I met Yosh in November 2002 at The Brown’s house-warming party in San Bernardino…it was a weird time in my life. I was having the summer of my life, hanging out w/ awesome people and then BAM Yosh walks into my life and throws me for a loop. I fell in love pretty darn quick! In 2000 and 2001 my parents and I went away to Hawaii for the holidays and pretended it wasn’t Christmas at all. We lost Paul in 2000 and Christmas time just made our heart hurt so much to have to try and celebrate without him…it just wasn’t the same. 2 years away, my family knew we couldn’t “not” celebrate forever, so 2002 was going to be our first Christmas home trying to get things back to Holiday Normal. I was NOT looking forward to the holiday season and having just met Yosh I knew it would make for some awkward conversations. Since I had only known Yosh for a month I figured I’d miss him for Christmas b/c he’d be w/ his family, I’d be with mine…we wouldn’t be “co-mingling” w/ our families just yet and maybe I’d get to meet up w/ him for New Years!?! BUT…Yosh was awesome and surprised me w/ a dozen long steam roses delivered to my house AND tickets to Disneyland for Christmas Eve. It was the best way to keep my mind busy and we had a great time. (Sorry don’t have digital copies of pics from back then…maybe I can scan some) With that being said Yosh stuck around and so did our little Christmas Eve Tradition.
On Christmas Eve 2004 Yosh took “the step” and proposed to me at the entrance of Disneyland! His plan was to propose during the fireworks at the end of the evening BUT he was bursting with excitement and wasn’t able to wait! haha
We have gone every year except those we are in Ireland or last year since I had was going through chemo and had a treatment schedule for the 23rd. So this year was Owen’s first X-mas Eve at Disney (his 2nd time in D-Land) and I was scared b/c Owen woke up on Dec. 22nd with a horrible cough, congestion and slight fever. I thought our Disney day was going to be called off. I brought him to Kaiser on the 23rd to be told that poor Owen had a double ear infection and croup. We started the antibiotics right away, had a day of complete rest and the doc said he’d be okay for D-Land the next day.
So…we got to the Happiest Place on Earth around 10am and our first stop was going to be Mickey’s House since we’ve been building this up for Owen. I was praying he wouldn’t flip out…but it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. Amazingly we hardly had to wait, we got to go in and see the Mouse. Owen walked up to him and said “Knucks” and “High Five”….so he was buddies with Mickey from the start. It was so adorable.
The weather in So. Cal has been horrible the past week….so since Christmas Eve was the first day of sunshine, Disneyland was extra packed….ohhhhh man just the way we like it. NOT! But we always just go w/ it and try and enjoy our day! We went on a few rides, played on Tom Sawyers Island and watched the Christmas Parade. This year, we got our tickets from an awesome family, so we got to “park-hop” for the first time. Made Yosh and I realize that next Disneyland trip we will be purchasing Park-Hoppers to really explore the great California Adventure! These are Owen’s 2 trips to the Magical Kingdom!
| July 2009…Yosh’s birthday and Owen’s first Disney trip! | Dec. 24th, 2010… |
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Of course it wouldn’t be the Souza blog without more flashback pics! Enjoy!
| 2004…the year we got engaged! Oh what a great day! | 2005…we went later in the day to miss the kiddie-morning-rush! |
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| In 2008 I was prego with Owen, it was freezing and we still enjoyed our day! | In 2009 our Christmas Eve tradition took place on Dec. 1st. I was sick, hair-less and not happy. BUT we had to bring Catherine and John from Ireland to see Disney…so we left Owen w/ Nana and had a Christmas Day at Disneyland. And it ended up being an AWESOME day! |
I can’t wait to continue this wonderful tradition for many many years to come! Hopefully we’ll have more little Souza’s to drag around and I’ll love every minute of it!!
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