CA Christmas Part 3

Are you sick of pictures yet? Good, because this is the last post of our Christmas vacation.

I was able to have a reunion with my friends from K-8. Our class only had about 30 students for all 9 years so we were all extremely close. It was so good to see them all together! Some of them were at my wedding but I can't even tell you the last time I saw the others! We hope to keep the reunion going every few years! Next time we want all of the parents (and spouses) to come too :)

Jason and I. He was my BEST BEST BEST friend growing up. We were not allowed to sit within 10 feet of each at school because we were a little rowdy. Me, rowdy? I know its pretty hard to believe.

Me, Kristen, and Jack. Quatros minus Coley!
The whole gang. Jackie, Kristen, Gabe, Jason, Me, Nick, Daniel, Colleen, and Brion.
Colleen.
Kristen.
Jaclyn. She's got a lot of nicknames given to her over the years by Kristen and myself. My personal favorite and the one that I've called her most of the time is Hack.
Yea, we played library together.

So with all of the storms that happened over the past week that we were home, we flew on a perfect weather day and had no problems getting to Hartford. Although, we did arrive home to this.....cool.

All in all it was a great trip! We had so much fun with our families and got lots of great presents too. We can't wait to see everyone again in PO (Portland, Oregon for Dan's wedding in May)!

CA Christmas Part 2

My family came over late on Christmas Eve.

This is Gramps with the iPod shuffle that we bought him.

Cousin Lisa and her boyfriend Jason.
Cousin Danny.
My mom and my aunt make ornaments for each other every year for Christmas.  This is always the last present to be opened and normally the highlight of the night.  My aunt didn't like the way hers turned out this year so all she wrote on the tag was "Donna, Sorry. -Judy."  This is when my mom is opening it up.
The final results.  My mom used some of my Grandma's Christmas scarf for my aunt's ornament.  Let's just say my aunt has had better years haha.
Thanks Gramps!
Cousins :)
Mi familia.

Danny after a few too many frosting shots.

Christmas day with Grandma and Grandpa Goldthorpe.

The day after Christmas we went to the Beach with my mom and bro.




Riding on the ferry.
Santa being pulled by some whales.
Socal Christmas at its best.
Go Cougs.

Ebay.
Me and Bean.
I took Jay on a ride to chase some sea gulls.  I think he liked it!

CA Christmas Part 1

After delaying a day in Vegas I finally arrived home to this beautiful view!  I've never seen so much snow on those mountains before!  My mom and I drove to Irvine Park to take a few pics.

Here are some pics from my mom's Progressive dinner that she has every year with friends from our old neighborhood.  That's my uncle Bob...he's a professional Santa.

We ended the night with the Sprinkles cupcakes...mmmmmm!

Like last year, we went to check out the Christmas lights in Long Beach.  

The Barnes Fam minus Tyler.
The Kiddies.
My Fam.


The Wilburs.

This is how we roll in CA.

This year we had dinner with Mikes fam on Christmas eve and then had a later shin dig with my family.  Here a some pics from Mike's house.

Me and Collin.
He's smiley.

Tough brothers.
Dan's classic solo pic...not for long!

Mary riding in on the donkey.

The hat we bought in NYC for Dan.  Hope you like it Casi haha.