Last Days of 2008

Since we are such party animals, I decided to do a blog posting on New Year's Eve. I figured this was a great opportunity to show you what we did the last few days of 2008.

This is what the girls saw when they woke up on Christmas morning.

On Christmas Day my dad's brother and his family came to celebrate with us. This time my father was the chef and he whipped up a storm. From left: Paul and Epi.



Here's a great group shot with my first cousin Angela and her family.


The girls made several ornaments for the tree this year. Here's one of their works of art.

We visited Julian for the first time in hopes we could play in some snow. It was short on snow, but that didn't stop the girls from jumping on every pile of snow on the side of the street.

My niece and nephew taught the twins through example how to have a snowball fight. So now whenever the girls see snow, it's thrown in our face. Fun !!

We visited the San Diego Zoo and Maya had a great time taking pictures of the goats with the new digital camera she got for Christmas. Thank god she isn't reaching for my camera anymore.

Here's Sahara posing with a friendly goat.

Here's Sahara kissing the goat. Did I mention she loves animals.

Here's Tata Rose with the girls on a silver polar bear.

Here's the gang with a giant silver polar bear. From left: Tata Rose, Tisha, Sahara, Maya and Andre.

Here are the girls with daddy Nader and their good friend Olivia heading to our neighbor's house to enjoy the new trampoline they got for Christmas.

This is way better than the girls jumping on my couch and bed.

Look at my little Energizer bunnies.

Sahara is also known as "Stunt Woman" by her gymnastics teacher. I'm not sure if that is good, at least for my house.

Here's Olivia a little worn out from watching the twins. She is enjoying the fairy wings and digital camera that the twins got for Christmas. I have to say, I'm so proud that the girls are finally sharing and playing nice with their friends. Now I don't need to stand around like a referee or body guard.

We went to the Festival of Lights at the Wild Animal Park.

Look how cute they look.

Check out the snowman.

The girls made some crafts.

Some of our friends met us at the park. From Left: Kimi, Klara, Alyssa and Khloe.

The girls love the carousel and because the token machine was broken we all got to ride for free. Yippeee !

Sahara got to ride the camel. It's her favorite.

Okay, enough pictures.

We wish all our family and friends a wonderful New Years.