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December 29, 2012

My 2012 Journey

So I was sitting here thinking how A new year is about to begin and how to me its a clean slate. I get to start all over again and make the new year the best year possible. But before the New Year starts I was reflecting on my 2012. What happened, what I did, how its gone for me. So here is My 2012:

January: Start of 2012, My sisters 21st birthday (new Years baby), 2 special little girls birthday, my first hair cut in over 3 years! Yep! Wow! But I really felt like I had no time for it

February: Tax season craze! The people in costumes were always stalking us on the bus. We went to Seaworld opening day. We fed the dolphins! We turned all our family members into Bacon. Leap year (always great to get an extra day) and celebrated Valentines day!
March: Spring Break! See munchkin leaping off the floor playing with water, St.Patricks Day! (lots of green)
April: We had a great Easter! Check out my Easter basket cupcakes I made. I also made my own cascarones and rice krispies eggs! Sadly most of the month I had a horrible Bad ear ache that closed my ear and made it sound like a muffled hum mixed with ringing and pain and endless Dr appts! I spent so much time with my ear against a pillow.
May: Aquatica at Seaworld had its grand opening and of course we had to be there to check it out! Mothers day,  SOL (Seeds Of Learning) classes ended and we had a party at the San Antonio Childrens Museum to celebrate a good year (Thankyou to the museum for this amazing free kids program)
June: First official day of summer (Although in Texas it feels like Summer most of the time) so we had a lot of fun in the Sun!
July: We saw the fireworks at Seaworld 4th of July. Sadly I stepped on a nail when I was walking outside in my neighborhood and had to get a shot and antibiotics. It made me stay in alot the rest of the month so I could heal.  
August: Went to The San Antonio children's museum Free day with Sid the science kid (KLRN kids sponsor), My dads bday, We went to the Witte Museum to see the Darwin Exhibit which was amazing! (Thankyou Maker Mama for the Giveaway) and I officially started blogging (whoo-hoo)!
September: We started going to Play and Learn this fall, We went to the Witte again! We celebrated Grandparents day, started our alphabet journey. We went to Seaworlds Howl-0-Scream
October: We went to National Night out and Munchkin even got to take a picture with Mayor Castro! We went to Howl-O-Scream again, We went to Chalk it up for the first time and loved it. We got lucky to go free to the Botanical gardens and we saw the dinosaurs! We had fun at Treat street and Coffins on parade on the Riverwalk. Had a spooky Halloween! Most important of all we celebrated my munchkins 4th bday!
November: We went to Dia de los Muertos events and the Diwali festival of Lights. We went to Seaworlds Christmas Celebration, celebrated my birthday and my brothers. Had fun at The San Antonio Childrens museum. Got in the holiday spirit when we went to see Santa on the Riverwalk.
December: We went to the Zoo to see Santa deliver presents to the animals, We went to the San Antonio Museum of Art for a special book launch, Survived the end of the world again, and had a Beautiful Christmas! Now getting ready for a New Year!
I want to say Thankyou to my family for always being there for me. Thankyou to Colleen Pence for your kindness and for introducing me to such a beautiful group of Bloggers that have only made me grow. Thankyou to the readers who visit the blog. Thankyou To Play and Learn for all the fun and learning.Thankyou Seaworld for the amazing year with the Fun cards I won during the Flat Jack contest. They let us go to Seaworld all this year and it was awesome!
How was your year? Think back on this year and all the Happiness and tears you shared with loved ones and How this 2013 is sure to be an amazing new adventure too! Thank you 2012 for all the memories but I cant wait to make my mark in 2013! Hope you are all here to follow along in our journey and share it with us. Happy New Year guys!

Love Always
-Alvina


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November 04, 2012

Diwali Festival of Lights at Hemisfair Park

Saturday was such a busy day! We went to Main plaza to see the Dia de los Muertos altar (bonus Blue moon art) and then we went to la Villita for the Dia de los Muertos Celebration and to end the day we crossed the street over to Hemisfair park for The Diwali Festival of Lights. Yes our feet already hurt but we wanted to check it out so it was worth it.

This was our first time at the festival of lights and it was quite the new Experience. Let me tell you a little bit about it:
  • Diwali is an Indian festival known as the Festival of Lights.
  • This is a free event
  • There are performances and Indian food and vendors of all sorts
  • And Fireworks! (burst to drive away evil spirits)
  • Illuminating the diya was in celebration
In between the festival area the Instituto cultural de Mexico was there and open to the public for free to view Dia de los Muertos altars. We went in to check it out. The space was quite amazing.







We then headed to the main stage at the festival. It was amazing to see the beautiful clothes. I felt like I was at a fashion show because of all the beautiful dresses. They even had shoes, jewelry and even henna tattoos for sale to finish the look. And don't get me started on the music. I have a weak spot for a certain song they played clips of which is "Jai ho" from Slumdog Millionaire (one of my favorite movies). Its lots of fun.

Here's some of what we saw:

Parade Of States




Bollywood Zumba
Fashion and accessories



I'm sad that we couldn't stay longer to be able to see the lighting of the diya's (candle) and set one out into the water but my munchkin was already so tired and had started wanted to lay on the floor so we had to call it a night. I bet it must have looked beautiful as it got darker.

Have any of you ever been to the Festival of Lights?
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