hike hike hiking around the lake

we decided to hike around Puddingstone the day after Thanksgiving!

turkey gobble gobble!

thankful for many blessings this year.....
this year we only celebrated with my family since the times coincided this year with Tonys fam....
here are a couple of snap shots that i "borrowed" from other family members! sadly, i forgot to take a pic of us!

time for feasting! there was tons of food!

some of my aunts, uncles, gma, &cousin...

more family....

 some of my cousins... (and their drinks!)

 tay singing with the girlies

and bear played with the boys.....

 

bear's bestie turns F O U R!!

bear's best friend and cousin- Peyton- turned F O U R today! they are 6 months apart and are absolutely BEST FRIENDS! Peyton opened presents at home and then they went to breakfast and she wanted her bear to join them at Flappy Jacks for some bday pancakes!

we also had a traditional family birthday dinner at their place...

they also celebrated at her loli and lolo's

make a wish! we love you peyton!

c group, samanthas shower, knicks celebration

we love our community group at the maese's on thursday nites! we had our thanksgiving potluck last week, shared the things we were thankful for and sang a little worship and lots of fellowship!

the Visschers are expecting little Emilia!

cutest preggo momma ever!

 some of the girls... lingering after the "Celebration of Life Party" for jarrod-- it was a year ago this day that he went in for surgery......

and some of our hubbies

it was a great turn-out! and God blessed the fellowship and the food!

more festivites to come!

jessies bday

jessie turned 25! bear made her a card and is explaining it to her ;)

happy birthday jess! and congrats again to you and your fiance- matt!

last of the birthday fun!

we had dinner with our family at Lucilles!

the rock!

bear and hannie were playing outside together after church.  they were playing with rocks and were throwing them and then bear handed hannah a rock - to which her own dad says, "someday it'll be a real rock!" hee hee! shall we say, "betrothed?"

and the early celebrations begin!

well Nov has come and that means bday shenanigans. I'm not usually the one who likes to celebrate my birthday cuz bday blues tend to happen, but i must say- this night out was FUN!  Maria and Amanda are Nov bdays too so we all went out together alont with my sis and Nicole to celebrate! We headed to Birch Street in Brea for some dinner at Cha Cha's for some latin food and some live music! It was fun and the band was quite entertaining AND our meal was paid for by surprise by some of the hubbies!

 we toasted to another year!

me, nicole, amanda, maria & rossy

 we made it nicoles birthday too AND she even sang a stevie wonder song with one of the servers at Farrells! Farrells Icecream Parlour was a BLAST!! so fun!

 me and my twinsie

outside of Farrells but about to go in- we had to sing Happy Birthday cuz our server introduced us as a famous singing group! lol!

icecrem sundaes and balloon art!

i got a jetpack for bear! zzzzoom! blast off!

more of October busyness...

so much to October.... so here's some snapshots of this month so far.... REAGAN turned TWO!!!! praise God for this little blessing and another year into her life!

 papa and bear went mini-golfing!

 annnnd they rode the go-karts!

rossy and i got to meet up with good 'ol friends, dareen and sarah, for dessert in brea....

 good friends of ours- the Knicks- had their littlest one dedicated at their old church ccch!

bear and peyton, aka- best friends and best cousins, got flu shots together at their peeds office ;)

 went to Disneyland!!! and finally got to go to CarsLand!!! bear was SO SUPER excited! more pix to come!

 um... space mountain, aka "ghost galaxy" uh-- eeks?!

 matt, jessie's fiance, jessie, gpa dean, gma mia, me, tony and a tired bear!

 

snapshots of an already busy october!

October has already been super busy! we celebrated my dad's birthday at Buca with the fam!

bear made grandpa a card and he wrot it himself and drew the pic!

 bear's auntie jessie got engaged to matthew!

 

 the tres marias! lol! we've been blessed practicing together and leading worship together for tues nite womens study! we're also working had to get nicole on board with keys and my sis on board with the bass!

  this is our thurday nite community group!! love them! it was potluck last thurs!

 Peyton drew a picture of her family of 5 PLUS 1= which included her brother BEAR!!! so cute!

 (sorry for the sideways pic) we have reached 7 years in our marriage! ;)