The perfect Christmas for a little girl!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!! Katie was so delighted to open up all her presents from Santa this morning and it was a Barbie paradise in our living room..... We celebrated Christmas with Scott's side of the family last night and had a wonderful time. We do the usual White Elephant gift exchange and we all draw a family members name that we buy for and exchange gifts Christmas Eve. Well this year, Scott's sister Les had Katie, and her and her husband Kerry made Katie this beautiful Victorian style Barbie House. It is sooo awesome! Katie was speechless. It is so perfect for all her barbie stuff. She ended up getting a lot of barbie furniture from Santa and it all ended up fitting in this house. Katie is one happy little girl! Now we will be off to my parents house to celebrate with them. My brother is in town so it will be so nice to have us all together. We hope you all have a wonderful day with your families!

My Work Christmas Party

My company that I work for is based out of southern California but there are only 4 techs here in Arizona so they decided to fly us out there Friday so that we could join them for the Christmas party. They also put us up at the Marriott Resort for the night and we flew back Sat. morning. We had such a great time, and we were so grateful that they decided to do that for us. The picture here is of the Arizona techs.

Our "Santa Comes to Town" Block Party

So my neighbor Yvonne and I put together our 2nd annual "Santa Comes to Town" potluck block party last Monday and it really went well. We set up all the tables and food down at the end of our street which is a pretty safe location for the kids to play in the street. We also brought out 3 fire-pits and the kids had so much fun roasting there marshmallows. About an hour later Santa drove up on the Rural Metro Firetruck and surprised all the kids!!! It was amazing to see all there faces and there reactions. The fire department was so kind to help us out with this event. They even put there lights on as they came down the street. I will be honest, my eyes filled up a little with tears because the reactions from the kids was priceless. So Santa had 3 bags full of presents for all the kids (which each parent supplied for there own kids). My neighbor Heidi had this amazing photo Christmas background set up in her garage and she had opened up for Santa to go and sit down in there to hand out all the presents. Heidi also took the time and took pictures of all the kids sitting on his lap getting there gifts. It was so AWESOME that she was able to capture this evening for us and we all thank you Heidi!!! After everyone got pictures with Santa and he handed out all his gifts Santa waved goodbye as he drove down the street in the firetruck... lights, sirens and all!!! The evening was so memorable!!! Thanks to everyone who helped us make this so special!

"The Turkey"

Well, we almost had to eat the turkey off the floor today... trying to get the turkey out of the oven at Scott's Aunts house ended up being a little harder than expected! It got flipped around and it ended up landing on the oven door and stuffing, grease, and turkey pieces went everywhere and I mean everywhere! I missed the big event and walked in on the massive clean up. Yes, the picture you see here is the "turkey" after being badly beaten...

Katie's Idea of Being Comfortable??

So Katie was being her usual quiet self so I knew there was something on t.v. that she was really interested in. She usually runs back and forth from her playroom to the family room quite often in short amounts of times unless she is "chillin" watching something good... so I decided to go and check on her thinking she may have fallin asleep since it was after 9 and to my suprise she had made herself a little COZY bed for herself out of a laundry hamper. I could hardly contain myself. As most of you know, she isn't exactly a little girl anymore but she managed to squeeze herself in this basket and told me she was quite comfortable lol. I just love her!!!

Scott's Promotion!!!

Scott has finally gotten the promotion that he was hoping for today! He is now a production manager for his company Jabil Circut. He has been with the company for 3 1/2 years as a production supervisor. On a personal note, I just want to say how proud I am of him. He has truly worked his butt off to have this opportunity and I couldn't be happier for him. I love you baby... Congratulations!!!!