Merry Christmas 2007

Opening presents with Dada & Dadi...

Christmas morning with Papa, Grandma, and cousin Jerrod, "forget the pictures, let's see what Santa brought us!"

Feeding the plastic electric reindeer a real carrot...

All Aboard! Getting ready to go on our Christmas train ride to the North Pole in Fillmore, CA.

Yup, I played an angel in the Nativity play...

A beautiful day in the mountains above Lake Tahoe

Gracie's first time in snow, "C'mon Daddy, let's go!"...

A family pose with frozen toes...

Gracie snow sliding this year. Next year...SNOWBOARDING!

Gracie's Gingerbread House...

Gracie had a lot of fun making her gingerbread house...but even more fun eating it!

Our Family Picture with Santa...

Christmas at Disneyland '07

Gracie was dancing to Jingle Bells at Disneyland with Pluto at the Reindeer Round Up. "Oh What Fun" indeed...


Santa "Hangin' Loose" with our little Wahine...

We stopped by to see Minnie and say Merry Christmas...

Pluto was great, now I know why he's Mickey's best friend...

Gracie Vs. Ice Cream...

This is how much Gracie likes her Ikea ice cream cones...


She woke up about 45mins later looking for the ice cream cone...

Our Thanksgiving Turkey...

Golden brown and delicious...

Our Town...

Glendora is getting ready for the Holidays with it's annual Christmas kick-off complete with carol singers, horse drawn carriage rides, a snowman, and Santa Claus...

Turkey Art by Gracie...

Her latest piece is just in time for Thanksgiving...

Gracie taking pictures...

How we spent Halloween 2007

I'm a Kangaroo!

















Here's Mommy and me in Downtown Glendora...

Then we went to Disneyland...
They let me ring the bell on the old firetruck as we went down Main St.

Our family trip to the ER...

Gracie took it well, after she tripped into the bedframe of our bed during a pre-bedtime game of hide-n-seek. There was a lot of blood, and some tears. Before Karen had time to faint, we rushed over to the ER at Foothill Presb. So quick in fact that Uncle Neil who was visiting at the time, came to the hospital without his shoes!
We knew she'd be OK when during our wait in the ER, we were watching "Dancing With The Stars", she told us she wanted to dance. She received 5 stitches













This is were they put them...

















But don't worry, I'm alright.

A family pose with our pumpkins!

An evening with author Jan Brett

We spent our evening at Vromans book store in Pasadena to meet children's author Jan Brett (www.janbrett.com). She's written and illustrated many famous children's books. On this night, she autographed her latest book "The Three Snow Bears" for Gracie...

Gracie on her last day of Gymnastics...

Gracie is a natural on the balance beam. I think we were more nervous than she was..


She's like a frog with her jumping...

A day at the pumpkin patch at Cal Poly Pomona...

I once saw a movie with a little boy who sits in a pumpkin patch and waits for "The Great Pumpkin". This is boring...I'd rather go trick or treating...









A lot of thought is going into the selection process...









We took a break to pose for a picture...it's a good thing daddy's smiling cause otherwise it would look like a floating pumpkin...









Of course Daddy had to put APU's Logo on the pumpkin. Go Cougars!

Azusa Pacific's 57th Annual Dinner Rally...

It was so good to see Brian and Tricia Holmes. Brian was my college roommate for 3 years.

Daddy loves the Transformers. Look what he did to me...

An evening at Disneyland with "Baby Drew"...

Let's go on some rides...please!

Yipee!

We got our licenses', we're ready to roll...

Just another "spin" on King Arthur's Carousel...

Grace wanted this in our yard...

We spent a day at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Griffth Park...

Gracie litterally had a "hoot" when she got on her horse. She let out a "Gippy Up!"...

Panning for Gold. "C'mon Gracie, look harder...Daddy forgot his wallet!"...

Getting ready for her movie..."Hey, where's the rest of the horse?"

Well...here it is. A movie only family could love. Corny, but she had a blast making it...

Another fun day at Disneyland...this time, with the Unlands.

Yipee! Mr. Toad's Wild Ride! If only the ride operator was as excited!

On the King Arthurs Carousel, flashing those beautiful smiles...

Gracie was enamored by Ariel.

Deep in coversation about the important things like "How's Flounder and what's Sebastian up to these days?"

Our day at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach...

We got an education by Gracie. "Now mommy, that is a Nemo fish, and that is a Dory fish..."













Gracie had a great time petting the sting rays...













What? A shark? Nah, daddy told me that this was a dolphin!













Here's Gracie standing in from of a mine that hasn't exploded...yet.













Just kidding, it's just a weather bouy.

Gracie's first day of Gymnastics...

Head over heels...
Gracie doesn't know what's going on.
One second she's looking at the blue wall.
Next thing she knows, mommys upside down...

















Balancing on the beam seems to be a walk in the park...













Rolling practice...a key fundamental in Gymnastics, but also great practice for rolling down grass hills...