Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Its been so long since we updated this blog and we never caught up from last year so we will start from Christmas and hope that we can do better this year!!! 2012 is going to be a very busy year... stay tuned!!!

Jeff's family christmas in january

the end of january we traveled east to celebrate christmas with jeff's family.  it was freezing cold but our trip went well with no weather delays!!! we were really lucky.  

chicken corn soup... one of our favorite things to eat when we go to PA.

and of course red velvet cake

buggy's parked outside of costco. we would never see THAT in Cali!!!

christmas at jeff's parents house with the family

lunch at grandma's  house... Yummy!!!

watching football

and just talking...

our east coast family

Fast trip to PA to celebrate christmas with Jeff's family in January...

view of the snow on the mountains from the airport run way.

it was raining for two weeks straight... is there any chance of a warm sunny weekend in PA???

wow, so much snow on our local mountains...

we changed planes in chicago and ate lunch.  we picked mc donalds since we saw an interesting item on the menu.  it was a double filet o fish. omg!!! we couldn't resist....

it was big but wasn't as tasty as we thought it was.  glad we tried it but not sure if we would get it again

jeff's brother joel and sister jody with their family gathered at the parents house to celebrate christmas all together with us...

got our favorite dinner from latucca's

and the best.... stromboli

opening gifts... fun to have christmas in january

happy birthday joel!!!

mom made red velvet cake at the request of jeff (not the birthday boy)

jody and bill

wow, jeff's mom made all these goodies!!!

went to bed with full tummies....

the next day we got together at jeff's grandma's home for christmas with jeff's dad's side of the family

kids in line for the food

our lunch, it was very yummy...

grandma is a very good cook!!!

fruit salad, apple sauce and cranberry sauce...

aunt lois (jeff's dad's sister) mom and cousins

cookies made by aunt lois and grandma

want one???

it was a very short weekend trip but it was great to be able to spend christmas with jeff's family even if it was in january... there was no snow but very cold

Christmas Eve

christmas eve dinner at clyde, kelly and kai's house!!! everything was super yummy especially the chicken pot pie... jeff kept saying how good it was and how he hopes that we get the recipe so we can make it at home... great job kelly!!!!

my rolls, have gotten better over the years but don't make them very often anymore. mostly just for special occasions or by request. always a favorite of jr's!!!!

thanks to marissa for taking some photo's for us!!! we (jeff and lisa) should do a better job next year... so, sorry family if we got your bad side, back side or you are just missing !!!

kai opening the books we gave him. sadly we can't see your cute little face...

mom, brian and clyde

alex and jr

auntie, jr, marie, jack and daisy
(so happy to see you jack and marie, we miss you)

marie, jack and daisy

kelly, alex and jr trying on his new running shirt. now hopefully you are ready for the marathon

Thank you Clyde, Kelly and Kai for having a wonderful christmas eve dinner.

It was fantastic and can't wait till next year when we can have better photo"s!!!!

It's Christmas time !!!

welcome to our house!!!

it takes forever to clean our house and decorate for christmas. feels like we just put our decorations away in the garage and now we have to get them out again...

our tree

jeff and i arranged this table a million different ways to fit as many chairs as we could. it was a nightmare!!! our house feels so small...


now, we just have to cook all the food and we are ready!!!