Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was so much fun! Brad, Arica, Ille, Mikaela, Aurora, and my Mom came down from WA for the week.

We cooked some scrumptious food and played lots of games...and went on a few excersions around town. The first couple of days were pretty warm, still in the low 70's, high 60's. The day after Thanksgiving was stormy, but it passed quickly and the sun is back out. Ahh!

Yesterday we did Chico all day... the boys going golfing while us girls/kids went downtown to the farmer's market and perused lots of fun shops. Here are a few pictures of the last few days.

Mikaela with baby kitty on our front porch.

Peyton walking -- I love the look on his face... pure happiness at having his freedom.

An iris by our house... all our flowers started to bloom again this past week. They think we skipped over winter and went straight to spring!

A Peyton kiss!

Lina and Unc Brad on our walk

Peyton helping collect leaves for our centerpiece

The centerpiece we made out of scavenged weeds, limbs and leaves from our "nature walk"

Sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner

Turkey going in!

Cute pic of Ille holding the three munchkins

Arica reading a story to Rora, Lina, and Peyton

Uncle Brad reading a story to Selina and Aurora

Tea party

Ring around the Rosey in the guest house

Mom in Vietnam

Here are a couple of pictures of Mom in Vietnam with grandpa.

Houses and shops along the street

Selina laughing