A CHRISTMAS COLLAGE

We are in the middle of Charley's two week stay in California over Christmas & New Years. I'll start off with our latest four generation photo taken yesterday at my dad's house in Roseville.

Four generations of the Bray/Silver family. We got pretty lucky we were all smiling without looking goofy - no easy feat in my family.

Here are the same four generations a little over four years ago when Charley was just a few weeks old. Same chair & lamp but a different house!

Darrin & I decorated her Hayward room with Disney Fairies & Princesses. She loves watching the Disney Fairy movies & I do, too!

Here is her bed with the Fairy blanket & sheets. There are lots more Princess & Fairy stick ons all around her room.

Daddy & Charley embarked on a four night Christmas road trip to Sonora (to visit Grandpa Allen & Marilyn), Sacramento (to visit Gaga & Lou) & Roseville (to visit Pop).

Daddy's little two-seater airplane is up in Columbia near Sonora & Charley flew with Daddy for the first time! She loved it! Look at the expression on her face - it says it all. She was so excited that Daddy let her fly it up in the air! Come to think of it, Daddy looks pretty excited himself to share his passion with his daughter. Another flyer in the family!

It was thumbs up & lots of smiles back on the ground.

Daddy & Charley in their jammies & Santa hats on Christmas morning at Grandpa Allen & Marilyn's.

Baking muffins with Gaga.

A "Baker's dozen" is 13 but we invented the "Charley dozen" which is 11 because she ate so much batter we couldn't fill all 12 cups.

Fresh from the bathtub with wet hair watching "The Princess & the Frog" & eating a lollipop.

In order to accommodate everyone, we had our family's Christmas celebration on December 27th at Pop's house in Roseville with my sister & her husband (Zizi & Steve). 

Zizi & Steve gave Charley a pop-up Frozen house which she made Daddy crawl around in with her. Fortunately it folds up quickly to about 18" around & 3" thick.

Opening her pile of presents with Zizi & Gaga.

One of her gifts from Gaga & Lou was a Fawn (an Animal Fairy) doll which she loved.

But at the end of the day something as simple as a candy cane made her extremely happy. That's Lou in the background watching football with his Forty-Niner Santa hat.