Why do I live in Southern California?

Because of this...

Just another January dusk in Orange County.

Sweet dreams.

(NONE of these pictures are photoshoped or altered in ANY way. All taked with the natural CA early evening light!)

Eli's Lids in the New Year...

We rung in the new year with our annual New York New Years Eve Party.

Of course we lined up the children against their will to take a picture.

I forgot my Happy New Year sign.
I also forgot to make everyone wear their Eli's Lids like I did last year...

The picture still turned out absolutely priceless.

See...

 What's in store for Eli's Lids this year?
(you ask)
Lots!
~New Lid Styles (baseball, trucker, and of course more beanies!)
~A fun Carnival! (details later) As much as I loved the Remember When Carnival... it sure was hard to scan in all those pix!
~The same ole' silly style of blogging.
~More fun crafts! (Of course you should be checking in with my alter ego, She's Crafty, often for constant crafts!)
~A new awesome charity Eli's Lids will be donating to... Surfers Healing!!
~Oh and have you heard we are having baby #3?!? The gender and name are a big secret. I'm thinking I'll tweet during labor...

I'm sure you're wondering what my New Year's Resolution is...

You're not?

We'll I'll tell you anyway.

My New Years Resolution is to gain 25-35 pounds!

I am With Child... how often will I get to make that one!!?!!

Preggo cravings...

This is what I had for lunch...

It was one of those 'If You Give A Mouse a Cookie' moments... but with a pregnant craving twist.
See...
After you make scrambled eggs (you can barely see them under the apples) you'll put away the eggs in the fridge and notice the mild cheddar cheese.
Yum.
You'll cut a few cheese slices.
Then you'll think, "Gee, apples sure go well with cheese!"
You'll slice up an apple.
Yum.
Just before you sit down, you'll rememeber the red grapes you just bought at the store.
Yum.
After you rinse the grapes you'll feel like you need a bit of an energy boost.
You'll remember the Large Regular Iced Coffee you got at McDonalds yesterday but didn't finish.
You'll pull the 32 ouncer out of the fridge and notice the cookie dough.
Gotta finish lunch with something sweet.
Cookie dough.
Yum.
The perfect preggo lunch.

You may be wondering what the perfect preggo dinner is.
I'll tell you...

(got these from my parents at Christmas. Been craving Corn Chex for dinner.)

What did you crave when you were preggers?

Christmas Eve

Eli picked out this giftie for Daddy. He wrote "FOR, DADDY" Love, "ELI" all by himself.

Hot Hubby got off work at noon and we headed to Arby's for lunch.

Because Baby #3 loves Arby's!!

After naps we baked...

Get the cookies out already...

Eli was beyond stoked that Santa was going to eat what HE made!

Reading from Luke 2...

Cora was a bit clueless but went with it...

The kiddos picked dinner.

Eggs.

Toast.

Grapes.

Mommy didn't want to do dishes so we used paper plates...

I bundled up all the yogurt lids we had been saving for breast cancer...

We read from the best pop up Christmas book ever...

Oh... and someone showed up before we went to bed...