A Humboldt Thanksgiving

This year I got a whole week off for Thanksgiving. So, we packed the kids up and headed north. During the week Erik and I got a much needed break from the hectic day to day schedule we normally have and the kids not only had their mommy and daddy all to themselves for a few days, but they also got to visit and play with family and friends. Each day was a good combination of relaxation and activities.

For Thanksgiving dinner we went down to Ferndale and gathered around Grandma and Grandpa Tipple's table... except for the kids. For once, I wasn't at the kid table! :o) Before dinner Cairo, Mei, and Cousins Carrie and Cynthia played and used up some of their always present energy.

Cairo on G & G Tipple's bridge-
Playing ball in the front yard-

The kid table, complete with special cups from the San Fransisco zoo (thanks Aunt Helen!). What a feast-

Dessert- Yum!


While we were in Ferndale, we headed up to the Ferndale cemetery where Grandma and Grandpa Dedini's ashes were put to rest. The cemetery is a beautiful and rustic cemetery on a hill that over looks Ferndale.


The pictures on the headstone are bees (a reminder of Grandpa Dedini) and hydrangeas (a favorite flower of Grandma Dedini)-



During out stay we also met up with some good friends and had a few play dates. Here is Auntie Katie with Cairo, our friends Steve and Trinity's daughter Deja, and Miss Lili B.

Multi-tasking!

Taking care of two jobs at once- cleaning the babies while doing dishes! Now, if we can only train them to clean the dishes....

Halloween!

For Halloween, Erik and Cairo carved one of the two pumpkins we grew this year. Cairo helped daddy gut the pumpkin and told me that she has to get dirty 'cause she's a kid.

After carving the pumpkin, we took Cairo trick-or-treating down Myrtle Ave, here in Monrovia, and called it a day. Though Cairo wasn't able to eat the candy, she had a lot of fun smelling it. She kept taking the candy out of her bucket, smelling it, putting it back, grabbing another, and doing it again. I am not sure that she realized what it was and that it tastes so yummy. Good thing for us!
The pumpkin we didn't carve-
Sienna watching the pumpkin carving-
Guinness and Sienna itching to join Erik and Cairo on the lawn-

Hmmm, looks kinda like Jonah (minus the tooth)-

Grammy curling the little princess's hair-
Princess Cairo-
Jonah was supposed to be a frog. With all the germs and the flu out there, we decided that Jonah would spend the day at home. Grammy took him on one small field trip, though, to Meme Debbie's house, where he begrudgingly donned his frog costume for a photo op.