The Show Must Go On!!

Eden's Dance Recital

the class showing of their skills

My little star

big claps

E's favorite part: shuffle step

after the show with flowers from Nonny and Sha

the auntie and uncle

me and my girlie

Eden and Avery

such cuties!

family shot!

and a little video to enjoy!

(notice the shushing eden gives avery at about 20 secs. oh my daughter.)

looking forward to many more years of dance recitals!

well at least I am!

just a typical wednesday....

Last week Eden and I got to do something very special that we had been planning for awhile.

A trip to Disneyland for the big kids!

(meaning we went with her friend Simon and his mommy Amy and the little boys stayed home with a sitter!)

So we ran around and rode all the big rides!!

Soarin' over California, Big Thunder, Matterhorn, Tower of Terror (ok only Simon and I were brave enough for that one) and......

SPACE MOUNTAIN!!!

this was my all time favorite growing up

(now it is Tower of Terror-love it!)

it was sooo fun to go on it with Eden for the first time!

She loved it!

"I said Wahoooo the whole time" -her words after the ride

Then we drove home, picked up Charlie, changed clothes, picked Danny up at the office and

sat in traffic for 2 hours driving to L.A.

to meet up with this chica for dinner

RYANN!!

my best friend from HS

Thai food and conversation.

A great ending to a fantastically fun day!

Ice Ice Baby

The Irvine Co. hosts an annual party for the companies who rent office space in their buildings. This year they had free ice skating at the Specturm. So we mosied on down thinking Eden would probably love to ice skate. Well she did. Little did we know who else would love ice skating...

Charlie!!

turns out he is pretty talented!

shorts in december, oh yeah!

the future ice princess

daddy daughter smiles

the reason i didn't skate:

i truly thought charlie wouldn't be interested and that i would need to sit it out with him

but i was mistaken.

and since danny already had skates on....

anyway. fun times.

So Thanksgiving came and went and I didn't take pictures. That may have to do with the fact that until today the only camera I had was my iPhone. But thankfully we decided to buy a camera for Christmas this year, so hopefully the caliber and quantity of pics on this blog will go up. Till then......

Eden's preschool class performing some Thanksgiving songs.

my little Princess Purple Butterfly

what? lots of Native Americans had names like that.

the only picture I took at Thanksgiving.

but it's a cute one!

Birthday Boy

My 2 Year Old Boy!

was all smiles (almost) the whole time

loved sitting with uncle johnny and aunt marsha

and not just because he had the snacks

first pic of all 4 of us in ages

big sis enjoying red lipstick and sprite

playing in the sun

we enjoyed some of charlie's favorite snacks

white cheddar popcorn, guacamole, veggie sticks

and of course, cupcakes

singing happy birthday

really enjoyed that cupcake (frosting)

party goers on the lawn

swinging the day away