New Years 2009

We celebrated the new year at my parents house in SB. It was a "blue" party and everyone wore blue clothes. My cousin brought all his DJ equipment and Felix tried it out.

Christmas

Christmas Eve was spent at Nana and Tata's house, as usual. Tia Angie brought cookies for the kids to decorate.

Santa came and Felix was shy with him.
Lili was terrified and cried.
Once Santa left the kids had fun playing with Sophia. Angelica spent Christmas Eve with her Dad and family.

This is our metal tree we have been using. Hopefully next year we will get a real tree.

We picked up Angelica Christmas morning and headed out to SB.

My parents tree with all the presents on Christmas morning.

We woke everyone up to open presents...

Later we stopped by Tia Elaine's work. The twins liked playing office.

December at home

December we got ready for Christmas and did things at home.

Lili's hair is getting long.

We spiked Felix's hair and put Angelica's Harry Potter glasses on him and he looked like Chicken Little.
Felix invented a way to tow a scooter.
Angelica is getting better and better at the violin.

The kids played together.

And even made a gingerbread house together. Lili was most interested in eating the candy.

Birthday Parties

On Saturday we went to our nephew, Angel's birthday party.

The kids had fun with a clown that made balloons and face painted. I stayed far away with my back turned to him durning his show. Felix was surrounded by girls.

Cassandra and Angelica were cats.

On Sunday the girls got ready and we went to a birthday party for one of my best friend's niece.

It was a princess party and Celeste turned 3.

My friend, Lucia, being the great Tia she is, dressed up as Snow White and entertained the girls

Caught in the rain

Today Chone had a soccer game at 8am. In the first quarter she almost got 2 goals. She was so close! In the second quarter it started to sprinkle with lightning in the distance. I started to take down the banner just when they stopped all the games. As soon as I got everything and everyone packed up it and started walking to the car, it started to POUR! We all got soaked! By the time we got to the car the twins were both crying and me and Chone had water dripping down our faces! Once everyone was buckled in and all my stuff (banner, chair, stroller) was in the trunk, it calmed down and turned into a sprinkle. If only it would have waited 5 more minutes for us to get in the car. The rest of the games for the day were cancelled. We were just one of the lucky teams who got to play at 8 in the morning for not even half the game. The picture is what Chone looked like, except with ribbons in her longer hair.

Halloween

We went trick or treating around part of the neighborhood. The twins had fun, but were to shy to say trick or treat, even though they were saying it at home.

Lili was a scarecrow girl.
Felix was a scarecrow boy

Chone was another Harry Potter character this year. She was Moany Murtle.

Swimming Lessons

Chone started swimming lessons at the YMCA. After her near drowning experience at Bass Lake last year, it was time. There is only one other little girls in her "class". Her teacher is very nice.
By the second lesson she was swimming on her own!