Christmas with the Lambs!

I love Traditions! Every Christmas evening is spent with the entire Lamb Family.

Dave and Jennie drive their family from Las Vegas so the entire family is together
...all 47 of us!

We start with a delicious dinner...yum!

Then comes the Family talent show. Each family shares a talent. I took these photos...hopefully someone took a picture of my family acting out the nativity with Baby Wendy playing the role of the baby Jesus (Too Cute!)
Scott, Marilyn & Kids sang Santa Baby with
Dylan & Makenzie on the guitar and Sean on the Piano

Jennie, Dave and kids sang a song about how it doesn't snow in Las Vegas with Jacob & Gracie doing a little dance during the chorus...
How funny that it did snow in Vegas a few days earlier.
Steve, Angie & kids sang a Hana Montana Christmas song
with a little help from Harrison

The Blackburn kids wrote a tribute song to their parents that was AMAZING!!
We can't wait until the newest Blackburn, Sophie, joins the singing group!

The finale was Chrissy, Brandon and boys! Harrison was great on his horn
and Frankie showing how BIG he was!

Presents are opened with a wrapping paper throwing fight to follow

Grandma & Grandpa gives PJ's each year to the grandchildren.

We are all happy that Scott & Marilyn host this party each year in their home...
and for adding on 500 square feet to their home this year so we can all fit!

The fun continues the next day with a Lamb family trip to Knott's Berry Farm!

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year!

Christmas Cookies

It's our annual Christmas cookie decorating contest! We have started a tradition... the Sunday before Christmas we decorate Christmas cookies. Charles is the judge.Here are some of the Winners...the luckey winner recieved a jar of Apple Butter!

The Mom Song

The Mom Song says it ALL. (period:)

Every mom can relate (I guess every kid can too). I laughed so hard when I watched this.

Lamb Family Christmas Photo Shoot

We had our family Christmas photo taken by Ruthy...She did such a great job! She even photo shopped to help make us all look beautiful!

We had them taken at one of my favorite locations. Downtown Fullerton at Charles' office building, The Villa Del Sol. I love them so I had to share them all with you.








It wouldn't be a complete without a funny face picture...they usually end up being some of our favorites!

Vanessa is so talented...she took a lot of the pictures that she isn't in. I love the way she captured the moment with Wendy & her grandpa and Charles & IThis our first family photo shoot with little Wendy Lu!

A Wonderful Thanksgiving Day

I love Thanksgiving...

This year the day started with a great game of flag football in the park. The Schultz family womped up a big game. About 32 people played, 16 on each side. It was a little crazy but a lot of fun!

Little Wendy Lu enjoyed watching the game too!

Charles was one of the few players who actually touched the ball until he pulled a muscle in his leg. We the hosted the Big Thanksgiving Dinner for the Lamb family. 38 people including the kids. I cooked the 23 pound turkey...yum. Charles smoked some Salmon...more yum! Everyone else brought the side dishes...even more yum! Some annual favorites are Grandma Lamb's home made croissant rolls, Chrissy's pumpkin cookies and Sue's special green salad.

We set up dinner outside, because I like a sit down dinner...my house is too small. So we set up tables on my driveway! I hang sheets on the archway for a little privacy.
I was little nervous because of the threat of rain. But it ended up being a beautiful day.

The Fire is still burning

We woke this morning to a strong smell of smoke & fire...but we are still in our home. The fire in our area is only 5% contained with heavy winds expected today. I was glued to the television until about 1:30 this morning and as soon as we were up we were back to our places in front of the TV.

Here are some photos of the thick layer of ash that is covering our home and our city.

Fire in Brea, my home town

This morning Ruth & I were in East Brea working out in a boot camp. It is a great 1 hour work out. Ruth talked me into doing it with her. I am glad she did. I have muscles waking up that have been asleep for a long time.

This morning it was so hot and dry, it made our work out a little harder then usual. Then the wind started. I told Ruth that this was fire weather.., Unfortunately, I was correct. But I never imagine it would happen in my town. About an hour after I arrived home I was out the door again for an appointment. I notice two different spots were a little fires had just started. I could see little black clouds of smoke.

One looked as if it was a couple of miles from my home, in the park were Ruth and I had our workout. The other looked like it was in the next city over. I called my sister-in-law, Chrissy, who lives in Yorba Linda and asked if her home was on fire because were I was driving it looked like the fire was in her yard. She looked outside and gasped. She said it was dark and smoky. Her family had to be evacuated hours later.

My little city and the neighboring cities have been burning all day. A lot of friends from church have been evacuated. So far there have been no homes destroyed in Brea. There has been rumors of restaurants and buildings being burned. Sadly, in Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills over 100 homes have been destroyed.

A beautiful home I was in just a few weeks ago has been burned to the ground.

The wind and heat is supposed to continue through tomorrow.

Hopefully it isn't going to get worse before it gets better.

My eyes have been glued to the news.

Here are some photos of the fire next to

Nathan's High School about 3 miles from our home

This photo was taken during the middle of the day.

The smoke was so thick that it made the sun look like a dull light.

This was a Yorba Linda Neighborhood

My office is in Yorba Linda and most of the agents live there too.

I pray that their homes will be spared.

Every year we have fires in Southern California due to our Santa Ana winds. But this is the first time in my life when the destruction was in my own backyard.

My Prayers are for those who have lost their homes and for our brave firemen who will be fighting these fires all night to save our neighborhoods.