CHRISTMAS 2008
The kids did about 8 different events throughout the month of December - Hooray kids!

This year - 393 presents under the tree!

Live tree - compliments of our back yard

Landlord and family came by for Turkey dinner. It was their first time, ever, to have turkey!

YMCA show

Yamamoto-san in the kitchen, and neighbors enjoying "nabe" - thanks to Y'moto!

Jo and Dee doing the famous "Banana trick"
and more shows

Puppet show of First Christmas - done in Osaka-ben, the local language.
It was a big hit!

Clay-dough Manger Scene

Jo and his friend Richy

Hand-made in 2 days!

** Note the "Hanging Dove" - that was a nice touch

They added a spotlight using a pinlite

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Patty and Taiwan

Took Patty out for a nice bowl of ramen with kimchi - for her 19th! Happy B'day Patty!

(Patty's the one on the right!)

Also, a couple of pics from the Taiwan trip...

Turkey Day = A lot to be thankful for!

Hello Again!

Hi Everybody!

Really sorry we have been so Lazyyyyyyyyyyy

But, we are going to post for December - sort of a Year Round-up...

So, stay tuned --- and here are a few pics from our Scorpio B'day Party fun -- it was a fun gametime.

Snow and other

Sorry I haven't been able to keep you guy's up dated on what is happening over here.
Well we are having a great time with the snow and we built an igloo wannabe thing and on the second day of building it, it started to rain so we all went inside and I'm looking our window in to the snow before getting in to bed and hearing rain drumming on the roof and I fell asleep then the next day I looked out the window and see snow falling and later on in the day we went sledding and half of what we were sledding on was ice so we were going pretty fast.
Here are some pics of our new house,C-mas and snow. Enjoy-Cathy

Our small and covered in presents tree

Candy holders/stockings

Dee and Dad
(We had to dress up/look nicer than normal to have your plate served)

Me and Dee

Me and Hikari

And like any normal DeSantis we
HAD to have a very nice dessert
(Mimi made it)

Our House (PINK)

At a different angle

Mikey,Jo, and a few other people made it
(It's crown is a bunch of icicles stuck together)

It's nose is also ice

Snow

Jo and his bunny Clover

Clover enjoying the snow

Jo and Clover.

Hope you Enjoyed