Christmas Videos

Good heavens. Uploading a video the right way takes forever! This is going to be a one at a time deal.

Again, it's not so much about the quality of the film as it is the memories. 

Christmas

Ok, so we take a lot of landscape, Stark, and self portrait pictures. We need a lot more practice with those wiggly kids. 

We were really lucky this year to get Christmas with both families. First with the Rich's then on to the England's. 

I found the pickle this year! I got to open the first present. 

 Olivia took this picture along with A LOT of others. 

 *Olivia

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*Olivia

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving

We had an awesome Thanksgiving this year. We were planning on meeting in L.A. Chris was going to fly while I drove down with his family. Kener and Kaye left earlier in the day and got a hotel room to get some extra sleep. Lindsey and I left after we got off work and started the long drive where we were going to meet Kener and Kaye at the hotel in Medford (I needed to leave a car for Chris there). It was a fun drive with Lindsey, we froze the whole 8 hours because the car wouldn't warm up ( Chris later figured out that it was out of antifreeze, oops) so we wrapped up in coats, hats, and blankets. I'm sure Lindsey was miserable but it was the fastest drive to Medford for me, Lindsey's company totally beats out my audio books. I did think it was a little funny when about 15 minutes after stopping for our first pee break Lindsey asked to stop again, I was afraid I was going to be getting the Karma of frequent stops that Chris deserves from a long ago drive to Idaho with Lindsey. So, we stopped at the next exit and she said that "Lovers Truck Stop" looked like a good place to stop. I figured I would let her go by herself since we had just stopped not to long before but then she got out of the car and there was a guy standing next to her. I thought, "Crap, gotta go protect Lindsey from the thugs". Then I noticed that that guy had a sweatshirt just like one of Chris's that he doesn't wear very often. Then that guy was looking at me, and smiling at me. I thought it could be Chris but didn't want to get excited then really disappointed, so I got out of the car to check things out. Well, it was my very lucky day. The creepy smiling man was Chris, who had convinced his roommate to go home a night early so he could surprise me, and unbenounced to me had been texting Lindsey. Chris was able to drive down to L.A. with us and it totally made my trip.
Nana was already at Allen and Kim's and all of the Kener Rich family was able to surprise her to celebrate her 70th birthday. We had a great time with family. Thanksgiving morning we played some very competitive flag football and then enjoyed a beautiful and delicious Thanksgiving meal. With our day between Thanksgiving and the birthday party some of us enjoyed city.

I really don't have any good pictures of the party but we had a wonderful time.