Reflecting on 2009!

It is hard to believe that this year is coming to an end. I honestly feel like it just started! However, I do feel like I have grown quite a lot in this year. Many things have happened this year, some I would rather forget but everything happens fora reason and we grow from it. This year I:

Subbed in Kindergarten through 8th grade classes
Discovered that I had skin cancer
Filed taxes as a married couple =)
Started my 100 list! (Which has proven to be very fun!)
Celebrated 10 years together with my husband
Gained new friends
Lost old friends
Discovered and fell in love with Zumba
Joined a new gym
Became obsessed with Twilight
Saw many amazing plays with my mom and sister (more to come in 2010!)
Starting cooking a lot more
Adopted my two kitties, Mia and Shelby
Shot a gun for the first time
Became a fourth of a century old
Went to Vegas and it wasn't as fun as I remembered it from four years ago
Welcomed many new babies into the world
Bought a new (used) truck
Spent the holidays with my family


It has really been a good year and I am very blessed. I am excited to see what 2010 will hold.


Have a safe and happy new year and I hope you are blessed in 2010!

A Holly Jolly Christmas

My favorite time of the year has come and then went in a flash! It is amazing how much time we spend preparing for that day and then it comes and goes so suddenly. Here are a few pictures from our Christmas.

Stockings hung with care



Look at the good job my hubby did hanging the lights!



My Ohana



Getting creative with the camera



Oh Christmas tree, Our Christmas tree!



Christmas at Grandma's



We all got the same coach purse!



Opening stockings



His favorite gift






I got the Cricut!



Christmas breakfast at Mom and Dad's







We also went to Holiday Lights at CALM. It was really neat, even though it cost $12 a person!













I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and has a blessed 2010!

LA Kings Game

For Jonathan's birthday (December 11) we went with our friends to see an LA Kings game! It was my first professional game and I was so excited!!!

Note: I don't know why the pictures won't get smaller. I've tried everything. Oh well. lol

Happy Birthday honey!



Love IKEA



Staples Center



Hockey rink



We were in the center. It was a BIG place! haha





Carl, Erin, me, Jonathan



I love hockey!






They were tied at the end of the game, so they went into...





By the end of overtime they were tied so they went into a shootout!



We were nervous



They won in sudden death!






Go kings!

Happiest Family on Earth

It seems to be a new tradition for my family to go to Disneyland every year around Christmas time. I absolutely love it! Disneyland is like our family time. We used to go every month and I thought it was the best. It was my opportunity to spend time together as a family which, let's face it, is hard these days.

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree!



On Splash Mountain. Mom really liked it =)



We gave mom and dad bunny ears. Dad didn't think it was funny, but we thought it was HILARIOUS!



On Thunder Mountain



"Old Fart Bench"



Tower of Terror



The ferris wheel is so pretty now!



The Brother



Jonathan and Alex thought it would be funny to fake a car wreck in Toontown. I guess it is kind of inventive



Soaked after a ride on Splash Mountain




I cannot wait to go back again! Although my feet appreciate the break =)