HAPPY 2014!

Happy New Years!

We all had a wonderful day in Stockton celebrating the beginning of 2014.

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New Years Prep Day!

Every year we spend the day before New Years at Grandpa and Grandma's house to help get things ready for New Years Day!  This year was no different, except we had lots of extra help from our kiddies!! :)  

Bailey peeling daikon for namasu

Uncle Frank slicing gobo for kimpira (My Favorite!)

Grandma cleaning out the grapefruit for kanten (another favorite!)

Gregory cooking the gobo

"What's next?!"

Breaking the agar agar for the kanten

Grandpa and Gregory

Granma slicing shitake for umani

Daddy and Bailey busy cleaning shrimp

Daddy's first try at oboro ~ looks pretty

Grandpa busy doing dishes

My baby with Grandma ~ He's spending the night tonight ~ his yearly thing ~

Uncle playing with the kids ~ trying to talk them into going swimming tomorrow!?!  Polar Plunge

Daddy's New Project

Well, Daddy found himself a new project.  Now he is rebuilding our fence!

He tore out a section yesterday

Garden Update - Broccoli and Swiss Chard are doing well

Thought the freeze took the lettuce, but it's still looking good

Cabbage ~ Still waiting for it to start balling up

Back to the fence

Things are moving along

First section is DONE!

Christmas Dinner ~

All the decorations have been put away and the Christmas music shelved, but we have lots of memories of a wonderful holiday passed!

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Merry Christmas Eve and a Visit From Santa!

We had a very Merry Christmas Eve last night and a nice visit from Santa this am! The kids were up at the crack of dawn, but we managed to keep them away from the living room until 7am. By then, they weren't interested in hanging out in our room anymore. Christmas started off with Santa gifts and a pancake breakfast. Now the kids are busy playing while Clark tries to unknot a huge skein of yarn. Ho, Ho, Ho!

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