Camping and Christmas Trees

On Thanksgiving weekend, we decided to take the kids car camping for the first time. We drove to Salt Point State Park, about two hours north of here on the coast. It was fun, although a bit cold, and the kids loved it. They were a bit scared of the dark, but that meant they were quite happy to go to bed early. They also loved hearing in the morning about how a raccoon woke Mommy and Daddy in the night and Daddy threw a shoe at it, but Mommy was SO BRAVE she went out to move our food from the locked wooden cupboard to the car.

 

We stayed at the campsite just one night and on the drive home the next day we stopped at a beautiful beach to enjoy the sun.

We decided to get our Christmas tree early this year, so headed out to the same farm as last year and had fun picking one out.

Several attempts at a sibling picture, and none were perfect, but I do love how Madeleine is squeezing Ross's pudgy little cheek in this one.

Ross and Madeleine continue to love their garage time with Daddy, and here Ross was helping him cut some wires on a electric panel with lights and buttons and switches (a major score from the junk bin at Steve's work).

I was curious recently about how much the kids weigh, and since we don't own a scale, we resorted to the tried and true luggage scale that has gotten us through so many moves. I remember the midwife weighing them like this during the early home visits after they were born... although with a slightly classier scale and sac!