New Haircut

I don't want to bother showing you the "before" picture, sorry. So, here's the "after" shot. My bangs are kind of doing something funky in this shot, but I really think I like it. Oh, and these are the earrings and necklace that Daddy made me for Christmas.

Andre's Monkey

This is the newest addition to our family. This was Paulo's Christmas present to Andre. We thought Andre needed a little friend of his very own. Andre already loves his little monkey and slobbers and cuddles him. I'm hoping that because Monkey is brown, he'll hide the stains better :)

Swings

Andre loves the swings at the park. It's the one thing that he and Paulo can enjoy together.

Paulo's 3rd Birthday

Breakfast in our bed (he happened to sleep with us the night before).

We did a "Toy Story" birthday party. This pizza was supposed to be from Pizza Planet.

This was pin the face on the Mr. Potato Head. The kids had so much fun making funny faces.

This took forever. Worth it the effort, though, to see how happy he was.

Present from Mommy and Daddy (fire truck with sounds, lights, doors that open/shut and a fire fighter).

Present from Andre (Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba).

Huntington Botanical Gardens

Coming back from the holidays to real life has been rather slow. We thought Hunter's school started on the 5th, but we were a week early. So, we just used our extra week to visit some fun tourist attractions close by. One of them was Huntington Botanical Gardens which is 270 acres of beautiful garden hidden right on the border of Pasadena and South Pasadena.

We got to see beautiful Japanese gardens complete with many many old bonsai trees, Zen gardens, Chinese gardens, desert gardens, a lily pad pond surrounded by a forest of bamboo, and a children's garden that had little "secret garden" like houses and fun water features to play in. I love going to huge gardens like this one. It was so uplifting and inspiring. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.