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
new Tesla coffee mug for Ginger

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!