So Christmas and New Year's have come and gone and so I figure its time for me to stop procrastinating and update this blog with all the many wonderfully exciting things that happened over the holidays and... post some very cute pictures of the cutest baby ever!!!
It was COLD in Tucson! Can you believe it?
Ok, well, we all boarded the plane for Tucson, AZ... better known as the wild wild west! It was Maya's first plane ride so I was a little nervous about how it would go but everything went well. We flew into Phoenix and my mom went to pick us up and we decided to go and see the Mesa temple, we walked around the grounds, visited the visitor's center and even waited until it got dark so we could see the lights and boy was it worth it! It was so breathtaking... the pictures don't do it justice... but isn't that true of most things?
In the visitor's center we took a picture standing in front of the Christus, I remember when I was a little girl about 6 years old, we lived about 2 blocks away from the Mesa temple and my mom and I used to go to the visitor's center often and I remember standing in front of this same great statue of Christ in awe, I was so amazed, just mesmerized and so peaceful too! It was great to visit again and re live some of those memories...
Anyways, we finally left for Tucson and got there that night and pretty much just went straight for bed. The next day (Christmas Eve day) we went to my dad's work because they were having their annual Christmas party. Maya got a little stuffed dog, it's really soft and cute but of course, all she wanted to do was eat it !! haha... Christmas day was relaxed and instead of a "traditional" Christmas dinner we had lasagna. go figure... but it was good. Then we opened all of our presents... I got lotion (which they later took away from me at the airport since I was trying to smuggle it through security in my UNCHECKED luggage!! but of course, nothing can get past them, except for Eric's hair gel and so they took it out of my bag and gave me 2 choices: check the bag or get rid of the lotion... since checking even one bag now costs a healthy 15 bucks I opted for riding the world of my sweet smelling lotion and the airport security lady chucked it in the trash right in front of me! oh the pain of money wasted!!! anyways, I guess I learned my lesson... back to the story now) Maya got some car keys and one of those stackable toys and Eric got the 3rd season of LOST!
The next day I took Eric on a personal tour of the U of A and we ate dinner at Karuna's Thai Restaurant, the best restaurant in Tucson!! We also headed up to Mt. Lemon to see if we could romp around in the snow, but had to go up pretty high and didn't find much but we did manage to make a couple of snowballs.. but no snow angels.... Maya was at home taking a nap during this outing so she missed out this time but there'll be a next time for sure and hopefully to some place more snow worthy like Minnesota!!!
As for New Year's, we decided to go low key and just hung out at home to ring in the New Year!
I've decided my next blog should be in Spanish since like at least half of the people I've sent the link for this blog are strictly Spanish speakers and most of the other half are bilingual!! so I think it's time I stop leaving them out of our exciting news... jeje signing off now...
