Nana's Birthday, Christmas Eve and Everything in Between

Nana's Birthday!

And here is to Great G as the girls called Grandma

Gingerbread house decorating

Lola on Christmas Eve

Abuelita's house Christmas Eve

Roman... not so happy about picture taking

Loves his elmo rock toy!

Nana's birthday was December 15. Me and Roman spent the day with Nana. We started off with breakfast and did some shopping, too. After the girls got out of school we had cake and openned presents. This year we made a green cake for Nana in honor of my grandma (the girls called her Great G) who passed away last year. There is a reason for the green cake that only we know about. We also made sure to have a bunch of hard candies and fruit cake around the house which was Grandma's favorite things for Christmas. Just a way to remember her and to let her know we are thinking of her. We celebrated Nana's birthday after Eden's ballet class at La Fogata. The food was good and we had a wonderful day together! As always...
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Eden had her annual ballet Christmas Show at the Lesher Arts Center Theater in Walnut Creek. She was a Country Girl and was in front most of the time! It was so exciting seeing her in front! She's usually in back all the time because she is so tall but she was dancing with a lot of teenagers so she was actually shorter than some! I felt like crying when I saw her on stage! She has really blossomed into a beautiful dancer! And at such a young age. It's always so thrilling seeing her up on stage! I felt so proud. I thought I would burst!

This was after the last show

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Christmas Eve was celebrated at Abuelita's house in Pittsburg. We had tamales and my favorite dessert corn bread cake. So good! The kids ripped through their presents (I mean they tore through those things so fast it was embarrassing!). Enrique was terribly sick with a stomach bug that he caught from Lola (and my mom, too who was terribly sick a few days before...sorry MOM!!) so he spent most of the time on the couch. Poor guy! We had a couple of weeks of sick sick sick and then finally it passed! Christmas was coming...