Dad gets Jack Moore Award

I am so blessed to have the most caring and kind father in law. He is always is thinking of others first and is such an amazing example to all in our family. He is a man of joy and gives all before he every thinks about recieving. It is not often one is honored for their career...this year Dad received the Jack Moore Award which is the lifetime achievement award for activities directors. It was was such an honor to be a part of this celebration. We all went down to San Diego for a few days and celebrated his hard work and dedication. It was so fun to meet all of his friends and to see what a "celebrity" he is in that community! We are so proud of you dad!

Christmas 2014

Gomez Christmas: Since all of the schedules are so crazy and since my mom would be off to Punta Mita on the 26th we celebrated on the Sunday before. We enjoyed posole and all of the kids got to open presents. Micaela was so happy to be with her cousins.

Pattison Christmas:
We drove out on the 24th and sat in some good traffic since we did not get on the fast track thanks to Micaela. She told she had to go to the bathroom!  We arrived at my inlaws and John met us there. We hung out for a bit then headed to eat dinner at Aunt Tina's. The VanAukers were not there since they had just arrived from Ohio but would  join us the next day. It was so fun opening presents with Micki...she was so excited and her Uncle John had her chanting "Open that gift, Open that gift!" The cutest was when she opened up a little squirrel Aunt Sandy gave her she said..."Wow I've always wanted a rat" haha.  We went home and left Santa cookies and Milk. We then left Micaela sleeping and D, John and I went to midnight mass.

Christmas morning: Micaela woke up so so excited. "Mommy did Santa Claus come?" Yes! We went out and she got to open her scooter!! She had been asking for a scooter for at least 3 months so she wast so so excited!! Then we opened up all the gifts. She got so many cute things but she especially loved her Elsa from her Uncle J. We went through all of our gifts and we got so may cute things. The big ones were Dennis got a watch and I got awesome purse. Dennis bought me the cutest Tori Burch flats! 

In the afternoon the whole family came over for dinner! We were so happy to see Flynn and trade gifts with them. We played games and later that night the cousins played poker.

We all spent a few days there...We went out to celebrate Karlas birthday in Temecula. The guys went to the Holiday Bowl to watch SC on the 27th.

On the 27th at night Micaela got very sick. She was up all night crying with pain. We took her to Dr the next day and she had an ear infection. Poor baby! We finally made it back to Redondo after our extended stay. Dennis painted our room then got super sick! He got a really bad sinus infection.

We had such a nice Christmas minus Micki getting sick. We are so so lucky to have such an amazing family.

Spring Break 2014

San Diego Fun:

 Wednesday drove to San Diego. Pit stop in Carlsbad. Arrive at Hyatt Regency Mission Bay. Micki loved it! Ran up and down. We had seperate areas so napping was easy for her. That night we went to Sea Port Village for dinner. Came back Dennis and Micki took a bath which was the only way to get her in the big bath tub. While she slept we watched a movie. She did wake up at 2am crying,  she leaked from her diaper so Dennis changed her and we snuggled a bit and then she asked for her crib!

Thursday: We went to Eienstein's bagels for breakfast. Micaela had a blast feeding the birds haha. It was too funny. Then my inlaws met us at the hotel. We went to Sea World which was interesting. Everything takes so long to do since Micki just takes off running and with a big group it's hard to keep everyone together. The highlight was feeding the mantarays, the One Ocean show and the flamingo Vip that my mom in law got for her shirt. We took Micki back for a nap and inlaws stayed at Sea World while we enjoyed a nice lunch in the room. We went back for a little bit and fed the Sea Lions and saw the turtles and sharks. We came back at to the hotel and enjoyed cocktails as a family at the pool lounge! It was so fun.

Friday: We woke up to a windy day so the pool was out of the question. We enjoyed a fantastic breakfast at the hotel  resturant called the Red Marlin. Micki was so good. Then we hung out the room and then headed home. We stopped at Stone Brewery per D's request. We enjoyed the grounds and then ate lunch there. We headed to mu inlaws where we hung out. We then went to a fun sushi dinner with all of the cousins! Saturday we went to the Apple store to buy all my school stuff then ate lunch as a family then headed back to my moms. Dennis went to go check on the house.

It was so nice to vacation as a family alone for the first time. I wasnt breastfeeding or stressed over Micaela's nap schedule. I loved being together and will always remember our fun Spring Break!