Preparing our traditional New Year's Fondue. Full menu this year: fresh bread; traditional cheese fondue with tomato onion chutney to swirl; lots of veggies to dip; beef shabu shabu and homemade Meyer lemon ice cream.


And even a new year's eve science experiment
This time the kids make it till a quarter to midnight for their countdown

Samurai EGG gets serious about second Christmas (with her cousins Emma & Noah)

"Santa Came! He really did and there's a whole mess of presents and cookie crumbs"

The EGG as a Rudolph the cold reindeer...


Now the EGG shows us what she might look like as a teenager

The EGG takes center stage at RVCC's winter program


Then the traditional tree hunt...chase... ??

In the Elfin forest the morning before Cousin Emma appears in the Nutcracker


On the way to the show

After a day in nature with her cousins near Morro Bay, the EGG really gets wild at night

Crowning the christmas tree