It freezes every morning for a week!

Matthew, Emily and Dan are here.  Cuddles on the couch; our favorite local coffee shop hosts game night; we make our Christmas countdown chains; and we drag Terran around from store to store to do some Christmas shopping.  Incidentally, we discover that our local Barnes and Noble will be closing down! We are devastated!   In completely unrelated news, I finish Christmas shopping on Amazon.com.

Just the three of us

We are in between guests this week! Matthew is gone, Emily and Dan have gone for a little road trip that includes Vegas, and Baba Jiji will come next week!
We check out Santa Claus in downtown Martinez (we waited a whole minute in line!), collected our neighbors leaves for our compost pile (first a little playtime though), and checked out our neighbors lights. And nobody puts Terran into a box. Except when it's himself and he refuses to get out.

Martinez Holiday Frolic!

It suddenly gets very cold (below freezing!), the kids spend lots of time with Emily and Dan, Martinez has a Holiday Frolic! Which means that the kids can slide down a snow slide!