Last week one of our advent activities was to see the lights in the big city. We stopped by to visit Cousin S on our way there.
Cousin S and a too cool boy #1
Who knew that boy #2's hands could look so big?!
Happy boys
I love the luminaries
Family photo op
I know we are all in the middle of Christmas, but I wanted to share some photos from our trip to CA over Thanksgiving.
The view as we slowly made our way over the Sierras
We headed to Chinatown where boy#1 practiced his Chinese
More Chinatown
A favorite childhood memory of mine is visiting Union Square and seeing the large Christmas tree at Neiman Marcus. Check out the stained glass ceiling that our camera doesn't do justice to
We walked towards the wharf and boy #1 had fun by the cable car turn around
We attended the tree lighting of the old oak tree in my home town
My friend has a wonderful tradition of having a family activity for each day of their advent calendar. I decided to do the same thing this year. I saw a picture of an advent tree in Sunset magazine so I created my own version of it. As you remove the hanging paper each day, you add an ornament. Our first activity was to make snowflakes. We had lots of fun and the snowflakes look great on our window.
My Advent Tree
Snowflakes
The beautiful 3D snowflake that Steve made
Thanksgiving was great and we had lots of fun, which I will post about soon, but for now I will just post this.
The result of an impact with a deer
Luckily only the car and the deer were injured and since it happened about 200 miles from home we were grateful the car was drivable.
The boys have many cousins on my side of the family, but none on Steve's side, until now. Cousin S came 9 days early and my sister-in-law had the easiest of deliveries. No fair! Cousin S is a beautiful boy and my boys are excited to have another cousin.
Just hours old. Isn't he cute?
Boy #2 loves to pretend to be an animal. Some days he is a kitty cat and other days he is a dog. Over the summer my good friend from high school came for a visit. She brought her dog and the dog's large crate. Boy #2 loved her dog and the crate. More recently boy #2 put on his too small doggy costume and hung out with the family dog.
Don't you love the panting tongues?
Which is the real dog?
A few weeks ago we had an overnight trip to Goblin Valley. We took the boys there last year and we had such a great time. This time we traveled with my brother and three of my nieces. Even though the trip there was filled with unexpected obstacles, such as not finding a camping spot since it was so crowded, overhearing some campers say they had seen two rattlesnakes, driving 30 miles back to Green River to sleep, and boy #1 throwing up half the night, it was still fun. Here are the pictures to prove it.
Boy #2 with his cousins
The boys and lots of goblins
A picture of my brother who is constantly taking pictures
Me and boy #1
We went on the Little Wild Horse hike and boy #2 kept finding what he called shelter
The hike had some cool rock formations
Boy #1 hanging out in the rock holes
There were lots of cool, narrow passages during the hike
