Christmas away from home.

Here is one the beautiful churches in San Francisco where we all went to Mass.


It seemed different to be away.

But it indeed was a beautiful service.

By the end of our trip, this picture kind of sums it up on how we all felt..

Happy New Year to everyone!

The Holidays in San Francisco

For the most part, we had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's celebration in San Francisco.


Everything we did kind of revolved around great food!

Kim and I did a brief shopping trip downtown where the stores were beautifully decorated.

Then, of course, we had lunch!

The skating rink downtown was filled to capacity.

One of the evenings we had a cocktail in a very unique Tiki bar where we watched a rainstorm take place inside the restaurant right before our eyes.

Out to lunch..

David , Leslie, and the family are in town from Oklahoma so we met up with them for lunch on Tuesday

Here are Chris and Kellie,David, Pat, and Dick looking over the menu.

And here are Bob, (making a goofy face) Leslie, and Katie.

I ordered a beautiful and yummy walnut raspberry salad that was very tasty. We had a really nice visit. It's always fun seeing the Bykowski "clan."

It's A Wonderful Life.

Sunday evening we braved the frigid sub-zero temperatures and went to see "It's A Wonderful Life" at the Sunset Playhouse.


If we didn't have tickets we never would have gone, but it turned out to be a very enjoyable show.

Even though we have all seen this movie on TV a hundred times, it still is fun to see George Bailey and his wife, Mary, live on stage, along with the rest of the residents of Bedford Falls.

meanwhile..back in Wisconsin...

This is what we woke up to this morning. It seems like it just hasn't stopped snowing in days!

Here is Bob having the time of his life..snow blowing!

The entire city is pretty much shut down at least for the morning.

We just heard another snowfall is expected tomorrow. How much you ask? Does it matter??

Shaelin doing what he likes best.

Shaelin was over for a few hours on Sunday and he was in the mood to make a little music.


Here he is counting to ten "to get the beat!"

He really likes playing the drums. Wonder where he gets it from???

Saturday at home chopping ice

Because we have been having so much snow and temperatures that are low one day and higher the next, we built up a large amount of ice in our rain gutters.


So here is Bob chopping away at some of the ice.

This is a small portion of the huge amount of ice he managed to get out the gutters! It seems to be an endless task.