Visit With Santa

It looks like I forced them, but I didn't (well except for Riley I guess).  

Good thing this was free.  Ahhhh! Memories!

November Visit

Lance's parents stopped by for two days on their way down to Fresno for Thanksgiving.  We had a fun time in Tracy the first day taking them to their first Squeeze Inn experience and playing at the park.

 The next day went to San Francisco and spent the afternoon at The Exploratorium.  My girls loved it!  They didn't want to leave.

Afterwards, we stopped by our favorite bakery (probably in the entire world), Tartine and got a plethora of goodies to take home and then picked up a pizza at our favorite pizza place in Oakland and ate it in the car before heading home.  It was a fun way to start our Thanksgiving week!

Thanksgiving Dinner

 I had a simple, but wonderful Thanksgiving this year.  My aunt Cheryl came from Modesto and spent the afternoon with us.

I love how my table turned out.  It was not planned, just sort of put together last minute, but it may be my favorite holiday table yet!  Maybe I should not plan things more often!

 I hope your Thanksgiving day was wonderful too! 

A Fun and Eventful October

Meeting Daddy at the temple for pizza in the parking lot and FHE on the rooftop!

Sophie's first filling!  Love the nitrous...she did so great!

Dinner with friends at a swanky french restaurant in San Francisco

Riverbank 5k with Leslie and Courtney

Halloween Decorations...I can't resist a little sparkle, even if it's creepy! 

Ward truck or treat...aarrr!

Our yearly visit to Joan's Pumpkin Patch

Carving our pumpkins!

Sophie's ghost & heart and Avery's cat

Doing the dirty work for Dad!

Avery's preschool Halloween carnival

 Our pretty pirates ready for trick or treating!

Our First Family Campout

We've been promising the girls we'd go camping for a while now but there always seemed to be something else going on.  So this conference weekend, we decided to just pack up and go (which is simplifying it greatly because packing up for camping is a lot of work!).  We went for one night to Del Valle in Livermore, a short drive from us.  But the girls LOVED it!  

This girl loves sticks!

She had to bring her "suitcase" :)

Taking notes for us in the tent!

More note taking!  

I do not recommend using jumbo marshmallows for s'mores.  Too much of a good thing!

Roasting marshmallows! 

A happy camper

Making breakfast on a cold morning!  

A Few More Pictures From Tough Mudder

The Team

Focused!

Lots of mud involved in this one!

They said there were hills, but holy cow!

Running through electrical wires!