Kids with Santa

Our Turtle (incase you are interested)

Here is our turtle. We don't really have a name for it. Meghan and I call it turtie, Bill call's it the fish. It's a red eared slider. It lives in Lennon's room. It's pretty cool. We've fed it feeder fish, worms, crickets, carrots, lettuce and it also eats these little turtle pellet things.

He has some nice spiderman decorations!

Point Bonita Light House

Well first off I'm showing this picture-not because of my butt-but because of my wet pants! Good thing I was wearing my wool socks cause my feet were still warm.




Point Bonita Light House is right across the bay from the golden gate bridge.
It is a gorgeous light house. However when I first got down to it (a quarter mile walk I believe) I thought to myself "my mom would totally hate this place" My mom loves lighthouses, but she would hate this place because it has a tunnel and a rickety old bridge right above the ocean. Yikes! Even I was a little nervous. When my mom sees this she is probably going to yell at me for taking my kids there!

Again gorgeous day!

Here is a big of side view of the bridge.

but first you have to walk through this tunnel, which you cannot see the end from the beginning.

Here we are coming out of it.

Then you get to the line to cross the bridge. If my mom made it though the tunnel she would definitely turn back at the site of this.

It almost drops right down to the water. There is a little space for error, but not much.

we are looking at this little natural tunnel. Very pretty.

Point Reyes is on the same side as Point Bonita another great lighthouse.

Right behind us we were able to see some seals basking in the sun. They were farther away, but it was still cool.

North Face Endurance Challenge

Saturday December 5th we woke up early again and headed to the North Face Endurance Challenge for Bill to participate in the half marathon it was in the bay area near Sausalito. They had events up to a 50 mile run. All the kids slept in the car on the way down. Thankfully it was dark quite a bit of the way so they could sleep.






Surprisingly Lennon slept the longest.

Our new addition for this trip was a modular hauler, which is Bill's Christmas present. It has four bags that fit into one big bag for organized travel!

We finally get there and North Face has it set up pretty cool, with several booths that were just cool.

The starting line and the finish line.

All the runners passing us by. It looks really cool.

While dad was running the kids and I hiked down to the beach.



It was a gorgeous day and a really nice beach.

One of the kids favorite things to do at the beach is to play chase with the waves.

We found this cool teeter toter and it entertained us for quite some time.

While trying to take this picture we got hit by a wave and our feet were soaked.

Lennon spotted dad first. We cheered him on.

He looks great. He said he was super exhausted and that the hills were really good ones. Afterwards we did a little sight seeing.

Holiday Run for Youth

This morning our family participated in Rancho Cordova's Holiday Run for the Youth. Bill signed us up a few days ago. Last night we went to pick up our bib numbers and t-shirts at Fleet Feet in Sacramento.
This morning we were expecting to run in the rain, but it was actually a really nice morning, with good weather.
Bill ran with Meghan and I ran with Abby and Lennon pretty much ran with whomever he wanted too.
The run was 1.2 miles. We were very surprised that Meghan ran the whole thing! We weren't expecting her to finish, but she was so awesome. Abby and I ran and we were the first ones in from our family. Abby was so great she wanted to quit running, but she hung in there and did the whole thing. I was telling her that Lennon was behind us and we couldn't let him catch up. We had to show the guys what the girls were made of and we sure did.
Lennon did great too. He wanted to win so bad so he took off pretty fast but couldn't keep up the pace-he finished great!
Afterwards the sponsors of the run had drinks and snacks which we did partake of and a bounce house which the kids loved. They were also collecting toys for kids.
It was a really great event and I hope that we will do it again next year!