Kiwi Season again

Witty comments to follow.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you had a wonderful day! We are very thankful for our family!




I couldn't decide which of these I liked better!

I hope T didn't strain his back!


The yummy dinner!

School Spirit

Who's got spirit?


This very same day someone at work was telling me that he liked his child's $20k/year private school, but it was a bit heavy on the school pride. Good to know we have that for free! We do really like the school.

And here is LT practicing for their Native American culture celebration program (it's tommorow):


He's very excited about and so am I!

Soccer

This weekend LT will have his end-of-season soccer tournament. I haven't said too much about it, but we have been going to one practice a week and a game each Saturday since mid-August or so? LT started off slow (not wanting to play in the game) and has really blossomed. He's made friends, learned how to be part of the team, and acutually played some good soccer! He's pretty good in goal!

The fans

Uh oh, bored already!?!

Warm up

Pre-game line up and it looks likes maybe a pattycake game?

How the goalie celebrates a good defensive play

A save!

Now working the ball on offense

Throw in, I love that they're using a pink ball!

Home Improvement

TT did some hard work last month refinishing the deck, so I'm showing it off for him.

Before...

After cleaning ...

After!


Looks nice, doesn't it? We got a quote of $500 to refinish it and I think it was just $100 in supplies and hard labor to do it ourselves. :)

November 1st

Unexpected fun (hence the skivies) at the beach today with beautiful weather. Didn't seem like Novemeber!

Happy Halloween!

We started out with pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes.

TT carved his :)


The trick-or-treaters... the start of a 3 hour trek.


The house in it's holiday finery.

Tahoe

I hadn't seen Lake Tahoe in 20 years since the big family Tour de California in back 1989. Finally got back to it this weekend, and it was just lovely. We visited some friends who were visting from England and rented a house and it was really nice. Only one tiring moment at lunch Sunday... 2 kids are a lot harder than 1! That was followed by a great time lakeside. We threw in pinecones and rocks, played with sticks, just had fun!

Hike to Frog Lake, only DT & I made it as a certain older boy wasn't feeling well

DT loved making snow balls, everytime we saw snow he would say "ball, ball" and want to run over there



Like 2 birds of a feather


DT's fish face, love it!

Sweet baby who needs a haircut, just can't do it

the whole fam!

Traveling Tom's visit

LT's class has a mascot that travels to different kids' houses for a night when the class is behaved. The student fills out a page in Tom's journal and adds pictures before returning him the next day. The lucky student's name is pulled out of a hat. The first time LT's name was pulled, he forgot Tom at after school care and had to return him without bringing him home. This time you'd better believe he didn't forget!

TT went with us to buy Halloween candy, read some stories, just had some fun... here are some of his adventures.

Time Once Again ...

for the annual Pumpkin Patch Pilgramage!

Walk-A-Thon

LT's school had it's big Walk-A-Thon fundraiser this weekend. It was fun and exhausting and I think (hope?) we're done with fundraiser for the rest of the school year. LT walked 10 full miles - I'm so proud of him!

With Louie the Bulldog

With his walking posse

What DT & I were doing to amuse ourselves

Walking with Traveling Tom!

At the end - 10 mile club!

Sunday in Monterey

We were trying to decide what we could do today when someone came up with the great idea of going to Monterey. We still have our aquarium memberships, after all! First off, we went for a little walk and managed to see both an otter and a sea lion. Woohoo, score! And here we are ...






How you know your kid is tuckered out? They don't even wake up when you come inside and put them down on the entry bench ... he's still sleeping, maybe he's just going to bed?