New Year's in California

We spent New Year's visiting my family again. This year we ventured out to Disneyland and it was crowded! And cold, the only cold day of our visit.

Julia eating her churro, waiting for the parade to start.

Cousins Scarlette and Colleen in the blue car, and cousin Christine with Thomas in the orange car.

Matt drove the yellow car. Tim helped a little, mostly with the pedal.

Christmas 2008

The cousins looking for the glass pickle ornament hidden on the tree. Every year Grandma Betty hides the pickle ornament and gives the winner a goody bag. The kids really look forward to finding the Christmas pickle. We had a busy Christmas week-the weekend before Christmas, Tim's brother Peter (from Wendell, NC) and his family came into town to celebrate with Grandma Betty, and the weekend after Christmas Tim's brother Gary (from Maryville, TN) came with his family. The day after Gary and his crew left, we flew out to California for more celebrating.

The kids in front of the Christmas tree. Hopefully this is the last year we have to worry about ornaments being broken by little ones. The tree looks funny loaded up with ornaments up high and bare on the bottom.

Thomas in his Christmas pageant at St. Benedict. He was a ram!

One of my favorite pictures, even though you can't see Julia's face. She adores her brother Thomas. It'll be fun to recreate this pose every year.