Christmas with the Coluccios

So we are blessed to have lots of family in the desert...

Of course when we lived down in So. Cal we had nil family here...

I try to not take it personally that when we moved north our families moved south...

Does that say something about us?

Don't answer that.

ANYWAY...

My point is this
We are blessed with family here.


I don't normally think of my hubby as "small or short..." but when he was standing with his first cousins... well the picture speaks for itself! We were all getting a huge laugh out of it... and then they had him do this

just to accentuate the difference of course!


I know... he looks really tall here...
with my fabulous mom #2 and her sister "Bella"


mother and son... adorable I know


Nona with the munchkins..

and with the not so munchkins...


more cousins... (and believe it or not these two are not sisters!)


Mom#2 and her Brother "uncle Bob"
little know facts...
has 3 sons and 2 granddaughters..
played MLB years ago... cool huh?
is a fabulous host

these lovely balls are going to be hanging from my ceiling next year.
LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!


on that note I am going to go paint Sam's nails before she flies home today...
but no worries back in a bit with one of my favorite moments of the trip...
something will also be coming home with me...
at least in my mind...