Mi Familia~

I really am blessed to have so many amazing aunties, uncles, and cousins!!! My cousins and I on both the Hennessy and Garcia side remain close even though most of us live so far apart. It means so much to me that we've made that a priority. I cherish all the memories we have, old and new. My moms side of the family came up for a short visit last weekend. My parents both lived in California for at least a dozen years, living in Simi Valley, and Southern California most of the time. Most everyone down there has migrated to LA and Sacramento. They were all freezing last weekend, bundled up the entire time. It was so sweet because my cousins little boy, Jager LOVED playing out in the snow on Sunday. I was so glad they were here for that. Not that they haven't seen snow before. We had an early Thanksgiving celebration with them. I wish we'd had a bit more time with them. Hopefully we'll see them again this summer, on their end of the map =)

I didn't get as many pictures as I'd hoped, especially candids!
Nolan, Liv, and Jager visiting Joe at the Fire Station

My Auntie Jeanette & Uncle Rick
My cousin Colleen & I
Cousin Jim & his wife Elyssa
My Niece Ryklie
Jager, Jolene & my cousin Chuck
Olivia and Kinsey(cousins)
All the Rascals
Jager

Jolene, Jag, and I
My Bro Jeff and my nephew Aiden
My Uncle James, My Mom, Grandpa Leo, and Auntie Jeanette



Chuck & I

Over It

I know it's a bit early for Christmas colors, but I am SO over Fall colors, and tired of looking at all the earth tones on my blog page. The hardest part of changing up my page, deleting my team Edward and New Moon blinkies. Wow, I'm ridiculous!

I'm now welcoming winter, anxious to hunt for, and decorate our Christmas tree next weekend, and most of all, excited and ready for Christmas. Well, maybe not ready, but excited!

New Moon 1 week from today~yahoo! Or shall I say, Yum, Yum, Yum, with a side of YUM!

My friends warned me that I'd become hooked, and, well, they were right!!! The Twilight series was by far one of my favorite reads of all time! While Sense and Sensibility and The Notebook are in the same category, these books may have bumped up to 1st place. So, I was pretty much 2 years behind most when I finally read the Twilight books. After I read the 1st(Twilight,) I couldn't believe I'd waited so long to read them! They are amazing!!! I fell in love with the books, characters, the story in general, and became slightly obsessed with them. When I read them they seemed completely human and believable. Most of you know that there's a twist to this love story because Edward is a Vampire. The love story is purely sweet, & so so sensual. I couldn't get enough of these books. By the time I got to the third, I started to read slower, and when I was on the 4th, Breaking Dawn, I wouldn't even read every day. I didn't want the book to end, for the story to end! I still think that Stephanie Meyer could add a 5th book to the series, at least that's what I'd like to believe. For now, the idea that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are together in real life gives me a bit of a Twilight fix. I never really thought much of Robert until I read the books and watched Twilight, and now, well I'm done. He's so sexy, I love his style, his music, personality(from what I see during interviews, etc.) He seems like an ordinary, and kind person. I did add a handful of Twilight and New Moon songs to my favorite tunes, hope those of you that are Twilight addicts are enjoying that :) As well as these pictures!

My Messy Marvin's

Olivia and Nolan asked me if they could put there swimsuits on last week. Then they brought me their old baby towels with hoods...Hm? Olivia also found her bikini that she wore when she was 2, and slipped it on. Then I realized she must have gotten in to old clothes bins...good times for me later on while cleaning that up!

I love watching my kids use their imagination, it cracks me up! So instead of their real suits, they had me tie the towels around them as tight as could be. I loved it because it showed off their little bodies...especially their little bums, so tiny and cute! Next, they flipped over my bench and called it their boat. Need I say anything more? My front sitting/reading room turned into well, a MESS. What's new :) Shane and I walk around the house every night and tidy things back up, but sometimes I'm not sure why because it all comes back out of every nook and cranny by morning. Anyhow, I just thought the kids were hilarious when they were in their imaginary swimsuits and boats. Gotta love dramatic play!

Fall Fun...part 2

Well, here are the second half of some Fall pictures, and activities. You'll notice I can rarely get a picture of the rascals both looking at the camera at the same time. Nor do we ever really have a family picture. Anyone want to volunteer to take some for us :) Nolan is always a stinker and either pushing Liv away, trying to pull on her, or poke her with something while I'm sitting them together. I think in one of the pictures he really does have a stick in hand. So we've wrapped up October and most of the festivities that come along...Harvest Party at school, pumpkin patch, and of course pumpkin carving, and Halloween. Hope you've all been having a Happy Fall!
*I forgot to mention, Olivia was Belle(Beauty & the Beast,)and I had to use brown hairspray to change her haircolor. NJP was a cowboy.