Christmas

For Christmas this year we spent Christmas Eve day with Alex's family, Christmas Eve night with my family doing our traditional Christmas Eve celebration. This consists of eating dinner together, reading the Christmas story from the bible, opening up one present (always pajamas), singing happy birthday to Jesus, eating birthday cake, and watching a Christmas movie in our pajamas. Christmas morning Alex and I spent just the two of us and then we headed over to my parents for brunch and present opening and from there went to my grandparent's where we celebrated with all of my mom's family. It was a fantastic time of celebration. Most of the pictures are from Christmas Eve night.

Alex and Kirk

Sisters

Me and Alex

Mom and Dad

Snuggle time with Molly. 

Dad and Alex having a little fun. 

Christmas morning. 

Jessica's Masters Graduation

On December 15th, my sister Jessica Graduated with her master's in education from Azusa Pacific University. The family headed out to Azusa to watch the graduation ceremony and cheer her on. We then celebrated with appetizers and drinks at Javier's and then had dinner at Paul Martin's. It was a great day full of celebration and laughter. Here are some moments from the day. Pictures here are taken with my new Nikon J1 camera which I received as a graduation present from my parents! Thanks mom and dad I am loving it!

Jessie's name in the program. 

Pictures while we wait for it to start. 

Here she comes. 

Getting her diploma. 

After the ceremony. 

At Javier's. 

Dinner at Paul Martin's. 

CONGRATULATIONS JESSICA!

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo

We are way behind on postings! So i am going  to go back and post all of the things we meant to post months ago and then get to our most recent stuff. In November we went to the San Diego Safari Park with a discount from Living Social (love Living Social! so many good deals). We had so much fun looking at all the animals, riding the tram around, and walking around the beautiful park. Here are some pictures of our time with the animals. 

Prairie Dog on the lookout. 

Flamingos 

Gorilla

Alex and the Gorilla

We got to see the baby Gorilla playing. 

Alex Vs. a Gorilla

My favorite animal!!!!

This monkey was very active while we were passing by. 

Okapi! I spent a lot of time at the Okapi enclosure. 

Can't remember what this guy was called but he was pretty small with a long neck. 

Pumba the warthog. 

I really liked this monkey. 

Porcupine on a walk. 

Wildabeast

Rhino's grazing. 

This giraffe was so close when our tram went by. 

Giraffe's eating. 

More Rhinos. 

Alex observing the Giraffes and Rhinos. 

Sleepy Lions. 

I loved watching the elephants. 

There were a bunch of little elephants!

Hope you enjoyed our trip to the Safari Park as much as we did!