Friday, December 24, 2021

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve. Lynn and Jamie ran up to Boulder to deliver a Christmas gift for Craig. We squeezed in breakfast at the Walnut Cafe. Then it was Christmas Eve at TimberCreek Church followed by dinner at Vaqueros then Open Me First!

Open Me First




Craig's condo.

At Walnut Cafe in Boulder.
Banana Chocolate Chip Waffle.

Our waiter at Vaqueros has
a special bond with
one of the foster twins,


Thursday, December 23, 2021

Christmas Adam

It's Christmas Adam! You know, what comes before Christmas Eve? Christmas Adam! We just can't avoid thinking about a fantastic Christmas Adam Party we had in 2016. Blokus! Christmas shopping and wrapping! Sand Tarts!



AJ did the shopping and wrapping.





How's that for Christmas festive?!


Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Colorado Nutcracker

It was a big evening for Fina, Nana, and Papa. Dinner at Track Ten then the Colorado Nutcracker. We had "tower" seats which were directly over the orchestra. We could almost reach out and touch the curtain. Great seats, loved being so close to the stage AND watching every instrument in the orchestra throughout the show. We had dessert at Hurts Donuts on the way home!




Two Sazeracs and a Shirley Temple.



Fina knew many of the castmembers
from her days at Colorado Ballet Society.


Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Spiderman

Today's big adventure was a trip to the new BIG SCREEN at Icon Cinema to see the new Spiderman movie. It's a huge screen and theater space (all cushy, reclining seats), but we're a huge family, too, and we made a dent in the place. Jonnie has gotten quite proficient at Lego assembly; he did this project (below) entirely by himself. And at the bottom, check out the Christmas ornament the Flying Horse Foundation gave Jamie.



Spiderman on Icon Cinema's HUGE new screen.



Monday, December 20, 2021

And the Compound Makes 15 !

The Compound was at full strength today and at a record-high - 15 people. Sam completed the picture last night when he rolled in from Fort Riley. Besides lots of Christmas shopping, wrapping, etc. during the day, we started the evening with a "sleigh" ride behind two horses from the Flying Horse Ranch: Clyde and Clint (they're Percherons). Then dinner at the Club followed by a gingerbread house-building for some of the kids. At the bottom of the page is a thank-you gift Papa got from the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum.





We all fit perfectly!










Two tables of 8.




Papa got this thank you gift from the folks at the San Luis
Obispo Railroad Museum today! It's a New York
Central (Railroad) Services oil can. The New York Central
eventually merged with my favorite railroad since childhood,
the "Pennsy", forming the Penn Central.
The spout is about 2' long.


Sunday, December 19, 2021

"Bare Bones"

It was a fairly big weekend. Christmas shopping. Christmas baking. Christmas wine. Christmas music. Testing Christmas gifts. Christmas wrapping. Christmas kids choir at church. Christmas trombone concert; like, ALL trombones; we had to take Matteo - and then have a follow-up dinner at Basil & Barley.

Fina made some Christmas Gift Cookies

Christmas gift from California

Papa cooked dinner.

Stringy Slime testing.

Fina's teacher gift packets

The search for gold and diamonds

That's Lexi 2nd from left in the church kids' choir.
Tracy and Fina were down-low-front doing the motions.

When I was a kid, my Mom would write on all the packages
what the contents were - in shorthand! So I got
the chance this year to do similarly - in Hebrew!

"Bare Bones" Trombone Choir