Festivities

 Christmas Eve we celebrated at our place with Emy, Valerie, and Avery, Tina and Matt, Great Grandma and Roberto. The food was amazing- honey baked ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, salad, creamed corn, jasmine rice, and banana pudding and strawberry trifle for dessert. 

MMMMMM!!!! My mouth is still watering!

 It was great!

 We missed Grandma and Grandpa and Alex this Christmas! 

(they were in Bolivia)

It wasn't the same without them:)

 

On Christmas Day, we had the Lutz family over for an Italian Christmas dinner!

We had lasagna, fettuccine alfredo, garlic bread and salad!

It was all SO very good!

 

I made a bunch of gifts this year, mainly throw pillows and jewelry! 

Oh, and an apron, which I forgot to get a picture of.

It turned out really cute!

I already have ideas for next years homemade gifts- 

I should get started now!

Christmas Tradition

 Every year we take the kiddos to White Fence Farm for a picture with Santa- this Santa is free and oh, so kind, and the best part of all there is NO line! It's very relaxed and Fun!

The kids usually act all scared at first but then warm up to them a tiny bit.

 maybe not Elijah though!

After Santa, we make our Starbucks trip and get hot chocolate for the little ones.

I think this is the only time all year that they get to go into Starbucks:)

 We invited Megan along this year:)

Then we look at Christmas lights and sing Christmas songs with the radio!

Oh, how I love traditions!

We love Miss Megan!

 I have so many blog posts to catch up on from last year:) 

Mainly, our many Christmas celebrations and traditions.

So, check back often as I may even post more than one post a day! 

 So, my dear sweet friend (and boss at Gymboree) 

has become a very special part of our family- 

she attends every important event in our families lives:) 

and often babysits for free for us! 

What a HUGE blessing she is to our family!

The kids adore her (and call her Miss Meggie) 

and I'm pretty fond of her myself! 

 Megan got all the kids pillow pets for Christmas and she got Mark and I an amazing gift- dinner, a movie and free babysitting- which we are going to use this Tuesday since it is our anniversary! 

She spoils us! 

Thank you Megan for being so awesome! 

Megan has a red couch so I made these festive throw pillows to "Christmas" up her couch:)

We love you Megan and "Thank You" for such wonderful gifts 

and more importantly for your wonderful friendship!

Christmas Thank yous! P.S. This will probably be boring if your not family:)

To: Grandma and Grandpa in PA! The first 3 videos are for you! 

Disclaimer: We are working on Elijah's manners.

 To : The Maccarrone Family- Thanks for all the great gifts- the video below is for you!

Merry Christmas From the Gomez Family!

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas morning!

My heart is full with thankfulness for my wonderful family 

and the OVER ABUNDANCE of blessing God has given to me!

But most importantly, the gift of God's Son- deity come to earth to save a fallen people.

Praise God for redemption and Praise God for the gift of Jesus Christ!~

Concerts, Parties and Ornaments!

 On the 13th the twins had a WINTER concert at their school. It was sorta sad because they sang NO Christmas songs- they were all generic ones about winter and such.

I missed Mrs. Johnsons HUGE production at Christmas time 

complete with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus

and multitudes of angels singing praises to GOD! 

Nevertheless, they did dress up for the occasion, even Ella!

Last week was the busiest week of all in our Christmas preparations!

Tuesday night, we delivered 6 plates of homemade cookies to the neighbors in our row.

Thursday morning, we had a Ladies coffee Christmas party  at our house

complete with cookie swap and jewelry exchange!

Thursday night we invited all the neighbors in our row over for a Christmas Open House. We had 4 different families come and we had so much fun getting to know them better! 

Friday, we helped host another holiday party at the Mondragons for all Marks old highschool friends who still are in the area! Thanks Megan for babysitting!

Saturday night I went to a holiday Bunko party at my sister in laws house- it was SO much fun! Thanks Emy for hosting it! 

This week is much less busy. 

We are having Christmas Eve dinner here with Marks family.

Christmas Day we are having the Lutzs over for an Italian feast:) 

I really do enjoy all the parties and activities of Christmas!

(these flowers were given to me by our neighbor- so sweet)

 Here are the 3 ornaments I mass produced for Christmas this year! 

They turned out cute! The owls are my favorite!

Sew Cute!

For the possibly thousand giveaways on blogs that I have entered, I won the other day!!!!! a cute colorful shirt from Sara! She has the cutest most colorful blog I've seen! I REALLY want one of her paintings for my dining room wall... Click here to see her blog!

In other news, Marks parents and Alex are in Bolivia.. they left 2 Monday's ago! The kids miss them. We had them over before they left for dinner and to give them their gifts.. here are some CUTE pictures!

I am very behind in blogging and reading blogs. SO much sewing for Christmas presents lately! Its very fun though! I just LOVE sewing- its my new favorite thing! My friend Mel, sewed Ella an adorable apron for Christmas and I think I am going to try to make one today- for myself and for a gift.

I really should be taking pictures of my finished products so I can post them after Christmas for all to see!  I am off to a sewing shop today to see about a class or maybe just a whole bunch of supplies for my sewing obsession! I have a gift card!!! 

Today:

The twins will be going to a little girl Christmas Party this morning. 

Ella has a little fever and a cough and will be home with daddy.

Elijah is going to be hanging with daddy.

Daddy is going to be watching 2 little kiddos.

And tonight: THE MAIN EVENT:

a girl sleepover at Aunt Emys- the girls have beeen talking about it nonstop for a few days now.

Sophia wanted to pack her bags as soon as she woke up this morning!

We will see how Ella is feeling tonight. 

She is SO SO SO sad that she might miss it.

and my agenda for today: sewing!