita, brother-in-law Rino and niece's Julianna and Daniella drove to big bear for the day and played in the snow with us too.

Here is a small video of Emelia playing in the snow for the first time.

Our Trip to Big Bear

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone has a Happy and Healthy year!

Our little party animal!

One of my Favorite shops on etsy.

Hey Everyone. I wanted to post about this great etsy shop that I have found and have come to love. I recently purchased the most adorable loafer booties for Jude. Jenel the crafter is wonderful. She is very creative and created these amazing hats for the kids.



Check her shop out:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6165880

It's a Birthday Shout out!

Happy Birthday Mamie Ma!

Christmas 2008

We had a very fun Christmas Eve and Christmas but missed all of our family and friends that we didn't spend it with. So here are some pictures to show you our fun filled days.

Christmas Eve




Making Crafts

Emelia the excavator Scientist

Watching the reindeer movie

Saying goodbye to Lola

CHRISTMAS MORNING
The Stockings are filled!

Santa Came

Jude's 1st Christmas!





Emelia playing with her Wonder Pets fly boat. The only thing she wanted from Santa. Boy was she excited when she saw it!

Emelia helping Jude open up his gifts.

Emelia showing me what she got.

Emelia on her new Tinker Bell Quad

All the grand kids and two of my sisters

Emelia & Lola

The Beautiful Emelia Mae

The Handsome Little Dude

Emelia & Lola having a tea party with Nana

Ginger Bread House Craft

I always love making Holiday Crafts. Especially now that Emelia is at the age where she can. So this was our first attempt at a ginger bread house. It also did not help that when I opened the box all the sides to house were broken so I had to use frosting to piece them together before Emelia decorated it.

First She needed to taste the frosting to make sure it was ok to use for our foundation.Then she used all the good stuff and of course sampled it while workingTada! All done!

So after we finished the house we set it on our dinning room table. Lately I keep catching her on the table eating the flowers and our roof shingles.