Happy Birthday Mom! We hope you have a wonderful day!!!

This month is flying by. It probably helps that I'm feeling better, wahoo!

We had a really nice weekend. On Friday night, we went to Willow Street Pizza. After dinner we drove around Willow Glen to see Christmas lights. Alanna is a big fan of the deer figurines. We've been out to look at lights 3 or 4 times already! Saturday morning, I drove Alanna down to Santa Cruz to have a sleepover with Grandma El and Grandpa Barry. Justin and I attended Anritsu's holiday party at the Hyatt in Santa Clara that evening. It was fun getting dressed up and catching up with friends. On Sunday, Justin went down to SC to get Alanna, and I headed up to San Francisco for a cookie/gift exchange at Courtney's house. It was a lot of fun!

This week we have our last swim class, are going to make cookies with friends (should be interesting with 3 toddlers!), and have a holiday potluck play date. We're also going to a brunch on Saturday and then are off to Sacramento for the Samuel Family Hanukkah party/Mom's b-day celebration at Mel and Pete's. We are quite the social butterflies!

Happy Hanukkah!!! Alanna enjoyed picking out candles for her menorah tonight, and watching me light them. She also enjoyed tonight's present, an accordion (just like Daddy!).

Here's a video of Alanna playing the accordion: