Christmas 2006!

This was Stink Pants and my first Christmas together as husband and wife, and my first Christmas on the west coast. To celebrate our first Christmas (as man and wife), my whole family came out to visit! We did a ton of stuff! We went shopping a lot. I introduced Noona and Mom to Ross Dress for Less. Hurray for $7 and $8 trendy shirts!

We also went to the Paul Getty Museum. That place is beautiful and what's more, there's no admission, you only have to pay $8 for parking.

We also went to San Diego to visit our family! My Tito T and Tita G live there with their daughters, Fer, Chel, and Min. I think their ages 15, 12 and 7, but I'm not entirely sure. While we were there, we went to Old Town San Diego, a fruit orchard owned by one of Dad's high school classmates and a winery in Temecula. The orchard was very nice and full of citrus fruits like pomelos and calamansi. We made out like bandits! (Incidentally, does anyone need lemons or pomelos?)

After the orchard, we went to a couple wineries in Temecula where we tasted some wines and sparkling wines made in that area. Mmmm... wine.

After our visit in San Diego, we stopped to see another one of Dad's high school classmates before we made it back to home base. Although I don't have a picture of them, Dad's classmate is a model plane enthusiast. The model planes were all over his garage :). It was cool. Before we left there, we stopped to get our picture taken in front of a giant, blow-up snow globe.

I posted some pictures of my family's visit here, but to see the whole album click here. Double click on a picture to see a close-up, or just view them all in a slideshow.



Mom with a naked lady statue at the Paul Getty Museum.


The layout of the Paul Getty Museum




Both of these pictures of the museum gardens were stitched together with Autostitch


Stink Pants #5 and Dad are at the bottom left of the sculpture. It's huge.


Mom next to a re-bar trellis.


Noona and Wonka


Laura and Stink Pants #5


Mr. Pomelo-head


Chel and Min at the orchard.


Noona and Mr. Pomelo-head


Laura, Noona, Min, Fer and Chel


Laura and Noona in sombreros


Stink Pants and Calamansi Eyes


Tita G, Tito T, Dad and Mom


Our family in front of the giant, blow-up snow globe!

Don't forget! You can find more pictures here!