{Annual Puerto Rican Christmas Play}

On Christmas Eve, we usually go and party with our "other" family! The Hernandez clan is a VERY large, rowdy bunch of WONDERFUL Puerto Ricans! And even though the Walkers are white as all get out...they have made us honorary "cousins" and we are invited to all family functions! This year...Mike was working and I was tired, so Meghann went without us. She had a BLAST! This year, she was Mary in the Christmas play. She's been an angel before. But as Mary, she got to hold "the CUTEST BABY, Mom!", and had a lot of fun! Here are some pictures!

{Merry Christmas to All!!}

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends! We did Christmas early this year to accommodate everyone's work schedules! So we opened our gifts 2 days ago! We all got wonderful things that we'd asked for! Meghann got a dressing table for her room from Grandma & Papa. I had one growing up and LOVED it...Meghann will too as she'll be able to do her makeup and hair in her room instead of leaning over the sink in her bathroom! She got some art supplies since she loves to draw and accessories for her dressing table to keep it all organized! She got a 32 inch flat panel HDTV and the wall mount from Mom and Dad...so she'll be super happy to be able to play her games and stuff on the big screen! Mike got a new watch, a new wallet, a new Gerber knife, some grillin' cookbooks, an iPod touch and some Truefitt & Hill shaving soap refills. I got some new Rodney Kent pieces for my collection, candles, outdoor speakers, and Mike gave me a coupon for a Mexican cruise for the 2 of us! We plan on doing it in February when he has 3 weeks vacation and it's a birthday gift for Mike too. It'll be a blast!

It's a nice relaxing Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for us! Meghann went to the Hernandez family bash last night while Mike worked and I chillaxed. Today we're just going to hang out and relax...since we had 4 days of Christmas fun @ my parent's house, we're happy to just enjoy each other's company. We hope you all are enjoying your Christmas day...and remember that we are celebrating the greatest Gift of all, a Baby in a Manger that came to be our Saviour!

♥, MMM

{Our Little Meggie Elf!}

Meghann came out all dressed up one night, so I "forced" her to be my photo shoot model! Can you tell that she thinks it's torture? Ha, ha! She LOVES the camera and the camera loves her!

{A Wonderful Holiday Season!}

Well...I ordered our Christmas stamps from USPS.com like I do EVERY year. They STILL have not arrived, and the post office says that I have to wait until 10 business days have passed before they'll do anything about it! So, we've had our photo card since the day after Thanksgiving, and they are all sitting here, addressed and ready to be in your mailbox! So I'm still waiting, 'cause you KNOW as soon as I go out and spend another $44 on stamps...they'll show up in the mail! I don't need THAT many Christmas stamps! I thought I'd post the card here for you all to see, and let you know you'll be getting the real thing in the mail soon!
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Of course you're probably wondering why I didn't hand make the cards this year. I've had a pinched nerve in my neck (well, actually 2 pinched nerves!) for about 2 months now. So my right arm has been numb and is really hard to "work" with. Everything is pretty much running on "muscle memory", and it's annoying. I didn't want to commit to hand crafting all my cards when the work might not have been my best, thus frustrating me. So this year, I decided to give myself a break and use the professional pictures our friend Rachael took last year during the Christmas holidays for our photo card instead! Hopefully it'll arrive in your mailboxes soon! We ♥ you all!

{Merry CHRISTmas to All!}

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
-Luke 2:11

We want to wish our family & friends a Merry Christmas!
We love you all!
~*Mike, Michelle & Meghann*~

{Merry Christmas Eve!!}

Here it is...already, Christmas Eve! I know for most people this means all the excitement of the holidays are about to culminate in the mass opening of gifts from loved ones, etc. ENJOY! We are already done! We celebrated a few times already! Once on the 7th of December with my brother and sis-in-law because they were going to their house in Maui for Christmas. And we celebrated with Michelle's parents this past Saturday/Sunday! So we're DONE! All the gifts are opened and we're just enjoying spending time together playing with the new Wii FIT & Disney Scene It II. We've watched all the movies we were given, and Meghann can't seem to pry her fingers OFF that new cell phone! WooHoo! It's such a joyous time of year with family and friends! We're looking forward to our camping trip with the Hernandez family in Paso Robles/San Simeon! We went to Hearst Castle back @ Spring Break for the daytime tour.....we're going back to see the nighttime tour and the Castle all dressed up for Christmas! We'll post photos when we return! Hopefully we'll have photos to post of our family pictures before we leave!

Remember that Jesus is the Reason for the Season....without His salvation, we have nothing!

{Special Christmas Card for Mom & Dad}

This year I decided that my parents should have a special Christmas card that only THEY get. I don't know why I've never done this before, but at least I started NOW! So I'm making sure that this post won't show up until after they get their card! We're spending a few days with my parents for Christmas this weekend and are so happy that we can spend such quality time with them. We're also getting professional family pictures taken on Sunday by Rachael Brinton....a childhood friend that I was "reunited" with on Facebook! We're really excited to be able to have Rach take our pictures...her talent is truly God given!! Click on her name above and you'll see her amazing work! Her links are also on my sidebar.....

Anyway......here are the pictures of the special card for just my parents! This card involved a LOT of cutting out of small parts. The house stamp set is not decorated for Christmas usually, that is an add-on set. So you cut out the windows with the wreaths on them and glue them on top of the regular windows, etc. It was REALLY fun to create this card and I know my parents will appreciate it! They have always nurtured my joy of crafting! Maybe because they are both so crafty themselves!

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Merry Christmas to Mom & Dad!!