Mexican Food and a Magic Show

Happy New Year!

okay this is NOT Frank or I
but I bet we ALMOST
 looked like this!

WELCOME 2017. Just thinking about our New Year's Eve...each child went to a respective friend's house, to celebrate, and Frank and I went to the church to socialize :) They had music and food, in the gym, and we saw some people we hadn't chatted with in awhile. We also learned the Merengue.

David and Teresa are trying to see people, and squeeze in any last activities they can, in their last couple of days here. Their semester starts next week, so they will fly back to Provo on Saturday.


Kara went back to school today, like me.

And today was Frank's first day in the office! (He was working last week, but from home. Now he'll go to the office in Waltham, 2 towns over, every day.) Our Christmas vacation has officially come to an end.

CHRISTMAS "STAYCATION"
Activities included:

*Board Games.

*Taqueria Mexico, Our favorite Mexican Restaurant last night :)

*Books

*Movies

*Zucchini Bread

*Magic Show in Boston: illusionist Ivan Amodei!

*Visiting favorite high school teachers

*Christmas Eve dinner with the Berreys (family friends from Michigan, 20 yrs ago)

*Music program and beautiful Christmas messages, the Sunday before Christmas and Day

*Angela spent Christmas with us, too! (She's a -- gasp -- senior this year, and will graduate from UMass in Business Marketing in May.)

All in all, it was a very full but not too full holiday break, and enjoyable time spent with family. It's fun to have more people at the table to add to the conversation or tell us about different adventures.

Have a great week!
Love, Kari