Merry Christmas from El Dorado Hills

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Girls and Their Quilts

I found some pics from the family celebration in Fremont of Mom, Hillary & Joanna and the quilts Mom made for them. Enjoy!

Mele KalekiMale

Tamale making at Emily's today! A beautiful Hawaiian day. We made 200 tamales. Ole!

The Purple Christmas Tree

Last Sunday as we arrived home from church, we found this on our porch. We are pretty confident that it has found the exact right home. Savannah Frances was the author of the note. We are very excited to have our very first purple flocked Christmas tree. Thank you Savannah and Family!!

The Kitchen

Here are five photos showing the progress so far on our kitchen. Will (who's visit was perfectly timed by God!) led the team of Joseph and Mark in demolishing the kitchen. The tile was a bear!! The cabinets were actually built in place and the back of the cabinets were the drywall. It was a custom job of it's time and very solidly built...a little too solidly for our purposes...right guys?!? They did a stellar job. Phil came in on Friday and took out the old windows and put a new, smaller one in their place. Will continued with repairing drywall and the boys did various jobs including Mark crawling under the house a few times to bring electrical wiring to new places. Such fun!! The last two pictures show what happened yesterday with the beginning of the installation of new cabinets. We've got 6 weeks of construction ahead of us. Some of it just waiting for the next piece to come in. It's all good and we're looking forward to January!!

Little Blue Eyes

If you haven't been checking Alli and Ben's blog then you missed this cutie.

Isn't he great!!
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Positively Possum Cute

We woke up to visitors in our backyard. They didn't stay long after this picture.