MERRY CHRISTMAS

Mike, Debbie, Dylan,Grandpa Doug and Gavin




Happy Holidays Clan!
We split Christmas day up, the morning with the Reids, afternoon at Mom & Don's. Ate way too much food but it sure was good, was you can see.

Happy Birthday Aunt Janice!!

Touring the Alamo

With Rob, Ginny, Murray & Dad at the Alamo
Originally uploaded by suzipaw

Well, Murray and I are back from Texas. We had a great time--the visit went too quickly. Lots of family, food, and fun. And lots of sleeping in and laying around, which we both really needed.

I put some pix on my Flickr page for your viewing enjoyment and will have more details on Flying Triangle soon.

Who else has Xmas pix? Post 'em, eh?

Birthday Greetings

Happy Birthday

Chandran and Kirsie

love,
ab, sm

Ryan's Latest Cartoon

Felicia and Andrew waiting for pizza

Felicia and Andrew waiting for pizza
Originally uploaded by suzipaw

...at the aptly named Left Coast Pizza parlor in Chico.

Finals!!!!

Its finals week for college...stressful but exciting!

Pottery Break

Good job, Granddaughter!

Felicia made a website for her English class:
http://chicoorganics.googlepages.com

Congratulations Denise.

Denise hits the local newspaper with what a great job that she does at work. Jay forwarded this to me:http://redding.com/news/2007/dec/11/local-school-districts-catering-company-hits-busy-/
Hmmmm, I wonder if it will come up a day later. Let me know.

Testing, testing...

Murray is taking his last midterm of the year tonight. One more semester to go! We actually have a couple of free weekends to spend together until the new year, and then it all dissolves until the Bar Exam in July...

Point Arena Holiday Gift Store

Ryan's Lion

Second Grade Knitting Project

Ryan's Root Beer Christmas

Trip to L.A.

Ryan with today's harvest of pecans

Visiting Universal Studios during Thanksgiving

Hanging with Bob

Leaving The House of Horrors

Don's blog contribution via Brenda

Manchester Thanksgiving '07

Iron Chef Murray reigned supreme with his Best Dinner Rolls from Cooks. They were wonderful. And bbq turkey is the way to go. The smoked turkey flavor was achieved in just 2 1/2 hours. Delicious.

We Had a Lovely Holiday

Bro's--how was yours? (hint hint!)

Manchester Thanksgiving '07

Manchester Thanksgiving '07

Manchester Thanksgiving '07

Murray Practising

I love having live music in the house!

Robert Piper broke down just east of us on Mountain View, so he parked his rig in our driveway. Our neighbor, Gary, asked if we were logging.

One of the craft fairs will be held in this building which is up for sale. Ling-Yen just inherited the building which has been our city art building for years. Her father owned it and she needs to sell it, but just took it off the market until spring because no one is interested in buying it.

Another good glaze firing, so I'm about ready for the craft fairs. Only one piece was free of minor flaws, so I have work to do if I'm going to have enough pieces for my gallery showing next year.

A Hippie Reunion...

macrame
Originally uploaded by suzipaw

...should have a hippie craft activitiy, no?

So glad to have a successful firing since only 1 piece out of 25 had a chip in the foot, no crawling, no running off of the piece. Yippee!

Glaze happiness

Pelicans on Clearlake

Going to a Halloween party

Spirit Fingers

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I was explaining spririt fingers to a friend of mine at work and he came up with this emoticon/IM sign for me. And now it's for you, too!

Bran and his band of brothers

There's never been a dull moment when this crew sleeps over!

glazing woes

B-Rad having fun

Hornet pride

Hey Gang!
Well it took me a long time to finally post, my computer was having some issues. Mark- nothing personal, this was the earliest footage i could find- I must admit- It's petty cute!
Bird

8th grade race

The birds and the bees

Happy Birthday. Glori

Happy Birthday Glori!!

Happy Birthday Honey! This is from last year on her 40th. Her friend is young Miss Addison.

Happy Birthday, Glori,
I have chosen a picture of you, but unable to load it. Maybe it is because I cut it down so as to just have you it....Maybe I'll try to load the whole picture.

Getting ready for Halloween

This is the coffin that Ryan and I made over the weekend. He's been talking about wanting to make one for the last few years...I'm not sure what that means. When I went to the hardware store for supplies, the clerk asked me if I needed help. I explained to her that I was looking for paint and hinges for a coffin that I was building for my boy. With a look of sympathy, she then clasped her hands to her chest and said that she was very sorry to hear that.

Drawing Series Continued

caricature
Originally uploaded by suzipaw

We went to a dinner party last night, and the hosts had hired a caricaturist to draw everyone. Dude, when was the last time that happened to you at a dinner party? The artist had been doing it for 25 years, and it was great to watch him work. A possible career path for you, Ryan!

The hostess is in Murray's class--she and her husband were in the food business, but they got out and she wanted to do something "serious"--since when is food not serious? Grub and booze were both excellent, particularly the homemade limoncello.

Ryan's drawings

This is Hotshot, a Transformer

This is the comic character Liō and his pet. After he drew it, Ryan crumpled up the paper in a fit of artistic frustration.

This is Ryzo. He's a Bounty Hunter. This is Ryan's latest creation...which we uploaded to the Lego's website.

Brandon's cast

It's a Small Flickr World

I was poking around on Flickr, looking for photos of the Village to post, and found this set. The freaky thing is, though I don't know the photographer at all, I know one of the people featured in that set! Here's another set--I was glad to see a dog in the photos, maybe there's hope for Rex after all.

Dare

I dare jbird to post a photo! I double dog dare ya!

Happy Birthday Marissa!!!

Happy 11th Birthday Marissa. We hope that you have a great day. We love you!

The reason I walked 6 miles today.

Murray's Graduation

...from Empire College (he's not too worried about passing any more of his classes) will be held Sunday, June 8. You're all invited! (The Bar Exam is July 29-31. I recommend staying far away for that one.)

Our house

Mom took two photos of me working on the front porch and we stitched them together.

The Young Thespian

Felicia handing out the goodies.

Andrew manning at the tally table.

Mom's Pics

Pottery for sale at Ry's May Faire @ Blue Oak.

Janice and Don on the way to kayaking on Alaskan cruise.

Don, Kirsie, Bob, and Siena at HaHa Tonka, Lake of the Ozarks, MO.

Missouri visit

Don, Kirsie, Bob and Siena at HaHa Tonka National Park at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

Hotel Wellington, NY September 2007

Hotel Wellington, NY September 2007
Originally uploaded by suzipaw

Isn't this a nice view? But at least it's quiet.