Highlights from the 2017 holiday season!
Our Christmas Tree with Sweetpea, December 16, 2017
Persimmons in the back yard, December 3, 2017
Has anyone else had their cat growing feathers? Or is this a new species of catbird?
Sweetpea, December 12, 2017
Sweetpea, December 19, 2017
Sweetpea, December 19, 2017
A part of Karen's Christmas Village, watch out those bears might get ya!
Karen still cannot believe that the city name (Sunnyvale) on the train station was a total coincidence,
when she bought it she had no idea! Some of the pieces go back to the 1950's.
Ginger and Karen at the Original Pancake House, Almaden Rd., San Jose, December 23, 2017
Karen with her favorite omlette, December 23, 2017
German Christmas Eve Service at Christ the Good Shepard Lutheran Church, San Jose, December 24, 2017
video of German Christmas Eve Service Music, click to play
Christmas Day, December 25, 2017
tree with presents
Sweetpea playing with the ribbons
Ginger, Karen, Dotty, Trixie Christmas Portrait, October 6, 2002
Christmas Village on the dining room buffet
one-eyed Trixie on the dining room table
stockings hanging from the mantle
closeup of the stockings
Trixie and Sweetpea
Trixie on wrappings
Ginger with new pajamas
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New Year's Eve Party, December 31, 2017
Carla, Pat, Barbara, Karen, Ursula, Meg
Karen, Ursula, Meg, Jennifer
Meg, Jennifer, Ginger, Carla
Meg, Jennifer and Pat listen to Carla telling a story
Ursula
The End of 2017!