The Thompson Family

Chad and Shelly had an awesome housewarming party last night. I forgot to start taking pictures till the end of the evening, but here are the late night "stickers and stayers." You can see the whole set of pix on Flickr.

It looks like Nora's favorite place to perform is the bathtub. She surprised me with a new song last night... I didn't even know she knew "Do Your Ears Hang Low" - she told me she learned it at school.

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This was taken New Year's Eve day. My mom was supposed to drive to SF that day to babysit Nora, but got the Explorer was swamped. She had to walk back up the hill to the house in waist deep water. Now that's a dedicated grandma!

I got the mullies... It was back to work and school for us today. It was very hard getting out of the house this morning. Dell is flying off to Vermont for work today; Nora and I will be in SF dealing with this terrible weather. It started absolutely pouring, and of course, I forgot my umbrella at home. Very fitting for the first day back after a long vacation! I am thankful I have "The Dinner Source" dinners so I don't have to work too hard for our evening meals. Well, hopefully the weekend will come soon, and we can have some down time (to recover from our vacation!).

We celebrated our 13th New Year's Eve together last night at the St. Regis hotel in downtown San Francisco. We met Dale & Ginger Pistilli and Kate & Paul Healy at the lobby bar - what a gorgeous place. We ended up staying at the hotel for the prix fixe dinner at Ame Restaurant. I don't think the meal was worth the cost - it was very pricey - but we had a wonderful time!