Visiting Santa and the Christmas tree

  Today we took Kyle to see Santa and we also got our Christmas tree.  It was so much fun.  Kyle was SO serious when he sat with Santa but he didn't cry or freak out anything.  He just stared LOL  We also went to buy a tree from the Boy Scout's in San Mateo.  It's become a tradition as the lot where the trees get sold is down the street from my old apartment.  Natalie and I bought our Christmas tree there (they lent us a little wagon to carry the tree from the lot to our apartment; it was so cute!) and then Robert and I bought our tree there last year, as well.  It was so much fun to do all of these things with Kyle.  I think he enjoyed it, too!

I dressed him in a red button-up onesie, with gray plaid pants, and his new, black Converse.  He looked so adorable!

We got a new, much smaller stroller.  Although we love our BOB, it's rather huge for when you just want to go to the mall really quick.  Doesn't he look so cute!!??

Waiting in line to see Santa

Still waiting :-)

Waiting some more...

And just a bit more...

Here he is!  The picture we ended up buying is so precious.  It's just Kyle looking up at Santa, and Santa looking down at Kyle.  Santa has a little smile on his face and you can tell he's saying something nice to Kyle.  It was the cutest of the three poses!  Unfortunately, we only have hard copies of that one so I can't post it!

Entering the tree farm...

Kyle touching his first Christmas tree!

The chosen one, in the truck bed, on our way home.

Here she is!

Decorated and with Kyle

Here is one of our first married Christmas ornaments that our wedding photographer gave us last year.  It's really cute!

Kyle was so excited while we decorated the tree!  He was having the best time!

Robert broke this gold ornament... no big deal lol

Oh, and we got our new couch and chair, finally!!!  I think that this picture really doesn't do them justice because they are really awesome!  Once the holiday season is over, I am going to rearrange the furniture in the living room and make it all new! :-)

Texas Thanksgiving!

Robert, Kyle and I all went to Houston, TX for Thanksgiving to visit all our family over there and we had the most wonderful holiday.  We took SOOO many great pictures and can't wait to see everyone again.

We got there on Thursday morning after flying the red-eye.  Kyle was pretty good during the trip, only crying a couple of times.

 

Still in San Francisco, about to the get onto the plane to Houston!

On the plane....

Landed!

Reuniting with Grandma :-)

Taking a picture with Grandpa on Thanksgiving Day.

Uncle Alex and Aunt Melissa at Thanksgiving dinner.

With Uncle John at Uncle Gabriel's house for dessert.

Some of the boys: Kyle, Robert, John, Eli, Alex, and Gabe

With Great-Grandma :-)

With Grandma!

Peek a boo with Aunt and Uncle

On Friday night we went to Alex and Melissa's for a get together and it was so much fun.  They have such a cute and unique apartment.  

On our last day in Texas, we visited Great-Grandma Campos and Great-Grandma Gonzales.  It was a very relaxing and sweet end to our holiday.

baby shower invites

My cousin Sonia is due in late January or early February.  She is having a baby girl, Coral! :-)  Erika and I are throwing her a baby shower.  I put myself in charge of invitations.  I really, really wanted to make them for her.  I went through a long process until I finally came up with the final draft.

I first drew something, which you can see on the right.  It has a rattle and flower and says, "it's a girl"... but then I thought that maybe is something you say for after the baby has been born, right?  LOL  So then I typed something up for the invite and printed on some thick, wallpaper-like paper, which you can see in the middle.  But the writing just didn't show up.  So then, finally, I printed it out on plain cardstock and decided I would pretty it up around the wording. 

My mom totally helped me out!  I decided that flowers would be really cute with petals in all different colors and patterns of my thick paper (it's for scrapbooking.)  So we cut a million little petals from select paper.

One that was half way done.  We needed more design.

Some finished products amongst the chaos that was my dining room table LOL

Sealed and ready to send!

Weekend trip

Last weekend I went to visit Natalie in Sacramento and have a lazy hang out weekend together just like we used to when we were roommates.  I brought Kyle with me visit his auntie! :-)

Before we left, Robert took a picture of us travelers.

It was actually a super gorgeous day out and as I drove I took a couple of pictures.

Kyle dancing with natalie while the pregnant man spoke in the background LOL

Big kiss!