Table set for 20. I love getting the table all fancy for dinner.


Nativity: Elizabeth and Zacharias. Turns out Garrett is quite the actor. Very nicely done on his part :) Mine, not so much, a lot of giggling. How old am I?


Gio did an awesome job as the angel


And this is Nephi and his wife. Not sure what they were doing here but they were a great couple.


And of course, April leading the music with enthusiasm


And after the white elephant Tuck ended up with this remote control car and as you can see, he was pretty pleased.





Christmas morning was craziness and really fun. There were a lot of presents under the tree. Especially a lot of cars for Tucker.





Danny and Kaity made canes for D&N out of manzanita branches from the yard and they were beautiful. Everyone got a pretty good kick out of them.


Our 2nd Christmas with Tuck already. Crazy. This time was so much fun. He loved opening presents.


Stoked about getting his noisy police car with siren from uncle Al. Wouldn't you be?


Opening more cars...


And more...


Checking out each others loot after things calmed down a bit.


And here's an awesome video taken by Danny, but i actually like it.

I am grateful this year for our healthy, happy family that loves each other. I do feel so blessed.

Gio & Tuck

At Emily's wedding Tuck was loving having an older cousin to hang out with. Gio might be his favorite word. He still says it plenty times a day. He especially says it when he sees anything plaid, since Gio wears plaid a lot. It's funny how he'll always point out peoples clothes. Pointing to Doug shirt or pants while I'm folding laundry: "dada's". He does it for my clothes too. Anyway, he called Zeke and Lily by Gio's name the whole vacation. Just today he finally said Zeke as we were looking at a picture. Nice. But Gio is an awesome oldest cousin. Tuck is so lucky.





Gio looking as handsome as ever. When did he get so grown up?!

Grandad's "Pane" & San Fran with the Rathgebers

After going back and forth all night about deciding if we should make the trek down to SF the next day, I'm so glad we decided to head down and meet my family. Luckily my awesome father-in-law volunteered to fly us down there and we were able to cut our trip by a bunch and we got to fly in a cool plane. Tuck wasn't so sure at first about the headphones but figured out quickly that when he took them off it was super noisy so he finally settled in. He loved seeing all the "panes" and did really well.






Thank heaven for this blanket. Really.



We had a gorgeous day and hung out at Golden Gate Park and wandered around. Didn't get too far with the kids, but it was a lot of fun just to be together.

And a close up because everyone looks so happy :)

 Definitely got sidetracked by the ducks for a while. Tuck and Luke with G&G. Love.




And thanks for taking pictures Jules & Cass. These I stole from you but I want them on here to remember this fun day.

Then we headed to the Pier and walked around and had dinner. Went back to Aunt Barbara's to hang out a bit and finally flew home. It was a great day.

Emily & Garrett got married!

Emily and Garrett got married this Christmas break and it was a beautiful wedding. I really think these DeMartini sisters should start up a wedding company, especially Julia. Isn't Emily's wedding dress gorgeous. And what about those bridesmaids? All designed and made by Jules (with help from April on a few of the brides). Cool.


















High five for Uncle John

Cousin Gio taking care of Tuck that day.

Beautiful Lily. Zekey was there too of course and he kept his shirt on only as long as was necessary.





I am so happy that we started our family in this very same temple. I feel very blessed. I'm glad Emily married Garrett. He seems like a perfect addition.

Daddy & Child

Exhibit A



Exhibit B



Need I say more?

Well, maybe...