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November was relatively calm for us. We met up with our friends Alina &
Klara Messersmith in Los Angeles for a dinner while they were down for a
girls' trip. We also got to celebrate Thanksgiving with our friends, the
Sosa's, this year! We also took party in a neighborhood project building a
loft house for a family in Mexico. We put together all the sides and
flooring and then it was taken down and finished in Mexico. The neighborhood
kids raised the money for it by collecting and recycling bottles and cans
and the parents had a big garage sale. The house cost $2800 and we raised
that as a neighborhood. It was pretty cool. Owen finished up his soccer season this month. They had a team party and Owen got a cool medal which he proudly displays. It was funny to see him and Klara interact. They basically grew up together until they were about 5. Now they are both about 7 and are realizing that one is a boy and the other a girl. They were a little shy at first and then things were fine. Payton loved having Ally here for a few days. She had a partner in crime for all the dress-up action. Payton was very interested in Owen's soccer team this season,too. She noticed the girls' teams as they were walking around and found a team in pink and purple uniforms called "The Purple Ponies". She was ecstatic and said, "I want to be on THAT team!". She also saw a green team called "The Emerald Princesses". That struck her fancy, too. We told her she could play after her next birthday. So now she tells anyone who will listen that when she turns 5 she gets her own soccer team. Quinn just went with the flow this month, as usual. He tried his darnedest to help with the loft house build in the neighborhood. He'd grab any hammer he could find! He was also a fan of sitting in the driveway with a bag of goldfish supervising. He decided on Thanksgiving that he liked corn, too, at least for a few minutes. But he definitely liked the s'mores!! Enjoy!! |
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| The Pearces, the Morgenthalers, and two of the Messersmiths! | Erin & Brandon |
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| Klara & Owen | Klara & Payton |
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| Owen getting his soccer medal from his coach. |
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| Owen & Ally being monkeys. | |
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| Ally & Payton | Allison |
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| Owen posing for Mommy. | And that's what Quinn thinks of THAT!!! |
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| The kiddos showing off their handy work! | |
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