grandkids in the house

flashback to Vincent's first Christmas

sleep over

they wanted nose picking photos
I snuck in to get this one

christmas is even more fun with a brother to share it with

thursday night Vincent and mom decorated the tree.
This evening Leon got to enjoy!




our Leon size tree

Christmas in San Jose

A Christmas land in downtown San Jose.


Vincent called these elves creepy. I could have wasted lots of film on the displays with creepy elves, but I just took this one.

Vincent and Dad playing the carnival games.
BTW, we heard one old man say "We're gonna freeze to death", it's about 53 here tonight! I was thinking, with fond memories, how I still have frostbitten toes from the tree lightings at the Prudential.

This is why we call him Smiley

Saturday at the Beach

Nov 26, 2011 - a beautiful day at the beach, Del Mar Beach Santa Cruz










Leon's first dip in the Pacific.



even Trinity can't give him a bath he enjoys - he hates baths!

thanksgiving day

Nov 24, 2011
Thanksgiving with the Taylors and familia Cruz!

Trinity and Matt did all the cooking and hosting, and baby holding.
Here we are with Jorge,holding Amelia, Matt, Maria and Trinity
Romy and Josefina at the girls table


There was a boy's table, but the boys never sat there - they spent their time coming in for bites between their wrestling. We are thankful to have friends with boys as off-the-wall as ours!

Here they are finally sitting down - for computer games. In honor of these three kids favorite game, Plants vs. Zombies, I made these placecards.

Leon and his buddy.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Vincent on his new Razor, an early Christmas gift from Teta!

Leon says Put your helmet on!


Hugs to all.

11/11/11

We celebrated a rainy veteran's day with the Taylors.

peas for dinner