Pater New Year's Eve

Happy New Year from the Paters at the Mountain House. Karen, Isabel, and Bela!

And also from Anton and Mariah in Oregon.

And also from my watch. :) 

New Year's

Happy New Year dinner with our son Jean-Luc and the Perlmans at Longhorn Steakhouse! And later, playing Canasta with the Perlman’s on New Year’s Eve. What the heck!

A Boy and his Dog

Just a cute photo!

Christmas Dinner

Had a great Christmas dinner!

Christmas Day

The family came over today for opening gifts in the morning. Julie-ana and Kat were here for brunch since they were driving to Georgia in the afternoon. Then Julie and Dave, then David, Kellie, and the kids. Jean-Luc was already here having spent the night. And of course there is Chris handing out the gifts!

Kal and Ghost Wolf

Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄❄️Mayhem at our house, Kal and Ghost Wolf at rest for a moment.

Christmas Eve

Opening a pre-Christmas gift so we can play a game. A few gaming snacks... And later Chris is preparing the bacon wrapped shrimp appetizer for dinner tomorrow.

New Look

Just bopping along. Thank you Marilynn for the scarf!

Pandemic Memes

Woomera Memory

Back in the day. This was in Woomera, Australia with one of my bestest friends, Marilynn. We were both in the Air Force having some fun after work. What a fun time!

Jean-Luc and Marilynn

Jean-Luc and Marilynn before she left for home.

Launch

Beautiful night launch of the Delta 4 Heavy.

From SpaceFlightNow.com: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The mission was designated NROL-108. The first stage booster performed a return to launch site landing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from Oct. 25.

Cooking Class with Marilynn

Marilynn came to spend the weekend with us, but ended up staying a little longer. She spent some time in the hospital, thankfully nothing serious. But we were able to do a cooking class afterwards.

Cooking Class

From my hubby Bill: Carla getting ready to help out.

Launch

Beautiful SpaceX Falcon9 launch on a beautiful day!

From SpaceFlightNow.com: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The flight is the 21st mission by SpaceX conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from Aug. 5, Oct. 30, Nov. 15, Nov. 22, and Dec. 2. Delayed from Dec. 5 by poor weather in booster recovery area.

Space Coast Light Fest

At Space Coast Lightfest with some of my favorite peeps. My grandnephew Elliott!! ❤️❤️

Tree Topper

Our new Star Trek Enterprise Christmas Tree topper! The Starship Enterprise on top with three crew members from the Mirror universe. Captain Kirk on in lower middle front, Lieutenant Uhura in the middle left, and Lieutenant Sulu further around on the left. It tells the story of the Mirror Mirror episode. I love it!! ❤️

Ghost Wolf

Ghost Wolf has the holiday spirit!

Magic Kingdom!

Fun with Anton and Mariah at Disney’s Magic Kingdom yesterday!

Pre-Thanksgiving Games

At Julie's place waiting for dinner to be ready. The family playing Jackbox games! Pictures from Kellie. ❤️

Leaving Key West

Breakfast charcuterie board before we leave Key West. What a fun trip! Heading home - on the Seven Mile Bridge. Pretty views!

Key West

Finally had a chance to get caught up on our Key West activities. Bike ride tour and ghost tour yesterday. Then kayaking this morning. My arms are dead. 🙄 Jean-Luc was also on the trip, but no pictures of him other than in the background of the kayak ones.