Feliz Navidad!

Regular Christmas in my family doesn't even involve Christmas day at all, for my family its alllll about Christmas Eve!
We all go to Abuelitas house to eat tamales, talk, share time together, and hear all the kids ask to open presents early allllll night.
After they played poker, screw your neighbors, we all played Pictionary and Apples to Apples we finally gave in and let the kids open the gifts at 11pm, only and hour early.
(pictures are on actual film so we gotta wait to see them)
After over eating tamales and spending the whole day with family it was time to go to bed.
Bryan and I woke up and headed to his parents house.
Christmas Day was spent with Bryan's family.
Where come to find out I got a STOCKING for Christmas. (Thank you little baby Jesus)
I've never had a stocking and Sue and Steve were awesome enough to get me one.
Opening presents took a pretty long time and every second of it was amazing.
(Pictures were taken by others so those will be posted soon)
Before presents we had their traditional baked eggs, I'm not a fan of egg yolk but this was realllly good, with some Canadian bacon, mmmmmmm!
For lunch we took Bryan's Aunt and Uncle to the pier.
Only in California do you go to the beach on Christmas.
Thanks to everyone who wished me a Merry Christmas, Thanks for the gifts and being able to spend time together.

Enough talk now time for pictures...
50 year old train....
Conductor Bryan....

Destroyer Christina
Beach Hair
I thought this was a cute picture of Peggy and David.

Sisterly Love.

(This was a special picture post because Peggy is a loyal Blog reader, thank you Peggy!xoxo)

California Christmas

I thought this was gonna be a scene out of, "When Animals Attack"

TOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIP

I'll make this short:

No one is perfect and that's all that could be said about this situation.

My grandfather was just another imperfect human being.

We all make mistake, some big some small. What's done is done.

He was a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a great grandfather.

I only remember one conversation with him.

He asked my age (I was 13) then he stood up and left.

He's a man that strangers knew better than his own family.

People are complicated and I never understood him, but I'm not one to judge.

One thing I know is that he was the LUCKIEST man on this planet.

Married the most amazing woman.

For better of for worse, she stayed by his side.

He was my mothers father and my grandmothers husband and for that reason I'm sad.

To see them cry rips me to pieces.

Rest In Peace "Henry"

A Day in the Life of....

This happened at Kaiser today around about 11am-ish... I was sitting in the waiting room, watching good'ole Free Willy when a little girl about 4 years old started to stare at me. I smiled, she smiled, I smiled, she smiled. After our several smiles it was obvious she was doing things to get my attention. Like showing me her shirt that said HELLO. The most amazing part of this story goes like this......

Little Girl: "Mommy do you have paper and a pencil?"
Mom: "Yeah, but why?"
LG: "I wanna write that lady a note."

(I was so excited becuase I knew I was, "that lady"!)

She then just did a quick hand gesture on the paper, ripped it out of the note book, walked over to me, shy but confident. Handed me the note....
Me: "Thank you so much, what does it say?....Does it say, Hello?"
LG: "No (short giggle), it says I Love You."

I think my heart skipped 1,000 beats. That was probably the cutest thing thats ever happen to me. I thanked her and as I left we said goodbye, she probably wont remmember me, but I will never forget her.

It made me realize how distant we are from one another, sure most of us are strangers to eachother, but someone sitting next to you could be someone amazing and you will never even know it. I feel I miss out on alot of cool people becuase saying hello to strangers is, "weird". We all need to get out of our shell and be more social.

Thank you precious little girl for opening my eyes to the world.