Well Merry Christmas to everyone! It's all over! Have you taken down the tree yet? I only hope you all had as great a Christmas as I did!!!! We started off the weekend by going out Friday night to the Disney Concert Hall in Downtown LA to see the Blind Boys of Alabama. That was a lot of fun but the seats are terribly uncomfortable there! Very surprising, but wow! is it pretty to look at the inside of the hall!

During the day Friday and Saturday we pretty much cooked and cleaned to get ready for Christmas Eve. We were hosting 10 people and Jamie had a 13 pound Prime Rib he was sweating over. Everything turned out wonderful (except the weather! It was about 80 all day!) My mom went and got us a fire pit and we sat around that most of the night after dinner. It was wonderful! The firepit is probably one of the best things we have purchased!

Jamie's parents got in to Burbank airport at and to our house by 9:30 PM that night, just in time for Marie to join my mom, Jan and I going to church. They are staying at our house and even though Marie is horribly allergic to the cat, we are keeping her drugged up and she seems to be doing just fine.

Christmas day was the traditional blintzes breakfast at grandmas and then on to the Pratts for another Prime Rib dinner! YUMMY!

We finished off the weekend by staying in all day Monday playing Scrabble, Monopoly and Poker! I couldn't have asked for a better weekend!!!!!

So here are the pictures Christmas 2005

Enjoy and have a Happy New Year!!!!

Our work Christmas party was on Friday night. We actually had a good time! We boogied away on the dance floor in the Stadium Club at Dodger Stadium.

Here is our pretty Christmas Tree! Our very first married tree!!! It is a little squashed into the corner but it looks nice anyway. I am very excited about Christmas and the tree makes it perfect!

The in-laws are coming!!! The in-laws are coming!!!!

YAY! Jamie's parents have booked their flights and they are coming for Christmas! Our first married Christmas.... I'm looking forward to it soooo much! We are hosting Christmas Eve dinner for the very first time as well. In the past my grandparents and aunt Shirley have traded off each year, so this is a big deal. We're shakin' up the traditions!

We were robbed!!!!!

The other evening, about 8PM, Jamie and I were minding our own business and watching TV. We heard a ruckous outside and looke dout the front window to find two HUGE raccoons messing with the big jar of cat food. One was holding onto the bottom and the other was trying to twist off the lid (smart little buggers~!) We banged on the window nad scared them off. 5 minutes later they were at it again. This time they weren't going to wait for us! They knocked over the jar and were rolling it across the porch ( we were in hysterics laughing, it looked like a circus act!) Jamie went outside and scared them enough to where they were half way down the steps by the garage and he grabbed the food and brought it in the house. Well did they give up? Of course not! They came back sniffing around. One of them put his front paws up on the chair and was looking at the little table out there. He then swiped the little jar of cat treats (I forgot they were out there) and ran off with it!!! We were robbed!!!!! Jamie refused to go undert the house after the treats... I wonder why?