THE TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

What a wonderful time of year. Its my most favorite time of the year. What a wonderful season that starts off with Thanksgiving, a time for us to be mindful of all that we have been blessed with, and then next to celebrate the birth of of our Savior. To be with family and show our love for one another. I know that I am mindful of my Savior and his birth, I also know that I need to be better at focusing more on him at this special time of the year. What can I give the Lord? On the day we celebrate his birth, as he has given so much to me. I have the wonderful blessing of the true and everlasting gospel in my life. I have the opportunity because of him to grow and overcome all obstacles or short comings I face in my life daily. I have a wonderful loving family, whom I love and cherish so much. That I am so blessed to be with eternally as I follow my Father in Heaven. Wow...Im truly blessed. Thru the next week as I continue to prepare and getting ready for Christmas, I am going to really focus on what gift I can wrap up for my Savior, and put underneath our Christmas Tree. The next lil poem is something I came across as well as a verse in the bible that really stood out to me. Hope they touch anyone who reads, as they touched my heart.

I wonder, what does Christmas mean, With its stars and shiny balls? Is Christmas more than Christmas trees And toys and games and dolls? Of this I’m sure: There’s something more, For I’ve heard many say That in a strange and far-off land, A child was born this day. And Christmas is to celebrate His coming from above. He showed us how we all should live And told us we should love.

Matthew 1:24-- aBehold, a bvirgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his cname dEmmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!

END OF OCTOBER ALREADY!?!

CAN YOU BELIEVE WE ARE ALREADY about to celebrate Halloween! Man the months just seem to just be going by faster and faster! Its craziness. Before we know it will be Thanksgiving and than Christmas, and then celebrating the beginning of a New Year. CRAZY! I love the holidays though, I love being family and having a good time.

Got quit a bit coming up in the next week or so. Both Craig & Mom graduate with their BA's early November! Which I am so excited and happy for them both! Its so exciting. They both will be moving on to their Masters Program pretty much right away! So proud of YOU BOTH! :)

I will post some pics up soon of the Harvest Festival and Halloween! :)

Happy 27th Craigy!!

October 3rd was my hubby's 27th bday! But since it landed during the middle of the work we, we decided to schedule a dinner with the fam that could make it this past Saturday, it was fun.

Craig was happy and in heaven with his most favorite SUSHI @ Yama! So we had a lot of fun celebrating his special day! Here are a few pics from his bday dinner!

My hubby & I (Ooohh I love him so much!)

Craigy & I (showing off his new Harley Sweatshirt)

Mom & Me (posing for our professional pic taker-Hannah Bee) lol

Grammie, Uncle David, Auntie Sui, & Papa

Our"personal" Tepan-Chef, LoL, we wish!

Hannah-Bee, Me, & Bday Boy...getting ready for some yummy dinner.

Disneyland!!

It was so much fun... it was Craigy, George & Joe's 1st time EVER to Disneyland, can you believe it!??!!!! It was fun though, cause we got to go for Halloween time at Disneyland, the decorations were awesome! It was such a fun day! :) Here are very few of the many pics we took a few weeks ago! Enjoy!

"The breakfast of Champions" LOL! We had to fill our stomachs before Disneyland

Mama, T, & George chillin with their sweet shades...lol... (that are property of Disneyland) LOL!

Look its that crazy family in "Toon Towne"

George Cruzin in "Autotopia"

T & Lex entering into "Finding Nemo Submarine Ride"

The Fam Bam entering Disneyland

Splash Mountain here we come!! (My Craigy...has no clue whats enstore..lol !)

HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY!!

Last Sunday was Grandparents Day.... so we thought we would get everyone together to celebrate on Saturday and take Papa & Grammie out to dinner...and express our love and appreciation for the great Grandparents we have. What a special day to be able to celebrate the wonderful blessing of Grandparents in our lives, in MY life. I really was reflecting... on the examples that my Grandparents have been to me, throughout my life. God fearing, strong, heroic, courageous, happy, loving, compassionate, service oriented hard working, and most of all embraced the Lord, Jesus Christ, no matter what religious group they belonged to. The Lord has truly blessed me to have such wonderful inspirational people in my life. I have learned so much from them, and will continue to strive to gain attributes of each of them.

Labor Day Wknd! :)

Labor Day Wknd... was a blast.

We went down to Vista for a couple days to visit the fam and hang out. Then we came home and got to spend Labor Day at the beach it was so gorgeous out! Beautiful weather and we had lots of fun with family. Couldnt have asked for more! We even got to jump into the pool before the day was out, that was fun too.

Papa & Grammie

Mom & Hootie.... "say cheese Hootie.." LOL!

Craig & Hunt ....testing their skills...


Cade & Craig (The Diggers..LOL)

Natty & her Mama... smiling for Auntie La :)

Natty Bug & I (trying to stay cool at the park)

My 1st Blog !

Here I am, Auntie Juli had to really really twist my arm to get me started on this whole blog thing...lol.... ok, she didnt have to twist my arm to badly, I too think its a great way to stay in touch and its fun, get to share pics, etc. :)

Im so excited today is FRIDAY, and better yet a LONG WEEKEND! WHOO HOO!

A lil frustrated at the moment though, Craig graduates this November 10th and they just decided to let us know we have to have cap and gowns ordered by the 5th of October. A lil poor planning on the school's part of not notifying everyone, but oh well. We are just too excited about him graduating and then going on with his Masters Program. Mom is also graduating November 9th!! Go CRAIG & MOM! WAY TO GO YOU BOTH! Its been a lot of hard work, but well worth it. I'm so proud of you both! Cant wait to celebrate!

Im sure I will be bloggin some more soon... :)