Bay Area Discovery Museum

We rounded out the four day holiday weekend with a trip over the bridge to the bay area discovery museum and lunch at Fish in Sausalito with the Murphy-Mortimore family.

Sea Bowl

We spent the day after Thanksgiving nursing a headache from Jason's signature T-Giving cocktail, the liquid apple pie, at Sea Bowl with Mara, Chuck and the girls. Greasy pizza and coke and a few games of bowling did the trick! We may just have to make it an annual day after Thanksgiving event.

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving at our house with Gigi, Giggen, Floyd and family, our friends Jodi, Scott and their daughters and a friend of Giggen's, Leah. We had a potluck style dinner and everyone brought lots of great food to share. Jodi brought over some crafts for the kids to make Native American vests and head pieces which was also a big hit. Jason topped off the evening with a new signature thanksgiving cocktail. As usual I got tons of photos of the kids, but none of the adults. I love turkey day!

Lovely Lola

Ben, Bren and Lola stopped through town on their way to relocating to North Carolina. They stayed with us for about a week and it was great to get to spend time with the whole family and especially to get to catch up with Ben and Bren after kids went to sleep. There were trips to the zoo, Golden Gate Park, afternoon dance parties, dim sum, and lots more. Lola has gotten so big since the last time we've seen her and she certainly held her own in a house with two older and very rowdy little boys. They miss having her around and have been asking when she is coming back. Hopefully we'll see them all at the beach this summer.

Halloween Double Date

The boys joined Julia and Kenzie for an evening of trick-or-treating on Belvedere Street. The costumes and themed houses did not disappoint, though it is a little overwhelming for the kids, they loved it. Uncle Sean and Aunt Tiff, Gigi, Giggen and Grumpy came as well so it was a big group to keep together in such a crowd. Malcolm is already asking when we get to go again!

Halloween Parades

Both Wyatt and Malcolm participated in Halloween parades at their schools. Wyatt's class (actually all the kindergarten classes at Grattan!) paraded down Cole street stopping by our house for some treats along the way. Malcolm's class paraded around the covered carport area at Happy Times. Both boys were very happy and couldn't be more excited to go trick-or-treating at night.

Grumpy's Visit

This past weekend we had a nice visit from Grumpy. We did lots of relaxing, eating, hanging out at the beach and even got to go trick-or-treating with him. Hopefully he will come back soon.

K-107

A few weeks ago I stopped by K-107 to work on a little craft project with Wyatt's class followed by lunch. We made paper plate chickens for "farm week" at Grattan. The chickens, complete with goggly eyes and real feathers were a big hit.

Engine Number 12

Papa was lucky enough to be selected as a chaperone for Mr. Draven's classes first field trip to the fire station. The kids had a great time on their big adventure, walked there and back to school, got to sit in a fire truck and even got to spray a fire hose.