Happy New Year!

 

Bring it on!

 

There are no words for this...

Nephew time!  Ah, the age when your presents are still bigger than you are!

 

Santa dropped by to relax after working so hard through Christmas...

(Nice beard, Grandpa!)

Emoji Art experiments inspired by Jacinda Russell...she's mastered this!

 

My version...

 

The original...

 

Day after Christmas and I'm back at work...  Hey Scrooge!  Can you put another lump of coal in the heater?

Christmas! (A time for food, food, presents, food, family, and food.)

Prepare to be brunched!

Everyone is here!

Off to Sara's parents' house... for a truly Southern California Christmas, and even more celebration!

A few shots from the AMAZING Christmas village...

I think this means we are pretty much partied out...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas Eve!

At church...

At home...

And under the tree...

Christmas Eve!

OK, not all photos come out awesome.  We had some good outtakes today, so here they are...

Down in front!

It's a bird!  It's a plane!

Um, anyone got a match?

 

The ham thief has been discovered!!

 

 

Every neighborhood has that one house...  or in our case, three houses!

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!  Don, I see you are sporting a new beard for the occasion.  How festive is that?

Winter finally showed up!

Walnut Creek Park.  A nice place to run, and always 10 degrees colder than our house.  Why is that?

Runner's high.  Not to be confused with a halo.

Yes!  Happiness is a well-stocked and organized beverage department.

Ah, the removal of the shorter wavelengths of light due to Rayleigh scattering by air molecules and particles less than the wavelength of green and blue.  That's pretty.

Today was the day that I...

..actually, this was a while back, but I finally got my hands on the pictures today.

I've had my coffee...

I drove to work...

And look what I did! 

See?  Engineering is easy.

Dad's Birthday!

 

I feel like this photo needs some explanation.  It was a pano shot from my iPhone, so that explains the suspicious dent in Sarah's hairline.  She never sits still for very long, so that kind of thing will happen.  Mark...I dunno what he's doing.  Mom perhaps does not realize that I am taking a picture.  Dad is trying to listen to Steve on his speakerphone.  (Actually, we're all trying to listen to Steve on the phone.)  Sara is perhaps the only one here that actually knows I'm taking a picture.  She has the benefit of being last, as it was taken from left to right, and has clearly decided to go with the "I'm a smart person that chews on my glasses" look. 

 

It just doesn't get much more candid than this folks.

Los Angeles Union Central Station

This old building has been in everything from Blade Runner, to the Italian Job to The Dark Knight Rises.  Built in 1926...

We made this one for our wedding...

Christmas... I lounges in it.

SAIC Christmas party!

This is what happens on the dance floor when a bunch of engineers and scientists get together...

Movie rain!