Where to begin??

Let's start with Happy New Year! Wow it's 2008.. who can believe it? I swear it seems like people were just freaking out about the whole Y2K thing just yesterday.

On a very sad note, Jeff's mother passed away on December 16. She died way too early and I'm sure she will be missed greatly by her family.

Christmas was good, but always very hectic. We spent time with my family before everyone went out of town. Here is a little slide show of our dinner. Note: the blonde wig is my mothers.. we all had fun trying it on!


After Christmas, Jeff, Ellie and I headed out to San Jose/Morgan Hill to spend time with his family and to pick up a few things. Ellie actually did pretty well on the 12+ trip. As long as we had movies, all was good :) We stayed at his parent's house and all of us slept in a full bed. Ellie looked at her pack and play and immediately cried and said "NO".. needless to say I don't think I slept for the 3 nights we were there. We did have a great time, went to some fun place (Children's Museum and the San Juan Bautisto Mission) and we ate some wonderful food.. hello 10 lbs! On our way back we were driving through LA and we decided on a spur of the moment to check on hotel rooms to see if we could stay and go to Disneyland for New Years.. we got a room, got tickets and had a blast! Everything fell right into place. We decided to go that night, walked in and immediately had a great view of the xmas parade. Then we took the train over to New Orlean's Square and ate dinner at the Blue Bayou. It was yummy. Ellie wasn't too keen on the rides, but we had fun just walking around and shopping. The fireworks were awesome and the castle looked amazing. Here are some pics (straight off the camera)

Ellie riding the train again... just one of the many times! She loved it, but was still a little cautious and rode on dad's lap.

A small world, decorated for Christmas.. even the inside was great! For the first time that I can remember I had to wait in line for this ride.
My favorite part was seeing Sleeping Beauty's Castle all lit up.. isn't it beautiful??? Disneyland was insanely crowded for New Year's eve... it was actually sold out. The had to cancel the fireworks due to high winds, so I'm glad we had a chance to see them the night before.

Now we are back home and are slowly getting back into the swing of things. Our lights outside are down and now I need to take down our Christmas Tree. I always hate when the holidays end, but before we know it they will be back again!

Have a great year!!