San Dimas High

A couple weeks ago Thomas and I went down to my sister Cindi's house in San Dimas for a visit. My other sister Stacey has been living in Ireland and came to the States for a visit with her fam. We caught them on their way back to Ireland. We hadnt seen the Smyths for about 1 1/2 years. Their youngest, Alyssa, was just a baby when they left and Thomas hadn't even met her before! It was fun to be with them for a couple days. One day we went into LA and went to Olvera Street and China town. We were going to go to Hollywood as well but ran out of time. bummer. We had a great time and will miss them for another year! Here are some pics from the trip.


FYI, if you need apparel to wear, there is a "Wearing Apparel" store in China town. (see last pic) AND, if you need a thoughtful gift to give someone be sure to go to "Sincere Imports" in China town. (see second to last pic) Only sincere gifts sold here. =)

A Synopsis of Our Christmas

I'm a little late here but here is our Christmas season in pictures.

As soon as we got home from Thanksgiving in Utah we (by we I mean I) decorated for Christmas:


We went to Mica's Christmas Concert:


We drove down Christmas tree lane with Marcos and Melody and looked at all the pretty lights and found all of Santa's reindeer: We had the annual Boggs Christmas Breakfast Saturday morning...
and the annual Duran yummy Mexican food dinner Sunday night. Christmas morning we slept in till 10, and then opened presents. Then we hung out at the Wards/Durans all day. No blowing up of the pumkins this year. Instead, our Christmas day was brought to a close with a lovely fireworks show: