Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas


My favorite touch of Christmas this year.

I'm glad a decorated this year. The holidays are times to reflect on our lives, reminisce about the past, and enjoy our families and friends.
Mom opened her presents before she left.

Birthdays!

We went to Roy's to celebrate Jeff's birthday.

Jeff got a great shot of René.
A couples dinner was a new experience for us. Everyone had fun.


Happy birthday, honey. May the peace of Hawaii be with you!

BSN

December 17, 2009
Josh's BSN Pinning Ceremony at SDSU
Mom joined us for the week to celebrate with Josh.
She was thrilled that Josh asked her to pin him during the ceremony. She was a little nervous but did a great job.


Josh took two high honors.
Omkara joined us in the celebration and came back to the house and joined us for a meal. I can't even think of the last time we all sat down together. It was a treat.
All back together.
We got to include Nonny Sue and René.
It was nice to see Josh's other nursing friends, like Tess. It was funny to see people come up to Jeremy and say he must be Joshua's twin. Many had heard about but not met him. Rashida was happy. She will graduate next semester.
One of the highlights was to see Ashley graduate, as well. Josh and Ashley were so happy!

We also got to meet Ashley's family.

Summer's Past

Linda had a booth at Summer's Past Craft and Antique Fair at Summer's Past Farms the first weekend of December. She was so brave to put her hand painted items out for others to peruse and purchase. She ended up culling more than a third of her finished objects! The rest of us met her in her booth. What a wonderful way to start the holiday mood!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Winter Formal


My niece, the divine Ms. J, accompanied me to our school's Winter formal this year. She's a lovely young lady! Only in 8th grade but blended right in with the high schoolers.
We were out on December 5th, Nonny Sue's 78th birthday. I got to wear my clapotis again. It was actually cold enough for it in La Jolla on that drizzly night. In fact, it was chilliest inside the restaurant.
It was the same night I had a blow out on the freeway in the dark and was saved by my good husband.
Truly a night to remember.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Love those Apples!

Can you feel the Mac love?

From both of us?

Oh, yeah.