Our holiday visitors at Wavecrest, Del Mar

Lori, Barbara (Lori's mother), and Steve came for a pizza dinner.

It was really enjoyable even with a couple of kind of funny mishaps.

First of all the pizza wasn't very good and was cold when it was delivered. So we put it in the oven (in the box) to warm it up. Somehow the oven was on broil! Flames were shooting out of the box when we opened the oven. Yikes!! Steve put the fire out-- our hero!

The fire left a truly miraculous depiction of angel wings on the pizza box.

Lori always brings a bottle of my favorite Bailey's Irish Cream.

This is what it looks like if you don't shake it up before pouring.

 Not so much of a mishap, but for some reason it sure made us laugh. We were just in the mood for laughing. And we laughed the whole rest of the fun evening.

Christmas Present- Del Mar 2013

My last post was Christmas Past.

Here's the present-

A winter day in Del Mar. Sorry Easterners!

Always lots of picture-taking.

And bathing beauties:

And dogs ( mostly white ones):

There are seagulls to be fed (with left-over Christmas croissants):

Every year there's a sand-snowman:

And a wedding

A memorial (?)

Our Christmas centerpiece...and only Christmas tree- a rosemary plant.

Nancy decorated it with part of her huge collection of Hallmark ornaments- the tiniest ones.

Nancy and Bob relax after Christmas dinner.

The end of a nice Christmas Day:

The Old Lady and the Sea

(and another beautiful sunset)

DeAnne's Annual Ladies' Christmas Party

Here are all the lovely ladies (except DeAnne and me). I know why I don't have a picture of me, but why not the most important person...the hostess? DeAnne puts on a lovely party every year. She decorates beautifully. She's such a good hostess. So why no picture? Maybe it's because she was so busy attending to her guests. So sorry, DeAnne. I guess there's always next year. The main reason I took the pictures is so that I could match them up with the names and then not forget who was who. I didn't need a picture of DeAnne to remember who she was. I could say that about some of the others, too. For instance, my sister, Nancy.

Anne Kreile

Margaret Ann Ashton and Sharon Kersey

Donna (Dee) Schaffer

Jennie Thomson

Tina Tiso

Joan Amberson

Nancy Javier and Phee Sherline

DeAnne even arranged this perfect ending to a perfect party.