Party season!

Our FAVORITE light display:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

The concert go-ers GROUP shot!
A full house for the concert, Grpa Wheable and Casey and Amber.
Grpa Wheable and Dad Michael after the concert.
Dress rehearsal in action...
Ready for the office Christmas party.
Getting ready for the concert.
3 generations... Wheable's
Festive holiday/Christmas band music, VERY good concert!
SMILE!
Ward Christmas party, Melodee and Michael... the TWINS in the family~!
James and Melodee, James was one of the "helping in the kitchen" crew... YUM!
A fun party!
Michael and J'net, festive!
Grpa Jack came for the night and the party! Glad to have him!!
OFFICE party dessert offerings!
Michael dishing up...
J'net dipping in! SMOOTH chocolate! YUMMY!
AWESOME centerpieces!! Live flowers and water display. Pretty bows on the chairs.

SO... MERRY CHRISTMAS and fun times to ALL this Christmas season!!

Decorated 4 Christmas!

Collage from Costco, poster size... Not a decoration, just wanted to blog it!
TREE w/ presents.

LIVE wreath for pine smell...

SANTA wreath...

Teddy Bear wreath...
Bell on door handle...
Mirror and count down to Christmas display.
Aloha Santa and Harley Santa...
Musical Snowmen w/ blue lights.
WHOLE picture of decorations. MERRY Christmas from our house to yours!!

An ENJOYABLE Thanksgiving on the mainland...

Ok, this picture is out of order, can't figure out how to add it to the lower area

of this blog... Boy Michael being DADDY and the LIFE of the slumber party!
Last year, on Thanksgivng morning, Michael and I flew standby, back to Kauai

and landed at 1:30pm. Thanks again Jenna 4 those benefits!!

We were there in time for dinner w/ our Kauai family...

This year we were on the mainland WITH our relatives...

Amber and Casey stopped by... Amber has her Masters now! Congrats!!
Heavy weather for a few miles up in RSVL.
Anne enjoying her "slumber party" gift for the holiday season.Grace, our 5 yr. old birthday princess grand daughter in her slumber party gift.

Mom and daughters, Rebecca, Grace and Anne...

Brooklyn enjoying her Thanksgiving dessert... Brit's kids had 3 dinners that day!
Grpa Jack in RSVL in time for Thanksgiving!

He isn't using canned oxygen during the daytime any more!!

Elevation AND Joy's suggestion freed him up!!

Jayson and DeVona at the dinner party.

Thanks for the turkey!
Joy and Kevin hosting the party.

Thanks for a really nice dinner!
EXTRA turkeys... Stayed OUTSIDE!

Dinner served! PLATES runneth over!!
Three beautiful sisters!
Bayleigh being entertaining.
Dinner choices, YUMMY!
The kitchen helpers in the background. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Thankful 4 family!

What I learned in church today...

The Relief Society lesson was on memories at Christmas...

One family made 12 sack lunches and went and passed them out to homeless people and

said "Merry Christmas Eve!!"

As the kids grew older they added to the sacks and now they go as adult kids and hand out about 55 lunches in SF on Christmas Eve.

I thought that was a REALLY nice gesture!

Another story was that every year one girls' dad got a new coat for Christmas.

The day before Christmas he would GIVE his year old coat to a homeless man on his way home from work and also a gift card for a meal...

That sounds like a WIN/WIN to me!!

The last story I heard that I liked was one year a family was struggling

so the kids made a list of all their favorites:

Favorite meal

Favorite day of the week

Favorite color

Favorite treat

Favorite movie

Favorite outdoor activity

Favorite family activity

The mom collected these lists.

And the mom made gift certificates for each child to use during the next year to make some special times and memories with her children...

Can I have a "childhood repeater" w/ my OWN kids? I liked this one A LOT!!

Merry Christmas!

And happy times going thru these next two weeks of "Christmas" build-up!

ho, Ho, HO,!

Michael's BIRTHDAY week...

WAIT... 1st this picture is to DOCUMENT that we r now riding bikes to

go GEO CACHEing, our latest past time.
AND we were practicing taking pictures together during the week to see

which of us has the longest arm for a couple shot. This is Dad Michael's arm.
This is my arm...
AND mine again...
OK, a geo sight ON Dad Michael's bday... His 50th find turning 61.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
And this was a find... Fun fountain on Coronado Island, beautiful day

at the harbor!
This was a "virtual" find... NAME the tree and send with a poem-interesting!
This find took us 2 times to find something...

It was a big ammo case and we both tried to look for it.

Dad Michael found it FINALLY after he gave up the 2nd time...?

This find was a 1/2 kayak find in front of a store. FUN!

Found a travel bug in this one!!

Left a travel bug.

SEE the GEO sticker? That wasn't how we found it, we used a GPS...
LOVED this fountain! I was thinking IF I liked this place as much as Kauai...

Will answer that later...
FOOD! At Ruby's at the end of the pier in Oceanside.
SO much FOOD and the french toast cinnamon roll was the BEST!!

We shared... we had a 2 for 1.
The Oceanside Pier and WAVES!! Ruby's out at the end and 2 geo finds

between us!
Mexican FOOD lunch w/ Elyse and Justin. Sunny and fun!

Aubry and Ricky stopped by for hugs.
I was about collecting sunsets on this trip. Coronado Island and a beach

picture 4 Jenna.
Sunset at Oceanside Pier.
Sunset at Oceanside Harbor and Monterey Bay Cannery.
Dinner at the harbor, YUM!
My OTHER favorite past time while in San Diegp! Look how CLOSE the

plane is!! Taken from our car!!

Justin and Elyse at Justin's race. Fun to see him run!! GO Justin!!
Running up hill 2nd time around... GOOD run, Justin!!
Santa Barbara Pier, on the edge... Had Fish n Chips 4 dinner and then

on to Andersens Pea Soup 4 a dozen Danish waffles-NO birthday cake this year!
Caught the BIG one!!

The birthday boy and HIS Moby Dick hero...

The first chapter book he ever read!!

Have another GREAT year Michael! Love u!!