Christmas Tradition

We started a tradition when Catarina was little to make cookies and leave cookies and milk for Santa. Here are some pics from last night. Santa left her a note telling her thank you for the cookies and milk and that he left her gifts at Grandma's house.

Fewkes Family Christmas Gathering

We had our annual Fewkes Family Christmas gathering yesterday. We had a lot of fun. It was nice getting together with the cousins. We only see them about once a year. Crystal and Jennie both live in the high desert so visiting is a trip in itself. Jennie hosted this year's festivities. We had a good time. Crystal did pics in front of the tree. She is so talented. We attempted to get 8 cousins to sit on the stairs for five minutes, but that was an effort all in itself. We did the best we could. Ha ha ha! Can't wait for the next get together!

8 Cousins on the stairs

Brothers and sisters goofing around. They were playing train.... It was HILARIOUS!!!

Kids under the table watching the dogs in the backyard.

Me n Dan

Arlene, Roger, Gary, Mike & Yvonne

The "kids" table...

Kickin' back, relaxing. Eleazar and Dan.

Disneyland

Dan and I went to Disneyland on Friday. It was just the two of us. We haven't done that in a really long time. Other than having a splitting headache, we had a good time. It took the pain meds until around 3pm to kick in. We saw the fireworks and the upgraded Fantasmic! It was such a fun date! We need to do that more often. Cat wants to go with just the three of us sometime. She missed her mom and dad. Our sweet angel.

Enough Already

I have totally had it with sinus infections...  They seem to love me, but I don't like them as much as they like me... I had one last month that I thought was killed. Well, not so dead. It came back stronger than before. Sinus pressure and headaches are the worst! It feels like a semi-truck sitting on my forehead. Loud noises (yells in karate, doors slamming, shoppers, etc.) make my head scream, which makes me want to scream. Thank goodness for 800mg Motrin. It is the ONLY thing that makes my head stop screaming. Amazing huh? Well now I'm on stronger antibiotics for 14 days. I just want to feel better by Friday. I have a date with hubby at Disneyland for the day. Thank you, Grandma, for watching our Cat. We haven't been to Disneyland by ourselves since before Cat was born, um 5 years ago. That's a long time. So, off to bed I go so I can feel wonderful for work tomorrow. Please nobody call me so I don't have to hear my phone ring. Yeah, right! Nite!

Family Pictures