....Finally!

I got my computer back and I had a lot of stuff to catch up on, so I'm just putting a bunch of pictures so it's not such a long, boring post! (With a little commentary here and there.) :)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family, and Sierra discovered the love of olives!


This is all the nieces and nephews together, it was wonderful to have everyone together for Thanksgiving!

Sierra turned 2 and I love doing surprises, so we totally decorated the hall outside her room after she went to bed. I wish I would have had more streamers, I wanted to make a full streamer curtain across her door, but this is all we had. It worked.

Of course, I had the camera ready for when she came out and she was a little mystified!

...but she loved it!

Here we are in the frigid cold waiting for Santa to come on the firetruck...
...and there he is! Sierra loved it!

Juan and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on December 22nd - I can't believe 4 years have gone by, I hope we have 104+ more! Love you babe!

Our family Christmas party was on Christmas Eve, it was fun to get together! I love holidays!

All the kids got pillow pets (those were popular this year!!) and Sierra loves her little lady bug! Thanks grandma!

^^Waiting for Santa...vv Santa has come!

I think she likes her new bike, she couldn't wait to try it out!

Here she is opening her "spread!" We were so blessed this last Christmas. Someone knocked on our door and when we opened it, we found a bag full of gifts on our porch, I was so touched by the gesture! Thank you very much, whoever did that, it really made our Christmas! That's one special reason I love the holidays - the spirit of giving is so strong! We usually like to be the ones to do that sort of thing, so thank you, 'Santa and Elves.' :)

Sierra's opening the big one....

And she loves that doll so much!

Here's Sierra's "spread". She was so spoiled this year!

She got a new outfit and I just love it, so stinkin' cute!!

And I got ^^ this lovely item for Christmas! I HAVE been using it too! I love it! Thank you, honey! I kind of pooped out on it for a little while, dang it, but I'm back up and running! I'm not gonna give up!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas as well!

We had a lovely birthday dinner with family and friends at Orem Sizzler for my b-day! It's always fun to get together and PARTY!! Let's do it again sometime! Thanks everyone for coming, it was a great birthday!

PHEW, I think that's it for now! I hope to not get behind again! It's been a wonderful last couple of months!

I'm still here!

Well, folks, it's official, I haven't blogged since last year. hehe My laptop's adaptor cable [wire] snapped apart inside the plastic casing and so my computer has been out of commission. It's annoying. I have to use Juan's and I don't like his as much as my own. But one of these times I'll get it up and running, I can't wait. I suppose I could upload some pictures to Juan's computer so I can do a blog update, I just haven't done it. I really need to, there's lots to catch up on. Soon, I promise! Just wanted to keep you all 'abreast' of the situation, hahaha.