Merry Christmas!

Everyone went to bed pretty excited tonight!

Molly wanted to make sure the reindeer had tic tacs

Molly dictated this letter to me for Santa & his reindeer

Snow!

Unfortunately, we didn't get any good pictures but it did snow here yesterday.  I've been waiting for it...just in time for Christmas!

Still pretty dark at 8:30 am

Carmel

We spent a day in Carmel with Auntie Naomi and Uncle Brian.  More turkey dinners!

Happy Hollow

Still updating from our Thanksgiving trip to Pleasanton.  Soon enough we'll be caught up to Christmastime here on the blog!  We went to Happy Hollow with Grandpa on a rainy day.  Any Bay Area peeps, this place is awesome for 2-5 year olds...rides, playgrounds, and a zoo!

Molly's first roller coaster.  She wasn't a huge fan.

Watching a puppet show

Thanksgiving in Pleasanton

6 am flights both ways...not a great idea

Uncle Paul's trap

Molly helped with Tday appetizers

Giant 4 square

Molly & Sawyer's first taste of sparkling water.  They made these faces but kept begging for more.

Sawyer talking to the goat at the Oakland Zoo

The kid's banana split at Fentons 

The dinosaur volcano

Molly's preschool class concluded "Dino-vember" with a volcano.  Pretty cool.

Sawyer turned 2!

Sawyer turned 2 on November 19 while we were in CA.  Can't believe the little buddy is already 2!  Between traveling and running out of storage space on Google (what?), I'm way behind on the blog.  More pics to come of our time in Pleasanton soon!

Poor little buddy

This is how we spent our morning after Sawyer fell off the chair in our family room.  Fractured elbow.  Cast for 4 weeks.  I think he chose a nice color though!

Tire Swings & See-Saws

Trick or Treat

It may not have been Sandy, but it p-o-u-r-e-d last night just as we ventured out to trick or treat in our friend's housing complex.  The big kids braved the weather but as you can see by Molly's spread, I think we hit about 5 houses and called it a night.  It was still fun and now we don't have to figure out what to do with all the unwanted candy in our house.  Hope you all had a fun, safe Halloween!

And a little walk down memory lane...
A monkey and a shark
A cow
A pea in the pod

The anticipation was too much for Molly and she fell asleep on the way over