2009 Christmas Card Picture

This year's Christmas card picture is taken from our annual beach week in July. It is a family picture taken at Ocenaside, California, where we had rented a beach front condo. The picture shows our daughter Melissa, son-in-law Keith, Grandsons Kellen and Cairn, Georgia and me. The runner up picture is of Cairn pulling a "boogie board" across the beach, hoping to get in the water.

Wild Lights

On the day after Thanksgiving, the Living Desert in Palm Desert creats a festival of lights for the Christmas season. This year we took Melissa, Keith, Kellen and Cairn to the light show. Melissa and Kellen faux skated on a plywood rink covered with a hard wax. The grandsons had smores and played basketball with the hoops that were set up for evening play. It was a lovely start to the holiday season.