A busy Thursday

Yesterday was so fun.  We started out Christmas caroling with our homeschool group at an assisted living residence.  It was really fun.  Later that afternoon, we went down to Shell beach with our homeschool group.  There was a negative tide so there were tons of tidepools that we were able to get to since the tide was so far out.  The older kids in our group are really good at finding all sorts of sea animals.  We got to see brittle stars, sea cucumbers, little eels, a little dark red octopus that inked, a cuddle fish, tons of hermit crabs and star fish.  It was really cool.  Caleb kept picking up the eels and the octopus.  That boy is fearless.  My camera batteries were dead though so I don't have any pictures :(  

Just for fun

While Diane was here at Thanksgiving she took a family pic of us.  Its crazy that we are a family of five.  I guess I dont think about it much, until I see us all together like this. 

This is from the Christmas parade in the village from last Sunday evening.  I didn't get any good pictures really, but Matt took this one.  Weston loved the parade he clapped a lot and was excited.  The village was all decorated and cute.  When Caleb saw Santa come by he was so excited because it was "the real" Santa.  We've always told the boys that Santa was just a story but they somehow still decide to believe in him.