Disclaimer...

I just wanted y'all to know that I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I just work in a CPA's office and just like Christmas, tax season starts earlier every year. We usually don't get started until the first week of February, but I think we started the day after the new year this time. Anyway, don't expect anything out of me because my answer will probably be, not until after tax season! So I will see y'all then!!

Christmas week celebrations!!!

What a fun week we have had! The kids have been in great moods, not overly tired or sugared up, and even us siblings have gotten along :) We have movie nights, game night, and even a little PPV fight night. Here are some pic high-lights!

Little Lettie and Sassy got matching vests from Tio Marcos and Haley and they worked out perfect for our giant family pictures the next morning!

The kids love to drink out of the adults water bottles, so Sissy found kid sized ones for "Damma" to give to the kids and they haven't stopped drinking since! (And they each got their own color.)

Garrett loves to hold baby Addelyn and he smiles all the time! Addelyn has done really well letting the kids hold and play with her all the time and dealing with the "happy noise"

Haley got to have her very own, private audience to watch her open presents since she didn't get to join us until Christmas night. Marcos loves to tease Haley about her eyes not being open in pictures but she looks great in this one!

Adam and Melissa got Marcos this great running suit for Christmas (they didn't get the real gift done until later) so he wore it for the entire day, just so people would wonder if he really liked it that much!


Then Friday, we got to have a girls outing after family pics, so we picked to have pedis!

Sassy got to pick out her own color...pink of course!

She was totally enthralled in what Sonja was doing to her toes...

That is some hot pink!

Not a happier 2 year old in the state!

Thanks "sissy's" for all the fun!!!

New Cousins

Last night we had a "Sibling Movie Night" (we missed you Haley and Marcos!) at Cheeto and Shena's house with Cookout milkshakes, and watched "Christmas Vacation" (Arellano classic). The 2 youngest Arellano's weren't into sleeping, and they can't repeat all the lines that shouldn't be repeated from that movie, so they stayed up with us.


Little Lettie was not too sure about Addelyn...

Addelyn was not too sure about Little Lettie...

But it didn't take long for Little Lettie to want to hold her, the whole time! She would get so upset when her turn was over! I think she needs a little sister too!

Shena was making Addelyn's stocking and Lettie thought it was a great hat!

Thanks to my siblings for hanging out and having fun!

Kids Sleepover...

We got to have the kids over for a pre-Christmas party this last weekend and it was so fun! The kids has been a little worried about Tia not having any Christmas decorations or a Christmas Tree, so our project for the night was a gingerbread tree...

Cade showing his muscles...his dad is so jealous!

Sassy helping with the tree and Cade is posing for Kelson who is taking the picture.

Tio and the kids.

Sassy taking her picture with Tio.

Cade now taking his shot.

This was Addy's Rudolph outfit and I just loved it! She did not stay the night with us for obvious reasons, but she will get to before we know it!

We love to have the kids over even if we let them eat what they want, stay up way too late, and be hyper! Thankfully their parents forget what they are like the day after and let them come back! Thanks for the fun kids!

Santa Clause is coming to town...

"We" had a special visit last night from Santa at Cheeto and Shena's house, and I of course, had to go too.

I love this smile of Cade's! He was the brave one that went first to show his siblings how it goes...all of his requests were about his favorite football teams! What else would you expect from a kid that is so much like Cheeto?

Kelson only had one request, a real light saber (how ever you spell it), but Santa said that they might have to improvise on that one since they aren't really safe for kids to have.

Addelyn did great! I think that she is the only one who can say that she has been good all year!

Here is the special family with their special guest. And great Santa Panther hats courtesy of Tia!

Sassy was not too fond of him and had a death grip on me when it was her turn to sit on his lap (thus I have no pictures of that) but we finally convinced her that she could at least give him a love before he left and she happily obliged!

Kelson then went on to sing "Santa Clause is coming to town" while he took a bath...gotta love sweet little kids at Christmas! Thanks Cheeto and Shena for letting me come over!

Silly dog owners...

I know that this is going to make me look like the dog lady, but I just couldn't resist and my brother-in-law requested an updated picture of Kris and Bofo. But, if anyone ever gets a calender or Christmas card with just my dog and dressed in all different outfits, please do have an intervention to save the poor dog! But I must say that he really is cute!

I think poor Bofo is embarrassed, at least he got to wear the Panther hat and not a Broncos! :)

Poor Bofo, he has ridiculous owners...Kris wanted to take his picture with the Panthers Santa hat on and he even had to hold his head up...

Go Panthers! I mean Broncos!!

Our game finally came yesterday in Charlotte! We were so excited and got to the stadium 2 hours before the game started! This was my first NFL game, so I wanted to get the full experience!



This is "Christmas Panther", she is very festive. If you notice the banner here in the bottom right corner, it says "Bag-Check Line" and I of course had a bag with all my goodies. I read the back of the ticket before we left the house to see if there was anything that we couldn't take, and there wasn't, and Cheeto had given us a football to get signed so I put it in our bag. We get up to the bag check and the guy said "sorry but no footballs are allowed in the game" what the!?!? Its a football game! So we had to either hike back to the car, or they had a "Toys for Tots" run by the Marine Corp, so we hope some kid loves his un-signed football! Now we just have to find another to give to Cheeto.

I love these self taken couple portraits! I am sure that my brothers will get to make lots of fun at me for this one.

This is our team after their prayer huddle! I wonder what they say in those...

Our seats were great! They are up high enough to be able to see the whole game easily, but close enough to hear it too! This win made us undefeated at home this year, so hopefully we will win one of our next 2 games to win our division. I was kind of sad for Kris that his Broncos didn't look so hot, but I did love the game! He was gracious enough to let me celebrate with the chicks next to me and didn't even scowl at me once! It started to rain with just under 10minutes left, and I have been fighting bronchitis for 3 weeks, so we left a few minutes early. On my way down the stairs a migraine hit me, so Kris had to drive and let me be sick. All in all we had a great time!