Brown Eyed Girl Performance

California Winter

Two weeks ago we picked one of these off of our rose bush. Roses in winter!

In the last week it rained enough to make mud holes out of our back yard. And we froze with highs in the 50's.

And this is the perfect thing to do during the rainy days of winter!

Norco to Stockton to Sacramento to Morro Bay to SLO to Norco

Whew!

Early January

Typical Leah

The First Geocache Find

The Cache.

Christmas Eve

Legoland with the Waymeyers

The 'cousins' had free passes for guests and they graciously invited us along to Legoland last week. Derek came home from work a little early and on a whim we tried to find an inexpensive hotel on priceline for the night down near Carlsbad. We managed to get one for a rate of $45 for all of us, and that included a decent free breakfast-- what a blessing! Add Legoland to that and it was a very fun mini-vacation.

We'd never been there before and enjoyed it a lot. We got there at open and our family was able to stay until close. The cousins stayed for the first couple of hours.


Zach, Luke and Julie

Matt, Leah and Jessica

Jessica and Luke

The cousins-- Caleb, Zach, Luke, Jake, Anna, Courtney, Jack, Jessica and Leah.

Piano Recital

I'm very behindo on happenings around here because of Christmas and related events. Instead of playing serious catch-up, I'm just going to pick up about a week ago and go from there!

Anna and Jack had a piano recital for a retirement home/hospital last week. They both played a couple of songs, but if you ask them what they enjoyed most about it, they'll probably mention the bag of cookies and candy their teacher gave them for a Christmas gift after the show was over.