Weekend...

Ira made up & solved math quizzes and spelling bees for luv & Emers...


She also decorated with lots of holiday pictures...


On to our tree!

It was out first time cutting our tree ourselves!


I did it!
I was proud that o hadn't forgotten how. It took under 2-3 minutes.





Liv dancing about our tree...





Sunday..

We had some purging to do after getting rid of our storage unit...

The sun was warm and the kids played while we sorted...





Jared ran a van load to donate and Ira recorded a couple shows.


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FRIDAY!!!!

We went ornament and light shopping at target...

Then the park!!!!


It was so gorgeous... I even played for a while.


They spent some time drawing while I started making some candles...





We made some candles...



We made cookies..





Went to December Lights Parade...








She was jumping and yelling "best night ever!"


Hot cocoa and Mexican mochas and live music at the best coffee shop ever...


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Cozy days...

This is what Emers does when Liv draws... He wants to "help, help"...








Ira drew this and said "make me a dreidel with these unicorn symbols on it"


Best. Book. Ever. I cried.


Cutest kids EVER... Liv refused to get in the pic...





The sun showed up...





Ira invited this cave with a security system...





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Leaky Roof.

::monday::

Homemade Gluten Free Play Clay... The recipe was not the best. Took a lot of tweaking and kneading and tweaking and kneading...


I showed the kids my old fashioned pretzel twisting skills.

I worked at a pretzel shop Han rolling pretzels when I was 16. 14 years ago!!! Hah!


Dog.


Ira rolled & twisted her own pretzel!!!





Curried lentils and rice for dinner...


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Sunday Hike

We found a skeleton...


Our reflections...


Puddles...






Birds & anise...


We tried to get to the beach...


But after stopping to check out lots of mushrooms...



And having to walk around several rather DEEP crevices...


We didn't feel up to the steep hike down ;)


It was a 2 mile hike. I had one of 3 kids on my back the whole time....


Afterwards, we stopped to rest our feet at the ballpark before walking home...


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::Small Business Saturday::

We decided to skip Starbucks and instead give our business to a small local coffee house...

They had a bunch of toys and games for kids...





And the best Mexican Mocha I've had since we lived just north of Tijuana, in Imperial Beach....


We went to the beach to check out the negative tide, but as fate would have it- we picked the wrong beach and the tide never really receded...

We had fun anyway!

Some friends met up with us and we dug and hopped and snacked...


I got buried...Emers actually was un-digging me the whole time. He was a little worried.


Gorgeous sunset...


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