logan's first cold

boo! logan has his very first cold. it's hard to watch my poor sweet little baby with his runny nose and his tired eyes. we've been out of town since last wednesday for christmas. it's nice to have him in his own bed tonight. i'm hoping this cold passes quickly. logan is being such a trooper. poor baby.

Logan's Christmas Trip to San Jose

we returned home today from our trip to san jose for christmas. (it actually took me a few days to sort through our pictures - we had over 500 of them!) here are pictures from our many christmas celebrations with family and friends. on christmas morning, we started with the caveney's, then headed over to the cory's, then back to the caveney's for dinner, and then to my aunt's house. we were definitely exhausted!

christmas at the caveney's:logan and aiden christmas morning

with grandma

christmas at the cory's:

amanda, emily, and chris

grandma opening her gift from us
(with nate supervising)

logan in the middle of all of the presentsnathan reflecting

emily taking it all in
aunt juju and her chris

back to the caveney's:
starting to get tiredchecking out cousin aiden's jumpermeeting delilah (chris' cousin's daughter)

off to the fine's (my aunt and uncle's):
with alyssa (my cousin katie's daughter)
alyssa was born 6 weeks before logan
me and amanda acting a fool
logan with aunt juju
cracking up
logan crashed - thanks auntie!
later, logan and alyssa in their jammies
"hey, i got your foot"

we saw family and friends and introduced logan to quite a few new faces. on friday morning, we saw our dear friend michele and her two little ones. so much fun catching up and seeing how big isiah and jordyn have gotten!

our dear friends the yamaguchi's

jordyn helping loganhanging out

then we headed over to lunch with our close friends nino and jane. we met their significant others for the first time. they met logan for the first time too. we miss you guys!

logan grinning at all of the new faces

loving his uncle nino

this lunch thing first started with me and nino back in 1995
now look at us and all of our peeps!
(jane and matt, chris, me, and logan, and katya and nino)

on friday night, we ventured out into the freezing (i do mean freezing) cold with both sides of our family. every member of our immediate families headed out to gilroy gardens (formerly known as bonfante gardens). we all had a great time checking out the beautiful park and christmas decorations. we tried to bundle up logan as best we could. (thanks so much michele for giving us logan's jackets! we sure did need them!)

logan trying to keep warm

our nephew aiden
(chris' sister kim's son)

logan with both of his grandpas
(papa and grandpa)

with aunt juju

nate cory loved driving the cars

me and logan's auntie dawn trying to keep warm

fast asleep at the end of the night
(with his new lion - thanks papa!)

saturday, i had arranged a "mini-reunion" with some of my close friends from high school. three of us had just had baby boys within weeks of each other and two of my other friends had 1-year old boys. an additional friend had just gotten married a few months earlier. so, we all had life changing events to catch up on. it was so fun seeing all of the little ones together!

me and logan with my dear friend teresa and her son finn
finn was born just a few weeks after logan

logan and finn holding handsthe newlyweds, laura and joetyler (dawn's son) and evan (jen's son)
tyler and evan were born last july and september

the moms and their sons

(shereen and kyle, teresa and finn,
me and logan, and tyler and dawn)

the dads with their boys
(chris and logan, pete and finn,
ray and tyler, and justin and kyle)

logan and finn playing

we also caught up with my grandma cory and my aunt, uncle, and cousin from sacramento. they were down just for the day on saturday.

my mom put this santa hat on logan
he loved it
grandma and logan

by saturday night, we were exhausted. logan took a few photos with his cousin aiden back at the caveney's. he was so tired!

pics with aiden

cousins sharing toyslogan and his auntie kimrunning out of steam
(mom arrived soon after this and i announced it was bedtime)

then we packed up our things to get ready for our early morning flight on sunday. logan was such a good boy on the plane. he is definitely a better flyer than his mommy! we flew out on christmas eve, expecting crowds at the airports. we were pleasantly surprised with our almost empty plane. it was quite an experience packing and traveling with a newborn! here are a few photos of logan at the airport and on the plane. these were actually taken on our way back home to temecula. he slept most of the time on the flights. such a good traveler! we arrived home with no problems. thank goodness! we are very happy to be home. i think we'll be home bodies for a little while. i'm tired just recapping our weekend!

watching for planes

"that's a cool plane"

time for a nap

cool as a cucumber
(i couldn't say the same for me!)

Christmas Fun and Meeting Santa

the saturday before christmas, we had christmas with chris, amanda, nathan, emily, and uncle pat. we dressed up in christmas pajamas, opened presents, and made gingerbread houses. i know it sounds like a movie. i baked some cookies earlier too. (yes mom, i actually baked! and it was fun!)

nathan with the presents we gave him

yay! the polar express train.
nate said, "i can't believe it!"

me and loges in our pjs

"i've got something to say!"

"oh, i like this"
"thanks mommy and daddy for my dinosaur"
"i just love it!"

we took photos of the cousins all together. so cute!

emily, nathan, and logan
nathan checking in on his sister

logan loves his big cousin nathan
the men decorating their gingerbread houses
the finished houses

we took logan to see santa. he was sound asleep while we were waiting in line. i was a bit hesitant to wake him up and hand him over to a stranger. we woke him up with enough time to get him in a good mood. he was such a good boy! later that night, we also drove around in the 'party bus' (our lexus) with the gang to look at christmas lights. our street was by far the best. (although, i might be a little biased).

waiting in line for santa

all smiles with santa

later that night with mommy

hi there!

"so. . mom. . i like this christmas thing"

here's a few pictures from logan's spontaneous christmas card photo session. i was disappointed we didn't get around to taking a family photo with our beautiful harveston lake as the background. maybe next year. just the other night, when all hope was lost, i picked up chris' camera and started snapping away. . . hoping i could get just one decent photo of logan to warrant a christmas card.

logan hamming it up for mommy

the photo we used on our christmas card this year

such a silly boy!
merry christmas everyone! i hope you are able to spend this holiday with loved ones. we will be flying up to san jose to spend christmas with family and friends. wish us luck flying with logan!