Garden D'Lights 2013

For years now I've been wanting to see the Garden D'Lights in Bellevue - those commercials on TV and Facebook posts from everyone make it so enticing!  ;)  Anyway, before the roads got too crazy on New Year's Eve, we picked up Sebastian from daycare and headed off to finally see the lights!  

Admittedly, it was a little underwhelming in my opinion as I expected the display to be much bigger but it was still a fun experience.  Like most babies, Sebastian just loves staring at any kind of light so he was as happy as can be!  :) 

So pretty!

Can you see us?  ;) 

Sadly, the only photo of the 3 of us... he was too mesmerized by the lights to bother to pose. ;) 

Sweet lil' baby bear!

Thanksgiving 2013

Thanksgiving was relatively uneventful this year.  We were honestly dreading the stress of the holidays with the added pressure of ensuring that both sides of the family got equal time with the baby but it wasn't too bad!  Phew!  ;) 

Per usual, we had lunch with my family where we had a random mixture of Filipino, American, and Greek food and lots of yummy dessert.  After our meal, David and Pookie went home to cook our part of the dinner while Sebastian and I stayed at my parent's house.  Due to teething, we had a rough time the night before so while my parents entertained the baby, I took advantage of the free time and took a little nap!  :) 

Eventually it was time to head over to the good ol' MLT and have dinner with the Kos.  It was a full house because we had a good number of out-of-towners fly in for the long weekend including Kelly and Adrianna.  As always, it was nice to get to spend time with them!  :) 

The following morning, I woke up super early (well, we were already up for Sebastian) and headed north to the outlets with my mom for some Black Friday shopping.  I was going to bring Sebastian but decided against it since he was a little under the weather.  Like always, I really didn't get much shopping done but acted as a personal stylist for my mom so that was fun.  We got to the outlets around 6:00 something and surprisingly it wasn't too bad.  We missed the crazies that got all their shopping done on Thanksgiving day and beat the "lazy" afternoon shoppers.  It was probably the easiest Black Friday experience ever!  Gotta love that!

Here are some pics of our Turkey Day:

Tired after a long, restless night

Don't you just love his little vest?!

Matching Movember mustaches ;) 

Look at that belly!

Too much turkey for Pookie :)

Brunch with Uncle Kelly & Auntie Adrianna at the Rusty Pelican - Yum!

Visiting Santa 2013

In order to beat the crowds and avoid standing in a ridiculously long line, we decided to visit good ol' Saint Nick before Thanksgiving (which is why this post seems out of place)!  :)

David had a little bit of a "run in" with one of the "elves" and eventually the manager "elf" so things got a little uncomfortable.  Basically, he was appalled by the cost of the packages to begin with and then they were selling picture packages (in our case, "Baby's First Christmas") that were no longer available because they had run out of picture frames.  Oh, on top of that, the photographer said she'd pick the best photo of the bunch and that she was positive she caught a few of him smiling and actually looking at the camera. Needless to say, she failed to deliver.  ;)  Poor kid looks so, so tired!

Note: No elves were hurt during our time with Santa.  In fact, no one was actually dressed as an elf but David just kept referring to them as such. ;)

Well, at least that was a memorable experience! Hopefully Daddy will let us see Santa again next year... ;)

Halloween 2013

We had a bit of a costume fail for Sebastian this year.  He was supposed to be a monkey for Halloween but unfortunately, even the smallest size was way too big for our little munchkin.  Luckily, my mom had given him a little tiger hoodie that had a tail and tiger mohawk so we just used that for his costume. So cute!  Pookie decided she didn't want to be a princess again so she ended up being a triceratops this year!  :) 

Even though Sebastian is still too young to remember things, we are doing our best to start some new family traditions and making as many fun memories as we can.  For his first Halloween, we decided to do a little "trick or treating" at the Alderwood Mall.  We went right after work/school in hopes of beating the crowds but apparently everyone else had that idea.  We got there around 4:00 PM and there were already signs saying that they ran out of candy!  

Sebastian was pooped from school so we didn't stay long but managed to make it around the entire mall and grabbed some goodies for him us. ;)  Before we left, we met up with the Holland family at Nordstrom. Olivia was dressed as a sushi roll and Mingie and Justin were sushi chefs. I wish I had taken a picture.  :)  

When we got home, we only had a small handful of trick or treaters (so much for buying candy from Costco).  Sebastian was too tired to help pass out candy so it was up to his daddy and Pookie to do the job.  :)  All in all, I'd say it was a fun day.  Typically, David and I aren't fans of Halloween but I have a feeling that will change now that Sebastian is here!