Emmy's Pop Up Shop and 12th BIRTHDAY!

Emmy had quite a lot of inventory for her scrunchie business  and was looking for somewhere to sell it.  We googles "Christmas boutiques" and found a pop up shop at a church in Hayward.  The listing said they had youth entrepreneurs, so we decided to sign up!  Emmy did a great job and made a good amount of sales!

Indoor s'mores

Loved hearing all the giggles coming from Emmy's room. <3

For Emmy's 12th birthday, she did a scavenger hunt in downtown Danville  before dinner at her favorite Taco Bell Cantina.  They girls came back to our house for dessert and a movie!

 

Fall Family Photos & Thanksgiving 2021

 We were thankfully able to come out of quarantine in time for Thanksgiving!

I love going to the same steps at Cull Canyon in Castro Valley every year to take this photo. It's sweet to see how much the kids and grown.

                                           

 

Veterans Day & Mission Carmel

Nick and JP were asked to speak at our Veteran's Day Chapel about their service.  They prepared a presentation of what it was like to be at West Point and talked about each of their time in the Army.  Nick shared a video of some super cool helicopter maneuvers and JP's video showed tanks and explosives.  At the end, they had the kids chant "Go Army! Beat Navy!" We are so proud of them!

                                               

                                                  

                                                  

Hannah is studying missions in 4th grade and chose Mission Carmel to study  for her final project.  We took advantage of Veteran's Day to make a trip to Carmel to see it for ourselves!

Carmel-By-The-Sea

The most glorious place for a picnic.

Emmy couldn't leave the beach without cleaning up the garbage.

Ice Cream for the drive home.

So, when Emmy was in 4th grade the mission model was optional, so I assumed it was the same for Hannah.  Thankfully, we were prompted to check the assignment more carefully after chatting with some parents on the soccer field side lines and learned that it was in fact not optional any more. So, it was much to late to buy the model on Amazon and was unavailable anywhere local, so we decided to make an edible mission.  It was a big project but was so much fun to be creative!

We were exposed to Covid and therefore had to quarantine for 14 days. Hannah's teacher graciously allowed her to present her mission in the courtyard at school.