DEC/JAN 2010

Jesse and Corey get together
Checking up on the "ole" house
The WHOLE backyard is in...
Brit's cute little family
Brit/Ben at her 12/23rd birthday party at Red Robin
We ran into Ricky at Old Navy's, SURPRISE!!
Cloudy ocean corvette ride
Visited w/ A. Carol
Grpa LOVES his warm blankie!
OH!! Great memories of LAST Jan??
Christmas waffle Breakfast
A family group picture w/ Grpa Wheable
Casey and Amber geo caching w/ Michael
A FIND!!
And trading one for one... 100 finds so far!

Party season!

Our FAVORITE light display:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

The concert go-ers GROUP shot!
A full house for the concert, Grpa Wheable and Casey and Amber.
Grpa Wheable and Dad Michael after the concert.
Dress rehearsal in action...
Ready for the office Christmas party.
Getting ready for the concert.
3 generations... Wheable's
Festive holiday/Christmas band music, VERY good concert!
SMILE!
Ward Christmas party, Melodee and Michael... the TWINS in the family~!
James and Melodee, James was one of the "helping in the kitchen" crew... YUM!
A fun party!
Michael and J'net, festive!
Grpa Jack came for the night and the party! Glad to have him!!
OFFICE party dessert offerings!
Michael dishing up...
J'net dipping in! SMOOTH chocolate! YUMMY!
AWESOME centerpieces!! Live flowers and water display. Pretty bows on the chairs.

SO... MERRY CHRISTMAS and fun times to ALL this Christmas season!!

Decorated 4 Christmas!

Collage from Costco, poster size... Not a decoration, just wanted to blog it!
TREE w/ presents.

LIVE wreath for pine smell...

SANTA wreath...

Teddy Bear wreath...
Bell on door handle...
Mirror and count down to Christmas display.
Aloha Santa and Harley Santa...
Musical Snowmen w/ blue lights.
WHOLE picture of decorations. MERRY Christmas from our house to yours!!

An ENJOYABLE Thanksgiving on the mainland...

Ok, this picture is out of order, can't figure out how to add it to the lower area

of this blog... Boy Michael being DADDY and the LIFE of the slumber party!
Last year, on Thanksgivng morning, Michael and I flew standby, back to Kauai

and landed at 1:30pm. Thanks again Jenna 4 those benefits!!

We were there in time for dinner w/ our Kauai family...

This year we were on the mainland WITH our relatives...

Amber and Casey stopped by... Amber has her Masters now! Congrats!!
Heavy weather for a few miles up in RSVL.
Anne enjoying her "slumber party" gift for the holiday season.Grace, our 5 yr. old birthday princess grand daughter in her slumber party gift.

Mom and daughters, Rebecca, Grace and Anne...

Brooklyn enjoying her Thanksgiving dessert... Brit's kids had 3 dinners that day!
Grpa Jack in RSVL in time for Thanksgiving!

He isn't using canned oxygen during the daytime any more!!

Elevation AND Joy's suggestion freed him up!!

Jayson and DeVona at the dinner party.

Thanks for the turkey!
Joy and Kevin hosting the party.

Thanks for a really nice dinner!
EXTRA turkeys... Stayed OUTSIDE!

Dinner served! PLATES runneth over!!
Three beautiful sisters!
Bayleigh being entertaining.
Dinner choices, YUMMY!
The kitchen helpers in the background. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Thankful 4 family!

What I learned in church today...

The Relief Society lesson was on memories at Christmas...

One family made 12 sack lunches and went and passed them out to homeless people and

said "Merry Christmas Eve!!"

As the kids grew older they added to the sacks and now they go as adult kids and hand out about 55 lunches in SF on Christmas Eve.

I thought that was a REALLY nice gesture!

Another story was that every year one girls' dad got a new coat for Christmas.

The day before Christmas he would GIVE his year old coat to a homeless man on his way home from work and also a gift card for a meal...

That sounds like a WIN/WIN to me!!

The last story I heard that I liked was one year a family was struggling

so the kids made a list of all their favorites:

Favorite meal

Favorite day of the week

Favorite color

Favorite treat

Favorite movie

Favorite outdoor activity

Favorite family activity

The mom collected these lists.

And the mom made gift certificates for each child to use during the next year to make some special times and memories with her children...

Can I have a "childhood repeater" w/ my OWN kids? I liked this one A LOT!!

Merry Christmas!

And happy times going thru these next two weeks of "Christmas" build-up!

ho, Ho, HO,!