Goodbye Holidays & Hello 2015!

The holidays always go by fast, but this year they went by crazy fast! This last month was sooooo fun, but seriously can't it go by slower next year!?

Here are my favorite pictures of the holidays:

Presents swapping with my friendliest friend.

Grandad's beef stew for Christmas Eve dinner.

 This little elf that I saw through the peep hole.

 Mom was sicky was she had to wear this mask since Granmom is going through Chemo.

 Grandad made Christmas morning breakfast.

 

I took the train back to San Diego on Christmas morning to see the other side of my family.

This cute, loving momma was hard to leave behind on Christmas.

 Ashley and her Great-Grandpa.

 The note Santa left Ashely and Ryan when they tried to catch him by recording on their iPads.

 Robert's Christmas Eve shirt was a gangster cat. YES.

 This girl planned a snowball fight for the whole family.

Cousins.

 The Christmas white board. Notice the naughty and nice list!

This little girl and her brother slept at my house Christmas night.

December 26th we went ice skating. Ash got to try all her new gear and teach me some tricks.

Dad and I got iPhone 6's. And an iPad came with it. WHAT.

On our way to the O'Dea family Christmas party.

Costco members woot woot.

Watching Lane and Tommy surf.

BABY CHARLOTTE WAS BORN. 12:16am December 30th.

Harper was invited to the desert for New Years.

  The best soon-to-be mother-in-law EVER.

  Santa and his head elf enjoying their time off.

  

Goodbye holidays and WELCOME 2015.

352 days until Christmas 2015!

I'm thankful for all the memories that 2014 has brought. 

But most of all this holiday season I am thankful for JESUS. 

"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God." -C.S. Lewis

summary of my week: "seriously ALMOST CHRISTMAS"

WHOOPS I forgot to post this. The holidays lots of fun but woooooweeeeee I was busy busy busy! These pictures are from December 14-21st:

 Perfect way to end a semester... Blessed with good grades, amazing professors, rain...

and a DOUBLE RAINBOW. God you are good. Like really really good.

Oh and this is my dad being ecstatic about his new four stroke. This was not a staged picture. He was literally hugging it and saying "i love my new four stroke". If you know anything about this man it's that he lives for fishing and his boat.

SARAH IS HOMEEE.

This girl dug a deep hole this week!

We held a Christmas movie night at our house!

Nati and I made cookies... LOTS of them.

Mom gave us the gift of a Costco membership!

And my mom (who's birthday was this day, December  21st!) gave Harper a Happy Dog Meal!

summary of my week: "ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS"

Another two week combo!

 SO MUCH RAIN [for san diego...]

 BIG NEWS: there's ahhhhhhhmazing cheese fondue at Trader Joe's right now.

 This girl was afraid of the windshield whippers, so she crawled behind me and rode like this!

 Her face tells the story. "This thing is soooo heavy!"

Harper helped us pick a tree. She picked a Harper sized tree...3-5 foot.

We took the pup to the canyon for the first time. She lovessss it.

Three brothers and their girls.

+ mom and dad

Lisa and Maric have helped us decorate 

Harper's first trip to the beach. (La Jolla shores to be exact)

Kendal and I visited my great grandma and grandpa at the Rosecrans National Cemetery!

It's so special being able to see my friends when they come home from college! I missed my Ken <3

SHELBY is home, too! So naturally we took our dogs to the canyon to playyyyy.

I LOVE my christmas set up this year in my room!

The storms in San Diego have been awesome these last couple weeks. We never get rain so any rain is like a miracle!

 I scored these two beautiful things at Buffalo for $12 together!

 Sarah may have bought me one of these for my future child...

 PURE BLISS seeing this girl for the first time since August!