La La Las Vegas!

Countdown begins! We will be taking our first family vacay to Vegas. I'm excited to getaway. Excited to eat good food. Excited to see how Lila will react to being outside of her "cage"! Excited to play Scrabble with the hubs while Lila sleeps PEACEFULLY in the hotel crib. :)

I started making a checklist of what I need to pack, and it's ridiculous. I cannot believe how much stuff I need to bring for a 1 year old. We're only staying for two days, but I swear I feel like I'm bringing a week's worth of stuff. I guess that's how life is now. Long gone are the days of packing my belongings in a duffle bag!

My fam celebrated Christmas yesterday, and we stuffed ourselves with some awesome potluck food. The kids all got a ton of presents, and Lila was more interested in the ribbons and bows than the gifts. I'm sure next year will be a different story. The adults played White Elephant, and I got some lotion/body stuff while the hubs stole a Starbucks gift card.



the youngins minus Caleb and Matthew



fun for me, not so much for her

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

xoxo

A Visit From Santa

I've been dreading going to the mall BIG TIME! When I heard Santa was coming to my community, I was soooooooo ECSTATIC! Forget the mall or Fashion Island. Actually, I still want to take a trip to Fashion to have pics taken in front of their ginormous Christmas tree. :)

We arrived at the Christmas event like 5 minutes before it started because we wanted to be first in line to take pics with Santa. WRONG! There were already about 8 kids before us. I'm impatient when it comes to waiting! It actually turned out to be a good thing because we had a really great time meeting some new neighbors.

Do you think Lila got scared with Santa? It was inevitable that she would start crying especially with that long beard of his brushing up against her face. It was the most hilarious scene. This Santa did not know what to do!



The neighbors started chanting her name with me and the hubs, and she kind of stopped.



Two more weeks left till Christmas!!!! woohoo!