P52 {WEEK 50}

Saturday December 14th - JPE brought Mom & Katie up from So California. He had been attending a conference near Disneyland. We saw our nephew, Daniel dance in the Nutcracker at the historic Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara.

Sunday morning was pancakes & playing (I pulled a tub of Allie's Barbies out of the garage). And we took a drive to San Luis Obispo, and showed Katie around the Cal-Poly campus. Cal-Poly is noted for its Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Engineering, and Kinesiology programs. 

An animal lover... of course, Katie needed to visit the horses, cows, sheep and goats. The goat manager introduced us to "Pepe" (Le Pew) - the only male in this field of pregnant females! 

After an early dinner at Apple Farm Restaurant & exploring all three floors of the gift shop... We ended the day seeing Mary Poppins (third row seats) at PCPA. It was a truly "magical" weekend!

I'm posting this at Tamar's blog, Random-osity. We are counting down the last few weeks of 2013!


pictures are a bit blurry - taken with i-Pad mini!

HAPPY B-DAY!!!

Guess who had a BIRTHDAY??

M.E!

BUT...

so did my BROTHER!

(he was born on my FIRST birthday - my LUCKY day)

pssst! Mom and Katie rode the train back home this morning!!

boo! didn't want to see them go...

GLITTER & GLIMMER...

most people COLLECT things....

I have a COLLECTION of SANTA ornaments...

what do you collect?  

ROOT-TOOTING...

Finally!!!

got some time on the computer!

nothing spectacular to say!

just a "check-in" to

say H-I...

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY 12.8.13 + SONG-OGRAPHY

SHS 12.8.13

Wondering... how this holiday season came woooo-shing in? 

I haven't done a whole lot better getting my camera out, reading other blogs or posting (thank goodness for i-Pad's), ...

I'm planning to participate in Ashley's annual Memories, Reflections and Dreams. It will be a fabulous way to document 2013!!! Here's the LINK to get you started!!! I hope you join me - You'll be able to blog-hop while you watch the New Year's parades on TV.

WHERE I STOOD, SILVER, TINY, IN THE CUPBOARD & SHADOW.

From WHERE I STOOD in the doorway of the Apple Farm Gift Shop... this is what I saw... sort of a skinny St Nicholas!

Well, these outdoor decorations looked more SILVER when I took the picture! Pretty huh? and there's a SILVER car in the background.

This WAS actually very TINY! a TINY set of sweaters decorated with holiday characters... a Santa, Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.

All our baking supplies cannot fit IN THE CUPBOARD (known as the pantry at our house)... JPE used the "candy cane" melting chips to frost one end of his candy cane biscotti! YUM!!!

I took this picture the day before Thanksgiving! Taken at the charming, historic Santa Barbara Courthouse... several of the ornate lights are in the SHADOW! 

And, now for SONG-OGRAPHY! This is an archived photo! but... it's located in OUR (JPE & I  got married in this area) "special place" - Big Sur, California.

stop by Kathy's @ Don't Shoot Your Eye Out to see what others have posted!!!

This week's song is the "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.

"They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem 'em

Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone"

Well, in Big Sur they left this yellow bus, painted it blue, yellow & red & turned it into a little coffee bar! Truly unique... the bus sits on the dirt parking lot underneath some huge redwoods! Lucky for us... it's only a little over two hours north of us!

I'll be posting on a more regular basis this week. I've got a little stash of photos to share, so please come back.

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY 12.1.13 + SONG-OGRAPHY

SHS 12.1.13 + SONG-OGRAPHY

 Can you believe the holiday season has arrived?

So, THANKFUL to have had the entire Thanksgiving Week off!

We slept in, started decorating, car shopped, went to movies, visited with JPE's family...
I took some pics, but seem to have lost my photography "mojo"... 

My offerings for SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY,
hosted by the beautiful Ashley at Rambling & Photos.
Words this week:
STARTS WITH "S", TEXTURE, BLESSINGS, WARMTH & I WENT...

recently wandered through Apple Farm Gift Shop
if you're feeling "bah-humbug"
this is the place to find some holiday SPARKLE!

 some cloud TEXTURE 
no, we didn't get rain, unfortunately!

 definitely, two of my greatest BLESSINGS!
living on opposite coastlines {California & Washington DC} 
they don't get to see each other much!

WARMTH = comfort food
 {charming holiday graphics!}

 snow globe in the Apple Farm Gift Shop
{such fond memories of our travels}

AND, for SONG-OGRAPHY, check in with Kathy at DON'T SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT.

L-R: Natasha & JPE; Thanksgiving feast; Perry, Lauren, Daniel & Jenna; Celebrated Hanukkah too!

  this week's song is
"CELEBRATE ME HOME" by Kenny Loggins

"I believe I've missed each and every face.
Come on and play my music,
Let's turn on the love light in the place." 

M-E-M-O-R-Y  M-A-K-I-N-G  T-I-M-E-S!