Saturday, November 30, 2019

News from November

We have certainly been enjoying our time down here in CA and we are continuing to keep busy (sometimes too busy).
 The soccer seasons came to an end. Jaydon's team went undefeated and were pretty dominant throughout the season! They had fun. Lucy's team won a game and tied a game and they improved a ton this season.


 My team spoiled me with this fun gift basket and an individual gift card from every family, it was crazy but super sweet.
 
I got 'volunteered' to be the BINGO night chairperson. I had a great committee and we pulled off the first Stone Lake Bingo Night, it was such a success we are now doing another one in a couple months! The prize baskets are above, then one of me MCing and a couple of the kids. It was a lot of fun and I am sure glad I have quite a bit of experience putting on events!



Our church hosted a pups and pies event to help sponsor the new animal shelter that was built in our city. We got to pie the pastors and the kids had a good time.






Lucy had to disguise a turkey to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday, she decided to make her turkey into a peacock, I think it will live!
We let Jaydon play fantasy football this year (he has begged for a couple seasons). It is a random league with strangers but he is having a great time and learning a lot. He started off not doing so hot but his team has scored the most points for the entire season (and he has had the most points scored against him which is why he struggled early) but now he is doing pretty well.
We bid on dinner out with the second grade teachers at the Fall Festival and won, so Jaydon, Lucy and Kate got to eat a fun dinner with teachers (Jaydon's teacher from last year and Lucy's current teacher) while Jeremy and I snuck in a dinner date on the other side of the wall. It was great!


Science Night! Our school put on an amazing science night and the kids had a great time.
The shirt from one of the college science clubs that came to present, Jeremy has one that says "talk Nerdy to me" with nerdy made the same way out of the periodic table.
Working hard on her booklet (they had to write something they wondered and something they discovered about each station they went to)


I didn't get a pic but all three of mine ended up being prize winners in the raffle so they were extra thrilled.
Jaydon and Jeremy got to go on an adventure! They were able to fly up to Sea (barely, with a cancelled flight and another delay on the way) and make it in time for the Sounders MLS Cup game against Toronto. What an experience for them both! A trip they will always remember. And the Sounders won!!!


Jeremy and Jaydon with a friend of Jeremy's from HS (and his wife) and a friend from college (and his wife). Awesome!

Thanksgiving Trip

We had a wonderful trip to Redding to visit with cousins over Thanksgiving weekend. Good food, good company, fun adventures. It was a lovely little get away for a couple nights.
We went for a night walk to see the crazy house that runs lights to music and even happened to catch the man coming home so he gave the kids candy canes. Sorry for the creepy eyes and blurry, just tried to snap a quick shot and it wasn't so good
We went to the Sundial Bridge and then headed into Turtle Bay. We saw some cool exhibits, animals, played a great playground and got to feed the parrots.



View of the Sundial above and then a view off the bridge below

Cousins Sally and Rich and Gavin joined my 3 kiddos

Monday, November 25, 2019

Monterey Trip

We had an aquarium membership that needed to be used twice in a calendar year so we headed back to Monterey at the beginning of the week off for Thanksgiving. We made it to the amazing aquarium and then drove by Carmel and saw views of Pebble Beach Golf Course from the beach. It was a great quick trip!
Golf course on the bluff
Looking at the Ocean
Dipping our feet in the sand on our walk (keep in mind this is late Nov), it was so nice!

A kid pic
Battling the shadows.
Enjoying the aquarium
Sitting under the crashing wave!