Happy 2nd Birthday Keilah!

Happy Birthday to my precious daughter, Keilah. She is so full of energy and delight. She's very stubborn and independent, but also thoughtful and polite. I can't imagine our family without her! We celebrated her birthday in September, so we just had a little treat and gift on her actual birth day.

She blew out the candles like a pro.
The smoke wafted over her face, but she's still beautiful.

Bay Area Visit

Thursday's adventure brought us first to Berkeley, where Chris and I met. We savored some Zachary's Pizza for lunch, then took the kids to Tilden Park's Little Farm. The kids loved seeing the animals and even got to feed lettuce to some ducks.

Then we went to the Maritime Museum in San Francisco. The kids were excited to run around the old ships. We were NOT excited about the city traffic. Ugh!
Finally we headed south to spend the night and next day at Chris's parent's house.

Old Sacramento

Wednesday's adventure took us to Old Sacramento and the California State Railroad Museum. We also walked around and looked at all the shops and picked up way too much candy at Candy Heaven on our way out.

The kids had fun walking through the trains that we could board, playing with the toy trains, and seeing the old toy train displays that were running.

Batt Party

Tuesday's fun was a Batt reunion party of sorts. Wendy, Pat & Cameron from Albuquerque were visiting Matt & Katie; Rusty & Deb recently moved to the Sacramento Area; Kathy & Greg came up to make it a reunion party at our house. We even got a bonus visit from my neice, Madyson!

Snow Day

Chris has the whole week off, so we've planned something fun for each day. Today was our snow day. We only had to drive about 2 hours away!

This was Keilah's first time in the snow, and she LOVED it!
Zeke liked sledding with me better because I didn't land on his head at the bottom of the hill like Silas did. But I had to take the picture.
Snow angels.

Christmas best

Heather and Silas have the stomach flu, so they're missing the Christmas program at church (Zeke's staying too just because). But Keilah went to church with Chris, and doesn't she look lovely in her special Christmas dress?! Now if only she'd let me do something decent with her hair!

Fall Leaves

The kids had loads of fun this afternoon. My arms hurt from all the raking.