Happy New Year!

(party at my house)

Inflatable Santa

Christmas 2009, Phu Quoc, Vietnam

Bird @ Rockefeller

Nephew Ryan

Preparing for Tet

Gardeners in Hanoi’s famous flower and apricot village of Nhat Tan are in a hurry to cultivate trees to prepare for the lunar New Year (Tet holiday), which is coming in over a month. [from Vietnamnet Bridge]

Christmas Morning

December 25th, 7AM. One kid really excited to open presents, one kid pouting. Neither kid wanting to sit down for a picture.

Easy Bake Oven

Contemplating all the possibilities...

Results! Merry Christmas :-)

Merry Christmas from the Schmidts

Merry Christmas from Gianna

Precision Cookie Decorating

Bruno

Macaw Ornament

Candy Cane

Gianna inspects the gift from Santa.

Somerset Santa

Santa and Gianna, 2011

Santa and Gianna, 2008

Expensive Maus

That's $58.95 USD for a Steiff stuffed mouse ornament. Pricey! But a nice gift idea for your scientist friends.

Christmas photo

Cookie Decorating

Gianna has mastered the pastry bag. Next week: icing roses

Squirrel & Holly

More Google party photos

Palmer Square Christmas Tree

Santa Shops in Princeton

Gingerbread

Google Christmas Party

Prom style photos courtesy of the Google photographers.

Bratwurst Platter

That's two kinds of bratwurst, senf (mustard), sauerkraut, and kartoffel salat (potato salad) with some glühwein to wash it all down (kinderwasser for the kinder).

Raised by Wolves

Gnomes and Stollen

Fur Dich

Nutcracker from Käthe Wohlfahrt shop at the Philadelphia Christmas Village. This handsome fellow has a beer stein that says "Prost", a groß pretzel, and a gingerbread heart that says "fur dich". Too bad he cost $94.

Lap Dog