California McMillans

Kylin joined us to make gingerbread houses on 12/21/19.  For Christmas eve we went to Heather's church in Walnut Creek and then ate at the former China Village.  Walt used to love the China Village even though I thought it was just okay.  Heidi took home Parker and Hanna since she didn't think they'd survive the restaurant.  The food was better than expected.  On Christmas we went to Heather's for din din.  Tom and Barbara and Bob and Betty came. Heather's home is always put together. This was a game involving unwrapping toys that were tightly wound up in cellophane.  When the group rolled a five, your unwrapping turn was up. Someone in Concord builds these huge light spectacles every year.  This year featured the Star Wars scene, appropriate since episode 9 released this month.  The boys and I saw it yesterday and I really liked it.  It was a good Christmas.  The kids got way too much stuff but were happy

The boys had their winter concert on 12/18/19 at Adams Middle School.  Scott was pretty stoked to play in all the groups: 6th grade band, 7-8th grade band, jazz band, drumline, and accompanying the Creative Dramatics, which is the boys and girls choir.      Tyler on the snare.  Check out that motion blur.  I brought my 70-200 lens and the tripod but the lighting was so bad I had to use shutter speeds of 1/5. Scott on the keys for jazz band Tyler on the keys for jazz band Mr. Fallon, the director, recognized Scott, and that made him feel good. Kylin with Scott.  Overall the bands and choir did a nice job and the set wasn't too long. Hanna, the uber cutie, hanging out with me and the motorcycles The jazz band did a set in the streets of Brentwood. The Marsh Creek ward put on a live nativity and had a real llama!  Yeah. I wanted to bring my tripod but we were rushed getting out the door.  This was 1.6 se