Saturday, November 14, 2009

Getting Ready for Christmas

We spent most of the week decorating our house for Christmas...

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Finally done with the tree and the Christmas village.....

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On Friday, we picked up Larissa and Arianna.  They will spend the night.  Arianna kept saying, "awesome" and went thru every little thing......they had fun and we had fun watching them.

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They pose with Grandpa and the tree he sets up outside....

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Manuel sets the timer and we took our first Christmas picture...even Charlie, our Yorkie, posed.

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On Saturday, we were invited to Gabriella's 2nd Birthday party at her Grandma and Grandpa's house which is a few houses from our house.  Grandma Rose and Gabriella pose....Arianna and I enter the Castle and we had a great time.....

 

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Everyone had a great time....

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Lari is at the top of the slide, and grandpa catches a picture of her sliding down...

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Our Daughter-In-Law catered the party.   Her company's name is Absolutely Delicious Catering.     

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They had beautiful, colorful balloons everywhere.

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They had four tents set out where the food was served....very good food.

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The DJ area and the Cake table...

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Lari just had a great time....Arianna was a little shy but also had a wonderful time.

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Arianna and I take a break from the activities...Gabriella digs into the Piñata!

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Mike, Gabriella and Lori Garcia...

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Arianna stands in line to hit the piñata.      Gabriella hits the piñata and grabs the first candy.

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Lari has fun hitting the piñata!

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Ready to cut the Beautiful cake!                  We sing Happy Birthday to Gabriella.

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We had another wonderful weekend with the Girls....Manuel just picked them up and took them home.

1 comment:

ram and josie said...

Beautiful!!! Your house always looks soo nice during the holidays!!!
Great pictures of the party!!

Love you!!!