Merry Christmas!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 25th, 2012
Words can’t describe the joy of waking up in our own house (for the first time ever!) on Christmas morning! We hope that you have a Christmas as lovely as ours!
Category Archive for 'California'
“Snow” at the Zoo
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 10th, 2012
We spent Sunday afternoon up at the Santa Barbara Zoo’s Snow Leopard Festival. The way people out here do “winter” is to import a bunch of fake snow and then charge parents an arm and a leg to stand in line for 15 minutes at a time so that the kids can “sled” down a […]
Sunday Afternoon Playclothes
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna on Nov 26th, 2012
What? Your girls don’t play outside in a tutu or sleeveless dress at the end of November?
Christmas Decorating
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 23rd, 2012
This year, we introduced Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Matthew to the joys of cutting down your own tree. Last year we walked down to the tree lot (just outside our subdivision) in flip flops and sweated buckets sawing and sawing at the tree. This year Derek literally had the whole tree cut in under […]
Traditional Thanksgiving Breakfast
Posted in California on Nov 22nd, 2012
Grilled scrambled eggs, bacon, and sausage for Thanksgiving breakfast!
Disneyland
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 29th, 2012
When our friends Greg and Melanie found out that the kids and I had never been to a theme park, they offered to take us to Disneyland with his employee guest passes! We took them up on their offer on Saturday. I wore my detested SI joint belt and took both my nausea meds before […]
Underwood, Again
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 24th, 2012
When another Pepperdine homeschool family asked us if we wanted to hit up the pumpkin patch, we didn’t have to think twice! The kids love Underwood Farms, and we spent another three hours there on Monday! If festive pictures are this hard with three kids, should I even bother trying with four? Evelyn and Marianne […]
Fall Field Trip to Underwood Farms!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 5th, 2012
It is so nice to know people where we live. Last year, we visited the pumpkin patch by ourselves. This year, we went with a homeschool group from church, and the kids had ten times as much fun running around with their friends! Tommy recently met his new friend Jonah at Community Bible Study, and […]
Popsicles
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 6th, 2012
Backyard Days of Summer
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna on Aug 1st, 2012
This week, I made a mistake. I let Tommy stay inside, building legos, while the girls and I frisked around and expended energy in the kiddie pool. By evening, the effects of my choice were glaring. Tommy’s been a bundle of energy, with dreadful consequences. No more legos before noon for my energetic lad. Meanwhile, […]