Field Trip

Julianna and I went on a field trip with her class today to Descanso Gardens. That place is just beautiful. I think I am getting a pass and going more often. Everytime I go, I feel so relaxed. The flowers are amazing, the variety of trees are so awesome, the ponds are majestic and it makes you feel like so at peace. Julianna enjoyed herself so much. She really enjoyed feeling all the flowers, touching the leaves, exploring the bridges and watching the ducks, fish, turtles and geese. Great morning.


Feeling the leaves.

Enjoying the bridge and watching the Koi.

Taking a little break.

Wondering what were are doing.

Smiling for the camera.

Hanging out with her friend.

Hanging out with more of her friends.

Taking a nature walk.



End of our morning. She was happy.



Pooped out!

Friends

These next few weeks will be bitter-sweet for Tamara and for us as she graduates from Pre-school (technically, pre-kindergarten). Tamara has been in pre-school since she was 2 years old (3 years) and will now move on to Kindergarten. Sadly, none of her friends (that she has be so close with for the entire year) will be going with her to her new school. For those of you who know Tamara, you know that she is very particular about who she choses as friends and once you are her friend (which is hard to do) she holds on to you. It took her several months to select her friends this year but once she had them, she kept them the entire year and nobody else was allowed in to her circle. Kindergarten will be a huge adjustment for her and she will have to start again and create a new circle of friends. School ends next week on Friday so she has asked me to take pictures with her and her buddies. So far, I have just taken pictures with 2 of her friends Esther and Sophia. I still have Natalie and Rani to do. Stay tuned for those pics in the near future.


Esther and Tamara

Sofia and Tamara

Relaxing Saturday

We spent the day at home today. The weather usually dictates if we go out and today's weather was gloomy and cold so we just relaxed at home going to the farmers market, playing games, and having some quaility family time. Nice.

Must be nice to be them.



Sisterly love.



She's walking everywhere.



Silly faces.

Enjoying the backyard.

Evening with the Alvas

We had a nice relaxing evening with the Alvas tonight. The girls had so much fun playing together and Olivia just hung out with us. She's so cute.

Olivia and Tamara

Disney's Christmas Carol Train Tour

We went back today to union station to see the Disney's Christmas Carol Train tour. We made it this time with only a 1 1/2 hour wait. Not too bad since most of the wait was outside with christmas carols, juggling giant men, a band and a unicyclist. The train tour was really nice and we all had a great time.


This time the line was only 1 1/2 hours.



Our ticket



Christmas tatoos



Finally in!




Happy Holidays!

Cake Pops

Tamara and I experimented today with a new dessert. We made Cake Pops Happy Faces. It was lots of fun, very messy and lots of work but we really enjoyed ourselves.

Making the cake.



Our new friends.

More new friends.

Tamara's creation

LA tourists

Today we took the gold line into union station in an attempt to visit the Disney Christmas Carol Train Exibit. When we go off the train, we immediately saw the line to the Disney train......a 5 hour wait. Humm? No thanks, especially not with a 1 year old. So we improvised and decided to go have lunch by the staples center. We did the touristy thing and took a bus to LA Live and had lunch at the yard house. We had a really nice time just relaxing with the kids, watching the Dodger game and eating some pretty good food. Tamara was really excited to get on a bus, she thought it was such a treat....little does she know.


5 hour wait.


Lets tour LA.



Lunch at the yard house.

Such a poser.

More poses.

And some more.

Our returnn to union station. Line is still 5 hours.

Back to Pasadena.

Julianna's 1st train ride.