Mendez Christmas

My apologies, I have no idea why some of my pictures are loading sideways. I can't seem to make them do what I want to today.
Here are pictures of Christmas.

Santa ate our cookies! (These we bought, just didn't have time to make them this year.)

Here is the stash once Santa got done with it.

The girls got bikes!

Riding the bikes down the hallway of our townhouse.

And our not-so-little playhouse. The cool thing is that the girls can color the house.

Barbies were also a big hit. (Barbie mermaids.)

And here is the after-effects once the girls were done.

They got toy cell phones in their stocking. A huge hit!

Posing with presents!

Our Christmas dinner with Nana and Papa Joe!

And dessert was cupcakes to celebrate Baby Jesus' birthday. Both girls got to blow out a candle, which made them happy. I was also required to get balloons and noisemakers, because Abby informed me that it couldn't be a birthday party without balloons and noisemakers.

That was our Christmas! Hope you enjoyed it!

Love,

Julie, Joel, Abby, and Lily

December Update

Since I'm so far behind on this blog, this will be a short and sweet update.

In November, we all went to Auburn to have our first tailgating experience. My aunt went along for the ride. Unfortunately, Abby came down with a massive massive nasty puke-y virus while we were there. Which meant she and I stayed home instead. But Lily and Joel had a great time. 

Also, in November was Thanksgiving. We cooked up a huge Thanksgiving meal and had a great day over at my parents' house. Lots of food. Way too much food. Did I mention we had a lot of food?

(just because they were so darn cute sitting there!)

The rest of the month we dealt with renovations on our new house. We also received our shipment of stuff and began the "exciting" process of unpacking. Joy.

Here are a couple (bad) pictures of the beginning of our renovations. Here are our new floors after they got installed.