New years day

Hayden playing with my iphone for his self portrait. Just a quick upload to compensate for my need to update our blog with the last few weeks of festivities....

I'll get to it soon :)

Holiday in the Park

Every year my sisters and us take the kids to this outdoor holiday gathering at the Galleria. There's a full symphony, train rides, horse carriage rides, picture op with Santa, face-painting, cookies galore with hot cocoa and hot cider. And best of all- Its all free and open to the public.

Hayden not liking the 'old man'

Feelin' better now with a cookie in each hand

Grandma and Grandpa even joined us!

The Tourist

I was invited yesterday to the premiere of The Tourist by my lovely cousins. So we all got dressed up and made it a 'Gals Night Out' at the movies and then dinner. Funny thing was what Steve said while I was leaving the house... "are y'all sure you guys are only going to the movies... You know it's dark in there". Lol.

But what a fun chance to get together, look cute, and catch up.

I am by no means a movie critic and I'm not going to pretend to discuss plots and the such... But I give it a A-. It was good movie. Johnny Depp was a cutie pie (in a grudgy way) and Angelina Josie was absolutely breathtaking.

Being such an Us Magazine & E Entertainment junkie... It's neat seeing all of the papparazzi pics from months before put together in the movie.

Our home

What Santa gave the Nguyen's in 2010 was new plumbing.

It started off with a couple of blocks down the toilet....which in turn backed up all the toilets in the house. So the dreaded plumbing works begins....

At first it was a novelty peeing in Hayden's porter potty.... But that was short lived. We took a lot of trips to the store to buy gas or groceries (while using their toilets of course) until our plumber could get out to the house on the weekend.

After plucking out parts of the deck and lots of digging by a crew of 5...they replaced our main sewer line and pushed Hayden's toys (and prob lots of crap... No pun intended) through. I'm sure it wasn't Hayden's block that damaged the plumbing. We had put it off for some time in fact. It was just the straw that broke the camels back.

Part of the territory with a 70 year old home...which we actually love.. And still love.

Date night

Date: Saturday the 3rd
Babysitter: Vivian & Haley
Movie: Love & Other Drugs

Movie was a great choice... A real tear jerker. I love those! Had a great evening and now we get to go home to this!

Lasik is what I will be asking Santa for this year

Christmas and the end of 2010 is coming way too fast.

Because I decided to change up my red and gold color scheme to green and gold this year, I went to Michael's to pick up a few items. While reaching up high for some branch-like wreaths my glasses got knocked off my face when some of the wreaths fell to the ground. I was not with Steve at the time and felt literally blind. As a fumbled through the stuff for a bit, there was no way I was going to be able to find it on my own. So I squinted and walked a few aisles over and asked a couple to come and help. We all got a chuckle over it but it was definitely a reminder why I need lasik.

I bought some green ribbons, three rustic branch-like wreaths which I tore down and wrapped around the tree (a great tip from Tina), and a few green poinsettias.

The printed green ribbon is actually fabric I already had in which I cut into 4" strips.