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Our friends, the Jenkins, were stopping over in San Francisco on their way back to Shanghai. We had arranged a dinner and theater night with them. Shrek, the Musical was playing and perfect for the kids. Of course, we don’t travel in small numbers. Our dinner and musical in the City consist of the […]
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On a rainy Monday afternoon, we drove to Napa Valley to enjoy a little wine tasting. Andy’s Dad, Ray, had not been to Napa so it was a nice treat for him. The girls and Jim stayed home – a nice treat for me to enjoy Napa without my lovely girls. We […]
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Every family has their own Martha Stewart – our is Aunt Nancy. Emersyn has made American Girl doll clothes with Aunt Nancy along with a pair of pants she wears to bed. Nancy came over to help Emmy get started with her Christmas present. They made a bag for Eleri to put her nurf […]
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Loading Dad and Emersyn against Terri and Andy – game on! Our house is perfect for this kind of fun. The front hall way and parlor circle around to the dinning room, then the family room and kitchen circle back around to the dinning room to form a nice figure 8. It is […]
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Christmas morning is always the joy of the year for children. Emersyn woke up at 6:30am, but waited until 7am to wake up Eleri. She knew Eleri was tired. My favorite part of the day is seeing the girls running (or this year hop) down the stairs to see what Santa delivered in […]
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Christmas eve begins with church at 4pm. Andy, Ray and Eleri went to church with Kathy, Mimi and Papa. Mimi had arrange for a front row pew for the crew. The church crew – Ray, Andy & Elle We have new neighbors renting Joe and Lynn’s house since they moved to […]
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Every year the girls go to Aunt Nancy’s to help with Christmas cookies. I do think “help” is the strong term. The term would be “to have fun” and “make a mess” at Aunt Nancy’s. They make about four different kinds of cookies – sugar cookies, peanut butter kisses, chocolate chip and my favorite, […]
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We moved our Tahoe adventure back a day due to the rain in the Bay Area. We decided to wait to see what kind of weather rolled in on Sunday. A clear morning…so we packed the cars for the drive to Tahoe. It was an easy drive with no traffic. The only slow traffic […]
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Each year the girls decorate gingerbread houses with Aunt Nancy. Gingerbread making with Nancy is a one of their favorite Christmas traditions. This year, the only weekend to make houses was Saturday, December 18. We had planned to drive to Tahoe on Friday, but moved it back a day as both girls did NOT […]
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Tree decorating is very important to the girls. This year, we were squeezing the tree decorating in on Friday night. We arrived on Thursday with the Nutcracker performance in the evening. Friday morning was a run to the mall to see Santa (to get Mom’s photos with Santa). Friday night was the only night […] |