Christmas

I thought since it was nearly Valentines Day I had better try to get some kind of a Christmas post up. I just put together an extremely random sampling of pictures from our time we spent up in Washington for Christmas. As always we had a wonderful time and the break went by way to fast. We basically spent our Christmas/New Years holiday relaxing, baking, eating, visiting with all the fam, some more eating, hiking to the ridge to attempt to burn off the goodies, eating, watching football, etc.

Here is Mom with Guy, the nice cat at home. He absolutely relishes any kind of attention and loves to curl up on your lap for as long as you will allow him to.



This is D'artagnan the snob, also known as Darty who thinks it beneath him to mingle with the riff-raff below. He hardly ever lets anyone close to him (except for a chosen few) and I considered myself lucky this visit to actually get a few caresses in before he had had enough of me.


He loves to bask by the wood stove. I love the look on his face :)













Arita and Ginger by the Christmas tree. I miss all of the animals back home!



My beautiful sisters Lisa and Arita. I miss them so much!

















My sweetie by the Christmas tree


This is the "hat" that Mom was running around in outside one day when Dad came home....needless to say after looking around to make sure none of the neighbors had observed this, he whisked her inside and made a mental note on a much needed future Christmas present. And thanks to Lisa, below is Mom modeling her new head scarf/wrap. She looks so cute!




















Jared saw this flag at Chico State and knowing how much dad loves Chico(that word is dripping with sarcasm), he just had to get it for Dad





Dad displaying how he really feels about Chico :)