Christmas Eve with Amar, Kevin & Boys

We had a lovely evening with our son and his family.
Garrick (yep he is growing his hair out after many years of shaving his head) me, Gordon, Dylan, Amar, Derek, Kevin and Dash...

Thanks for a wonderful evening....of course we were all bummed out when we found the life of the party ELLA got sick and could not attend.

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trying to figure out why the other Christmas pics did not upload....

Ella checking out her new jacket I made...

Dang had to put the beads away,,,

Diane is having a Christmas party so we had to put the beads away....

Fingers & toes.....

What airline does Santa take????

Even snow ladies want to be skinny!

Waiting for Santa....

Earrings with a cookie back,,,,,

We (Diana and me) had a great time making cookies for Chyrisa with some earrings we made too.

Breakfast today...

Nutella crepes, (OMGosh) this was so good.....

Red Velvet Cake French Toast....
So good.....

Cookies galore...

IT TOOK ME SOME TIME TO GET MY NEW MINI COMPUTER UP TO PAR...
I am in Chicago visiting Diane,,,
Diane and are I are having fun making cookies,

Tree trimming with the other Bornkamps!

A very fun evening with son Kevin and his family...Amar, grandsons, Dylan and Derek....

Brent is a good bicylist....

We went to Golden Gate park to see Brent compete....he is very good and getting better and faster each time....

Lunch at the beach....

Sunday we had a fun time at lunch with Miriam, Brent, Ella and Lulu.....we went to the Beach Chateau, a place I have been wanted to go to.

Thanksgiving 2011...

A beautiful day and evening with Miriam, Brent and Ella....
Brent did most of the cooking and the turkey was so good..

Gene's birthday dinner....

We also got to hook up with all the Perez's for Gene's birthday....Thank you, Juanita it was a great dinner and fun company..

Mary & Elaines beautiful family...

So happy to meet up with good friends, Mary and Elaine.....we got to spend time with them and their family....it was so fun....I love them all....and the children are so sweet and very smart girls.....GIRL POWER....

Our house....

The wonderful couple in our house repainted the three rooms and they look AWESOME.....


First pic....master bedroom, third floor
Second pic...second floor bedroom
3rd floor...bedroom......

Bike Racing with Brent....

Brent is doing better every time we see him ride....he came in 7th here....

Two weeks ago he came in 2nd so awesome....will get the pic in December and will post....

11-11-11

Thank you for all the men in my life that have served our country...
I will start with my Dad, Louis Martinez, (Air Force) my Uncle Alex (my mother's brother-Air force)
my husband, Gordon, (Navy) Kevin (on the left) in the Navy (still in reserves) Garrick, ( Gordon's youngest son Air Force) and my son Wil in the Army....Tony Malta (my sister Lola's husband) also a Navy man...My twin brother, Lance Martinez, Marines. My grandson, Mike Kosiba, Army going to Afghanistan in December...


We went to TGIF for dinner where our two Veterans had a free dinner....

Kevin went to his son's school and did a wonderful power point presentation about
serving in the military and what it means to him and to us...

M My patriotic jacket done and worn today....