The Grove

We like to try going to the Grove in LA every year close to Christmas as a family just to get in the holiday spirit and have a nice lunch there, window shop, enjoy all the lights and Christmas decorations, and get to spot some celebrities sometimes :) Here's Dylan and Geno having a little moment after lunch.

Little Helper

Having Dylan be able to help decorate the tree this year for the first time was much more fun! (except for the fact that he also decided it might be helpful to take all the ornaments back off the tree when he was done & put them back in the box, so I had to do it all over again once he went to bed!)

Sunday traditions

Geno actually started this tradition this year, in which every Sunday during football season we go over my parents house in the morning and hang out there most of the day and eat, watch football with my dad, and just hangout. (of course he talked my dad into getting the NFL Sunday ticket in order to do this :) ) We always wake up looking forward to it, and Dylan always has a lot fun. Today we went for a walk, watched some football, BBQ'd, and also had Jonny take some fun pics of us for our Christmas card. As you can see, Dylan had enough with the mini photo shoot by the end of the day...

Halloween time!

Everyone knows I love Halloween!! Especially now that I have Dylan as a better reason to get all into it and make the celebration last longer! This year was extra fun because my cousin and her best friend flew in from Spain to celebrate with D and us. We took him to the pumpkin patch, costume shopping, carved pumpkins, baked pumpkin bread and cookies, went trick or treating with his buddy Ethan, and went to the DT Brea kids street party with cousin Fabian. He had sooo much fun! I was really going through a pirate phase this year, so I took it out on D too :) He didn't want to wear his hat, but had fun in his costume.

Uncle Jonny and my bday!

As usual, I haven't posted in a while, so I will have to get to catching up on what i've missed sharing. I am lucky to be able to share my birthday with my little brother. Since we both have the same bdays, I always look forward to celebrating together by going out to dinner, exchanging gifts and blowing out the candles together. The past two bdays have been even more special since Dylan is now here to celebrate with us and loves getting involved and helping us open our gifts and cut our cakes. Unfortunately for Dylan, he was excluded from the second part of our celebration, which was Geno and I taking Uncle Jonny to Vegas for his 21st!