If Home Is Where Your Heart Is. . . .

We are having a BLAST in Cabo! It is such a blessing to get to be here with family every year! Braner Party of 7 is enjoying some much needed R&R TOGETHER as a family and we are loving the time we are getting to spend with GoGo and Pops! We are so fortunate!!! We are loving the sun and the pool and the waves and the beach! Yesterday we got to let 65 sea turtles go into the ocean (a little bitter sweet since only 1 in 1000 actually survive. . .we probably saw them on their first and only day alive). I don't think the kids will forget that experience for a long time! Enjoy the pictures! There will be more to come later in the trip! Today is the last day of 2010 and I am thrilled to see it go!!! (Thanks for all of my birthday wishes, too!!!) I have great expectations for the year to come!!!

All of Braner Party of 7 hit the slopes today!  Gabby skiied!  It was so much fun to be up there together!  (Exhausting, but fun!)  I cannot wait until none of us crash off the lift and none of us need harnesses, but that day will come.  Until then, we are all works in progress and we had a ball on the mountain today!

We drove around to see the lights tonight (I used to hate doing this because living in Branson was Christmas light overload, but Durango has made me miss the lights).  So, most of the houses in BeBe and PaPa's neighborhood are tastefully decorated for Christmas and it is very fun to drive through.  We rounded the corner and this is what we saw: The house we see as we round the corner. . . . A close-up of the sign in front of the house. . . . The house next door that the "ditto" sign was pointing at. . . . Another view of "ditto's" neighbors. . . .

All piled in the car headed to Christmas Eve service at Kirk of the Hills

We are in Tulsa with Andy's parents and his brother and sister-in-law and their three kids.  We've been having a great day today. . . .Christmas, lost tooth, bowling, go carts and everything! Tiki on "Belle" and Gabby on Andy's old horse who he named "Bob Barker" Maggie with her cousins Mollie and Gracie My wonderful kiddos! Gabby and Tiki with Mollie and Gracie BeBe and Gabby Gabby and Mollie with their bowling balls that weigh one third what they weigh BeBe and PaPa and their gilrs