A trip to Tahoe

A perfect fall day... it started with skipping my normal 5:45am workout and puttering in my craft room, making Dan some coffee and going to the gym with all 4 of us together.  (I can barely move, Dan is a hard workout buddy).  I dragged the boys to Smith Vineyard to take some photos for today's Outside Inn blog post, love the photo of Ben running throught the vineyard above.  We also picked some pumpkins from their pumpkin patch.

Then Ben, Josh and I drove to Tahoe to spend some quality time with little Nora.  Her parents went for a mountain bike ride and we did some story time, a walk to the pond and hung out.  The photo of Ben reading to Nora and Josh truly made my day.

I got Ben to capture this photo of Nora passed out on the walk, precious little person.  So glad to be an auntie, she woke up and cried and we gave her back to her parents.  Dan joined us later for a relaxed evening in Tahoe, today's fun included Monopoly, a trip to buy some skis for Ben, another walk to the pond and a nap!  Love a mini vacation... now I'm home and those dishes and piles of laundry are still waiting for me...   

Post Hike-a-thon and wedding photos

The boys went to the Camp Marin Sierra for a Cub Scout campout and this is the photo of the two of them post the hike-a-thon, where they both walk 10 loops, roughly equalivalent to 10 miles.  And we went to our friends Sasha & Evan's wedding in town, so while I didn't take many photos of the wedding, couldn't pass on an opportunity to show us dressed up.

Congrats Sasha & Evan!

Fall fun

I can't believe it's October.... here are a few photos of fun adventures from last month.  Above the boys were selling popcorn as a fundraiser for Cub Scouts.  Below was Ben breaking the board for this Kuk Swool Won testing for his brown belt.

These photos are from the Celtic Festival, click here to see a few more photos.

The campground got the ultimate boys' toy-- a tractor!!! 

And a video of some speedy Cub Scouts at the park the other evening.  And not really related, but check out this lovely write up about the Outside Inn from the NBC Bay Area's website.

Cub Scouts and Baby Nora

Cub Scout season has started and Josh is beyond thrilled to finally join the official ranks (he's been an honorary Cub for the last 2 years).  He's a Tiger Cub this year, Den 6.  He had such a proud moment last night at the Pack Meeting when he accepted his first belt loop from the Horsebacking Riding merit aware they earned earlier this summer at Grandpa's house.  Ben moves up the Webelos level this year.  And we were excited to get a visit from Cousin Nora, who's a month old now and already 9 1/2 lbs!

balloons

I picked up balloons for Dan to take with him to the Cub Scout information session this evening and the boys were totally fascinated by them.  Love their looks of concentration.  What out moon, these kiddos are practicing their flying skills.  There was talk of tapping a lego man to a balloon and letting it go so, "an alien could see what a Lego guy looks like."

First Day of School

First day of 1st and 4th grade.  The boys are in a mixed grade classroom, so they both have the same teachers in the same classroom as last year, so there wasn't any first day of school jitters.  They thought their first day was last Tuesday and there was a look of such disappointment last week when I told them, no it's next Tuesday.  And they were both so excited that they got to ride their bikes home from school this afternoon with Nana, with a pit stop for ice cream, exciting times.

Practicing new skills and a trip to a farm

The boys took a nunchucks workshop at Kuk Swool Won yesterday and wanted to practice their new skills and had fun playing with the new iphone app Hyperlapse.

And we also went on a field trip to Food Love Project, click here to see more photos.