laurie and Mason too :)

Create your own FACEinHOLE

Elaine is Barbie

Create your own FACEinHOLE

it's love ;)

Create your own FACEinHOLE

Merry Christmas!

I love the holiday's for many reasons, most of all being that we remember the Savior's birth, and life, and get to have fun with family but also because...

they make cute chicken nuggets, and I get to use my cutest place mats I got for my birthday (from you mom)

I get to dress up my girls and curl their hair! :)

I get to dress them in the same outfit! and take cutie pictures!!

We get to put out our nativity sets! :)

I get to dress up! And hold my crying baby for a picture to get her to smile! :)

Sorry Carlos isn't in any of these! He was already at church when we took these!

Christmas Cookies

Yummm!

For some reason I can't seem to pick a recipe that rolls out without adding a LOT of flour! I forget every year which one works best... Anyway, they turned out yummy and I also realized that I can decorate cakes, but not cookies! LOL MOST of the cute ones were from Sarah (tree, gingerbread man and some others I didn't get pictures of!). EXCEPT the snowman, star and the santa! :)

Our 1 yr Birthday Princess

Laurie had her first birthday yesterday and we had a good time! Daddy started work so we met him downtown. We went to the Downtown Grand Illumination in Richmond and then we came home for cake and ice cream! Laurie didn't have any ice cream because she is allergic to milk as far as we know right now. We hope she grows out of it! (they aren't all in order, but here are the pics/videos!) Sarah, Evoly, the Abbotts, Catie-Lynn, and Grandma were all in attendance besides our family.


Outside listening to Bill Bevins count down to the lighting!
Skywalk family photo!

After eating a bite of Whopper Jr.

Everybody cake.

Making the smash cake! (pan borrowed from Misty! Thanks!)

Birthday cuteness!

Birthday breakfast!

Recent happenings **

I haven't been very good lately of updating everyone on our situation here in the Chacon house! Sorry.
About 4 weeks ago Carlos got notice that he would be layed off after his contract was up instead of being hired on at LandAmerica. Anyone who has been paying attention to the news knows what has happened to LandAm. Anyway, he has been on the job search for 2 weeks now and finally got a new job at CXI which is actually the company that bought Indigitech, who was Carlos' first employeer after college! So that is neat. He will be working at Capitol One as a CXI contractor. It is a permanent postion which means we will be in Richmond for a few more years at least! :) After that we are planning, on some level, to go to graduate school for Carlos. Anyway, Miriam lost her first front tooth and it is so cute to look at her. I am pretty sure I put her video on her blog so you will have to look!
We had a lovely Thanksgiving and it wasn't overwhelming at all because all of us made something and it was great! We had it at Rose-Marie's (carlos's sister) house. All of Carlos's siblings and families were there as well as his mom. It was nice to have everyone together. We did miss Grandpa but we understand he had to stay in Costa Rica for now!
Grandma and Catie-Lynn left this morning and we are all sad and miss them! We are going to have a busy day of Christmas fun and get ready for the big day! :)
** By the way, I had my 30th Birthday the day after Thanksgiving and it was fun. At 2am Ana, Abinadi, and I went shopping. Starting at Walmart where we got portable DVD players for $49, $9 vacuums, and Ana got a $4 mixer! :) Then we went to a few more stores but didn't buy anything else! It was a LOT of fun! We all went to see Twilight and then came home for angel food cake! YUMMMM! It was a great day! Thanks everyone!

Evoly's cutieness

Attmepts

Fun for us! Oh and you can see one of my new glasses!

Family Trip

This was on our trip to Shenandoah Crossings last month! Our friends Deborah and Bryson Dunham came the second night we were there, we had a good time! :)

Here is one of my favorite pictures of Laurie, and you can see all her teeth! She LOVED the swing!

Deborah and the girls on the hay ride.

She got into the marshmallows! YUM! (I didn't let her finish it!)

We were mini golfing and she really wanted to do it so we let her hold the putter!

They were going really high, it is the first time I have seen a nervous look on Elaine's face while doing something fast!

First morning watching cartoons!

Halloween Happenings

So I promised that I would post all the the Halloween happenings on my blog and I decided to wait until after to do it, so here it is. I will put pictures up and then add captions. For pictures of a party we went to go here.
Play time at the Abbotts! Mason smiled right after the picture was taken!
Three funny girls!

I made this for our neighbor party we had on Sat 25th

Here is our party table! We had chili, cornbread, beef dip with chips(from the neighbor), and cider! YUM

Ok here it is. My costume for a Halloween party!

Our Jack pumpkin

Two years ago I made these eyeballs and they were so yummy and last year I was so pregnant we didn't do anything very festive so THIS year, I decided I HAD to make them again! They were sooo yummy!

The girls helped a lot!

Here they are!

This was at the ward trunk-or-treat. Laurie was so upset that I had left her with a different person that when I got her back, she was mad when I wasn't holding her. Carlos was sick so he couldn't help me! She cries a lot when I am not with her! :( Rose-Marie and I thought it would be a great picture by the pumpkin! :)

HALLOWEEN! The Ehrismans came up and we had a lot of fun! Here are the trick-or-treaters right before they went out! We are sad we didn't get a picture of everyone but this is all we got!! We have a spider, Cinderella, and a Fairy. Carlos is a football fan!

Yummy mummies! I should have made 3 packs!!

Our Halloween family photo! Daddy was sick and I wasn't prepared for a photo but it is cute. It looks oddly familiar...maybe it is because it almost identical to our Easter picture, with different clothes! :) hehehe

Thanks Nana for the cute jammies! We are missing Evoly in hers! So cute!

Trunk-or-treat costume :)