Happenings

I think this time of year is busy for everyone, add a PCS in and we just can't keep up. We're busy ALL day, every day. Between work, the PCS, the holiday season and trying to cross things off our CA bucket list it's just a crazy time.

+The 12th we took Dominick to meet Santa and to say that we have THE cutest Santa picture might be an understatement...it also might be super biased too. But really?!

+The 13th we went shopping and then our friends had a holiday party. We had a great time with friends.

+The 14th we went to Universal Studios with friends. Dominick fell asleep in the stroller which is why he's not in the picture. He LOVED it and so did we. It was our first time and we wish we would have went before. Super fun.

+Dominick and I flew to Michigan on a red eye on the 19th.We left our house around 7 and went to dinner with Ryan. He dropped us off in Vegas and 20 hours later we FINALLY made it to my parents house where we both took a nap. Ryan will be in Michigan before Christmas and Dominick is going to be OVER the moon excited to see him.

+Ryan is scheduling TMO and some other out processing "stuff" this week and I'm booking hotels for our move, researching preschools for Dominick in our new area and anything to help Ryan.

+We decided to leave Dominick in Michigan instead of bringing him back to California with us. We only have 2 weeks in CA before we start our move and we thought it would be so much easier on the little guy to stay with his Gigi and Papa. We will miss him something fierce, but I know with how busy we are time will just fly by.

Jingle Ball and Disneyland

Like I said in my last post we found out December 2nd we had orders to Ohio. December 5th I had plans to go to the Jingle Ball with a friend (she won tickets, but wasn't able to go. Her husband still wanted to and she gave him a list of ppl who he could take...he picked me! hahaha). We left around 2 and ended up getting to Los Angeles around 3:30ish. We decided to see what the vendors were like at the pre-show, rode a ferris wheel and then went to dinner at Lucky Strike. I'm not sure if that's a California restaurant or a chain, but if there's one near you go!

view from the ferris wheel

While we were bowling and eating someone came to bowl on the lane next to us. When I looked up it was a man and his two kids. He looked super familiar, but it didn't really hit me until I went to bowl that it was Chris Harrison. The bachelor host Chris Harrison. He's much more handsome in real life. Everyone kept telling me to take his picture or ask for one with him...but he's just a normal guy out bowling with his kids and I'm sure he gets that a lot so we didn't. I didn't even say a word to him. We bowled, finished eating and then left. He was one of my only celebrity sitings while in California. We still had some time before the doors opened so we went ice skating at LA Live and listened to some of the pre-show. The Jingle Ball by KIIS FM was so much fun. Our seats weren't the greatest, but we had a great time. It ended around 12:30 and we were leaving Staples at 12:40 AM. I didn't get home until closer to 2:40.

ice skating at LA Live

view from our seats

Since our weekends are limited we had made plans to go to Disneyland the following morning. I was EXHAUSTED and it was BUSY. Dominick was a little grumpy (I think he was tired), but we managed to ride some rides and have a good time too. I'm going to miss all these fun California adventures.

a panormaic view of it's a small word. BEAUTIFUL, right?