The BIG Tree....

Some photos of our yearly outing to Fashion Island to see the giant Christmas tree....

"Santa Clause is coming....to town....."

Hard to believe it's already December. Lucky for me, I prepared like I always say I will this year. Tree is up, lights are hung, presents are bought and EVEN wrapped!! I even managed to make some toy donations as well! I will actually be able to enjoy the holiday festivities this month instead of fighting crowds and shopping! YUK!

Here are some pics of Mr. Dylan welcoming Santa on the Mission Viejo fire truck last Sunday. We took him back on Wednesday night to see the lights and visit Santa in his workshop to tell him what he wanted for Christmas. Though he never made it to his lap, he did manage to share that he would like a yellow Power Ranger and a light saber....who knew my charming socialite would be a little skittish of Santa!

As a side note, there is a photo here of a group of little snowmen dancers that performed on the stage. Dylan kept asking as each group came on - "where are the boys?".....well, as you can see here-one FINALLY made it out!

Blessings among us....

May we all pause to give thanks during this time of Thanks....

We are truely blessed and express our gratitude!

Spooky....

Halloween has come and gone....again....Dylan had a blast of course and mommy once again has told herself "I won't go through this much work next year" (though we all know I will)....

Though I love so much the process of having Dylan pick out a costume and get dressed up, overdose on candy, and contemplate which houses are "too scary" to visit, I still REALLY miss the halloween days from home...

I'm not joking when I said we had probably a thousand trick or treaters at our house where I grew up. It was an event!! Grandparents, family, friends, parents of friends, neighbors, huge dinners, hay rides---such a blast!! No candy inspections or adult supervision needed-you knew every person of every house you went to.....And how EVERY year, EVERYONE in the whole neighborhood KNEW the Moffitt's would give out WHOLE candy bars!! And because we were tight growing up, we got dibs on the first ones and as many as we wanted.

Fun times.....maybe next year I'll venture to the Lone Star state to give Dylan a taste of what it was like for mommy...

My first blog...

Well, I finally decided this might be a good idea. I really do try to limit myself from too much activity on the web, but I guess I've reach the "been there done that" point of the MySpace's and Facebook's of the web.....now on to this I suppose.

I'm hoping this will be a more convenient way to share information about us and our extended families without having to send e-mails and clog everyone's inbox all the time.

So here we are - WELCOME!