Christmas 2012

We spent a wonderful 10 days in Oxnard to celebrate Christmas with David's family. I took less than 40 pictures, which is shocking. We had a great time, and I'm bummed I didn't carry my camera with me. Great memories include a tacky Christmas party in Bakersfield, split pea soup with Annet's Dutch friends, decorating the Christmas tree, visiting a Norwegian store in LA, lunch at Topper's, Christmas Day party at the Zacks house and many, many more.

Here are a few of the photos that I did take:

Christmas lights on F Street.

 

Christmas Eve. 

 

Hahaha. Such a tacky picture of the Zacks boys and their stockings. Would have been really cute 20 years ago. ;)

 

Christmas Day.

It smells like Christmas too!

 I found this Christmas stove top potpourri on pinterest, and it was too good not to share:

Ingredients:

1/2 orange, sliced

1/2 cup cranberries

1 tablespoon whole cloves

2 large cinnamon sticks

Put all the ingredients into a saucepan. Fill pan with water. Place on the stove on the smallest burner, on the lowest setting. Refill water as needed. 

One mix stays good for weeks as long as you keep refilling the water. 

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It sure doesn't feel like Christmas here in Arizona, but at least it smells like Christmas now!

It looks like Christmas!

 

  

 

Next year we WILL have a Christmas tree! 

Thanksgiving 2012

This is the first Thanksgiving that the whole Salmon family has been together for seven years, and it sure was a great one. 

Just some snapshots from our day:

 

Hungry boys. Seriously - check out David's plate...!

Happy Halloween!