THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope this finds you well, and hopefully you were able to spend the holiday surrounded with loved ones!

For a lot of people, Thanksgiving has become a day they look forward to all the food (eat a lot), watch football, or watch the Macy's Day Parade. While there's nothing wrong with this, we need to not forget the most important part of Thanksgiving is giving thanks to God for our many blessings!!!

We are so thankful to have our families and friends in our lives both close by and those far away... Thankful for our blessings, our jobs, our health and the roof over our heads! (Even if it sometimes may leak and flood your bedroom...;)

This year, we were invited to spend Thanksgiving day at Dan and Lara Horgan's home. It was really nice. Their home is amazing and a great place for a party. They are the nicest people... This is Lara and I, somehow we didn't capture Dan Horgan on film...

The Huntingon Beach Halladas and the Lake Forest Halladas... we missed the rest of our family members!
I'm SO thankful for the love of my life... The nicest, kindest, smartest, sweetest, funniest and manliest man I know!
The 3 Horgan boys. SO cute and so much fun... A handful, for sure!
Their backyard. Nice place to do some lounging... Not too, too shaby if you ask me... :)
Thank you for having us over for the feast and company...

Random shots I never posted...

I didn't have a camera that night but I finally got some pics from Amber from her Bday party at Tantalum a few weekends ago. We had SUCH a blast... she was even smiling as I punched her boob... what is my hand doing there?
And a classic shot... One of my coolest friends ever, my little Kenpo dahling, Stephanie and I, in the rickshaw... which, by the way, what is HER hand doing there? Anyway... Sake + rickshaw...

The Palladium

This past weekend we went to see Augustana LIVE at the Palladium thanks to our friends Dean and Amber . This is (from LT to RT) Sarah, Amber, Dean and us! See Dan's beard is starting to come back! I love it...

Bottom's up girls! Thanks for inviting us, we had a great time! :)

Visit to Nevie's

Dan and I went to visit Nevie and Eden (and their parents, too, of course, but they are just too cute to not take pictures of them! Neveah is getting so big... and twice as gorgeous (and sassy!)

Oh, yeah, another thing, Dan decided to take part in this year's "NovemBeard" or "No Shave November". Dan shaved clean on November 1st... I had NEVER seen his clean-shaven face before!

This is Dan and Nevie going for a ride on Ivan's Cooler Scooter... so funny
Eden had to go on a ride with uncle Dan too! So cute.

Pumpkins and Halloween 2008

My favorite time of the year again.... Fall and Halloween... Pumpkins, patches, carving, baking seeds and an excuse to dress up as someone you're not and drink with friends...Dan takes me to the pumking patch every year... I love it.
On Halloween we went to a house party at a friends' place. Dan was Kirk Lazarus, from Tropic Thunder. The "dude playing the dude disguised as the other dude." It was hilarious.
(Especially If you've seen the movie...)

I was a Ghostbuster. Getting slimed is no fun...
Marlon and Coral were DOG the Bounty Hunter and his wife, Beth. SO funny.

Coral did and awesome job on the costumes!
Chris and his Lioness, Junko, Tyler as a guitar hero, us, and Matt as Papa Smurf.


Papa Smurf was one of my favorite costumes...
Beth (Coral) always knows where the beer is



The real hit of the party was the Banana... played by Jeremy, of course!


Happy Halloween, you gouls!

Kevan's surprise 40th Bday party

It's starting already. The "40th bday" parties... Well, I must say, I never would guess that any of Dan's friends was anywhere close to the big four-O.

This weekend (Oct 17th) was Kevan's 40th... and we got to hang out with some of my favorite people and had the best time!
Kevan was certainly excited about his party...
Man, that's a lot of candles on that cake!
Dan and I with Kevan
Who has not changed a bit since Highschool... (his girlfriend blew up and framed this awesome shot. It's so "Top Gun.")
By the end of the night the girls and I had made all kinds of friends!
Happy Birthday Kevan!

Back out to MotoX paradise

We were invited back to Dr. Huss' private MotoX track last weekend. It was another glorious day! Already sunny and bright by 9am
Built in sprinkler system and amazing landscaping
Fueling for the day
Dan gets high first thing in the morning!
The only picture of me is of my butt. That's my dear husband...
Our friend Ed brought his daughter Maggie...so cute
She got ready all by herself
Did I mention she was SO cute?
Ed and Maggie... they grow up so fast, don't they?
She is a little daredevil and we had a blast together...
We stopped by to see my nieces on our way home. They wanted to jump right on the motorcycles also... maybe Daddy will let me take them out one of these days!