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Saturday, January 2, 2016

Christmas Tree 2015

Happy Holidays

Boxing Day-December 26, 2015

Outstanding Christmas season this year. Started out with Aly coming home on December 12. We had rain and storms, Oysters Rockefeller and Fondue at home. Office holidays were lovely with parties, niceties, gifts
exchanges, etc. People wishing each other Merry Christmas, and Happy holidays. On Christmas Eve, they gave us 2 hours. I finished Christmas shopping so did Aly & Dick. I went to the Christmas pageant at St. Augustine's. I am glad that I did, it was very special. Aly and I finished trimming the tree, what a beautiful tree. Christmas morning, we had our traditional breakfast and opened presents. I made a cheese omelet, perfecto. Aly stayed up until 5 am wrapping presents. She has a gift for that.
Dick got all of his kitchen gourmet cooking gadgets. Aly made pumpkin pies for the celebration at Mom's in San Jose. We brought the Ham and everyone else contributed food and drink for the feast. Bob, Kitty and family set up the back room beautifully so that we could all eat together in one room. We all seemed to arrive at Mom's at about 3 pm. I drove down, Aly drove home. We snacked, opened presents, had dinner and dessert. There were 26 of us, 4 generations of Dixon's. We said grace Toasted Mom and Mom toasted the family. Youngest kids 2-ish, going up from there. I knew that there would be announcements. Molly expecting a boy in JUne. Monique expecting a girl in March. So Dill and Finn will have a little brother and Jeremiah will have a little sister soon. We thought of and missed those not with us-Dad, Mike, Will.

When we left, we were greeted with a large, bright full moon. It was largest moon around the Christmas Holiday in years.

Noteworthy events leading up to Christmas this last week in the Dickens' family.

1. New partition in back room, so we have a sun eating /great room and an office cum exercise room cum den. It is great!
2. Dick backed in to the garage door on Tuesday. It was replaced on Wednesday, we lucked out.
3. Aly spent a couple of nights with Jess.

Tomorrow off to Tampa to spend the week with Rob, his new girlfriend, Finley, Dylan & Kyle for New Year's.

2015 was a good year, looking forward to 2016

Happy New Year!

January 2, 2016

Dick and my trip canceled-2 flights so we had a stay-cation. Discovered 3 new places to eat. The Firehouse in Old Sac, the Source in Granite Bay for Tapas & the Egg in Auburn for breakfast & lunch. I took long walks with Sloane & Millie, worked a bit as well. Have the Christmas tree on, it is so warm inside and cozy. Cold outside. We all had colds this past week, over them now.

We skyped with the Family staying at Bonita Springs on New Year's Eve. Except where the boys ganged up on Aly and she called and wanted to come home. Rob later apologized. We got to meet Rob's girlfriend, Laura. They partied at the Hyatt Regency with Aly & Kyle spending the night there. Today is Aly's spa day and the rest are at the dog races.

Dick is fixing a lamb roast in his new Sous Vita, it cooks for 9 hours. He vacuum sealed the meal in his new vacuum sealer. It should be good. This is his replacement for a slow cooker.

Now off to do do some shopping.