A New Year's Road Trip - New Year's Eve

Our New Year's road trip started off with a visit with Matt's mom and brother in Salinas, CA. After the visit, we ventured to Monterrey, CA where the kids played at the beach.

Then it was off to the city of San Francisco for New Year's fireworks. All bundled up for the train ride from Millbrae to San Francisco.

There was a 20-30 minute firework show over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.

The Ronald Reagan Library

This month's AFS event was a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Lise-Maria with some of the other AFS'ers.

Emily and her friend Ciana with Lise-Maria in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall.

Matt with the Walt Disney Archive Exhibit.

Lise-Maria showing off Norway!

Boarding Air Force One, the presidential airplane.

Thankgiving in SLO

Here are some great family photos from our Thanksgiving in San Luis Obispo.

This is Trish and Brian (Shannon's sister-in-law and brother.)



And Matt and Lynn (Shannon's 3rd cousin)

This is Stan showing off his cool pink hat made by one of his students on his bus route.

Stan is Shannon's father.

This is Frank (Matt's father) and Matt.

Thomas (our friend from Germany) and Lise-Maria.

This is Shannon's great aunt Meme. She is 94 years young.

Grammy (92 years young), Mark (Matt's brother), and Beverly (Shannon's 2nd cousin).

Jeanne (Shannon's mother) sitting by the creek.

Halloween 2012

Halloween this year was busy since it was the middle of the week. Matt went to work in his knight costume with chain-mail and all.

Lise-Maria worked for many hours on her pumpkin.

This Halloween, Shannon was a zombie. She scared quite a few guests.

Emily and Lise-Maria getting ready for trick-or-treating.

Brandon as a Musketeer and a large ghoul.

This is one of Matt's co-workers. She dressed up with speed cart and all from a character in "Wreck-It Ralph." Which, by the way, is a great movie! You must go see it!

Lise-Maria and Sarah showing off Lise-Maria's candy. She's got enough to last her a few days. :)

The Pumpkin Patch

We visited Lombardi Ranch this year. It was quite busy! Here are some of the highlights.

Here Sarah and Lise-Maria are in the pumpkin.

To the top of Mt Hollywood, Part 2

Today, we took the family to the top of Mt. Hollywood.

This is Mt. Hollywood from Griffith Observatory.

Lise-Maria and Sarah posing for the camera.

The kids liked playing on the horse bars that were at the top of the mountain.

The family and downtown Los Angeles.

Space Shuttle Endeavor tours LA

Matt and some of his coworkers hiked to the top of Mt. Hollywood to watch the shuttle fly over. Here are some of the great pictures!

There were lots of people at Griffith Observatory.

Shuttle over downtown Los Angeles.

Over the Hollywood sign.

Many people hiked to the top on their horses.

Wawona and the Rope Swing

This year's camping trip, we stayed in Wawona campground outside the Yosemite valley floor. We didn't even get down there. The kids found a rope swing and we spent almost the entire time by/in the river.

Here are the highlights.


Our Campsite

 

The Rope Swing

We had a few strange creatures in the bathrooms...

Emily reading by camp light.

The kids on a raft.