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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Christmas in Cali!!

This year we celebrated Christmas with Joe's parents in California! Terri and Monty hosted a wonderful holiday dinner as well as an entire weekend of food and fun. Joe's grandma, Herschel (the new love of her life) Aunt Char, Uncle Jeff, Cousin Tracy and her dog Molly, Me, Joe and the Doodles all came together this year! It was so great to have family come in from all over to celebrate 2009!

This was my second year spending Christmas away from my family, and although we were not together I was with them in spirit! Joe and I are so blessed to have parents that love both of us as if we were their own, it makes spending the holidays away from family so much easier!

The weather was amazing of course, so we spent a majority of the time outside, we went shopping at the outlet mall nearby, and on Christmas Eve we all attended church as a family. It was truly a time for all of us to reflect on the things we're grateful for in 2009 and prayers for another wonderful year in 2010.

Here are some of the pictures we took...
The doodles, doing what they do best!
Joe found some hummingbirds in the backyard, so cute!

Jeff and char preparing Christmas eve dinner

Herschel got to take the Tiffany for a spin!! Whoohoo

This is what Joe got his wonderful wife for Christmas, I'm so lucky!!!
Opening more presents...

Terri was very excited about the books we made for her...they were pictures we took of her grandkids of course :)
Love this family!!!
We wore our Christmas sweater down on Christmas morning, everyone LOVED them of course :)
These two could really do without this dog in their lap...they told us SEVERAL times that it was time to have babies so we would stop taking pictures of our dogs...ha!
Tracy and Molly...
This girl will make you laugh til your stomach hurts!!
Joe and his girl
Herschel and Anne
The usual picture at grandma's house plus one!!



The house looked so beautiful!


A mom and her girls...just two of many :)






The adult table...Joe, Tracy and I had to sit at the kids table...I thought about it and I figured it was okay to be considered a kid at 31 :)
Terri's chair bows, they were so pretty!!



Char

1 comments:

Unknown said...

great photo's and looks like a good time was had by all ! STILL LIKE THE MINI SKIRT FOR SURE!!
FATHER LIKE SON.

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I am a proud Ohio girl who for the past 4 1/2 years has lived in Irvine, California with my husband and 2 goldendoodles. We recently made a move to the East Coast to Savannah, GA. We are in the process of making this feel like "home" All three of them are the loves of my life! Joe and I started our photography business right after we got married in April and have been loving it! We enjoy meeting new people, hearing their stories and going through their journey with them. Joe and I are excited for a bright future ahead and are enjoying every second of life! We miss our family and friends dearly and hope that by sharing our blog with them makes the distance between us seem a little less vast.