The Nutty Professor & Tooth Fairy

Yup! Erin's top tooth finally fell off. We were having dinner last night and as she was grinding her teeth while eating, it was so loose that it was hanging off by a hair. I told her to pull it off and she refused to and before you knew it as she was holding on to it, it came off. She immediately started to laugh out loud, followed by a hysterical cry. It was hilarious. I wish I could have captured it on video camera. The tooth fairy will pay a visit for sure tonight.




Mike, our neighbor got new glasses and came over to show them off to us. We put them on Eli...he's so funny!

Christmas at Ma-ma's

We open Christmas a little bit after midnight at the Horn's home. We are so thankful for the wonderful gifts we received and see the happy faces on the children when they open their presents.


Christmas morning, Eli, Erin & RJ ran to check their stockings. They were filled with reindeer bows, candies, toys and other treats. E-Ca was the first one up because she was Santa's little helper!

Erin is a great helper with opening presents.

Eli's new found love is cars!!! Ma-ma and Kong bought him a collection of 30 hot wheelers and he will sleep, eat and bathe with them!!!

Eli is trying to figure out how to drive RJ's car that he got from Christmas.

Eli got gym balls from Santa.

Oum Nouen & Ray.

Ma-ma & Kong-Kong's house.

Christmas with the Pascuals

Uncle Charlie was brave to come down the baby slide with Eli.

We took so many pictures that Eli learned how to say cheese without us encouraging him.

Uncle Rock & Ate Jen with their Christmas gifts.

The Pascual clan.

Ethan, Erika & Erin's silliest faces.

Ate Emily took us to the giant slides park in San Francisco. Erin and Ethan loved it!!! Eli enjoyed playing witht he hula hoops! Here, Eli & Rico are exploring the playground.

So, we went into this toy shop after the kids went sliding. Charlie found this face mask that had the same eyes features he had. That was funny!

Charley & Ate Emily at Mama's house on Christmas!

Erin, Eli, Ikai & Ethat on Christmas day at Ate Emily's.

Christmas Eve!

Some of our favorite Christmas Eve traditions is always some sort of cookie decorating contest, word search contest & coloring contests. We have so much fun. Thanks E-Ca for always having activities for the little children to enjoy!


Cousin Vicky from Frederick, MD joined us for Christmas. We love you Vick!


Gingerbread house and tree decorating contest with Nang's family. Needless to say, the little children did an awesome job and won the chocolate prize!!!

The winning group - Ethan, Courtney, Brigette, Erin & Megan

Jason, Liz, Nick & Jer

Linda, Russ, Laurie, Eli & Ate Emily

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Ate Emily brought us to a neighborhood that was lit up with lots and lots of Christmas lights and decoration. This was one of our favorites!

Our visit with little Jakey before Christmas!

We visited little Jakey before Christmas or shall I say "Big J."


Erin, Eli, Jason & Bel are waiting for E-Pa to bring out the Christmas gifts!

Hubby and I at Jakey's house (after eating hot pot)!


At E-Pa's house.

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Erin just loves to play in the snow! Any chance or free time she has, she's outside eating snow, swimming in snow, and snowboarding on the sled. Here, she was making snow angels and when I came over with the camera, she decides to play dead.

Eli is still trying to figure out snow and what it is. Erin dunk him in the snow and used his hands to support himself and started crying bloody murder. I guess it was super cold for him. He loves loves loves ice, but refused to put snow in his mouth. Today, Rico tracked in snow in the front entrance at the door and I noticed he was picking up after Rico and was eating them!!!

The Pascual Dancing Elves

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Surprise from E-Ca!

Erin has just been so lucky! She received a box in the mail from E-Ca. It was a Hannah Montana hand game. She loves it! Eli of course fights for anything Erin has or plays with!

Thanksgiving in Utah!

One of the restaurants we ate at is called Bucca di pepe (sp?). Meaghan's parents treated us out for dinner. It was the best Italian food I've had by far. They served pasta dishes family style! Eli looks soakn wet because he got into a water fountain that had a statue of a little boy.



Eli loves salad. He refused for me to feed him, so we gave him his own plate. As you could tell, Eli's got his motor skills down! The girls were gigglinb because Eli had a piece of salad stuck on his nose!



Erin had such a fun time with Meaghan's little sister McKenna. The are about 2 years a part. McKenna loved playing with Eli & Erin.





Daddy with Mike's brother, Eric. They went golfing that day!



Eli at Mike's mom's house.


This Thanksgiving, we spent the week with some of our friends in Utah. The break was just too short to to go to California. Some of the things we did were shopping at the Park City Outlet, ate at Rodizio Brazilian Grill, watched Twilight (which I screamed like a little girl when Edward made his appearance), ate at a Pho restaurant, and attended a live temple session at the Salt Lake Temple. We are fortunate to have friends whom we can share this wonderful holiday with. Evelyn, Mike & Meaghan's little girl also got blessed that Sunday. She was so cute in her little dress; her dad gave her a great blessing. To top it off....on the way back home...in Rigby which is about ten minutes away from Rexburg, we got pulled over for not switching lanes while there was an emergency vehicle (police car) pulled at the side of the road. We got a ticket! What an anniversay gift (It was our 8 year anniversary). It was crazy, I thought that he would give us a warning and let us go, but I guess the cop just had nothing else better to do! Two days after that...I got pulled over for not turning my headlights on. Luckily, the cop had to tend to another call that was more important! We had such a great time with Mike and Meaghan that we weren't quiet ready to come back home yet! Now, that we're back into our routine, we can't wait for Christmas break! Just two more weeks and Rico is finished with this semester. Boy, does time fly!

Heavenly Father doesn't work....

Ok, Erin got this diary that had a locket on it. Yesterday and today, she tried to unlock it with the key and she couldn't get it to open. I couldn't open in. So, today, she decided that she was going to pray to ask Heavenly Father to help her get it open. Five minutes after that, she said..."Mom, Heavenly Father doesn't work; he didn't answer my prayers." She still couldn't unlock it. So, I had to explain to her that sometimes, Heavenly Father answer our prayers through other people. I told her that maybe when her dad comes home, he could probably help her open it. Anyway...if any of you know Erin, she is very persistent and she sat and pick at that lock for a long while and in long silence. Finally, she ran into the kitchen while I was preparing dinner and said, "Mom, it worked, Heavenly Father answered my prayers! I got the lock to open!" She was so happy! At first, I was like...yeah! I told you He would help you...but then I was like...wait...you actually broke it! She was prying it open that she'd broken it. We both laughed and giggled about it together! There are just some days when I feel so exhausted and feel like I have no energy...I am so glad that my children always find ways to lift up my days and share moments of laughter together. I can't believe the funny things our children do and say sometimes! I am sure as a parent, you know exactly what I mean! =)

Shingachunga!

Surprise package from Ate Emily!

Ate, Emily...Erin was so happy to get her roll over puppy. At first, we couldn't figure out who the sender was because we did not recognize the name. We figured Marlowe Fulgado was a Filipino name and concluded it must have been a far related family. But, then...I was like...is someone trying to play Secret Santa, knowing that we're broke college students and couldn't afford to buy toys like these for our kids??? =) Thanks Ate Emily, you really made Erin's day! We love you!

Erin's Halloween party at school!

I was in charge of the Halloween party for Erin's class. Here, we bought pumpkin pails and made bean bags for bean bag toss. We didn't have time to play as a class, but Erin did for a little bit after the party as we were cleaning up!



We had a doughnut eating contest. It was so funny because we used powdered donut and the kids' faces were all powdered up at the end. The children were really into this game!



We also did musical chair and the "Monster Mash". Each time the music stop, we draw a number and whoever sat on the chair with that number, got to choose a prize. Everyone loved it and everyone got a prize!



We also had different stations to make different crafts. We first made a treat bag out of construction paper and sack lunch bags. It was like a hand puppet/treat bag. Then, we made spooky popcorn hands & ghost suckers to fill up their treat bags. Amy Butler, my sister's sister in-law was so sweet! We went over the day before the party and she made enough cookies for Erin's entire class! She is really something! We had a terrific day and the children had tons of fun!

Halloween!

Erin initially wanted to be a dead bride for Halloween because her friend was going to be one. E-Ca did make-up and hair for her the day before Halloween to see how she would look like. I was away at parent teacher conference while they did this. E-Ca told me that when Erin looked in the mirror, she was afraid of herself. Haha! Doesn't she look creepy, though? Well.....



The very next morning, she got into her dead bride dress and decided that it was too cold to go too school with cut off sleeves. She decided she wanted to be Barbie Fairytopia.




Eli was going to be a little devil because I had the best costume in mind which I was going to make and...he could be a little devil himself at times! But, Ca and I were walking around in Wal-Mart and found the cutest dog fleece hat and we put it together with brown shirt and sweats and...we thought that he made a cuter little dog. We even bought brown gloves to go with it, but Eli kept taking them off. He didn't like his hat either, but he was so distracted by other trick or treaters, he forgot that he had it on.