Twas the night before christmas...

Josh and I finished up our christmas shopping on christmas eve. This is my favorite view as we are driving back into the city from Daly City.
The Harmers creating their first christmas tradition... Cheesecake for Christmas Eve!

Christmas eve dinner at Cheesecake on our way up to Sonoma!

As we pulled into Sonoma at 11 pm we found a christmas tree lot with one lone tree standing in the lot. It was heaven sent! So the boys walked up to the door to ask if we could take the tree. A guy answered and said that we could have it for $50. Mind you, this is 11 pm on Christmas eve and clearly this tree is not going any where. Josh and Howie sparked a deal and got it for $40.

Amber getting excited for some christmas eve fun!

Bringing the tree to our christmas cottage in Sonoma.

Setting up for Christmas!

The christmas elves found us in our cottage and brought us some matchy jammies!

Making the cottage feel like christmas and tying knots on the ornaments.

I tied 1 knot for every 5 knots Amber tied!

Matchy!

Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house,

not a creature was snoring, not even a mouse.

And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

In hopes that St. Howie soon would be there.

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and four tiny reindeer.

CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!!

Santa brought Josh every color of chords this year!

We spent christmas day...

Relaxing

Watching movies

Eating

Hot tubbing in the rain

Playing Mad-Gab (Amber won every time, I think I might have won once but I think that she just let me win so I felt like I was playing too.)

Laughing

Eating

Laughing

And spent our christmas dinner at the best seat in town...

BLACK BEAR DINER.

The concierge warned us not to eat here because it was like eating at an old folks home.

And boy was she wrong, not about the old folks part....

Thank you Black Bear Diner for the best christmas memories!

We went back to our cottage and watched Josh dance around to some hip-hop jams.

Thong song was probably the one he was dancing to in this picture.

Howie, you still have to show us how you can dance....

You have less than 48 hours to do so, and trust me, we are not letting you leave us here without a sneak peak!

Making our gingerbread house village.

Our Christmas Cottage!

An orange tree!

This christmas will be one that we will never forget! I can't wait for our christmas together again when we are seventy and we take that christmas cruise with Harmers!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

A month to Celebrate

A MONTH TO CELEBRATE...

CHRISTMAS IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!

Union Square.
We love you at Christmas!

A month to Celebrate...

Josh's 25th Birthday!!!

1/4th of a Century.

His birthday Streamers.

We drove 30 miles to pick up his favorite birthday cake in Concord, in Sam's Club.

Birthday Boy gets whatever Birthday boy wants on Birthday Boy's Birthday!

We could not have spent his birthday with anyone better, The Harmers, our "lifelong friends!"

A Birthday Pazookie at BJ's

This whole Birthday wish stuff is a big deal when you get older.

Josh concentrated like this for a few seconds before blowing out the candles.

I hope he get's what he wished for.

A month to Celebrate...

Parents.

You guessed it, Santa did not come to town but my parents did!

Yay!

"Put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care"

Seriously have a halo on my head in this picture.

Instead of being a christmas elf this holiday, I am a christmas angel.

We love you San Francisco at Christmas!

Did someone say Cheesecake?

We made my parents take the Rosa Parks Trolley.

It looks like they like it.

The next morning we drove down to Monterey!

And ate at Bubba Gumps.

Trust me, We did not hold back.

We could not decide whether to get the onion rings or the shrimp platter, so we got them both.

And ate them both.

Glamour shots on the beach.

My two favorite boys.

I am one lucky girl!

We had to build the best pebble pile that there ever was on Pebble beach.

Josh chanted Jenga Jenga Jenga as we placed each rock.

The suspense almost killed me.

Ours is the better looking one of the two.

I hope that you were choosing the one on the left.

After taking this picture I accidently ran toward the wrong car and was two inches away from jumping in with a random man.

That wouldn't have been awkward.

Dang you Black Beauty Doubles!

17 Mile Drive

We did not let the rain stop us, we stopped the rain!

Lovers in Love

The original BLACK BEAUTY.

The original SLEEPING BEAUTY.

It was a long ride to Monterey!

We had to take them to Lombard.

Its a Must Do on your list to San Francisco.

Thank you Hello Kitty for taking our picture!

I spy something red.

Thank you guys SO much for flying out to see us!

Thanks for taking us out for every meal, bringing an endless supply of werther candy, and showing us a good time.... or were we the ones showing you a good time.

Either way! We love you and can't wait to live in your basement in a month.

Or can we?

And a special thanks to my mom and dad for bringing us a little piece of home.

A great salt lake snowflake ornament!

From our house to yours,

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO!

TOOTALOO!