Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Star light star bright

 My outfit Christmas Eve. The inspiration for this outfit and Christmas Day outfit came from Anthropologie's holiday catalog. Loosely based as I altered the pieces a bit....

 I could have added a shrug and fur to this outfit but it was too warm as I was hosting and running around too much...

 Hi-Lo pleated skirt with the silver foil peplum top... Added a sequin collar and an embellished belt for more glam...


 Bought the headband in the photo from Anthropologie....










Headband - Anthropologie
Collar - Asos
Belt - Ann Taylor Loft
Heels - Shoedazzle
Everything else from Forever 21

CHRISTMAS EVE:
We had a great family gathering at our house Christmas Eve. Since my mom was hosting the big sit down dinner the next day we had an appetizer party where everyone brought an appetizer to share.
It was still very filling and yummy and we ate buffet style so it was simple.
The kids were the center of entertainment. After a few 'puppet' and 'magic' shows they performed upstairs, my daughter performed a very long one man show to everyone downstairs for us. I video taped the whole thing and it was hilarious. We were laughing till there were tears in our eyes.
She definitely loves the attention and stage presence for sure...
After the kids went to bed and cookies and food were left out for Santa and his reindeer, the adults had fun with games. Some of the guys played pool (finally our pool table being used more than a laundry folding table) and the rest of us played a long game of 'mexican train' (which is a form of dominos).
I then stayed up until very late to make sure everything was cleaned and put away before the gift frenzy that awaited us the next day....

Hope you all had a nice Christmas too (if you celebrate it)....

With My Dad....

The kids in their party attire... Put real pearls (necklace and earrings) on my daughter. She was showing them to everyone...

With my Hubby...

With Mom and lil Sis

The Buffet Table is ready....

Her 'One Man' show...



 Cookies and orange and 'rice milk' for Santa (kids wanted to give him Rice Milk)... And carrots and celery and 'reindeer food' for the reindeers...



Monday, December 24, 2012

Living Nativity

 This was my outfit on Sunday... The inspiration from this Chictopia Post:


Mine had to be turned into a more cold climate outfit as we were at an outdoor event all night...




 Jacket - Forever 21
Blouse - Ralph Lauren
Jeans - Newport News
Hat - TJ Maxx
Booties - Shoe Dazzle
T-neck - Gap

SUNDAY NIGHT:
Went to our friend's church's famous 'Living Nativity' event. It is this amazing production of the bible stories with live actors in a walking scene by scene theater setting. The kids were always allowed to walk up front at each scene and they were just so entranced by the whole experience. It was quite action packed too. Lots of questions on the end about Jesus's death on a cross that we had to change the subject. Then here are some take away's by my daughter afterwards:

- After seeing a pacifier left on the bathroom counter: "is that for baby Jesus"
Juliet - "Mommy do you think God is a girl?"
Me - "I don't know what do you think?"
Juliet - "I think she is a girl"


 With the Roman Soldiers...











FROM MY FAMILY TO YOURS....

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Pelican Rock


Saturday's outfit was inspired by this Chictopia post:

A bit ironic cause her photo is in the snow and mine is by the beach in sunny San Diego...





Jacket, Pants, Hat, Bracelet - Forever 21
Sweater - Alloy's
Wedges - Victoria's Secret
Necklace -

SATURDAY:
We had a great morning visiting the beach of our neighborhood just us as a family.
Then had lunch and did some last minute shopping.
Went to our friend's house for the afternoon to hang out have dinner and watch a neighborhood holiday light show...













Can you believe this lady was actually in a swim suit testing out the water! Way way too cold for that.


Such cute photo of the kids watching the light show with their friends!