Viva la Mexico! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Sweet Potato and more!!

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful and safe Christmas and New Years Eve! It's been a while since I posted and I've been receiving emails for updates! So here ya go!! :)

-The Cruise-

The cruise to Mexico with Tony's company was fun! We had fairly nice weather. The traveling went pretty well with Mirella on the way down and on the ship. We had some yummy tacos in Mexico and a mango margarita and of course chips and salsa. YUMMMM! We had awesome food on the ship. I loved the 24 hour food anytime you want it, anything you want, as much as you want. So much fun!!! One day it was kind of bad out on the water. I felt pretty sick most of the day, and took about 3 naps from the motion sickness medicine I was taking. By dinner time the ship was more steady so I was able to enjoy dinner. The trip home was so long, and Mirella was a fussy pants and wanted to be home...as did we! We needed a vacation from the vacation!!

On Amtrak...sitting like a big girl!

Just aboard the ship...Long Beach behind us.

In Mexico, our huge ship behind us.

Mirella and her towel buddy.

Another towel buddy!

-Christmas & New Years-
We spent Christmas Eve with Chris, Veronica, Hailey and Brooke. It was a nice quiet evening, we had a pork roast and asparagus. Yum! Mirella got to open her first present, which she loooved the wrapping paper of course!!

Christmas Day we spent the morning at home, Mirella played with her gift from Santa, and opened her gift from mommy and daddy. Again, she loved the wrapping paper! She had such a fun morning playing with her new stuff that she fell asleep on the floor next to her toys!

Later on Christmas Day we went over to Andy and Lisa's for dinner with Aaron, Chandra and all the girls! We did a White Elephant $1 store gift exchange. That was a lot of fun. We ended up with some Moonpies and Zip Popper candy. FUN FUN FUN!! I love white elephant exchanges! We had a very yummy dinner and yummy desserts! I think I had like 3 servings of the Jell-o Chandra made. Thanks! I need the recipe! :)

The Saturday after Christmas all of my family came up to Folsom to celebrate. Tony ended up with the stomach flu that morning so we changed plans to Chris and Veronica's house. It was a fun day, lots of yummy food. It was nice to see Bettie and Gordon, Pop and Ann, Peggy and Tom and Mike and my mom and Jay Cara and Sophia, and of course Veronica Chris Hailey Brooke Mirella and myself! It was a full house!!! The babies and Hailey all had lots of gifts to open. That was really fun! I couldn't wait to get all of Mirella's new toys home and opened so she could experience them!

I went home around 8pm, and my stomach was starting to hurt. I ended up with a mild case of the stomach flu that night as well and all of Sunday. Not fun, but at least it was the weekend and I could just relax. Mirella seemed to be ok, and didn't catch it. YAY!

Back to work the following Monday, except the boys I babysit had no school, so their mom dropped them off at my house for the full day. Same went for Tuesday. Then Tuesday night the boys were spending the night because the mom had to go out of town overnight. Well...lucky us, one of the boys ended up with the stomach flu that night!!!! Thankfully Tony was able to clean it up for me, I can not stand vomit. I called their mom multiple times, she never called back. Luckily I remembered I had the phone number to their grandparents house. So I called and Grandpa came right over and picked the boys up. So I spent the next day disinfecting my house again and I think I cleaned everything possible!

Everyone has been ok since, thankfully! New years was quiet...went to bed around 10pm. I woke up at exactly midnight when I heard fireworks outside. I said Happy New Year to a sleeping Tony and Mirella and fell back asleep.

Look what Santa Claus brought Mirella!!

Playing on her activity table!

Poppa Mirella and mommy

Brooke, Mirella and Sophia in their bumbo's!

-Baby Food-
After I was sure all the flu germs were gone and done with, I started Mirella on real food!! Sweet Potatos were her first since the rice cereal and oatmeal. She seems to really like it! After a week of sweet potatos, Mirella tried carrots. She didn't seem to impressed with it, and it was hard to feed her, but by day 4 she was liking it a lot! I did carrots for a week, and today started Green Beans. She liked it on the first try!! So we'll do that for the next week, I've already made Butternut Squash for week after. Then we'll do pears. I am so in love with making all her food from scratch! It's so much fun, and feels good that I'm giving her fresh all natural stuff!

Sweet Potatos


Carrots