O Christmas Tree!

Tuesday we spent the day with Papa Joe and Grammy Alice. We went down to Roger's Gardens to walk around and had lunch. Papa Joe helped Daddy put up the Christmas lights and I ran a couple of errands with Grammy Alice. After school that day we picked out our Christmas Tree. I was in the mood for a kinda small one, but Daddy found this Monster that he thought was PERFECT! He was so excited about it that I had to say yes! We decorated it last night and it turned out rather pretty ;)

Chino Youth Parade

"But you promised me, Mom"....and so I followed through amongst the hardships going on and Isabella got to be in her very first Christmas parade. She was so excited about it...I dropped her off at 7am, but didn't know the parade started at 9. So from 7:30-9, Vincent and I sat on Central Avenue. He was such a good boy: colored, ate a donut, etc. The parade was a ton of fun....they had the schools and bands from Chino/Chino Hills, the mayors, lots of horses, girl scout troops and so on. Isabella's Daisy Troop rode on the back of a truck they turned into the North Pole. Unfortunately, it happened so fast and I was trying to get her attention, that I didn't get a picture of her on the float. Hopefully one of the leaders did. She is excited about next year.

Forever In Our Hearts...

We love you Nick and know you are our Angel in Heaven now. You will look out for us and guide us well...you are running like the wind, dancing in the rain and breathing freely. Thank you for your courage, humility, love and friendship...until we meet again!

Fireman Vincent

On Saturday morning our garage turned into the "Calagna Firehouse" and we held a "Fireman Pancake Breakfast". It was just awesome and by Vincent's face in these pictures you can tell he had the time of his life. What a way to celebrate turning THREE!

The Calagna Firehouse housed hanging hats for the Firemen and Fire-girls. The Papa's flipped Pancakes along with eggs, sausage, donuts, coffee, you name it....!,

Then Fireman Carlos came!! The kids got to play with the siren and use the speaker.

They got a lesson in "Stop, Drop, Cover Your Face and Roll"...

They got to try on the Fire Suits and even Daddy got in on the action! (If you hadn't noticed - Bella asked me if she could dress like a Dalmatian, so we made an outfit!)

Then we played a friendly game of Tug! Thank goodness Bianca and Aunt Amy came to my rescue!

Then they played a Fire Hose game!

And finally we took a couple of rides around the neighborhood!

It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Sweethearts

They sure are sweet after a bath all clean and cuddly in PJs and robes - even sharing! Wish it could be this way ALL the time :)

When It's Your Birthday...

Mommy let's you lick icing from the can.

We had a fun Friday with Vincent. He got to do what any boy wants to do on his birthday....lay around all day and watch cartoons and play. Lol! That night our family joined us for a yummy Carne Asada Dinner and to open some presents. Aunt Diane was also here to celebrate and that made it so much more special. Poor Vincent had to eat the horrible looking cake I made (but it did taste good)!

Too Cute!

My beautiful girl on her way to her Girl Scouts non-sleepover last Friday night!

Rewind!

These are Thanksgiving pictures! We had a wonderful day full of family and fellowship. We celebrated Uncle David's birthday :) This year we "Adopted-a-family" for Christmas, so everyone brought some things for this family and we wrapped them all that evening. It was a blessed day!

Christmas Activities!

I have a couple of friends that have been posting on Facebook about all of these cute Advent Calendar/Christmas Activity ideas. Last year Grammy got us this string of slippers and I put Candy Canes in them, but this year I decided to use it for the  'activities". It takes lots of planning (need to make sure you put the big activities like visit Santa on day you can actually do them!) and I haven't had much time, so I only printed out 4 days so far. I hope the kids have a great time with this!

Happy 3rd Birthday!!!!

Where in the world did the last three years go? Happy Birthday to my amazing Angel, Vincent Guy. For lack of better words...he is just "AWESOME" and that is enough said!

Birthday Toast this morning was hilarious. Vicent really didn't want any part of it and was grumpy that all three of us were in his room. But we sang to him anyway and he blew out his candle. Then he wanted us to do it again once we got downstairs. Happy Birthday Bubby! You complete us and we love you!!!