Thanksgiving weekend...

So you may be wondering, how did we spend that 4 day weekend? Well Kristi had to work Friday and Saturday so I was forced to shop on "Black Friday" for her but the rest of the week end consisted of this...



Yeah it was kind of like that but no snow... (and I didn't sing joy to the world). I did short out some lights and an outlet on the front of the house. All the lights seem to be working now and the house looks pretty good. We have people driving down our street every night checking out our display. Kristi and Sean got some pictures.

I found some dead bulbs on one of the snowflakes. The $4 bulb tester I bought is so fun.

Gabriella got bored helping on the garage roof. She was up and down that ladder so much.

Sean helped out with straightening the icicle lights.

All in all I spent 2 days on the roof trying for "Perfection" but ending up with "Good enough for government work" (just joking).

This is how it turned out... Not to shabby.

Along with the lights we had to get the trees up, yup plural. Now, why do we have two trees in the house? You can call Kristi and ask her because I'm not brave enough to put the reason in print...

Here is mine and the kid's tree. These are all the ornaments we've collected over the years. The ones Gram gave Kristi and I when we got married for our first Christmas tree, and the ones given to the kids each year.

Here is Kristi's tree, I call it the "Martha Stewart tree". I like the way she did it. It took her alot of time to get it just the way she wanted it, and it looks good in the living room.

So I guess it's almost time to start putting things under them... Two trees should mean twice as many presents for me!

Next Saturday is Gabriella's birthday so on Sunday I get to host a party for 10 little girls while Kristi is at work... stay tuned to the blog for pictures of that one!!!

Does baseaball season ever have to end?

That right there is the beauty of living in So-Cal my friends. "Winterball" is in full swing out here and sign ups for spring ball are ready to start up in the next few weeks. Here are some pictures from todays game at Serra Mesa Field... (Neat feature - click on a picture to enlarge it.)

Sean got to pitch the first two innings of the game.

This is the second time he's pitched for the team this season.

Here is his normal position. He's shaping up to be a great catcher.

His hitting has come around pretty well too.

So what is Gabriella up to? We tried to get her into soccer then tee-ball, but I just don't think team sports are her thing. She just likes to socialize too much. When she wanted to try cheerleading I thought hmm maybe this will work out. It's kinda the best of both worlds... she's on a team and being active; and she gets to laugh and joke with other kids while doing it.

She's cheering for the "Raiders" flag football team... yeah they didn't have a "Pats" team.

I think we found her sport. She's having so much fun. Next year she will be cheering for the Pop Warner football team in our area: The Tierrasanta Cougars.

Go Raiders!!! (These are the only Raiders who will have a winning season this year!)

Here are the kids Halloween pictures this year. Gabriella wanted to be a demon fairy and Sean wanted a skull face. He found a cool black hooded robe.

Here are the little kids in the neighborhood: (left to right) Maya is Wednesday Adams, Lily is a princess, Gabe is a zombie, Gabriella a demon fairy, Marcus is batman, Jasmin a Cowgirl, and Naji is a bumblebee.

Sean wanted to do his own thing this year. He wanted to hang out with a friend and pass out candy at his house.

That's it for now... We'll keep ya posted.