Christmas is here!

Festivities a plenty this weekend. We had the 33rd annual Xmas parade downtown. Got cozy and watched all the festive folks cruise down the main drag. We got to see Santa at the end. Gavin has a good time and waved to all the people in the parade. It's a fun tradition. Next year, chairs for mom and dad for sure!

We found a $40 tree at Home Depot which rocked since all the other trees we saw were 80 and 90 bucks forget that! We got the noble all set up Sat morning and had half the house decorated before Steve's work party. We had a night out on the town with wine at the party and Gavin did great with Ashley the babysitter.

Sunday we finished decorating the house and it looks and smells great. Steve got the palm trees outside lit as well so we can officially keep up with the Jones now. The lady across the street decorated the front of her house for literally 5 hours straight. Madness.

Gavin now just takes his naps in the car on the weekends. We can't ever get him to transfer to the bed so after our morning excursions to the beach or coffee or whatever, we just roll down the windows and keep the door to the garage open and let him snooze away in his carseat. We all got a couple hours of down time before we saddled up and went to another holiday fiesta at Tracy and Matts. It was nice and mellow and Gavin hung out with Ashley again. He is not even crying when we leave which is great. Makes it much easier for us.

Gavin is talking up a storm. We tried potty training last week but decided he still wasn't interested so we are going to try and do it when we go to Disneyland when he turns 3. We will say... Gav.... there are no diapers in disneyland. So if you want to see Mickey we have to learn to go pee pee and poo poo in the potty before we go. Got that tip at the holiday party and we will see if that works.