Merry Christmas 2021

 On Christmas Eve afternoon, we watched It's a Wonderful Life at the base theater then headed to Mass.  Camden was an altar server.

Family picture session back at home

Opening their Christmas pajamas

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Christmas morning cuddles with Herky

Opening gifts

We spent the morning watching Christmas movies

Celebrating at Dave & Maddalena's house

Madds, Mel, and me :) 

Mel & Emma

Selfie with Frankie and Gabri

Dave & Chris

Opening presents

Playing the Lava Floor game

Me, Chris, & Mel

Life Lately: December Edition

 We are officially on Winter Break! The first 3 weeks were full of festive fun. Here's a few highlights:

December 1st was the NSA Naples Holiday Tree Lighting.  The rain (kind of) stayed away for the event and it turned out amazing!

NES Ugly Sweater Holiday Party

The Winners: Troy, Dausha, and Desirae

Chris received his official photo with Dr. Biden 

A sweet surprise from Germany!  Jen came down to Naples for a quick reunion

Bridget, Jen, Me, Mel, Madds, and Victoria

Herky living his best wintertime life

Before the inner-squad scrimmage, the basketball teams had pictures taken.  Here are the silly Juniors. 

Wildcat selfie

We celebrated Maria's Fabulous 50th Birthday

We danced and sang the night away! 

Wildcat Basketball Scrimmage

The DoDEA Europe winter sports schedule was put on hold for the month of December. The kids have been itching to play in front of a crowd, so they held a inner-squad scrimmage for their families on Tuesday.  

#11 kicking butt at point guard

Camden did an awesome job in his first high school basketball game!

Coach K doing what he loves!

Orvieto Saturday

Saturday started with a stop at Madonna de Latte to pick up some wine, then we headed into Orvieto for lunch

Emma has her own store in town!

We ended the afternoon at Neri winery

We visited Neri back in 2018, so Melissa and the kids recreated a picture :)

A BLESSED WEEKEND!