Christmas is one week away.

I can't believe it. I'm still not done with my shopping! I have yet to send out my christmas cards. I finally did the address labels! They are going out tomorrow forsure! If I have to cut another snowflake my fingers are going to fall off!

Had a jam pack weekend.

Saturday:

My girlfriends and I had our annual Christmas party/White Elephant/Cackaling/Potluck. This year we were suppose to be "creative" with our white elephant gifts and give your favorite framed picture of the girls. I'm so glad that I have like 10 empty frames just hanging around waiting for pictures. I did a collage of the last 7 years. 2000 all the way up to 2007. I was surprised that I was able to find pictures from every year. The girls loved it. They didn't even recognize a lot of the pictures.

After I was done, I didn't want to give it away! (Yeah...just ignore the scarf, orange sweats and blue thermals...it's freakin' cold in our house!) For the white elephant I ended up with a Starbucks Gift Cert! Pumpkin spice fraps...here I come!
I love these girls. They make me laugh until my stomach hurts!

We had shirts made! L(heart)N. We're such dorks!Sam performed at Lakewood H.S. for Prelude So.Cal. on both Sat. and Sun. Her longest performance. She did so well! We are so proud of her with dance. We finally found something that she wants to stick with.

She's the first one to come out and the last one to leave...check her out!

Later that evening we ended up going out for Tina's 31st birthday. I took a break from the camera...so no pic. from that night.

Sunday:

Early the next morning we started our Christmas. Paul's sister was in town from Arizona so we decided to have Christmas early and let all the kids open the gifts from one another.

Alexa got a chair...something that she's been needing.Her stair has been lonely since. She won't even let me change her without running to her new chair!
The poor girl was so confused. All week I've been getting on her case for touching the gifts under the tree then her ninangs come over and tell her to open gifts and she looks at me like, "I can touch the paper...can I...can I?"
All the boys got personalized black hoodies with their last names on the hoods.
After opening gifts we went to Cerritos for some Pinoy Bistro...ummmm yummy!
We got to rest for about 30 minutes...then off to Sam's 2nd performance. This time my brother came to watch. Drove all the way from San Diego to see her :) Then right after her performance we left to eat PHO...back in Cerritos! Whooo-Weee...what a weekend! Can't wait to do the next 3 christmas'. Christmas Eve with my family - mom's side. Christmas Day is going to be split between going to Brea with Paul's family friends and back to my mom's for my step-family side. Can't wait to grub!

On another note, I just wanted to send my prayers out to our friends: Camille, Tone, Steph and Pia. Their father passed away last week. May God give them strength to cope through these difficult times.