Merry Christmas!!

What a wonderful Christmas! We headed down to Medford to celebrate with Erich's family and reunited with the AshPats (we missed Hilary & Laurel though!) The festivities began right away with cookie baking, shopping, playing with cousins and visiting with relatives. We watched so many Christmas movies and ate such great food -- it was a perfect week. Although we had our share of drama...towards the end of our trip, we got a call from the doggie daycare telling us that Olive was really sick and needed to go to the animal hospital. Turns out she's doing OK and recovering back home :)

All 7 AshPat cousins

Sonia enjoying her new Princess costume

With Nana and Papa

This wrapping paper looks more interesting to me...

Family Shot

With Great Grandma Sweetie

Merry Christmas!

Here are some more pictures from our trip. Enjoy!

Cookies!

A few weeks ago, we had a cookie decorating night with the Toppenbergs. Reilly & Sonia had a great time decorating/eating the cookies and frosting and Ivy watched on as she jumped nearby.

Christmas is in the Air...

Auntie Lolo (Laurel) came to visit for a weekend in November. And while she was here, we went to go see Reindeer at Swanson's nursery. They even had a camel!

Our tree is up and Santa's gifts seem to be accumulating underneath. We went to go see Santa a few weeks ago, but needless to say Sonia was not a fan of the visit. I needed to sit there with her, but even then she was ready to bolt.

Happy Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we headed east to Michigan to spend it with Tara Kakki & Sitaram Babiya. Aparna and Scott and Amamma and Tata met us there and we all relaxed, ate and relaxed some more. It was a great family reunion! While we were there, we also got to see Ranjit, Stacey & Leela. Sonia loved having her big cousin to play with!