November bdays

First big birthday in November is Auntie Dee, went to dinner to celebrate with her, Lola's bday is in November too, but she left for the Philippines :(

Auntie Nin got Dee and Tip this super cute bday cake, Tips bday is late October so we got together for both of them
was a yummy ice-cream cake from carvel

Daphne celebrated her bday at the movie theaters, opening day for Tangled...my favorite princess movie and my first time to watch in 3D
the kids loved it, jaylin got scared during one part :)

they had a great time...after the movie we ate and had cupcakes in the party room, the kids left with swords, wands and candy, so much fun...Happy bday Daphne!

and to all the November bdays, John Lai and Howard Chan just to name a few :)

Thanksgiving weekend

We stayed home for Thanksgiving and made lunch for a few family members...the deguzmans from socal came over along with Auntie Dee

most exciting part was the turkey, only because I had only cooked a turkey once before so wasn't really sure how it would turn out, anyway after hearing from a co-work how good bacon wrapped turkey was, I decided to try it...was very proud of myself :)

not a very pretty picture, but it started like this...the worst part of making a turkey is taking out the insides...was pretty gross and I was a little scared

then about an hour or so before the end of cooking time, I wrapped it in bacon

and it looked like this...it was surprisingly good...Jay doesn't care for turkey, but he actually liked this one

jayson helping daddy cut the turkey

auntie dee and her mini me

socal deguzmans will soon have their own party of five

the evening of black friday I took the girls for pottery painting
Jay took Jayson to his first basketball game...scu broncos of course! pretty sad I never went to a game while I was there, but we'll always support them when they are here :)