welcome 2010...birthdays, birthdays and more birthdays

we celebrated the new year @ adam's aunt's house. it's a tradition for the girls to play bingo. prizes were included!

summer welcoming 2010.

anna and i ate carlos santana's restaurant maria maria, named after his song "maria maria." this place is a must if you like a fun ambience, live music and modern decor.

to-die-for duck enchiladas @ maria maria

the birthday boy. we celebrated my dad's birthday @ the beginning of the month.

adam, my mom, my dad and i made the birthday dinner which included the tasty wedge salad with homemade blue cheese dressing.

H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y

apparently, some people can sleep anywhere?

next up was adam's dad's birthday. it was nice to have caden and rylan in town for the celebration!

even summer made a picture for her grandpa.

can i have a piece?

last but not least birthday of the month--mom! we ate @ clear springs. i recommend it if you're craving greasy, fried seafood and are in the new braunfels area!

i don't know who these people are? hah.

nance and ted

dad, kathy and john.

mom, can you blow out all of those candles on your cake now?

we played cranium. my first time to play and can't wait to play again.

Christmas Austin Style

after our raetzsch christmas, we headed to have a unnasch christmas in austin. first up: adam's parents' house and cute kids.
ah, it's our nephew, boston, in a doggie bed! he looks super cute anywhere!

lovin' summer's christmas dress! anything polkadot works for me.

adam's mom and i sportin' our scarves from adam's sister.

i ordered summer a pillow dress off of etsy.com. i should've gotten it monogrammed though!

caden has been talking to me about the places he has been learning about in school esp. rome and athens. so, i thought what better than to get him an atlas that has facts about places around the world! we might have a future jet-setter on our hands. right up my alley!

adam's grandparents and i. they couldn't be any nicer.

the good lookin' family of five. adam's brother's family.

four generations. wow.

we went to adam's aunt and uncle's house on the 27th to get together with them.

every year, adam's grandparents save their change in a jar. during christmas, everyone gets to guess how much is in the jar and the person who has the closest guess gets to keep the money! i just love traditions.

adam's aunt. quite the hostess!

adam's aunt made summer this apron (it has cupcakes all over it) to go with the kiddie kitchen she got for christmas!

i adore personalized anything--his aunt had place settings with our name and our name's meaning on it.

Christmas Seguin Style

adam and i began our festivities with my side of the family in suburban seguin.
my cousin amy and i on christmas eve.

first, we went to church and then headed over to my aunt kathy's house.

we ate our traditional tamales with chile and queso. we had a very nice time but we were all missing michael.

we took our traditional cousin picture but we were missing an important person.

christmas morning came and did you know? santa still comes to visit when you're in your twenties, hah. {this pic was taken after we opened presents}

my aunt nancy needed a new stocking, so she got a HUGE one and wrote a little message for santa on it: insert tv here. too bad the note didn't work. better luck next year, nance!

nancy made us new stockings. i can tell these took a long time! thanks, NIYP!

here are some gifts that nancy wrapped. nancy has good tastes and crafty hands. ah, i just love stylishly wrapped gifts.

time to eat AGAIN. this time it's turkey. here i am feeling stuffed like a turkey.

we got gold crowns from our english christmas crackers.

here are the christmas crackers before we opened them. classy and simple gold and white.

cousin alejandro and kathy. i can tell that he loves getting to wear a paper crown with his football uniform!

alexander in one of his christmas gifts. he's got his football moves ready. now it's time to play ball!

next stop: austin with the unnasches

The Blind Side

You have got to go see The Blind Side. It is a MUST SEE.

Watch this clip to hear more about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzjOZrQnU0

a great beginning to christmas break

i love the way adam did our outside lights. all white. my favorite.

adam in front of his gifts from me. christmas is such a good time to help him restock his wardrobe, hehe.

adam made an album of the past year. so sweet!

and he made this "brochure" asking me if i wanted to go to ruidoso or memphis for spring break. creative, huh?

we also had a visit from adam's aunt who lives out of town! she is so nice, so it was such a treat!

his grandmother came, too. we were so honored that she came all the way to see our new home!

enjoying the company.

here is what i decided to do with our christmas cards. i stuck them on a ribbon and then, tied a bow at the top. oh, how i love christmas cards with pictures on them!