Christmas 2009

You'd think I'd have a lot of pictures to choose from to post here. I don't. I hardly took any. I think being big and pregnant, I didn't get up too much off the couch to snap photos...

Opening the first present. She looks a little intimidated!







Alfred opening the gift I gave him. U2 concert tickets. They'll be in Chicago this July.

The next day we went to Illinois for the Lohman Family Christmas, again I didn't take many pictures. Here's one of Hayley and Elora

Grandma and Grandpa





Grandma and Grandpa with all the grandkids & their signifigant others. (several of us are missing)







With their children and spouses

Here's how Alfred and Elora spent their time, while I put away the Christmas decorations.

Elora is 2!

We did the same thing as when she turned one. Christmas in the morning, then naptime. After naptime, Elora's birthday.

That's Elora's little hand reaching for a cupcake.


Trying to hold up 2 fingers to show she's 2 years old

Elora had her eye surgery on Friday.

It was an outpatient procedure. Her doctor corrected both eyes. She was put under and then they made an incision and repaired (tightened) the muscles. She's doing well, but looks a little scary. The whites of her eyes are red from blood, and will it will probably take a few weeks for it to completely fade. It grosses me out to look at them, but it's one of those things were you can't help but look. yuck. Elora doesn't even seem to notice though. She's acting like her normal little self. And so far, I haven't seen her eye wander once since the surgery.

More California Pictures. Elora's Early Birthday.

Elora had a lot! of fun at her Dora Party. I don't think she actually realized that the party was for her, but she sure liked being there!

Hugging Dora

Collecting Candy





Poor Dora!

Elora and her new Friends (cousins), Alexis, Alana, and Natalia

Continued from Last Post. Thanksgiving pics

Here are some pictures from the Annual Delgadillo Family Thanksgiving. Sooo much work goes into this, it almost reminds me of a wedding reception. I'm not sure of the exact number of attendees, but its close to 100, I think.

Back from CA!

We went to California for 10 days. It was lots of fun and the weather was great, usually high 70's to 80 everyday. Elora got to spend some quality time with her Nana and Grandpa, it'd been a whole year since they'd seen her last. I have a ton of pictures to post. One of the highlights was going to The Living Desert. (Basically the Zoo without any of the cold weather animals). She liked the petting zoo area with the sheep's and goats.


Elora is a big fan of trains.


Here is a picture of her with Grandpa at the train exhibit they had set up there.
My favorite part was the Butterfly Gardens.
Here's Elora trying to get a closer look.

Riding the baby warthog statue






We also went to the local Children's Museum.



Gymnast Elora.

Making a puppet


Archaeologist Elora

Doing a little grocery shopping

Motorcycle Cop Elora-just like Daddy


We took a trip up to the mountains in Palm Springs
Wow what a beautiful place!

Elora and Alfred waiting to ride the tram up to the top of the mountain.

Here is the tram. You ride it up approx 8500 feet. The top of the mountain is Mount San Jacinto State Park. It's gorgeous up there!













We also did some celebrating.



There was the annual Delgadillo Family Thanksgiving. I think close to 100 people were there in attendance. Also we had an early birthday party for Elora. I'll try to get those pictures posted soon, along with some pictures from DisneyLand :)