Valeria Out Loud

Hello!  Merry Christmas and happiest of holiday weeks to you!  

We are on vacation this week, thankfully and definitely needed.  It has been a long season of joy, and man oh man, we are just spent. Relaxing these couple of days following the past weeks of our December have been spectacular and I don’t want it to end!  I miss doing nothing! 😛

Though this time of year is my utmost favorite;  Christmas is just the best, isn’t it?  It snuck up on me  this year.  We celebrated literally each weekend, both days, since Thanksgiving between holiday parties and birthdays, it’s been cray cray!  A lot of people in my family have birthdays this month..ahem, myself included!!  Let’s give it up to the December babies.. we are the best! THE BEST!!! haha    Then with that nice warmer than normal weather, it didn’t feel all that much like Christmas.  Actually, not till today did it feel like the Christmas season.. if you don’t live here, we got a few inches of snow and a big chill. (womp!!)  I was really loving our 50-65 F Winter!

Even if it was busy, we had a lot of fun.  This holiday we copied last year…we celebrated with my husband’s family on the Eve and my family on the Day.  I took as many photos as I could, then, unfortunately, my camera ended up dying on me Christmas Day, but I tried remembering my iphone to take some..

Here’s what I shot this Christmastime 2015… 

How beautiful was my cake?

Gotta order it from the North End or noooo good.

ALL THE LOVE! 🙂 I have the best family

See? They even make me look pretty!

And they are all beautiful people..

My birthday love. He really makes me feel special.

Birthday dinner #1- Yes I make a big hoopla over my bday, and I will ALWAYS!!!

So 62 on the Wharf, turned into A Mano..same owners, location and well, menu!

Yum now called an A Mano Pickup.. the best drink.. icy and gooood!

While cheering my day, my baby girl made me a sweet birthday card. 🙂

a new tradition… birthday christmas lights. I love these two girls. They really can make me feel good..

The girls out for Christmas lights

My nieces birthday!

Being goofy at one of the many holiday parties this year..

The meringue mushrooms my kids love.

Xmas Eve: Made snickerdoodles and oatmeal choc chips

also made up this marbled mint cupcakes..

On our way to church Christmas Eve…67!!

The H Cousins…

W Grandma H

Christmas Love!

Showing us their pjs

WIth our oldest niece

With my baby girl. I love this face!

Santa came! He only wraps in stripes..allll stripey!

Guarding the gifts..

The theme this year was a Faneuil Hall Christmas!

I think he did pretty great considering it’s a kooky theme to give him (but it’s cuz we met 20 yrs ago and we are going on 15 yrs married ..jussayin, next year is a pretty big deal for me!)

She is the sweetest kid.

Twins

He had a lot of fun…

The G Cousins!

With my momz

She loves her new braces

Not one came out right, but we had fun anyways!

Then she got hold of a pen..and my skin

FREE HAND DRAWN!!

THis blew me away.. all hand drawn. Never seen it before. wow huh? She is only 10!! What a talented person!

Oh, and my mom is too..she made this for my nephew..she has a sweet Patriots patch for this.

>>>My favorite family tradition… Making Gingerbread Houses

This year my husband decided he wanted to make the gingerbread houses from scratch! ..uh, I did not as we had no time to relax much this season.  hah   BUT, over a three-day span he did it!  The kids designed their houses too, though they look cookie cutter out of the box, they are not.  They asked for traditional houses. He, on the other hand, wanted to make an uber post modern house.  The smell in the house was amazing, and the gingerbread tasted real good! 

He made the dough, cut then baked them one night.  Assembled then iced the houses another night.  Then on the third night we all decorated them.  It was a lot of fun, and what a difference a year makes! Our girls decorated each of their houses without much assistance.  <–last year it was basically myself! 

Here’s a photo run down of the fun! 

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I hope you all had an amazing holiday like we had and that you have a great week leading up to the New Year.  

HAVE A FABULOUS NEW YEAR!!!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxo