Avery Turns 4!

Happy Birthday, big brother! I'm always looking up to you.

Ringing in the New Year in Murphys, California

We spent New Year's with our regular Redwood City crew. 

These are friends of Chris's since childhood. 

Our New Year's gatherings are raucous now that we all have kids between 1 and 6 years old. 

L to R: Zach with his kids, Zeal, Lois and mom Aimee, Chris, Alexander, Avery

Avery and Finn

Chole, Sofia, Lois, Avery (all 4 of these kids parents were dear highschool friends!)

Most of us in Big Trees Park (where is Aimee?)

Boys with sticks

Christmas, Christmas

Avery's first Nutcracker Ballet (with Mama)

Avery's evening singalong at school

(The season's first great opportunity to sport the holiday outfits.)

Pre-Christmas in Oakland...What's this?

Ahh! Drums! Truly a gift that just keeps on giving (Mama a headache)

To D.C.

Braunohler tradition #1: gingerbread house making

Zeal, deciding whose side is the best

Braunohler tradition #2: An afternoon in Georgetown

Tradition # 3: A morning at the mall

Smithsonian's Natural History Museum

Early humans exhibit!

This is Avery's early human depiction

And Mama's! Yikes!

New Braunohler tradition: Avery goes on a date with Mimi and Opa

Everytime we see each other

Katie (Peter's fiance) and cat Dudley

We decided this is Peter's neanderthal depiction

Handsome broheim

Tradition #4: A hike on the Billy Goat trail along the Potomac River

Sisters

Great uncle modeling (drinking beer out of a frisbee on Christmas eve)
Hopefully, not a new tradition.

Tradition # 5: Singing carols at the neighborhood circle with a visit from Santa.
Here, Avery is trying to figure out if this is really his Opa.
And yes, it is.

Braunohler tradition #6: All the males in the family wear striped Christmas pajamas
(though only these two were willing to be photographed in them)