2007 INO Adopt A Family

Every year each INO store adopts a family and provides for them a Christmas that they otherwise would've never had. It's all done anonymously, so the family has no clue as to who is helping them. The associates donate money, canned food, gift cards, etc and then we deliver them to the family. This was on Saturday, and it was so fun to see the faces of these kids. Not to mention the mom - she cried she was so grateful. This is one of the things I love best at this time of year.

Austin was a little reluctant taking his present!

The McCumber family

My associates and I with the family (thanks baby for going and being the photographer!)

Nicole, Mama Jeanne, Ryan

These poor folks thought we were open and were hoping to get a burger...at 8:00 in the morning!

Mitch


Jess, Dennie, Briana

INO Christmas Breakfast

Chris-peace! and Benjamin

Diana and I starting on the pancakes

Barb, Yvette and Ashley

That would be me mixing up the pancake batter

Diana going 3 rows!

This is JR, one of my managers. He's grilling up all the bacon and sausage - YUM!

Kryssta, one of my associates

Cool skateboard!

I thought this was pretty cool - I should've got a close up though. This skater kid and his friend came into the store the other day and I had to take a pic of his board. The bottom of it is completely covered in INO bumper stickers! Love it!

WE FOUND OUT!

Well, here she is! I know, I know, I can't even read these things, but let's try...Top left - a shot of her profile. Top right - a shot of her face (you can kinda see the eye sockets). Bottom left - no clue! Bottom right - a shot of her bum with nothing in between those little legs! We're so excited!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!

My husband loves pictures! Can't you tell by that face?!

Yet again-oh this is so fun untangling all these little metal hangy thingys.

I'm enjoying it though!

These are our INO ornaments - I love them!



We're getting a little more excited here...

The finished project!

we didn't find out :(

This morning at 10am the hospital called us and told us they needed to reschedule our ultrasound appt cause there was an emergency with the tech that does them. We were pretty disappointed needless to say, but luckily they had an appt. for tomorrow and we are both off work still. So tomorrow at 1:45 is it! (hopefully they don't call us again in the am!)

Alas the Christmas pictures are up! These are from our annual INO Christmas party at the Disneyland hotel. The company flies us out and puts on this fabulous party every year. The theme this year was Caribbean Christmas!

Lui eating the giant swordfish!!!

this is our good friend Lisa and her grandbaby Lily. Lui was getting a little practice in (wink wink)

This picture is from long ago. My parents had a wedding shop when we were little. Dad did all the photography and mom did all the food, cakes, etc. This is one of the pictures they took of us kids. From left to right: Matt, me (Coco), Jenn, Chris

Family Photos

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BYE BYE 350Z, HELLO FJ CRUISER!!!



LAST WEEK LUI AND I TRADED IN THE Z FOR THE FJ. WE FIGURED THE Z ISN'T A VERY "FAMILY-FRIENDLY" CAR, SO NOW WE HAVE THIS!

last saturday at my monthly store meeting we had a costume contest. brianna was a small cup and diana was a center pull (basically a roll of paper towels)! very creative i must say!

I guess we'll make this official - we're gonna have a baby! I'm 12 weeks and 4 days, and I've been very fortunate not to have any morning sickness at all! I know, I can hardly believe it myself! Lui and I are so excited cause we got to hear the hearbeat today. This whole thing has been a little surreal because of the fact that I haven't had a whole lot of "the usual" pregnancy symptoms. But today when we heard our baby's heart, it made it all very real. What a blessing.

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