Girls Weekend

Girl's weekend happens every year either in April or May.  This year it happened on the weekend of April 26th near my birthday!!!  I didn't plan it that way!  We drove up to Amy's house this year.  Mom, Karen, Robin and I left Friday morning and headed to Rescue.  The only thing missing this year was our sweet Auntie Mary!  We won't let that happen again, it wasn't the same without her!  We shopped at the Folsom outlets, had lunch at Chili's and the  headed to Amy's house.  We visited with the boys and Mark and then got down to business....dinner and wine.  Friday night we made egg rolls with rice.  They were really good.  We played some cards and then hit the bed because we had a busy day ahead of us!  Saturday morning we enjoyed dad's blueberry muffins and then headed off to Sutter Creek.  What a great town!  We shopped at a few cute stores then headed to Avio, a cute mom and pop winery.  The lady explained and poured us plenty of tasting.  We chose some bottles to buy and Mom joined their wine club!!!  Way to go Mom!!!!!  We then headed to another cute town, Amador City.  We found more things to buy and the hit another winery, Dry Creek.  Dry Creek comes along with 5 dogs and one of the wines is named after one of them....Bubblegum. We purchased plenty of wine including one of the specials, Bubblegum!!!  We then headed back to Amy's where we had dinner, played dice and cards.  It was such a wonderful weekend!!!!  We are already planning next year.

Christmas Day 2012

Christmas day is always filled with fun!  It's nice because the kids don't get up at the crack of dawn anymore, so our morning usually starts around 8 am instead of 6!  Our tradition starts with Tony, myself and the girls having our morning of opening our gifts from Santa and stockings and then heading over to Aunt Pat and Lencho's.  We have breakfast at Aunt Pat's, open presents and just enjoy being together!  Later that evening we head over to Auntie Mary and Uncle Brad's for dinner.  Then off to Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Ray's for dessert.  It's a crazy day but we wouldn't have it any other way!

Gina excited that Santa ate his cookies!

Tony and Lencho getting breakfast ready

Natalia

Allie

Auntie Mary and Uncle Brad's, Gina enjoying Owen

Alicia and Owen!

The twins opening presents! They are very mobile now, keeping Chris and Deniz busy!!!

Mom digging in to her package!