Holiday Cheer

We are so proud of Cameron for helping to deliver meals and presents to 5 families in Sebastopol who wouldn't have had holiday groceries or presents for their children otherwise.  I am so thankful for him to see first hand it is better to give than receive….he -along with this other group of kiddos - impacted several lives last Saturday morning.  Way to go Cameron (bonus…got to do it in this fire truck!)

 Clyde - 16 & 1/2 years old …that like 115 in doggie years!!  enjoying the tree & lights

 Grandma Sylvia and the boys collected this huge bunch of mistletoe - whew that's gotta be good for a make-out session not just a kiss!

 the boys made Christmas cookies for several friends

 hard at work

I love the holiday season!

Moving along to Christmas

Well maybe not Christmas but a Christmas tree!

Christmas sure is sneaking up on us this year.  I have not evan started shopping and there is like 12 days left.  Ugh, normally I have most of my shopping done before Thanksgiving.  Oh well, it will keep it exciting I guess!  

We did manage to get our Christmas tree last weekend. We have so many "choose & cut" tree farms in Sebastopol.  We forget that not everybody has them in their own backyard - one of those things we take for granted!  Anyway, we braved the crowds and headed out to a local farm.  We tromped around the place up and down so many rows of trees and then, like usual, we ended up picking a pre cut they trucked in from Oregon.  What can we say??, we like the Noble fir better than the Douglas.  Besides it's already cut so that makes it easy!

Here we are as our hunt begins….

 cuties!

and the winner!

It looks so cute all decorated in the house.  Now we just gotta get some gifts under it.  Get busy Santa!!

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS to you!

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.  We did over here.  Everyone came over on Christmas day.  We had such a fun day.  Ate great food, laughed and enjoyed seeing all the kids play together (even if they were stuck inside because it rained all day).

Eddie and I did a little champagne tasting at Korbel Winery on Christmas Eve.  We got a bottle to share  - here is Eddie getting ready for....

 ....the toast

 the girls

 ready for some great food...the grown-ups

 Amy not wanting to give up her white elephant gift Sylvia stole

 a little game of fibber

 Billy-he's 21 now he got to have a beer

 the kiddos waiting for their food

 Eddie & Roxy chilling

Merry (late) Christmas everyone.  It's New Year's Eve today - looking forward to 2013!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone (a little late). Well that's how we are running this year - or actually it would be last year now since I'm posting our Christmas on Jan 2nd. So we got the tree decorated 2 days before Christmas, whew just in time for Santa. So the festivities began.

We started by making cookies for Santa - this year they even left some carrots out for the rain deer.

Then we made some Christmas treats to share with everyone
turned out pretty cute, we also dipped peanut butter filled pretzels those were yummy
we opened presents
even Roxy wanted in on the playing. Clyde on the other hand prefers napping
we played some more
a little concert from the boys- when they aren't echoing "who farted" into the mic (any Diary of a Whimpy Kids fans will know where they got that)
we ate
and ate some more
It was a beautiful day. Hope you all had a great time and Santa was good to you.