1st Advent

the kids wanted to paint on them selfs !!

Later in the afternoon Toner, Jamir and the kids came over for Dinner !!

Thanksgiving Day and Weekend !!!

We spend our Thanksgiving weekend at the Beachhouse, with the Family

Anthony ready to hunt for our Meal :)

Ken, Donna and Grandpa

Katarina and Michaela

John ( Ken's Dad)Michaela and Kelly

Anthony playing with the kids...
After a wonderful Thanksgiving meal we walked down to the Beach

Friday we spend most of our day at the Beach and after dinner we went up to Santa Barbara

for a nice walk.

Pine Cone Turkey's

Today Jamir invited us to come over for a little arts ans craft day!!!
The kids had so much fun making little turkeys out of Pine Cones, we are going to use the as
centerpieces tomorrow !!!

Katarina and Tatum made a Indian headband for Tia, that was so sweet of them !!!
Tates and her wonderful Turkey !!!

Thank you so much Jamir that was a lot of fun !!!

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Fest !!

Today I went for the first time to help in Katarina Class, we where setting up for their little
Thanksgiving fest, it was so cute the kids their where singing and even doing a hock- pocky
Turkey dance !!! It was very funny !!

Katarina's whole ClassJust the Girls !!

Mrs. Bernard and Katarina
We are so thankful for her she is just the best Teacher, and Katarina just loves her !!

Lauryn, Audrey, Katarina and Mrs. Bernard

Cute little buddy's, how sweet :)

Dinner with friends !!!

Our friends Dustin and Dionne came down from Bend OR. to spend the Thanksgiving holidays
with Family down here, so Christine had a big dinner for some friends so we could all see them again. It was so nice to see them all!!

Jamir, Nolan, Dionne and Christine

Katarina, I, Janet, Morgan, Tatum, Dionne, Christine, Tia, Nolan and Jamir

The Guys having some Beer
So cute Jamir and Nolan
the Kids Tatum, Tristan, Calvin, Morgan, Tia, Katarina and Thomas

the little girls just love the older girls...

Thomas and Tristan

McKenna and Katarina

thank you Christine, we all had so much fun, exeped for Mc Kenna who ended up in the ER because she fell out of a Tree in the Backyard and hurt her foot. Poor Kenna ;(

It was so nice to see everyone again.

We miss you guys !!!

Some fun at the Mall !!!

Dionne and McKenna

McKenna even got to roll around in a Wheelchair, shopping on crutches is not an easy thing for anybody, so all the kids got to have some fun rides on the Wheelchair with her.
We where hoping to see Santa Claus but he was out to Dinner !!

Vasquez Rocks

Today was such a beautiful Day so we went for a hike in the Vasquez Rocks, it is just amazing how beautiful these Rocks are. Our friends Charity and her kids Ashlyn and Madeline came with us.
Even the kids enjoy the scenery and of course their love to climb on the Rocks!
Proud Daddy, we all where surprised how good Thomas climbed in the rocks.

Thomas, Katarina and Jim

Our little explorer having fun on our hike.

Madeline and Katarina

Ashlyn climbing the rocks

Charity, Madeline and Ashlyn

Thomas found a perfect little seat for him self..