The Freaky and the Foody

Day of the Dead in Old Town San Diego

 

I couldn't get anyone else psyched about painting their faces white, and only Sera was willing to take a picture with me, but I thought celebrating this cool and kind of creepy Mexican holiday was fun.

We visited the awesome little town of Julian to get a taste of fall--there were colored leaves and everything--at least a few of them

And delicious appleberry pie

I think this  place was actually called Mom's Pies--it doesn't get homier than that

 

I chaperoned a field trip to the Birch Aquarium for Sera's class

Get a load of how tall that girl of mine is!

The tide pools were the coolest--lobsters, crabs, all kinds of crustaceans

 

So it turned out that the kids were out of school on what happened to be the first snow day in Fort Wayne--we hit the beach!

There was a lot of singing "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" and Emerson and Sera did their best (sand is harder to work with than you might think!)

 

The water, quite honestly, was a bit on the cold side

But these guys had a blast in the sand

 

Addy played sea lion . . . or something?

And Asher, as per usual, worked on his hops

Then, Thanksgiving--these two were supposed to be my helpers, but they were mostly distracted by the hors d'oeuvers

We managed a very pretty meal, with some help from our friends the Pecks, who were able to join us

Let is suffice to say that their hors d'oeuvers were prettier than ours!

We ended the evening with PIE

And singing Christmas carols around the piano--when we have friends who not only agree to this, but inspire it, we know we're in good company!