Gymnasts/Circus Artists

The girls still go to the gymnastics place. Clara's graduated to the independent class (no parent participation) and Molly's switched it up with the Circus class! Yes, that's Molly on the trapeze!

Aunt Becky

My Aunt Becky died last week. I was lucky to be able to accompany my mother out to Wyoming to go to the funeral. The event was sad. Becky touched many lives - a couple hundred folks showed up for the funeral! She will be missed, and my heart goes out to my cousins and my uncle who are still making sense of what happened.

While we were there, we enjoyed their wonderful Wyoming hospitality, and learned about the farming and ranching that they're doing out there. We also took an afternoon to explore the dinosaur tracks in the desert.

Happy Birthday Nona!

Yesterday we had a wonderful day celebrating Nona's birthday! We had presents (Bay Area gardening books - a must have for the new bay area gardener!), cake, and she picked out a really fantastic park to go to with the kids. I know she also really enjoyed getting calls and emails from family around the world!

We were all so happy to celebrate with her!

Chalk artists at work

GRID-girl!

Saturday was GRID's annual Solarthon. While Clara napped, Molly got all decked out in GRID-wear and checked out the scene. This year they installed systems on nine houses, closed off one of the streets for a block party style event, and even set up a kids area with art projects, face painting, and recycled flower pot decorating.

You may notice that everything's a tad too small because it's actually sized to fit a certain two year old. And yes, the pants are made from one of Zach's old GRID T-shirts.

a trip to the salon

Our Friday Adventure two weeks ago was a girls trip to the salon. I had scored some crazy coupons for parent-kid haircuts at a place near my work, and I was in desperate need of a haircut, so we made a day out of it. First pictures are the before-salon outing at Dunsmuir. Then the salon fun!

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Go Fly A Kite!

On Friday we went down to the park by the bay and flew kites. It was a little foggy, but the wind was perfect for a mellow kite day (not nearly as windy as usual!).

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