Our crazy December Month 2011

On December 16th Nils, Charlie and I left on a roadtrip to Utah to his cousin Katie's wedding. It was so nice to finally meet the rest of Nils' family and to be there with everyone to celebrate the union of Katie and Jason.
First, we attended the lunch, where we hung out with Nils' inmediate family.

Then, they had a reception later on that day and did all the wedding stuff: taking pictures with everybody, tossing the bouquet and cutting the cake.

The next day, we went to Nils' sister's house to get together and hung out and to celebrate Nils' dad's birthday.

After spending some quality time with them, Nils and I went back to our hotel to pack again and get ready for our next road trip to Vegas!!!
The first thing we did when we got to Vegas was checking at "The Bellagio", it was our first time staying there and we loved it! We walked around the hotel, gamble a little bit and went to bed. The next day we had the whole day to explored more, so we headed to check out other casinos and had the chance to go to "The Secret Garden" a habitad for dolphins, lions, tigers and leopards. It was neat to check them out, of course my favorite part was to see the dolphins.

At night, we went to the Jabbawockeez show and saw them performed and it was so much fun!

After the show we headed back to the casino for a little bit more blackjack fun. That night we didn't do as well as we hoped. Next day, we woke up, checked out, went to the car to drop off our bags and decided to go back to the casino and see if our luck had change. Fortunatly, it did and we made all of our money back and then some. Then, we headed up to pick up Charlie from a petsmart and there we went on our way to California.

We arrived in sunny Southern California later that afternoon and we stayed there for about 2 weeks in which we enjoyed every single day we spent there. The next day, my dad came to visit and barbeque for us. As always, the food and company was great!

The next couple of days we hung out, did some shopping and prepared everything we needed for the festivities. This year, my mom and I cooked Christmas dinner together, and were very succesful at it. On the morning of the 24th Nils and Sergio went to play some soccer with some of Sergio's friends. Unfortunatly I didn't get there on time to get Nils in action, but it was a very nice warm day and even Charlie got to play some soccer with Nils.

At night, we had our Christmas Eve dinner and waited to midnight to open gifts. I trully love Christmas and love to see how everyone reacts to the gifts Nils and I give them. This year Nils and I had a couple of surprises for everyone and it was a lot of sneaking around, but it was worth it! This is my favorite picture of that night Oh happy tears! : )

 Next day, was Christmas day and we spent it at my mom's apartment hanging out with each other. Sergio's girlfriend, Tami, came over and we had a little surprise for her. She is one of my kind, her love for Disney is awesome and so she NEEDED to have this:

Also, my aunt Leslie and cousin came over and so we snap some pictures of the four Caina girls:

Next day, December 26th was Sergio's 21's birthday and we celebrated big! We had a full house and lots of good food and of course a pinata! (my idea). We love you Sergio!!

Next day, we drove to San Marcos (40 minutes south of where we were staying) to one of my favorite restaurants: Daphnes to meet with my favorite girl cousin: Alejandra. I feel the closest to her and we just love spending time together, it's always fun to see her! I love that she always makes the effort to meet me up every single time I go down to California to visit. And every Christmas we exchange gifts! Here is a picture of all of us at the restaurant:

Thank you so much Alejandra for the gifts, I'll be wearing them for sure! : )

When we went back to Murrieta, Sergio and Nils wanted to go car racing, and so we did, and went to get pizza afterwards. It was a very fun day! I think Nils enjoyed this day in particular becuase he loves messing around with my brothers, and while they were racing he flip Sergio's car and slowed him down. 

On the 28th of December, our dearest friend Angel arrived in LAX, so we and my mom went to pick him up. Since we were in LA and this was his first time ever there, we went to Hollywood! We scored some crazy discount on a couple of the museums they have, so we went to Ripley's Believe It or Not, Guinnes Records and The Wax Museum. We had a blast, but I knew all he wanted to see was one thing:

The next day, we took it easy and just hung out in Murrieta, did some shopping and went to watch "Mission Impossible".
On the 30th. Angel and I went to my favorite place on earth.. guess it yet?
Disneyland!!!!

I seriously had SO MUCH FUN! So thank you so much "Chuy" for this magical day : )

Next day was already the last day of 2011. We spent the morning shopping for Angel's outfit for the night and hung out with everybody during the rest of the day. At night, we went to say goodbye to 2011, the best way we know how: dancing!

After receiving the New Year, we headed back to my mom's place for some champagne and to do some of the peruvian's traditions.

Nils thought that we should stay one more day, and I didn't complain about it. So January 1st we spent it at the beach.

After that, we got back to Murrieta and enjoyed our last day there with everybody.

This vacations were amazing, we got to see almost everybody we love and we are so thankful for all of you that made this trip so wonderful. Can't wait to see what 2012 has in store for us : )