The Little Farm

On Friday we went up to The Little Farm with Tommy and Justine (and Chris and Amanda, visiting from LA), and Roxanne. Somehow I didn't get any pictures of Tommy and Justine, but I'm pretty sure their folks took some amazing pictures of them (they usually do!).

Everyone enjoyed feeding celery and lettuce to the animals, and the weather was a little chilly but really nice. Roxanne also got lots of use out of her Nintendo DS, which made me feel old and out of touch because all I can think of a Nintendo as is a game player. Which I guess this still is, but it's much more than the simple games I remember. She took loads of pictures and had a fun program on there that could record things (like her saying someone's name) and play it backwards, higher, lower, faster, slower, etc.

Berkeley Pier

The Zander-Gabardi clan had a lovely walk down the Berkeley Municipal Pier. The sun was realllllly bright (see the attempted pictures of me & Nouri looking into the sun), but it was nice that it wasn't too cold.

New Year's Celebration

And here are pictures from our celebrations - from the pre-celebration art-making, all the way through the candle lighting (which happened on new year's day this year). Every year is slightly different and this year Molly led us in a spiral walk (inspired by a solstice walk that she did at school). We walked to the center of the spiral and said something we wanted to let go of, then on the walk out we made a wish for the new year. It was lovely!

New Years Hike

Happy New Year!!

We continued our tradition of a New Year's Day hike yesterday, although this time we took along a princess, fairy, fairy princess, or princess fairy (we never did decide which one she was!). Nouri joined us and Mary and Dieter stayed home to recover from the fun of the evening before (or fend off colds?).