Gift exchange with the Alva's

The girls had such a nice time exchanging gifts. Tamara REALLY enjoyed her horse. She loves to get on and pretend-ride. Thank you guys for being the greatest Compadres.



Sofia looking through her Calendar.



Tamara enjoying her new horse.



SuperMunoz!



Very happy kids!

It's a *^@^%#*#

Fooled ya! I will be revealing the sex of our new baby on Christmas day. You can 1) come over, 2) call me, or 3) check out the blog after Christmas.


Just lounging the time away.

Happy birthday Sofia

So today we went to church after a very long time. I felt that it would be nice for Tamara to really get into Christmas by experiencing its "true" meaning. She loved church and she loved to sing the hymns. She was very loud in her singing voice and people were looking over at us giggling at this 3 year-old reading the misselet and singing in quite a bad voice. But thats ok, she was very cute and she was having fun. Afterward, we went to Sofia's birthday breakfast as she is now 4 years old. How time flies. We all had a great breakfast together and enjoyed a great Sunday morning.



The Alvas.



Sofia concentrating on opening her gifts.



Our first gift to her was a white warm jacket.



The next gift was a snow white globe.



I wonder if she liked it???



Humm, by the look on her face, I think she liked it.




Historical moment! Tamara and Tia Cecilia taking a picture, smiling and being close. Do you think it was Church??? Did that do the trick?



Leaving the restaurant hand in hand.



Us girls.

Saturday Fun

Today we had a packed day of gymnastic class (for Tamara), holiday dance perfomances for our God-daughter Sofia, haircuts for Tamara & Robert and holiday parties. It was a great day. These pictures tell it all.

So we started off our day with someone being upset because she didnt like the way her leotard felt. She wanted to take it off but I told her she had to wear it to go to gymnastic class......

.....but once we got there, watch out. Poor gymnastic instructors.

look at the teachers expression.....please come back.

Tamara really enjoyed the obstacle course.

She was great at swinging on the bars.

There is a reason she was born during the year of the monkey.

After gymnastic class, we rushed over to Sofia's holiday ballet performance. She did a great job!

How Cute!

She's really having a great time.

The cuties.

Congratulations Sofia!

The girls and Robert.

After the performance we went to have lunch and then rushed over to our haircut appointment at Little Kutz. Luckily, Roberts haircut-girl works here too so we got both of their haircuts done at the same time.

Watching Ants on TV.

All done. The kid doesnt like fu-fu bows in her hair.

Tamara and her stylist.

Robert getting his hair-cut too. Too bad he didn't sit on the dinosaur chair.

So after the haircuts, we finally went home to get ready for my work holiday party at the Ritz. We sent Tamara to Kids Klub and went off for a night out, just the two of us and my work friends.

Sadly, it was an OPEN bar and I couldn't touch anything. So I just took pictures instead.

Me with my work friends.

Me with my boss - Dr. Sato.

Me & Robert

And that ended our fun filled day.

Holiday party at Gia's

We spent our Sunday afternoon with our friends the Saggar's for their 3rd annual holiday party. We had a nice time especially since Tamara and Gia had such a great time playing. We had to stay longer to allow them to play.



Tamara is making sure Santa doesn't come near her.



Kavita, Tamara & Me



Gia & Tamara.



Tamara practicing for her Minute Maid commercial.



The Munoz Familia.

One cheeeeesy smile.

Our Christmas Tree

We picked up our Christmas Tree today and Tamara helped us decorate. She loved it! Im sure this will be a tradition that she will enjoy for many years to come.


Tamara's new cheese!



First Ornament - Hand made by Tamara.



Enjoying every minute of it.

The final touch.

Dont like Santa Claus

Well, I made my first attempt at getting Tamara to take a solo picture with Santa Claus but NO WAY is that going to happen this year. She is terrified of the jolly guy. Oh well. I forced her anyways to go up with me so we could take a picture together.