Blessing

Alyssa was blessed on December 23rd by her Grandfather. It was a beautiful blessing with her Uncle Mark and the Bishop and Counselor, from my parent's ward, in attendance. During the blessing her shoe fell off so when Nicole took this picture I thought it was perfect.

Christmas Again

Alyssa is the First Jurado Grandchild so she was extra spoiled in California. Between Nana and Tata, Nino Ed, Nina Yvie and Nina Lolie she was never left alone. She was always in someones arms, playing outside on the swings, dancing with the snowman, or riding in her new car. This was a nice break for Mom but she was so spoiled she came home expecting, or demanding, this kind of treatment. :) Oh my goodness!!!!

The first week of vacation was spent in Utah with Grandma and Pi. They had a Christmas party where all of the grandkids, their cousins, and anyone else they could think of were invited. What a great time! There was sugar cookie decorating and marshmallow snowman pictures made and best of all, Santa came to see them. Thank you Grandma and Pi we had a great time. Alyssa was good on Santa's lap for about ten seconds and then remembered that she does not like facial hair. Sorry Santa, Uncle Gregg and Nino Ed it's just not her style.

The first week of vacation was spent in Utah with Grandma and Pi. They had a Christmas party and the kids got to make snowmen and decorate cookies.

Merry Christmas

The holidays were hectic this year, as always. We spent the week befor Christmas with the Thomas' and the week after with the Jurado's. What a wonderful time of the year!

Merry Christmas

Griswold Christmas

So it took an hour and a half just to get the tree in an upright position. We turned the lights on that were already on the tree from last year and there was a strand that didn't light so I took them off and replaced them with new ones, whew. We spent another two and a half hours tying bows and decorating and later that night we look in to see that the Christmas tree only has one strand working. Aargh! I was able to get all but one to light and I quit. We were all exhausted at this point Alyssa had fun decorating it at least. She loves the Christmas lights. When we were in Spanish Fork we went to the Festival of Lights with Pi, she squeeled she was having so much fun and we all had a blast.

Family Weekend

Nana, Tata and Tia Lolie came up for a visit. We went to dinner and Alyssa was great she gave us an hour and a half or smiles at the restaurant. Sunday was typical at our house the boys watched football and the girls went for a walk. Tia Lolie played "peek-a-boo" with Alyssa and I've never heard her laugh so much.

The Jurado Elves

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Exhausted

An early Christmas for Alyssa. She wore herself out in her "Jumperoo" and loved it.

Guama and Pi

Guama and Pi came to visit and help us put in our backyard last weekend and Mark and Jaylee decided to come out and help us too! Thank you all so much, Alyssa loves to hang out outside.
I decided to hitch a ride back to Utah and visit the Grandmas and Carla. What a long drive but it was worth it. We had a great time. My cousin Karly insisted on babysitting so Mom and I could go shopping for the afternoon in Salt Lake. I have only left Alyssa with her grandparents before so I was nervous. She had a great time with her cousins Trayson and Addison. In fact Trayson said that he wanted to keep her and that we can just go back to California and get another one! Kids are so much fun!
When we got back to St. George she spent time with Karson. They played with Pi and had fun together, he is crawling now and crawled to Alyssa wanting her to pick him up.

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