Merry Christmas

Dada's Work Party

On Friday it was Spencer's work party. They have a very nice lunch at the office for all the employees and families. Aubrey enjoyed checking out dada's work by crawling all over. It is always fun to go see dada at work and see all the cool stuff he does. He works so hard for us and he is so smart we are so pround of him.

After lunch we went to the mall to finish some Christmas shopping.

Work Christmas Party

On the 12th it was my company's annual Christmas party. Every year we have a huge party at the airport. We had a wonderful live band, yummy food, good company and we filled two huge boxes for toys for tots. It was very stressful putting it all together and I'm so happy it turned out good. My wonderful husband and family helped me so much that night. Thanks everyone!

Aubrey had a great time but was so tired at the end of the night.

Trip to see Santa

Today we took Aubrey to see Santa in the mall. She was happy in my arms but the minute I sat her on Santa's lap she started to scream. Thank goodness the photographer had a cool toy that made noise so we were able to get this shot. Santa then tried to give her a candy cane and she wanted nothing to do with him. After we were done and waiting for the picture she looked at him and pointed and smiled I guess she likes him from a distance.

Getting ready for Christmas

Our Family tradition is to decorate for Christmas Thanksgiving weekend so that is what we did all day Saturday. We put up the tree Saturday morning and Aubrey just looked at the tree like what the heck and then got back to playing.

Then when she woke up from her afternoon nap she came down the stairs to see the tree all lit up. She loved it! We caught her on tape giggling and clapping it was so cute!

We then started to hang ornaments with her. She pointed at the lights and was very happy the whole time we decorated.

This is the end result

Spencer and I have been painting a Christmas village for the last three years. My mom has a huge village that she has painted since before we where even born so she got us our very first house for our first married Christmas and we have been hooked ever since. We paint all year round. Here is a picture of us in front of it with the projects that we are working on now.

Today December 1st Aubrey was able to open her first Christmas window in her advent calendar. She even got to taste the chocolate and she loved it!

Black Friday

While Spencer and I went Christmas shopping all day Friday Nana, Grandpa, and Aunt Laura took Aubrey to Fairyland in Oakland. She got to go on a train ride, a slide, watch a puppet show, and see tons of other babies and kids. They said that she really enjoyed herself and smiled the whole time. They took some really cute pictures.



Thanks mom, dad, and Laura

Thanksgiving 2008

Aubrey's first Thanksgiving was a blast. We started the day waking up and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and eating cinnamon rolls (family tradition). Then we packed up the car and headed to Spencer's side of the family for our first Thanksgiving and Birthday celebrations. Then on to my side for are second Thanksgiving and to spend the night. We are so thankful to have such a wonderful family and the ability to see so many people that we love so much that day.

Aubrey enjoying some yummy sweet potatoes.

Turkey next year.

Thank you everyone for making our Thanksgiving and Aubrey's 1st so special. We love you all!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I can't believe Christmas is just a little over a month away. We are so excited for the Holiday season. Christmas music is beginning to play on the radio and the stores are all decked out, so much fun!!! Last Saturday Spencer and I took Aubrey to get her Christmas pictures done. She did very good and we are happy with the way they turned out.

Yummy

Aubrey LOVES her new teething cookies!! Yummy Yummy!!!

Family Picture

We took a couple of family pictures in our backyard a couple weekends ago and Aubrey was being so funny.

I love her smile in this picture.

My sister was in town so we got a few pictures of her also.

Merced Band Review

On Saturday we went to The Central Valley Band Review in Merced. Spencer and I met in Jr. High in band class. We both then went on to Hayward High where we were both in the Marching band together and that is where we began to date so band reviews have a very special place in our hearts. Here are some pictures from the event.

Aubrey started clapping on Friday. As she watched the bands march by she would clap it was very cute!

It was so nice reliving our High School years and watching all the fabulous bands. We hope that our kids will follow in our footsteps so we can go on the fun band reviews with them.

In honor of the band review post we thought it would be fun to post some of our band years.

Us in our band shirts in Disneyland in 1998. We got to march down Main Street.

This is what happens....

When you don't take your afternoon nap!

Aubrey is 9 months

Our little girl is growing so fast. Today marks her 9 month mark. It is so hard to believe that she has been out as long as she was in my tummy. We love her so much. She brightens our days.

Here are some exciting things she can do now:

Crawls

Pulls herself up

Stands for a long period of time

Giggles and smiles all the time

Says: dada, mama, baba

Her newest thing is whispering

Gives big hugs

Eats all kinds of veggies and fruits

She has two teeth on the bottom

and she is loads of fun!!!

Sewing

For my birthday my parents gave me my first sewing machine and I'm so excited to start sewing like crazy. On Monday I read through the whole direction manual and figured out how to use it all on my own. On Monday when Spencer got home we all went to JoAnn fabrics and I picked out some fabrics to practice on and then tonight I made this little pillow for Aubrey.
This is just the begging of my sewing career. I can't wait to learn how to make anything and everything. Thanks mom and dad!

My Birthday Weekend

I just celebrated my 28th birthday yesterday. What an amazing year 27 was I'm so excited to see what this year holds for me and our family. It was so much fun being a mom this year for my birthday. Spencer and Aubrey really spoiled me this year. Spencer took all of us on a weekend family trip to Sacramento.

Aubrey and I watching the rain in our hotel.

One of my birthday gifts from my wonderful husband was a gift card to Macy's to use while we were in Sacramento. The mall was huge and had everything it was great! They even had a carousel so Aubrey and daddy took a ride, they both loved it.

Brunch at our hotel.

We all drove up to Apple Hill. It is so beautiful and we had so much fun seeing all the farms and fall leaves. The weather was perfect.

We met up with my family for my birthday dinner over the weekend.

Thank you everybody for such a wonderful birthday. Thank you to the BEST husband for making my birthday and birthday weekend so very special. You mean so much to me and I can't wait to spend every birthday with you forever.