Christmas Party 2009

Our annual Christmas Party with our friends was Saturday Dec 5th. Jen hosted this year, again....thanks Mike and Jen! As usual we had a great time with all of our friends. The group keeps getting bigger and bigger each year with more kiddos and more friends. It is like going to a class reunion each year. What a great way to reconnect with high school friends! I think facebook has helped with the reconnecting :) Jen always incorporates lots of fun games and everyone got to walk away with some pretty cool gifts, and some not so cool gifts, but LOTS of laughter along the way. We look forward to this party every year and much thanks to Jen and Mike for hosting again this year. I must say you are the best hosts ever! Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We are so excited for Christmas this year and can't wait to celebrate with our family.

Mikey and Jessica are more then thrilled with there white elephant gift.... a red nighty and spicy bloody mary mix! Mikey is "modeling the itty bitty underware here, a classic picture of him!

Susan and Jen. Susan just had a little baby girl 3 weeks ago. I got to snuggle baby Kendall and get my baby fix. What a cutie!

Jordyn won a gift in one of the games. She was thrilled to be able to play all of the games that the adults played. So what if we are teaching a 7 year old how to gamble! It's all about fun this time of year.

Jessica demonstrating well how the mitten game is played. You must place hat, mittens and scarf on before you can unwrap the gift. So much fun to play with a whole bunch of people.

Heidi and Kellen watching and waiting for there turn to unwrap the gift!

miss Josie!

couldn't resist putting these cute pictures up! she is getting so big!

San Fransisco 49er's

Jerry's Bday was in Sept and to celebrate we planned a trip to see the 49ers. we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and even got some shirts to show our niner pride! they had a great game and we won 35-0 against the Rams! Happy Birthday Jerry!


Jerry was wiped out after a very long day of fun fun fun!
Sporting our niner gear!

Game Day!

Kick Off!

sacramento train ride

Back in aug we went to old town sac with our niece josie, jerry and barb. we went on the train ride and had a great lunch on the river. josie really enjoyed the balloon hat that was made for her.
riding on the train with her favorite uncle!

the finished product.... a pink swan with an egg in the nest. (cant see the egg but it was in the yellow balloon)

almost done (these are out of order)

Love this picture, she is in ahhh watching the man create her swan hat!

We had such a fun day and cant wait to do it again.

Introducing Mr. Toby Ensworth......

Isn't he cute! We adopted him from Paw Prints rescue. He was abandoned at veterinary clinic in Davis after he was neutered, along with his siblings and never was picked back up :( We are having Fun with him and he has been doing great. He was already crate trained by his foster home and so that battle was already done for us! Sadie is taking to him pretty well and i watched them run around the house this morning playing for about 15 min. The potty training is going and he has done fairly well, i expected some accidents and he hasn't disappointed me, Hahahaha! But we think he is going to be a great companion to us and Sadie. He can't wait to meet you!

He took all these out one-by-one from the doggy toy box, soooo cute!

Sea Ranch

For our 4th anniversary Matt and I took a little mini vacation. we started in napa with a great sushi dinner with matt's sister nadia. she took us to CC blue in St Helena it was delicious! We stayed the night with her in napa and made quick visit with grandpa in yountville. from there we headed to our anniversary gift to ourselves......mud baths and massages in calistoga! No pictures were taken but it was amazing and weird all at the same time. the mud was very thick and hot. i had to wiggle my way down just to cover my body but still could not get deep enough, it was very hot and i was afraid of burning... uaghmmm...... important parts! Matt loved the whole mud bath but my favorite part was the 1 hour massage following the mineral baths. my skin felt so smooth and refreshed after all the pampering. when we woke the next morning we headed to a little town near bodega bay called sea ranch. the pictures below are from the lodge we stayed at. this place is known for its relaxation and peacefulness. well if it wasn't for the 50 mph winds it might have been relaxing and peaceful. the window rattled until matt jimmy rigged it and we couldn't walk around too much because we (I) could barely stand in the wind. it was a nice place but not anything we want to rush back to. But the place had some great picture opportunities. we had a great time just celebrating 4 married years together. Love you Honey! Thanks for making our anniversary so special!

Flying High!

Just wanted to share these photos from our zip line tour in puerto vallerta Mexico. this was so fun and an incredible experience, both the zip line and the drive to the place! It was like the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland! I highly recommend this if you have the chance to do it.
My Nephew A.J.

Me on the highest part of the zipline. we did 15 different platforms

Matt on the highest one too! he is afraid of heights but did super on this tour!