Picture with Santa Claus

Boy, the line was very long in the mall but it was very worth it to get our annual picture with Santa!

Thanksgiving Dinner

Its a tradition every year to have Thanksgiving Dinner at our house with our friends. That means having to order early the pre-cooked turkey dinner so daddy does not have to work to hard during Thanksgiving Day! Its the one day a year that we actually eat turkey...just so we "feel" the spirit of the day!

Cesar and Mon.

Mommy and the kids.

Mommy, when are we eating?

Mommy and Chona.

Enjoying the dinner meal.

Lola Brigida, Tita Mir and Lola.

Teenagers holed up in Daddy's Hobby Room to play video games and PC games.

Kids with Aubrey!

LJ and Megan horsing around...until the next time they fight again!

Relaxing after the big meal!

Mommy and Daddy!

Gomez Family

Guiang Family

Bernabe Family

Tempe Lobster Festival

The first annual Tempe Lobster Festival took place November 11-13 at Tempe Town Lake. The Tempe Lobster Festival featured real Maine Lobsters, flown in fresh daily and cooked in the world’s largest lobster copper steamers.

I want this one for lunch!

Picking the live ones only. All the dead ones were discarded.

Loading them up on the biggest lobster steamer we've ever seen!

Yup! They are all cooked!

Look at that awesome lobster meals!

Mommy and Megan enjoying the huge lobster meal!

Kids enjoying themselves at the Family Fun Zone!

Orion's Birthday Party

Megan (along with LJ as her escort) went to her first birthday party from school - Orion's 4th Birthday Party, at Papago Park.

Megan with her best friend from school, Emily.

Having a blast on the jumper!

Megan with her schoolmates, Cole and Alexander.

Enjoying the spoils of the birthday party!

A day in Desert Breeze Park

One the most favorite things the kids want to do during the winter/spring time is to go to Desert Breeze Park. There, they enjoy riding the train around the park, playing in the playground equipments, riding the carousel and enjoying an ice cream at the end of the day.

Kids trying to solve the animal tic tac toe game.

Horsing around the elephant...in the summer time, this is the get soak area for the kids to cool off from the summer heat.

Enjoying the swing...

A ride on the carousel is always a blast for the kids!

Enjoying ice cream at the end of the day even during winter time...only in Arizona!

Christmas Tree Decorating Tradition

A new family tradition that we started a couple of years ago is to have the kids decorate our Christmas tree. The kids are always very excited on this tradition that we do just before Thanksgiving Day. As you can see, all the decorations are bunched up on the lower part of the tree! The kids are are always very proud of the work that they have done!

Gomez Family Formal Holiday Pictures

Every November, it is a Gomez family tradition to dress up and get our formal holiday pictures taken.