Christmas
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Christmas started early this year- right after Thanksgiving, we made the trek over to see Santa at the Stanford Mall; here's Taylor and Jordan burning Santa's ear about what they need this year. |
| Then we took out the ornaments and did a test-firing of the Grinch- he worked! |  |
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Next stop- go find a tree. We drove up into the Los Gatos hills to a bunch of tree farms, but couldn't find what we needed... |
| ...so we wound up at a lot off of Lawrence Expressway. Here's Jenn and the kids decorating the tree. |  |
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Then, just before Christmas day, Caky and Joepa came to town a long visit. One day we went up the San Francisco and went over to the Marin highlands. What a Day! We could see all the way down the bay to San Jose..! Anyhow, here's Caky, Taylor, Joepa and Jordan w/the Gate and SF in the background! |
| We also did a bit of shopping in the city- the girls got a kick out of these mannequins at Macy's. Here's Jordan and Caky hanging out with the girls. |  |
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We even had lunch at Needless Markup; food was margin; price was impressive; everyone had a good time ;-) |
| Joepa reads "The Night Before Christmas" to a pair of tired tykes. |  |
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We left cookies and a note for Santa; He answered the note and ate the cookies...! |
| Christmas morning before the kids attacked. |  |
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Jordan checks out her new viewmaster. |
| This year's theme was "dress up" stuff- here's Taylor being a cowgirl. |  |
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Jordan with her princess skirt and wings. |
| Taylor with skirt and boa! |  |
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Joepa and Taylor hiding under some spare wrapping paper. |
| They also got a policeman outfit- modeled here by Taylor. |  |
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Cynthia, Jeff and Georgia came over for dinner. Here's Cynthia modeling the Lizzy McGuire glasses. |
| Georgia loves her dad, Jeff...! |  |