Jiu Jitsu, Ice Skating and Christmas time in Arizona

 Zane continues to enjoy and improve in Jiu Jitsu. 

Wrestling Henry

Zane had the entrepreneur fair for school in the beginning of December.  He sold cookies, truffles and wooden Christmas ornaments.

Zane and Casey enjoyed time ice skating in Hanford.

Zane and Henry

Zane

Zane and Pops

Casey

I finished my latest quilt this month.  This was quite a project and I am very happy with how it turned out.

Zane and our Christmas tree

For Christmas we headed to Arizona to spend a week with my parents and sister Cindy.  On the way there we took a drive through Joshua Tree National Park and enjoyed a short hike.

We took our mountain bikes with and enjoyed two different rides in the desert.  One at the White Tank Mountains and the other at Lake Pleasant where we got to see a bunch of wild burros on our ride.

Wild burros by the lake

We worked on some projects at my parents and helped Cindy with converting her van to a camper van.

running the band saw with Grandpa

Zane, Casey and Grandpa putting in a shelf in the camper van

We enjoyed lots of corn hole and Zane loved hanging out with the dogs.

Mara, Cindy's dog

Dot

Zane and Grandpa

Casey and Grandpa

Grandpa and Cindy

Christmas day was a wonderful day spent with family.

Lots of presents

Nana

Dot helping Grandpa

So many great gifts

Yummy dinner

Sisters

Zane's almost as tall as Nana.

We were so thankful to be able to spend the holidays with family.  See you again in January.

Field Trips, Jiu Jitsu, Zoo and fun with family and friends

 We started the month of November off with a few field trips; one to the Planetarium and the other to Lake Success.  At Lake Success we had a great ranger talk about the area and ecosystems and Zane got to dissect owl pellets.

All the Charter school kids at the Planetarium

dissecting owl pellets with Pops

all the bits and pieces he found

Zane has continued with Jiu Jitsu.  He is enjoying learning new moves and wrestling with new and old friends.

wrestling Evie

wrestling Ian

We got to spend the day at the zoo.  It was gorgeous weather and most of the animals were out.

playing on the tractor with Pops

baby elephant

baby meerkat

feeding the giraffe

Three days later Zane and I ended up back at the zoo for zoo lights.

he even volunteered to do a picture with Santa

After the zoo lights we headed over to the California State Marching Band Championships to watch his cousins, Keanan and Kyla compete.  Their team won the competition!!

Keanan running sound wires for set up

Kyla in front

The whole family - Zac and Jen are a part of the setup and take down crew

For Thanksgiving my friend Cori came for a visit.  We had a great time together checking out the Sequioa and Kings Canyon National Park and bike riding.

Zane, Cori and I over looking Kings Canyon

We even found some good bear tracks on one of our mountain bike rides

That wraps up the month of November.  We are excited for next months adventures.