Thursday, January 8, 2009

Christmas in California


Christmas at the Jensen's house in San Francisco



Good eatin' at Grandma Jensen's house





Overlooking the bay at the ruins of Sutro Heights
Thanks for showing us a good time Grandma and Grandpa Jensen!




Fun with cousin Olivia!




Cute Cousins, hangin' out at the ranch in Susanville to visit Auntie Em and Bob (and family) and the Peters family who came all the way from Samoa! Yeeeeee Haw!


Horseback Riding on Greta's horse, named Gizmo


PaPa Jensen, king of the Umu


We made an Umu in honor of Uncle Albert, our favorite Samoan, who recently passed away.
The Turkey cooked in one hour! Amazing!


A great day on the beach! Good thing the Aquarium was too packed to visit.


We love uncle Jake and Jared!

Kelp Jump Rope on the beach


We read a Dutch story about wooden shoes, so we left them on the doorstep, and look what happened!



Barrel o' Monkeys for Jensen



Juliana at the helm, sailing in the backyard lagoon.


Jensen LOVES to sail!



Jake and Jared LOVE to fish! A nice size flounder! Yum-Yum!



We love to feed the ducks from the dock out back.



Finally, a family photo with everybody!! Even Jake's cute girlfriend, Jenny!
It was a great trip, and a wonderful Christmas! Many Thanks to Mom and Dad Jensen for flying us out!!

4 comments:

Vernie and Tony said...

Looks like you had a great Christmas! My daughter in law is from Susanville!! Small world. I'd never heard of it before Stillman married her. The kids are so cute! I love their smiles!

Heather C. said...

Such cute pictures! Looks like you had a wonderful christmas with your family.

Jessica Reid said...

Yeah! You are updated! Keep it up so we don't have to talk on the phone. HAHA JK!

Day Family Blog said...

Wow you did a lot of different things for Christmas. I would never think of sailing in December (probably cuz I live in Logan). And cooking a turkey in the umu, that sounds so fun and I hear it is super yummy. Anyway glad you got to be with family.