It's the most Wonderful time of the Year!

It is such a wonderful time of year. Christmas and New Year's ..warm hot chocolate, decorating, Christmas music, cookie parties, holiday parties, shopping and wrapping gifts, and brown little packages tied up with string...these are a few of my favorite things :) I love it so much! As crazy as it gets and as busy as it gets I just love this time. I am not a cold weather person, I do prefer the sweaty heat in California, however the cold too can be refreshing when you are nicely bundled up. But of course for some people it still is not cold enough in California-not for me.

So we decorated for Christmas yesterday. It was a lot of fun. I put on Christmas music and since I was quite organized with my packaging last year, putting everything out was quite easy. Vicken helped a lot. He did almost all of the tree..it was quite yummy! It looks great. Traditions are so important to start within families, so this is one of our traditions putting up the tree together and I think it will stick when kids come too. Here some pictures of our decorations. Enjoy!

This is on our buffet. The picture behind it is a painting my sister did for Vicken and me for our first anniversary. It is a painting of my bridal bouquet-very thoughtful and for sure beautiful.

Our Tree
Purple and Silver

A closer look at the ornaments

With the lights on!
Wishing everyone a happy healthy fun filled Christmas season. I will be back to post about the cookie party and more holiday fun stuff!

Oh How Fun...

I have been wanting to see Wicked for months now. They are showing at the Pantages. Ever since the phenomena swept over Los Angeles. My sister really wanted to see it too. So we figured this weekend would be perfect. For every showing of Wicked they do a raffle 2 and half hours before the performance. You go in put in your name and about 26 names are called and if you win for $25 buckaroonies you get to sit in orchestra seats which usually sell for over 100 dollars. So my sister and I decided to give it a shot we went in early and gave our names. There were people there who had seen the show over 6 times that was insane. They called the first name and it wasn't ours. So I turned to Nora and said if we don't win we will come back the next weekend. Then the guy pulled another name, he stumbled on the name so I assumed it must be mine cause it is so hard to pronounce. It turned to be Nora's name and we won tickets! !!! It was funny too cause from the beginning I told Nora they are going to call your name. We went to watch the show and we were in row A that means front row..the first row. It was crazy. Being up there you feel like you are part of the show and the excitement. We both loved the show!It was a beautiful story about how people should be loved for who they are and sometimes all of us are a little misunderstood! I recommend this show and I hope to see it before May again before it goes off stage.

Well I was not right about my surprise from Vicken but it was what I wanted. I have been wanting to go to CRAFT for months now and finally I got the chance. Vicken took me for my birthday and I had a true Top Chef experience (I am a big fan of the show). We had amuse bouche (a tiny bite size piece of food served before courses to amuse the mouth). We had porkj belly I had always seen it on the show but wanted to taste...it was good kind of like bacon and meat in one. Of course Vicken had the steak and I had braised pork (which was really good). What I loved about the experience was every course is served it's like eating at a friends house you get to share all your meals. It was cool. We had fun and it was quite yummy. Would recommend this spot for sure!

I'm Thankful!

First off...sorry for my delay in posts. It has been a busy couple of weeks. However, I am going to try very hard to post every other day at least even though Christmas is around the corner.

We just celebrated Thanksgiving this week and my birthday happened to fall on the same day. I can list all the many small and large people and things I am thankful for however most of all I am thankful to God for blessing me with such a beautiful, fulfilled healthful and happy life. He is the one who has surrounded me with amazing people such as Vicken and my parents, sister, Vicken's parents and Raffi and Betty. and to this I am thankful and grateful. There are so many other people in my life who I am thankful to have just for their helpfulness, their happy thoughts, their prayers, the moments of laughter and of course this list will go on and on, but this is where I will stop! I am just thankful to God.


Well... it was also my birthday..Turned the BIG 27- This is not old, but when I think about my mom was on baby number 2. Oh well..that was back in the day:) My birthday with family was nice. However tonight Vicken has surprise in store. I took a guess at where he is taking me and shared this with him, he just chuckled so I must be right. I will let you know if I was right with pictures and of course my review.

Have a great weekend. I am sure enjoying having 5 days off the joys of being a teacher!