Merry Christmas 2018

So much food!
I guess I was in the moment and forgot to take photos of our events.  We had a lovely Christmas Eve dinner at Mark's house and Christmas day with Vince's family.  I didn't take one damn picture!  So it's pix of food :)  But I forgot to take photos of everything I made (pumpkin crumb cake muffins, two apple cakes, fudge brownies with peppermint frosting, Mexican balls, p-nut butter cookies)...Damn, I'm slipping with the whole photo thing....

My second cake - made in a different pan and it came out more of a tart then a cake.  Both were good.

I'm dangling this paper string (we're not allowed real string because of the cats).

   And here's a picture of me trying to get the string out of Zuri's mouth.  She ate it.

Zuri digesting her string...

A visit to Santa Barbara

Christmas officially started on December 17th for us.  Spent the day with Mom in Santa Barbara.

After we dropped Mom off we went to Lorie's house for an overnight stay and the spoiling of a lifetime.  Lorie pulled out all the stops and made an amazing swordfish, fancy rice dish and roasted cauliflower with romesco sauce.  Good food, beautiful surroundings and the most wonderful friends make life even sweeter.

On our way home we stopped in Ojai to visit another dear friend, Sina, at her sweet home.  Sina is an amazing artist - check out this glass counter she made by hand.  Cut the tiles herself and all.  Damn girl...(oops, I was so busy looking at all of her amazing art that I forgot to take a photo of us.)