Happy Birthday, Mimi!

This was actually the day before, but it was so exciting to harvest fresh onions from the overripe ones we planted last fall that we counted it as part of birthday.

Beautiful flowers.

Treasure hunt.

Cards and drawings and planter decoration.

Backpack and chocolate meringue pie.

Beautiful flowers and photo collage.

Christmas Time Hornucopia - Part 6 & 7

There was some after-Christmas shopping to take care of.

Ada got her first taste of Mexican food. Viva El Fenix!

There was still a lot of playing to be done.

And Holding Baby Ada turns to be taken.

Taking fun walks with Daddy.

Group hugs.

Party time sink-baths.

Grammy Smith came by with a lovely Christmas gift for Ada.

Ada celebrated her first First Birthday party with us!

No Hat, Please!!

There were birthday gifts to open.

Great Grandad took photos with his iPad.

Speaking of someone loving to use an iPad...

We had a Cousins Measurement session. Ada is 30 inches tall!

It was a wonderful time. Thanks, everyone!!

Christmas Time Hornucopia - Part 5 - Boxing Day

The morning after Christmas began in grand style with Mimi's Famous Creamed Chip Beef for breakfast.

After that, it was all about SNOW. Checking snow in front.

Snow photos.

Touching snow.

Steely-eyed cowboy types watching out for dangerous snow.

Snow sliding (using Uncle Mark's brilliant plastic bag toboggan idea!)

Snow sliding with style.

Team snow sliding.

Snow sliding NOT with style.

When everyone was thouroughly cold and sated with sliding, action moved indoors to Gingerbread House construction. John was the champion builder.

Too soon, the Penna clan had to head for home.

And it was back to play time! Peek-a-boo!