Happy New Year!!!!

 

Fun with Friends on New Years !!!

Nicole and Alana

Randene and Paul

Me and my hubby, Chris

We celebrated New Years Day with cousins Bernie

and Darrell, and Rod.

The infamous picture of the cousins on the stairs...

Dori, Danae, Chris, Cori and Steve

Nicole and Katherine were entertaining us

with a cheerleading show.  Go Girls!!!!

Give me a ......

Cori, Alex, Steve and Katherine

Fun with cousins...

It's Bunko Time...

It was our annual Christmas Bunko! 

Lots of laughs, good food, and great friends!!!

Christmas in Palm Desert with The Bells

Nicole had so much fun with her cousin's Courtney (13), Ryan (17) and Tanner (15).

They were out visiting from Denver.  We went to the Living Desert

in Palm Desert on Christmas Eve.

Our favorite animal was the giraffe.  We missed the early morning

feeding, but still got to view them up close. 

Nicole got a free ride from Tanner.  (I think she tried to

hit up everyone!) 

Nicole with Uncle Brook.

Nana and Aunt Diana

Nicole, Courtney and Katherine.

Uncle Brook and Aunt Diana

Aunt Diana and Ryan

The kids had so much playing with their cousins.

Cousin Rod, Steve and Cori came down for Christmas Eve.

Chris playing Santa...Ho..Ho..Ho!!!

Brook, Courtney, Diana, Ryan and Tanner

Good Times at Christmas...

Nicole and Matthew had fun Christmas parties at school.  Nicole did lots of fun crafts, and

Matthew's class decorated gingerbread houses. 

Aunt Mary, Alex and Diana came over for an early

Christmas celebration.

Yummy!!!!  Which one do I want?  They all look soooo good!!!!

Chris got these funny Chef cooking mitts from a student! 

The kids love them!

Aunt Mary, Alex and Diana, and Nicole... What a fun night we had! 

Nicole was having fun jumping on Alex.

Matthew being funny...

It's Christmas Time...Merry Christmas !!!

Nicole is telling Santa all of her wishes for Christmas!

We went to the Shoppes to see our friend Diana sing...

Nicole is her biggest fan!!!

Hot Chocolate anyone?

Having a nighttime picnic with neighbor Yu-shin on the lawn.

We love big hugs with friends...

It's Turkey Day and Harvest Parties

Nicole celebrated Turkey Day and we even had turkey cupcakes!

Matthew had a harvest party too! 

Nana and Grandpa joined us for Thanksgiving.

Here is Chris carving the turkey! Yummy!!!

We were able to take our Christmas pictures...

Nana was up on a ladder...don't fall Nana!!!

It's Pumpkin Day at Nicole's Kindergarten class !

We also celebrated Apple Day !  We did all sorts of fun crafts and had yummy apple treats too!

We went to Oak Glen and made home made apple cider with Matthew's 3rd grade class.  Here is Matthew with his teacher.

Matthew's big accomplish this month was earning his yellow belt in Karate ! 

Way to go Matthew !!!

Later that same week, friend Devin earned his purple belt !