November 2022

baby shower

Lorien and Wyatt birthday

Clare dance show

Adell Birthday

Thanksgiving break fun: Mom and Colt car Dad and Adell SF

Restaurant Thanksgiving

New Car!

November started off strong with the most amazing baby shower for Wyatt, Emma, and Baby Oliver.  Our friends from Danville who have moved to Utah over the years gathered to shower the expected baby.  Family living in Utah also came along.  

It was beautiful to see so much support for this new little family.

One really special surprise was all of Wyatt's friends showing up to play games and eat hot wings with him.  Wyatt had an amazing time catching up with these guys.  They have been friends for over a decade.  They moved from elementary, to middle, to high school together.  I cried really hard when they showed up.  

I managed to squeeze in a visit with my coach friend, Kolette.  Kolette and I certified in the same class together at The Life Coach School.  We have stayed in touch over phone calls, Marco Polos and reunion zooms with all the other gals who certified with us.  Meeting her for lunch was another highlight of the trip!

You know November is birthday month around here.  We celebrated Lorien Turing 21, Wyatt turning 19, and Adell turning 13.

 

 

 

Clare had her first high school dance team performance.  Her dance was selected as one of the final numbers (it is not this one in the picture).  Clare choreographed and taught her dance to the class.  It was awesome to see her in action this way.

November was also the month of special outings with the kids.  Will took Adell into San Francisco one afternoon.  He had a meeting and offered to let her tag a long.  She was on her own in Union Square while he was in the meeting but they met up as soon as the meeting was over and enjoyed the Christmas sights in the city.

Adell felt very independent strolling around the city on her own.  She wasn't going to go at first but marshaled her courage and went for it.  She sketched in her sketch book and took in the sights.  Very teenagerie, right?

 

Colter and I took an afternoon trip to a car museum in town.  We saw four or five super cool sports cars and a hundred old timey cool cars.  The sports cars were Colter's favorite.  I enjoyed sitting down while he took a million pictures on my phone.  Time well spent!

In a major break with tradition, we had Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant this year!  I loved every second of it.  It was so nice to not spend days preparing, a whole day cooking, and an eternity cleaning up.  The food was good (never as good as homemade, but good).  The only draw back in my opinion was being on someone else's time for the food.  The kids got impatient and we weren't home where they could go run while they waited.  Other than that, it was perfect.

Everyone else, however, did not like going out for Thanksgiving dinner.  They missed all of our traditional food, they missed the snacks, the football playing in the background, and the left overs.  They all voted to stick with homemade Thanksgiving from now on.  Maybe I'll assign each of them the job of Thanksgiving next year and still take the holiday off.  Or I'll just go to a restaurant by myself!?

The smiles in this picture are all brought to you by TriValley Orthodontics.  Braces for the straight teeth win!

Wonder of wonders, miracles of miracles my Tesla arrived.  After being delayed for months and us living the one car life, we got the second Tesla.  Yes, we are those people but we like being those people so it is good for us!