Outdoor activities

Huge tree at castle rock with three poles holding up the limbs

Hiking at Castle Rock

Parker picking the oranges from our tree for orange juice

Walking around UC Berkeley after Scott's swim meet.  He did a 20.9 split in the anchor position of the 200 free relay.  Their relay entered this meet 30th in the nation and climbed a few notches.  

 

New Years

Had a nice new years break.  It was super cold but at least it wasn't raining, which was nice, since it had been raining almost constantly for the past two weeks.  The kids are watching Dana's dogs and would take them up into the hills each day.  On Saturday Scott and I rode our bikes while the rest of the family walked.  I like my bike but the hill was too steep for me to ride.  It was a good workout though.  

Kira in her panda onesie

Amazing that the iphone can shoot right into the sun and still get decent exposure.

Mister is happy with his new hoodie and new switch controller

The kids got facial masks and had to sit still for several minutes.  They can't go more than two minutes without a screen.  

Heidi finally finished her puzzle!  Each of us worked on it a bit but she sat uninterrupted on New Years for about four hours working on it.  She kept calling Luke "Anakin."  

Happy new year!  I hope we can go to church without masks this year.  Currently in the USA we're at 55M known covid cases and 824k deaths.  Okay, bye.  
 

Christmas 2021

Christmas 2021 was nice.  Heidi has continued the tradition of gingerbread houses.  

   

 

We spent Christmas afternoon at Heathers.  The kids got way too many nice gifts.  

Hanna was stoked about her dresses. 

She is too cute!

New controllers for the switch!  

A flat brimmed hat for strong man

Nice to see Bob and Betty again after almost two years

Tyler's always grateful for hoodies.  

Parker wanted to make sure that Santa had his cookies and milk.  He made sure to put them right by the fireplace.