Saturday, October 31, 2015

Halloween 2015


Halloween this year was a warm and beautiful night.  Elsa started her Halloween night planning by building her own Haunted House.




After putting it out and getting the neighbors' kids to try it out, we headed out into the neighborhood to trick or treat.


Elsa was Anna from the movie Frozen and Liam was Batman.  They had a lot of fun going up to front doors and saying Trick or Treat.



In the week before Halloween we went to a pumpkin patch.  The kids enjoyed playing with all the pumpkins.

One night Elsa and Liam dressed up as matching firefighters. Their favorite thing to do was blow the whistle.





On Thursday, my office had a holiday party.  Elsa was Elsa (from the movie Frozen) and Liam was a firefighter.  They both enjoyed getting face painted.




On Friday, it was the school parade.  Elsa enjoyed being Elsa (as did 2 other girls and 1 boy in her class).  It was fun to watch her with her classmates.




Liam also had a parade around town, where he went as a firefighter.


Friday night we went out to a party, and Liam wore his mummy pajamas.



Elsa tells us Halloween is her favorite holiday.  She gets lots of candy, that she sorts in to bad candy (chocolate) and good candy.  Then the Switch Witch comes overnight and replaces it with presents!


We really enjoyed watching Elsa and Liam dress up and play this Halloween week.




Thursday, October 15, 2015

Princeton in the Sierras 2015


This October we returned to Fallen Leaf Lake for another year of Princeton in the Sierras. It was a beautiful weekend near Lake Tahoe with a great group of Princeton alumni. We had a wonderful time exploring the lake.  I took both kids out on kayaks.  Elsa talked a lot about the Big Wind, that blew us around.  Liam and I went out to find a stick he threw into the lake.

Elsa enjoyed the age group activities, which included a boat ride with the other kids.

We had fun in the evenings, with great activities like the Disco Bingo. Elsa was always ready to go up and dance, just like her mom.
 Liam loved the campfire at the beach and eating graham crackers.
 Arne took wonderful pictures of all of the stars. It was wonderful to be able to see the Milky Way.
Both of the kids loved fishing for crawdads.  Liam was very excited to be a fisherman.
 But he was more excited to be naked.  He loved taking off his diaper and running around!
 Elsa and I did some bouldering, exploring in the rocks.
 We just had a wonderful time enjoying mountain life.  We look forward to returning next year.