christmas afternoon

our morning started with opening presents at home, yummy french toast casserole, and then off to church. after church we were able to come home to play with some of our new toys and watch the disney parks christmas parade... i so want to spend a christmas at disneyworld. it would be AHMAAAZING!

our first stop of the afternoon was nana and papa's. we got to spend some time with our aunt's, uncles, and cousins. it was so much fun.

our last stop of the day was the ferbezar's. jax ate a gazillion cookies and they both ran a round like crazy people.

it was a perfect day.

christmas morning

the racetrack

jospehina montoya's bed... of course she asked where the

goat was!

her new hat

jax's new bike

Waiting to see if Santa came

i think that this is the first christmas that i actually was asleep when the kids woke up, i've been exhausted lately!

isabel woke up first and asked if santa had come down the chimney. we headed to the living room to see if santa had eaten his cookies and drank his milk. isabel passed out the presents and they both had a blast opening their gifts.

violet's first christmas

our darling violet celebrated her first of many christmases with her family...she was so stink in cute in her gap dress and cardigan, and of course her headband bow completed the ensemble. what a beautiful day with our family of FIVE!

xo

shana

reindeer food and santa's milk and cookies

on christmas eve we made our reindeer food and sprinkled it around the years, we made santa's cookies plate and poured his milk, we opened our brand new pi's, and snuggled up to read "twas the night before christmas." we're ready for santa to come down the chimney!

the littlest lopez's...

here are isabel's 2 biggest fans! one of them also happens to double as her arch enemy and nemesis.

baking projecet numero tres with aunt jackie and cheyenne

tonight we had a little bit of baking, a LOT of icing, and some pizza... any evening is perfect with some pizza. aunt jackie and cousin cheyenne came over tonight to help us out and we CUHRAAAAAZY!! we especially liked decorating the cookies with icing and sprinkles and i might have tried to decorate chey's arm a few times. thanks for coming over tonight ladies, we had a blast.

xo

isabel

isabel's annual christmas recital

Isabel 2009

isabel 2010

isabel 2011

we just experienced isabel's THIRD christmas show! it seems as if it were just yesterday that our little 2 year old was dancing beside ashlyn and pulling her thumb out of her mouth. this year isabel danced to "jolly old st. nicholas" and she was a rockstar. she walked out on stage with a gigantic smile and was ready to shake her groove thang... bravo isabel grace!

violet's two month check-up

violet got to visit dr. phillips today and had to get THREE shots... it totally made mommy remember why daddy does all of the doctor's visits! violet has grown a whopping FOUR inches since she was born and packed on TWO pounds. as usual, she was the perfect little patient.

a little christmas baking and gingerbread house making!

there's so much to do and so little time! this afternoon we had our third round of holiday baking... o the menu today, cream cheese cookies. this was our first time baking in our brand new aprons that shannon made us. mommy even let us roll out our own dough and do all of the cookie making. aren't our cookies fabulous?

xo

isabel

a baby lopez tradition

Violet

Jaxon

Isabel

isabel's school christmas party

i got lucky once again and was able to attend isabel's christmas party. they had so much fun eating cupcakes, singing, and dancing...

dinner at marco and meegan's

tonight we headed over to marco's house for an amazing mexican dinner! marco and hector used to work together at los cabos and we have had the honor of being invited over to their sunday night dinners several times. the food is always amazing and i know that hector enjoys cooking and visiting with another mexican family!