Eat It!

We had such a great time visiting with Bill's parents this week. We kept busy and ate a ton of food, ofcourse. We went to Balboa Peninsula for some beach fun, the short dive to the Pacific does not get old. Bill and I were spoiled rotten and were able to sneak off to not one, but TWO movies. (American Gangster and No Country For Old Men-b-r-u-t-a-l-) The kids too were spoiled rotten, what other Grandma and Grandpa would bring real, dead, owl pellets to dissect? CC and O are still talking about it.

Come back soon, we are missing you guys!

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians

CC's preschool had a Thanksgiving feast on Monday. One class dressed as Pilgrims and Claire's class dressed as Indians. It was very sweet. One funny thing, if you enlarge the picture of the kids eating you can see the yellow caution tape that the parents were asked to stay behind. I guess they didn't want us to get too close. It kinda prevented me from getting a good picture. CC loves her teacher and her preschool and they seem really great with the kids. I just think parents annoy them.

In other news, Owen had his last baseball game. It was an awkward season. This was O's first time playing on a baseball team and he struggled a bit. He was always excited to play but I think it made him nervous at the same time. He just wanted to be good at it, automatically. I hope he decides to give it another go in the spring. It is so tough to find the middle ground of pushing your kids not to give up on difficult things but not pushing too hard. Who wants a seven year old with an ulcer? In happier news, Owen's social life is awesome. He has his 3rd birthday party to attend this weekend and 2 playdates lined up next week. That kid has no trouble meeting friends. When I walk him to school there is a chorus of "Hey Owen's!" In the happiest news, Grandma and Grandpa arrive tonight from Oregon!!!! Happy Thanksgiving.

Blowin' In The Wind

Sorry, I could not come up with an appropriate U2 song title. The family went on a little camping trip this weekend to Joshua Tree National Park. I have to admit I was being a little bit of a baby about camping in November. I was worried that we would be the only people there (creepy) and that it would be too cold. When we got there (without reservations) all of the campgrounds were full! Thanks to a very nice group of Boy Scouts, they let us have a campsite they had reserved but did not need. We ended up having a great time. It was chilly but not too cold. The weather we did not expect, were the wind gusts that started up at about 3:30 am. Bill had to chase down a part of the tent. The kids and I were laughing trying to hold the thing down. We started our day at about 5am. We took a nice hike through the desert and the kids loved it. Camping is alot of work for just one night, next time we will plan for two and make reservations to be safe. Pretty strange looking trees, they look a little arthritic.

This is Halloween 2007

Our first California Halloween was a success. We were invited to a birthday party for a little girl in Claire's class and we all had a great time and met some super nice people. They live in a ideal

development for trick-or-treating, so we all went as a group. My kids were pretty happy to have some buddies to hang out with. Let me tell you, some of these houses went all out with the decorations. One house turned their living room into a mini haunted house. We ended up in their garage after winding through their house (which they must have moved all of their furniture out of!) I also saw ALOT of very cute dogs all costumed out. The weather was great. We were able to go to a couple of our neighbor's houses when we got home.