bsmiles and sunny days

This is what ours looks like. Jasmine decorated everyone's glass with a candy cane... so cute. Kennedy baked a cake and peeled potatoes for me. I love having helpers! This year's prep was so much better than last year's. Gotta love national holidays! Little man is way too cute for his own good! Gobble, gobble, gobble. I forgot this Nana tradition and Kennedy said, "MOM! Apple turkeys! We forgot to make apple turkeys!" This was last night at Wal-Mart after we'd already been to the grocery store and all of it's chaotic bliss. So I said, "Alright, let's get the marshmellows and we'll use the apples I bought for the apple crisp." Which they used and then almost immediately removed the candy and marshmellows from after these shots were taken. I mean, it's a tradition. We take them very seriously, which I am SO thankful for this year because our little traditions kept us busy while we were so far from home. I love that there's n

See, what had happened was... I found Facebook, see. And when I'm uploading pictures like this, I can chat with my friends, all my thousands of wonderful friends online, you know? Instead of just staring at that doggone bar and hoping it will go faster now since everyone else is at work, right? So for more photos, you can find me on facebook. And by the way, this is what California does to people like me.