December. A busy month indeed. I am to thankful for my families enthusiasm in gathering, celebrating, feasting and spending time together! And in this month we couldn't go without a visit to Santa and Mrs Clause. Cedar and Orien we ready to give their lists and say hello to the old Elf! The list this year was Lego's, playmobils, and babies!

Truthy decided Santa was not for her and stayed away! "I don't like Santa" is about all I got from her! BUT Mrs. Clause was a treat!

                                                      We had our 3rd Solstice Party up at our place. We gathered with 10 families. Ate, drank, warmed ourselves around the bonfire. The kiddos had a blast with the BRIGHT sunny pinata. Cedar and Jackson helped to make the yule log for the fire.Here they are a pine, with pine cones for prosperity for the new year ahead.

We have taken the last couple weeks off of school. We had time to gather at Hidden Valley with our Wednesday Woods families. SLEDDING!!!!! This was also a bit sad as it will be the last time we gather with Julie and Jackson until next summer. Change is tough, but we always love our time with great friends.

The Manzella's, Hurley's and Eamonn's! in the great SNOW

Jackson and Cedar playing in the deep snow

Christmas Morning!!!!! We celebrated with a few families on Christmas Eve....rushed home to put out the milk and cookies for Santa, leave the carrots for the reindeer's, out on our new PJ's and crawl into bed!!!!! The kiddos we soooooo excited on Christmas morning! Here they are ready to head down stairs and see what happened while they were sleeping.

Truthy quite content with all her new baby gear! She didn't open a present. I just kept handing her new baby gear and she was busy playing Mama!

Cedar was busy building all day with all the new Lego's! The city bus that goes with his new city Lego's!

Orien happy with his new Fire Truck set from Playmobil

With the holidays underway....a great time for all we have left on our first Eammon West Coast Road Trip!! hoping to post along the way....We left a couple days ago, have already visited Zion National Park in the snow, played in Las Vegas, toured Hoover Dam and are now headed to Big Sur!!!