It's a Wonderful Life

Ya know how its just nice to be the in the house that you grew up with?  Surrounded by people that have known and loved you your whole life?  Playing games and watching movies and eating treats?  That pretty much sums up my week after Christmas and I loved it! I also thought it was pretty funny when I noticed that Derrick and Rebecca were pretty much matchy matchy twin.s     I also loved taking walks in Stockton.  Now I have a love/hate relationship with Stockton.  I love my memories growing up there, I hate it's bad reputation.  And then I hate even more, that it pretty much earns its bad reputation in every way, but I did love being there during the holidays and walking around the neighbhorhoods I have known forever.  And I just always love looking at Christmas lights! I think I was taking a picture of the cousins running around "the track."  Running "the track" is pretty much a requirement when you are at Gra...

Hmm, let's just do a giant post that covers all of Christmas Adam (ya know, the day before Christmas Eve), Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. One of the traditions I was excited to participate in again was my family's "Christmas Around the World Dinner."  Everyone picks one or two countries and shares a traditional holiday dish.  There was a lot of food (this picture was taken before many of the dishes were out!) and it was a lot of fun!   Back to Livermore we went to spend Christmas Eve.  We were so excited to see Erin, James, Jadie, and Parker who planned a sneaky surprise from Las Vegas!  I've been wanting to get Jadie and Anna together for awhile now, because they seem like they would have many similar interests. Christmas Eve dinner was spent with Janet, Robert, and the sister missionaries at a yummy Chinese restaurant.  It was fun and the kids were very well behaved (which always makes restaurant time more fun!). The...