Carmel in Dec

Okay, I promise that this is the last of my December pictures that I am going to post!

But it was such a beautiful day in Carmel!

We had lunch on the beach.

Grandpa Ron guarded our stuff from the brave and hungry birds and squirrels!

I was taking a picture of the Pebble Beach golf course and wish I knew who this couple was to send them a copy!

The boys....always on the move!

This is one of my brother and his fiancee's favorite places to go in Carmel...they turned me on to it and I can't wait to go back! The Cheese Shop  If you are in Carmel and you even slightly like cheese....you must go!

They have lots of samples and a very friendly staff.

We sampled (and bought) the most amazing truffled cheese - not quite like the one Jake and Diana brought over one night but equally amazing!

I even got my pix taken there behind the counter!

Road trip up north

It was a dark and stormy night...

okay, this picture was in Dec.

So far, January has been BEAUTIFUL!

but cold.

We headed out to the pigeon point light house.

It is under construction, now we know.

And it was a super foggy day.  We had 2 days like that in all of Dec!

Even under construction, it is a beautiful place to visit.

The rough and tumble ocean, and the giant light house!

Then we headed to Pescadero for some Harley Farm cheese

If you are ever in the neighborhood, you must go!

Lots of samples of yummy cheese!

We bought two!

Long Marine Lab

I know....bad blogger...but I have been incredibly busy.

Work has kicked into high gear
 and the boys are still rather active!

Santa Cruz has been particularly beautiful the last 2 months.

Tho we really need the rain!

So these are still from our christmas break when my inlaws visited.

We took them to the Long Marine Lab...

at least the outside of it, since it was closed.

It is a beautiful research lab for marine biology at UCSC.

It was an amazingly gorgeous day!

More Grandparent pix!

Still around Christmas as I did not get all of my pix posted!

Grandma Honey reading The Grinch to the boys.

This year it is one of Luke's favorites.

Playing play-doh with Grandpa Ron...

He is enjoying it as much as the boys!

A little fake snow on xmas eve with Grandma Trish and Gpa Danger.

Sure does seem like the boys love messy things!

WW: Grandparent games

These are all from  before Christmas, but still good!

Jack has learned to play checkers and roped his grandpa in to a few games.

While Luke plays candy land with Grandma!

Jack takes the game very seriously!

Steam train ride

I love this before and after picture of Luke and Loren on the train.

Makes me laugh!

We live across the street from Roaring Camp in Felton, CA

We visit quite often, but this is the first time we have ridden the train.

It was not intentional.

Luke was supposed to go with Gpa Ron...

Tickets were purchased.

Loren and I showed up to take pictures of them on the train and walk the redwood loop only

to find Luke refusing to go on the train....

He would only go with Loren, so away they went.

Another family had a son get sick so the mom had to stay back with him.

So I got a free ticket.  As soon as Jack saw that I was on the train with Luke and Loren, he decided he was no longer afraid and came aboard.

Now Luke wants to go with Grandpa...

Happy New Year 2012!

One, two, three let her rip!

I am ready for a new year!

It is a beautiful day in sunny California and we have just about finished putting Christmas away.

I will have a lot of more pictures in future posts (and I will try to be a better blogger!)

We had a mellow NYE with just the 4 of us, champagne for us and sparkling cider for the boys.

Of course that was for dinner.  The boys were in bed by 8.

We did stay up and welcomed in the new year...by going immediately to sleep!

Happy 2012 everyone!