A day with my boy

I had never taken any sort of long vacation during the holidays. So I decided to take some time off from work. I spent lots of time with my little ones which was great! We baked and spent lots and lots of quality time together

I had always wanted to try painting pottery with little C and one thing or another would come up and we were unable to go. I decided my vacation was the perfect time to go paint pottery with him and we had a great time. So we woke up, grabbed some Starbucks and headed to Petroglyph in Willog Glen and painted.

I grabbed some coffee and little C grabbed some hot chocolate and we walked down the street to paint.

When we arrived we looked through the selection of things to paint. There are tons and I mean TONS of things to choose from. Los decided on a penguin bank and I (being the big coffee drinker that I am) decided on a coffee mug. Then we let our creativity do its thang! :P

I of course started taking pictures of everything rather than paint and when I looked at my painter. He was busy doing this:

He was so into it and was totally concentrating on his bank "Penguito".

I was havin a good time painting as well. :)

One of the workers was even nice enough to take pictures of us and our art.

I had such an awesome time with little C that I promised him we would do this again. I can totally see myself coming here with my kids again and I will :) The time just flew and I had a great time with my little man.

Oh and before I forget...our end result....behold mom and little C's creations. Yes I know you want one now too :P

Disneyland Pt. 1

I have not posted in our blog in such a long long time. So many changes have happened in our lives. This is my attempt at trying to catch up a bit.

I had never been to Disneyland so when my company announced that our yearly department trip would be to Disneyland I was beyond thrilled. I waited all summer and not to mention my entire life to visit disneyland. It was such a blast!

We departed for our trip early in the morning. At 5:00 a.m!!!! I could barely keep my eyes opened!
When we finally reached our destination I couldn't wait to get out and get in to the parks. We were there for two days and were both at Disneyland and California Adventures.

Can you tell I was excited? :P

Since it was October all of Disneyland was decorated for Halloween. They had a huge pumpkin and fall colors. It was really amazing. I had waited 29 years to visit this place and suddenly here I was...The Happiest Place on EARTH!!! I was in awe :)

I was told by a few acquaintances that I had to get my "First Time" visitor button and it was the first thing I did.


I rode Spacemoutain, The Indiana Jones Ride, and went on The Haunted Mansion ride. Since it was a Halloween theme The Haunted Mansion was decorated all in The Night before Christmas. At one point while inside the ride, I even smelled gingerbread. It was pretty freaking cool if you ask me :)

I took a picture in front of the castle and The Matahorn ride. My co worker and I also took some time to ride the teacups. Something I had wanted to do for a very very long time.

We went on many many other rides and lets just say that when we got back to our hotel room for the night I was exhausted! I had a blast though :)

The next morning we got up bright and early for breakfast and then headed over to California Adventures which is directly across from Disneyland.

I visited the Golden Gate bridge and found some really cool candy corn ;)

The views were beautiful and I even touched Mickey's ear :P

After California Adventures we had dinner at at the Yamabuki restaurant at the Paradise Pier Hotel. We ate in the Tatami Room which looks like you dine while seated on the floor but there is actually a space under the table where your feet dangle. It gave it a very traditional atmosphere and it helps that the food and drinks were delicious :)

Overall it was an awesome trip and I cannot wait to go back in April with my hubby and our kidos. :)