My littlest sister Carla turns 29!

Briannah would be unable to meet later for dinner so we made chicken tacos (a favorite of Carlas) and brownies for lunch for Carla and then the rest of us met later with the family for dinner!



Here with Briannah!



January 15th!

My nephew Julian stood in a quinceanera for a friend!  I hope to get more pics of him with the quinceanera and with the young lady he escorted.



Here he is with my parents!



Here's the quinceanera (birthday girl) dancing!



Art and I had a great time dancing the night away!



The Quinceanera theme was Mardi Gras!




My Mom and Dad!



Our dear nephew/cousin Julian turns 17!!!

We celebrated at Spaghetti Warehouse Restaurant!!



Briannah and Julian!



Wow, 17 already!!!



Happy birthday, Ju-B!!  We love you!!



Art's and my 40th birthday bash!

Art and my sister Nanette made all the arrangements!  It was a fun night!!  Lordy, Lordy look who's 40!!!!



I had our friend and famous local comedian Cleto Rodriguez come out and surprise Art by performing a set!  He was funny as usual!  It was a great surprise!! Below with Cleto and his wife Lynette.





Nanette had games planned for our guests!  It was a hoot!!





Dear friends Charlie and Jennifer!




Here with my littlest sister Carla!




My sister Nanette!  Thanks for all your hard work, Sissy!




Me with my dear friend Cyndi Solis!




Art had a dj set up in our living room....we danced the night away!!



Happy 40th birthday, Mama!

Heading out to Augie's BBQ for my birthday dinner!

My parents, sisters, and nephew joined us!

We headed back to our place for cake and gifts!  Here with my Mom and Dad!

New Years Eve!

We had a great time at Aunt Teddy's making tamales and hanging out! We went to my parent's house afterwards (Gummy & Gumpy's) to pop firworks at midnight!

At Aunt Teddys:

My sister Nanette and I making bean tamales!

 My nephew Julian and cousin Joey!

The girls, Mimi and Briannah, and their cousin Julian!

My cousin joey and me...threatning to smear tamale masa all over his face!...haha!

At Gummy & Gumpy's!

Watching everyone play with their phones!  LOL!..patiently waiting for 12:00 midnight to roll around!

My mom and my sister Carla!

My husband Art having a bowl of yummy Tortilla Soup!

Carla and Rey!

My sister Nanette and her son Julian

Briannah and me!

Rey, Julian, Mimi, and Briannah

Art and me!

Mimi and her spiderman backpack!!

 Fireworks time!!

Art and Julian lighting fireworks! 

 Rey and Gumpy!

Briannah...texting of course! lol!

Mimi having fun with sparklers!

After one firework tipping over because of its force and almost hitting julian, some of us retreated to watch the rest of the show from our suburban!!

On New Years Day we went back to Aunt Teddy's to eat all the yummy tamales we made!  They were really yummy!  HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!