I am having a hard time catching up on my blogging, so this will be another quick one: We spent Christmas in Southern California this year. My entire family - my parents, all 6 siblings, husbands and cousins were there for the big Harris harrah. Luckily my sister has a 7 bedroom house and large kitchen (: We had a blast playing tennis, picking pomegranits, oranges and other citrus, olives and avocados and even made it over the the LA temple for a few days! I depended on my sisters to take photos and then didnt' get all the photos - so till then, here are the only photos I have. We got our yearly 30 pound package of penuts as well as a half dozen other generous packages from DDaddy this Christmas (: Ddaddy even sent 2 packages to California for my family - a major highlight of the season - especially the fresh pecans! On the home front, they had a Christmas village and free tours with Mrs Claus that we cashed in on. Brooklyn sat on 3 different Santa's knees, met Santa's ...

Finally - for our adventures with the Xu Family! (There is SO much to tell about - but I am just so behind in my blogging, again I will use short hand and hopefully the pictures will speak for themselves!) Carved Pumpkins, though a couple weeks later than most people We went hiking up the canyon near our house. They had never seen snow before coming here! They loved the fall leaves! -and raking my backyard (: Trey got tickets for everyone to watch the Jazz! They loved chanting "DE-FENSE!" We went to a local craft fair and car show We went to the Children's Museum Made Sugar Cookies and decorated them (they don't use ovens or bake in Taiwan) Candy, Kevin, Trey and another missionary that taught them went to the SLC Temple for a session. I watched the 5 kids. Thank goodness for the Sister missionaries that helped me for about 1/2 hour of the 3 hours! They gave us a little tour. Not an experience I'd want to repeat, but worth it. They Loved DI! Candy got a ton...