So far behind..

I feel like I have so much to catch up and I will never get to it... so just to jot down to some notes :)

1. James and I drove out to Cali last weekend to watch the NY Giants play! Although they lost...it was still way cool to be that close and see all the action in person :) totally worth it!

2. Emma turned 20 months this past week. The time is flying!! She says "thank you" to everything, is starting to open up to trying new foods..sometimes. She is becoming this sweet, polite and caring girl I had always hoped she would be. Minus the pinching -_- we could go without that.

3. I threw my Mom a 50th surprise party this weekend and it was a huge success!! She had no idea and I was so worried this whole time :)

4. We are in the last final weeks of the house finishing!! Yay!!

5. Which means we are in the middle of packing up the house and packing for vacation to Hawaii for next week.

I plan to do a big photo dump in the beginning of the year of my favorite things I did in December!

I cannot believe 2013 is about to be a wrap!!

Thanksgiving!

Hope you had a wonderful Thankgiving!!!

Every year, we go to the Fountain Hills Parade as tradition (when my brother and I were in high school, we marching with the marching band). Last year Emma was too small to enjoy it and napped the whole time. This time she wanted to run wild, so we made sure to bring lollis for entertainment. Emma made friends with the people next to us because they had a dog lol

 

They had a Duck Dynasty which was pretty cool. I have seen a few episodes, so I understood and it made

me LOL.

 

My Mom stood with Emma most of the time and it was super cute. I cant remember who was on the bike, but it was some political guy and it was pretty cool! He was high fiving people and riding all over the road. My Dad walks with Ace Hardware and their float, so we waited for him at the finish line and walked back home :)

James and my Dad hung Cmas stuff while my Mom and I cooked and Emma napped...then James napped too.

We went to my Grandmas house and Emma LOVED it. She loved playing with the big kids and the stairs. She let me know, she does not like pumpkin pie. This was the only picture I was able to get because my Mom took it. I was too busy making sure Emma was not falling off the stairs.

After my Grandmas, we were the crazy Americans that stood in line at Target for hours to get really cheap stuff. We were going to get a huge tv again, but this time, there were people plotting at the front and taking tickets and trying to sell them to make a huge profit. They were also giving them out to 10 year old kids, so some families left with multiple tvs. They only handed out 25 tickets, which made it so unfair for everyone else. James was super upset, but instead we picked up a slightly smaller tv for a little cheaper and it will be ok. Since we waited all that time, I took advantage and picked up some other things for Emma to put under the tree :). Next year, yes we are already planning, I think we are going to get in line earlier. Yes, we will be spending time with out families, but aftter 6 hours, I feel it is acceptable to part ways. We all live in the valley together and see each other frequently. I feel super American being a consumer and falling in to their ways :).

I crafted!

Admiring the tree :)

Actually she was shouting BALL at the tree because she wanted the ornaments.

The last project at the end, I needed yarn for to string the stockings, however, I didnt need a whole thing of it; so I asked myself what I could do with the rest of it! Ah Pinterest is telling me to make a wreath. So I threw a foam ring in the basket. Added a bow and will add a few more embelishments over the weekend.

As we were decorating the lobby at work, there was a bare empty wall and thought we should make a "Happy Holidays" sign..well that became too much thought and so I decided I was buying stockings and everyone was getting one. Ta-da! It was a hit :)

November Birchbox

This month was less than stellar for me. But I did enjoy a few of the items.

1. I LOVE me some lotions and hand creams, so I was all over this one. Except it reminded me of the smell of lipstick and my hubby did not enjoy the smell lol

2. The nail polish is too light for my liking, I will pass this along to a cousin :)

3. Lipgloss... I am a chapstick kinda girl and this made me feel sticky, I was afraid to eat or drink anything

4. I loath tea unless it is iced or I am sick. So these will get tucked away until I feel the need to drink tea

5. Face brightener. I have not used this. I have sensitive skin and get worried if I change my face routine, I will break out.

Hope December will be more up my alley! :)

A visit with Uncle Jimmy

We made our way back to Las Vegas 2 weekends ago because Uncle Jimmy came for a visit from Florida. Uncle Jimmy is actually James' - Dad's Uncle. He is 78 I think and looks like he hasnt aged a day past 60. He looks fabulousssss and acts it too hehe.

Again, Emma was such a wonderful traveler! Probably once an hour she got fussy and wanted out, but we gave her snacks and her computer to watch Guppies and she was solid.

Last Christmas, the in-laws got Cousin Nicholas this cool car and since it stays and their house, Emma took the opportunity to take a cruise. She was mostly fascinated with the belt buckle on it, but it was cute for the few mins she drove around.

It was wonderful that Uncle Jimmy wanted to play so much, nice break for this Momma and her clingly babe. I left Jimmy and Father outside to play and after these shots, I ran inside.

Grandpa has a giant rocking giraffe (I dont ask questions haha) and he went for a ride for Emma, she was terrified to get on it.

On Sunday the Giants played and James ALWAYS has is outfit on... (its only weird if it doesnt work, right?) and then his brother showed up wearing his hahaha totally unplanned. Pretty sure those pants are from the 80s!

And this girl with TWO desserts... she knows whats up!

Nicholas is getting so big now! I love when he grabbed my hand to play. We dont get to see each other often, so it is nice that when we do see each other, he still loves me. He is obsessed with open and closing the garage door and playing with the fan light string. Cute... kinda haha until everything is blinded or broken.

Grandpa let the kids play on his precious pool table.. Emma loved the balls and was banging them. Then she wanted to use her ultra-strength tiny hands and hold 2 balls at once. She got pretty pro and was so proud of herself... and so was grandpa haha

After a quick 48 hours in Vegas, we were on our way back home! We made it home in 5 hours... we made great time and was able to watch the sun go down and it was a perfect weekend. One day, well make it to Florida and check out where Unlce Jimmy lives :)

Since there are only 35 days left...

till Christmassssss! Thanks Giving should be tomorrow so we can have an extra week to celebrate the Christmas season ;)

Happy Holidays!!

Love,

The Pizza's

Christmas came early

Im clearly going to need to practice for upcoming years... I cant seem to not give Emma all her presents early. Im just too excited!! So yesterday at work, I had this Bubble Guppies (duh) organizer delivered to me. In the car, as soon as she sees it, she asked for Buppies?...the whole way home! So I caved... besides, I have another one being delivered next week hehe

I was sick of looking at the tub of toys in the living room, only playing with the top 10 toys all the time. So now, we organized it and she went to town :)

We also found fun in the tub all the toys came out of :)

And the just because...

And she likes to be such a lady after school...

19 months

19 months. Time is a flyin!

She has learned so many new things this month. Just this last week she now says, nose, toes, thank you, flowers, Popop for Grandpa Pizza, and please regularly now.

Enjoying some jungle cookies and watching some toons.

Finding her nose :) it is soooo cute when she wants to point out noses in every book she reads.

In her new Bubble Guppies jammies :) I bought 2 pair lol (heck  I would have bought them all, but they only had 2 in her sizes)

Eating her morning snack on the way to daycare.

This month has be extra fun! She is such a wonderful silly and happy girl. She requests that her Daddy come play with her in the evenings. James will be reading on his computer and she will yell from her room for him to come play and tickle.

She is still super picky with her food. She tried spaghetti sauce this weekend and you would have thought we filled her mouth with anchovies. She did eat some chicken parmasean at daycare they said, but after 3 bites, she had had enough.

She denied cake this last week, I think because it wasnt chocolate she was sketched out by it.

She will definitely let you know when she does not want something. She has figured out how to get on the couch and when I ask her to sit, she screams bloody murder (which means she knows is wrong?) Either way, we have tile and standing on the couch is not something we will be doing. New house will have carpet, I will feel a tad safer with that.

I love my morning snuggles and that she gives out lots of kisses and wants her Momma. Oooooh my favorite!!!

Love you little peach!!

A little too excited!

I am a little too excited for the Christmas season to be here!! Well I have the following excuses:

1. I looked for Thanksgiving colored items to make my tree; they dont exist.. I looked for brown, oranges and yellow..a few brown things with snow on them. I refused to buy lol

2. we wont be home for 2 whole weeks in Dec, plus we are packing to move in early 2014, so we wont be decorating much.

So I took the opportunity to use those as my "excuses" for decorating early :)

We have to keep everything up high because Emma wants to pull all the ornaments off and inspect them and we already had one shatter around her...which I thought I bought shatterproof..I guess not. It was so hard to just pick a few things to put on the tree, when I have enough to decorate a 12 foot tree..

I then got in the spirit at the office already!! Ah everyone is jealous.. I see that a few people are making plans to decorate on Monday next week. 

I put up a cute little pink tree..duh! And little stockings and they these super glittery snow flakes :) they were half off at Hobby Lobby and 15 came in a pack, my wallet couldnt resist! I will be wrapping my door in festive paper! I just need to hit up Target for their pretty paper :) 

I love that my tree at home is black with pink decor and my office is pink with black decor :)) Makes for happy chick!