To Christmas & Beyond

We hope all have enjoyed a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to a bright new year. We are enjoying family and friends this year, with my parents for the week surrounding Christmas and P*V&A for a couple of weeks. Nothing is more fun than having little children around for Christmas, especially when its you first grandson. Here are a few pics, we have had cousins from Santa Monica and Burbank visit as well so everyone can catch up on kids. Ken & I hope to get to see more of the California cousins as we all have Disneyland passes this year so we hope to meet there some.

We walked around the block to look at the Christmas lights.

Disneyland at Christmas

The "Girls" fixing Christmas dinner

A new obstacle course

Thanksgiving - Birthdays - Light Houses

Helen, Aaron and I took a week off and spent Thanksgiving with Parker, Viki and Abner. Four days were spent enjoying a small costal town, Neskowin, OR, and the surrounding area. This region of the Oregon coast is really spectacular and we got a break with the weather as only one day (Thanksgiving day) was a rainy one. We also celebrated Abner's 1st birthday (on the 30th) and Aaron's 30th (on the 1st). This was a very nice start to the holiday season. The only thing that would've made it better is if Stephen and Marissa could have been with us.

This light house has the largest lense of any on the west coast

Several hundred sea lions - as we were leaving they all started toward the water. Quite a sight.

Abner loved the toys but the clothes were just in the way. S&M everyone else really liked the coat.

After all was said and done - it was back to the old favorites.