Friday, January 9, 2009

Our Holiday Adventures



Our Christmas Adventures 2008



Riley loved her new princess blanket form Grammy and Grampy.


Alex on his first pair of "real" skiis at Crotched Mt. New Hampshire
(I used to ski there with my Grandmother who lived nearby).

San Diego here we come!

Pirate playtime.  While we visited the Ramer's in California we toured some old 
war ships and submarines on San Diego Bay.  
Look at all the seals sunning 
themselves!    
We needed to sun ourselves too since it was actually cold in San Diego.

Riley and Allessandra at La Jolla beach.

Brandon and Alex enjoying the shops and tire swing shop at the 
Seaport Village.

Below:   Lego Land meet the crew!
Ricky Jr.,  Allessandra,  Riley,  Brandon, Alex, and Domenic


Lego Land was great fun.   Every ride, every statue, everything was made of lego's!
Well, not the food.

Our Christmas celebrations were of course planned to the hilt by Karen. 
 Something every day to look forward to.     
Christmas Eve we had a wonderful dinner with homemade pies.  Then we made cookies, sang carols, put out the reindeer food, and then Santa came to visit on Christmas Eve.   Then... mommy got the stomach bug and lost her nice dinner and went to bed before the kids.  
Santa (Rick) came to visit on his free time Christmas Eve.

Caroling and then we spread the reindeer food.

Christmas morning at the Ramers.


It was a wonderful trip and great to see our dear friends.   The kids had a blast with Allie, Brandon, Domenic and little Ricky.   Hope we can do it again some day and that poor Karen has re-cooperated from having house guests for over a week!   Thanks Karen!

2 comments:

The Posti Family said...

We went to La Jolla before too, and standing on that same pier, a wave crashed and soaked us. It was March, so it still was not warm. The girls did not enjoy that so much! Looks like you had a great holiday.

Joyce Windrow said...

That must have been lovely! Any holiday is a good one! How are you all doing? Cleaning the house and catching up on Laundry today. maybe sledding this afternoon?