'Tis the Season!

 

If you stare at this long enough it makes your eyes do funny things. Trust me I did.

 

Our sweet girls reading Christmas stories to one another!

 

Maggie LOVES to play piano and could she look any older in this picture? So not a baby. Boo hoo!

 

This is where the ornaments should go, right?

 

Gretta liked putting things up high so "Maggie can't eat 'em"

As for the sorry state of Maggie's shirt, that would be drool people. 

 

Gingerbread house! Not only was this Gretta's first time, believe it or not, I had never made one either!

 

Looks just like the picture on the box.

 

YAY for Christmastime!

Thankful

I am thankful. That's what THANKSgiving day is all about... not to mention the turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, football, parades......but mostly it's about being thankful! I am thankful for a wonderful husband who works hard for all of us and thankful that I am able to stay home with my girls and watch them grow and learn and be. It might not be sunshine, rainbows and unicorns all the time, but most days are pretty darn great. We are thankful for our friends and family who we miss lots and lots! We are thankful that Josh's last chemo treatment is next week! He'll undergo radiation after the holidays and we are hopeful he gets a clean bill of health soon, we seem to be in the home stretch as far as treatment goes though!  There are really so many things to be thankful for every day we can't even begin to list them all, which is really a lucky thing!

YAY for Thanksgiving!

This has become my new favorite photo spot if you couldn't tell....lighting is GREAT!

On the phone with Grandma and Grandpa

I know this is being posted the day after Thanksgiving, but we hope you all had a wonderful day and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Who knew?!

 

This is the view coming down our street......who knew that we'd have fall here?? It makes me so happy to know that I won't have to miss my favorite season. Bonus, this year we've gotten almost 3 months of beautifulness because as soon as we got here fall started!

 

And here's downtown Danville.

 

We went to the farmer's market again this weekend and enjoyed the colors, warm sunshine and fresh veggies and fruit!

 
Got some makings for squash soup...

 

Then we headed to the park for some fun time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All I can say is, California's fall is impressing me!

Muir Woods and settling

 

So, most of the boxes are unpacked and we're settling in a little!

 

Made a trip to the farmer's market for some strawberries and asian pears, YUM.

 

We've been checking out the sites around here as well

 

 

 

 

The redwoods in the park, the tallest living things in the world

 

 

The hiking sisters

 

 

First fire in the new house!

The trip

 Had to stop at Wall Drug of course, Josh had some 5 cent coffee and we shared some donuts!

 Got to see some coyotes...

 and the Badlands...

 

Some prairie dawgs

 Big Horns

 

We then stopped in Spearfish to visit Seth and Kim and watch Seth cut down big trees, but failed to take pictures.....

 

 

Then a stop in Colorado for a tea party, with princess dresses of course!

 

A little carousel riding (Gretta was deathly afraid for the first ride)

 

Some pumpkin picking

 

Halloween socks courtesy of Grandma Peg....

 

Hiking with Grandma!

 

One of the many outtakes of what it looks like trying to get a picture of 3 crazy cousins!

 Fun with comb, camera and chapstick...

 Gretta's work....

  

I think Gretta took this one too...pretty good!

So there is as brief synopsis of our trip, we made it to CA and will have more on that another day!