the brownies make soap

the brownies were busy making soaps and packaging them to sell in order to raise money for the elderly housing complex in town. they turned out amazing!

(second) (vegan) thanksgiving

i guess one cannot have too many thanksgivings! we had a small impromptu one here at home with our friends - our vegan friends - making it very easy to agree on food choices. YUM!

shooting hoops

the day after thanksgiving, before heading home from santa rosa, we got to watch david play basketball in a  tournament. we all loved seeing him in action. we even got noble excited about basketball, so he may take a class after the new year!

8th birthday science party!

 mahala and her friend tyler, who share the same birthday, had a great science party with about 20 of their friends at tyler's mom's chemistry classroom. the kids had a "blast" doing experiments, watching experiments and then going outside to burn off sugar and shoot rockets. we're so grateful to have such great friends to help throw mahala a party. we know that we couldn't have possibly made it that cool!

the franks' 50th

the franks celebrated 50 years of marriage this past weekend. it was a beautiful event in san jose and so many friends and family came out. and douglas gave a great speech!

photo shoot

part of the 50th anniversary party was having a photo session right before. look at how grown-up all of the cousins look (we missed tanner though!)

felt and glue guns

they think they own the place. where are my clean floors?? they were having fun gluing scraps of felt with a glue gun.