Hey!!

WHERE'S MY SLICE OF THE BIRD??

This year instead of turkey and all the fixins'...
John and I stayed home and ate tacos and then chocolate chip cookies for dessert!
OH...don't be jealous! ;)

Thanksgiving Brunch 2010

Let's Do Brunch!!!!

We had brunch at Sandi's house on Thursday mid-morning!
I made Cinnamon French Toast Souffle'~thanks to my moms recipe!
We also had Alyssa's yummy fruit salad, Sandi & Dale's eggs, bacon, and homemade hash browns (Johns favorite!)

Then we had to take the "usual" pictures out in front of the house....most of us cooperated...eh' hum...except the twins, John & Alan!

Alan with the "A" Team! (Alyssa & Amber)

John doing his best to smile for yet another picture...good John boy!

Sandi, Denise, Donnie, Alyssa, Amber and myself all went on a nice Thanksgiving Day walk around the neighborhood. We stopped to take some goofy pictures along the way. It was a beautiful day for a walk!

John even met up with us on the bike.
~~~~We have so much to be thankful for this year!!~~~~

Cookie Time with A&A!!

SuGaR CooKiE WoRkShoP!!!!!

Amber & Alyssa & I all made sugar cookies today while it was nice & chilly outside! Buuuuurrrr....perfect baking weather!!
Trader Joe's has these awesome cookie kits that come with everything to make the dough and includes the cutters, icing and decorating sprinkles! SO FUN!

The girls did a great job rolling out their dough and cutting out all the fun cookie shapes!
Leia was no fool, she wanted to be part of the action
and was waiting for any crumbs that may fall!

Alyssa & Amber waiting for them to be DONE!!!

"Santa Bear" cookie I made for John Bear! ~xoxo~

All Done! Time to clean up!

A Dog's Life...

...can I be a dog for just one day?!

XDSWC!!!

GNO!!!
This past weekend I finally reconnected with my favorite dental school wives club girls!!! Collette was in town from Colorado and Rachel lives in El Segundo, so we all met for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (no free cheesecake Tony hook-ups though :(....too bad) and had a fun time catching up and cracking up!

Collette, Sarah, Rachel

Rachel trying to mack? on me! HAHA NO!

Rachel with her two beautiful daughters Lily and Ana!
They joined us at the end of our dinner and are so grown up and so adorable!
Oh, darn. I thought I had pics from our last reunion in the O.C. but I guess I don't :(
Thanks for the fun times girls!! Til next time!!
XOXO!

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Distant Land

HAPPY VETERANS DAY! FREEDOM ISNT FREE!!

Sleepy Hollow Joe & Holly's!

Once again we headed out to Pasadena for the annual Halloween Party at cousins Joe & Holly's Sleepy Hollow!
They have the BEST house and the BEST street for Halloween trick-or-treaters!! They get 500+ kids coming up and down their neighborhood! ( Click HERE for last years pics!)

This year I dressed up as an 80's punk butterfly, John (lucky to get him to dress up at all) was a Chilean Minor, and Leia was a USC fan!!! Fight On!
Holly was the beautiful Snow White and Joe was a ninja fighter--I think, and their doggie scout was a cute little ladybug!!

Boo!!!

John painted my face! He did a great job!
Can't wait til next year....costume ideas are already starting to flow...!!!
Happy Halloween..til next year!!