Season's Greetings!

Thanksgiving came and went - it was lovely like every year - and Christmas has past now, too.  Exciting season.  The weather is definitely not typical - it feels like a nice Wisconsin spring; not its winter.

Thanksgiving...

Christmas...

Graham's school Christmas Concert

A new baby for Christmas - she's in heaven

A blue lightsaber for Christmas - he's in heaven

This Teddy Bear is made from their great Grandpa Slim's New Zealand wool winter coat with their great Grandma Slim's buttons!

And of course the latest of Jason's cooking.  There's no photo but one of my recent favorites is chicken and mozzarella ravioli from Costco and shredded carrots and coined zucchini with a balsamic sauce.  Ooh la la.  Love it.

Great chicken sandwich with avocado and arugula on ciabatta sticks from Breadsmith on the Foreman grill - with a fresh spinach salad

From the continuously added to collection of orzo or rice creations - many times containing spinach and sun-dried tomatoes (what a deal at Costco for a bag of sd tomatoes!) 

This is becoming a regular meal since we've resolved to have fish once a week.  With the grain trilogy from Trader Joe's (cous cous, quinoa and orzo) and a favorite - honey and soy sauce carrots

Pretty incredible recipe from Julia Child! Go Jason!  He made it for our Christmas here with Nan.

Fish Tacos Daily

Whoa, we made the change to a Mac!  So things are different and this old dog is trying to learn the new tricks.  There a lot of little differences that are taking time to research or get used to.

We took a family vacation to Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico and stayed at Jason's cousins' house there.  Wow, what an experience!

Jason and Graham had fish tacos everyday on the beach.  We ate amazing food.  We watched the surfers and boogie boarded.  Played in the sand.  Partook in a slew of the various local vendors criss crossing the beach and the streets...

I'd need a few days to write all about the trip so as they say 'pictures speak a thousand words'...and it also holds true that even the pictures don't do justice to our amazement and experience there.

Multitude of thanks to the Beidlemans for sharing with us this piece of Eden!  Here is a link to some of the pictures - warning: there are 100+!

https://picasaweb.google.com/107388018529096333529/MexicoDec2011?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCL_rjq7Lmc3gBQ&feat=directlink