December 2019

Old Town family night

Daniel's perfecting our outdoor lights a little bit each year. This year he put them on the top level of the roof.

Duck Pond Christmas Tree Lighting

 

 

Santa's Electric Light Parade

 

Abbott Family Holiday Party - magic show, Santa, games, face painting, food and bounce houses

 

 

Cousin Christmas sleepover - snow ball fight and movie with popcorn on the cushions

 

Bedtime story

Brooklyn came to my work and enjoyed an acai bowl

Rancho Elementary's Craft, Cookie & Cocoa Night

 

Sparkling Snowfall & Frosty Performance at the Temecula Promenade

 

 

Breakfast with Santa

Cookie decorating party with Santa at Pappou and Babcia's clubhouse

 

Brooklyn's gymnastics "competition" & performance

 

 

 

Giggles & Gluesticks Christmas Party with a special visitor (that Brooklyn was not about to get near)

Wrapping gifts

Decorating cookies

 

 

 

Gymnastics

We baked and made cards for the fire station down the street, and they invited us in for a tour. The kids loved it, but, as usual, didn't show huge emotions about it. One fir fighter was trying so hard to wow them, and ended with a "tough crowd."

  

 

 

Watch out! The floor is lava!

Annual Xmas tree picture

Landon's school holiday party

  

Landon made the school newsletter

Letter to Santa

Cookie decorating with cousins

AWD Abbott Management Team

Barney & Shelfie shenanigans

 

 

 

To Mission Viejo

 

Looking at the lights down the street

Visiting Papa at Laguna Hills Health & Rehabilitation Facility

 

 

Zimmerman Christmas Eve (12/21) presents

 

 

Spy-in-training

 

Pavion Park

More gift opening

 

Pause gift opening to read

Playing with Christmas presents

Daddy BBQing faux-Christmas Eve dinner (with Brooklyn's help)

Celebrating Christmas Eve with Papa

More new games back at Grammie's house

Making cards to go on the See's candy boxes for U.S. soldiers

 

Back to visit Papa

And back to Grammie's house for even more fun

Auntie Gail, Uncle Fred & Katherine came over to exchange Christmas gifts, go to our annual dinner at Antonucci's and the Irvine Christmas Train.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daddy had to go back to Temecula right after so he could be at work on Monday, so we stayed a couple of extra days to play with presents at Grammie's!

I met up with volleyball friends (Rochelle, Becky & Jen) and all of our kids for lunch at the mall.

On the 23rd we received the news that Uncle Matt Matt had passed away in Germany, so Daniel packed Christmas and everything up and came back to Mission Viejo to be with us.

We found a grasshopper in the backyard, and Brooklyn tried to catch it.

Daniel took the kids to the park (in PJs) while we had visitors at the house

Santa knew right where to find us, and Daniel picked Papa up from his facility in time for him to watch the kids open their gifts.

 

 

 

Gingerbread village decorating, Xmas art, more presents, more art, laser tag and looking at the Christmas lights down the street from Grammie's house.

 

 

 

 

BLOOPERS:

First basketball game - waiting for the very loud buzzer

When Landon got back to school after Thanksgiving break, his teacher asked the kids to write about what they did over Thanksgiving break:

After I picked him up from the last day of school before the break we went to the store to grab beer because we were having friends over...we also had to get Jell-O and popsicles for our annual Thanksgiving hospital food...and a week and a half later that's what he remembers! And writes about at school!