Turkey Day at the Hamilton's

Linden and Grammy Jan in matching sweaters

Turkey Day!Headed to the park, so Mommy can cook!

Linden wrote a letter to Santa at Macy's the day after Thanksgiving- she asked him for a violin! and mailed it to Santa!

Writing her letter...

Mailing it to Santa

We spent the day in San Francisco

We picked out our Christmas Tree too!

Hanging her stocking with Grammy

Playing with Plato with Uncle Eric

Christmas card outtake

Wish I could show you the real pic, but if you are reading this, you'll get a christmas card! Stay tuned....post your adress on the comment section if you think I do not have it! (That's you Perrin and Dee!)
We trekked out to the open space reserve in our finest and took our photo on a tripod- which meant lots of running back and forth for Mommy!

my beautiful bambina

Special treat for Bruno

So Bruno has become such a good sport- he was the test dog and now he'll put up with anything Linden gives his way.....

Palo Alto Open Space

We used to put Linden in the baby carrier and hike here and now she is unstoppable! She walked with us the whle way on Sunday. She loves to run and tell us to catch her, it' s so fun to watch. click on image to see larger.....it's really cute!

A fun-filled weekend

We went to Benjamin's soccer game, missed him playing, but go to see the Smith's- Kent was the referee! Then we went to the beach on Saturday evening- it's been so beautiful here- high 70"s and sunny- we LOVE it! So we packed up some dinner and ate under the setting sun. It was really beautiful and Linden just loves the beach.

Pretty random photo but, look who is as long as the stairs now!

Dinner with Krissy

Krissy is a friend of mine from 2nd grade that I have soo many wonderful memories with. We were friends from 2nd grade through High School, after college we went our seperate ways. We found eachother on facebook recently and reconnected- who would have guessed we BOTH live in California! Such a small world. We went to dinner the other night and picked up right where we left off, years ago. It was so fun talking about the good ol days and what we've been doing since. I loved seeing her again and hope she'll be back in town soon ( she comes up to San Fran for work often) and she can meet Brett and Linden!
She was my BFF for years and now we're back! It was such a wonderful surprise! I was looking for an old pic of us to put next to this one from the other night, but they are packed away- can't show you how cool we were in the 80's!

walnut orchard

I took The Casey's Family Holiday portrait today in a walnut orchard- the girls were so cute and well behaved ( it may have had something to do with the bribery of M&M's if Avery was good)

YES, We can!

when the daddy's away the girls will play

Brett's in Boston for work and Linden and Mommy are VERY busy dancing......

trick-or-treat

Linden with "Ba-joon" the rock star!

Eva did not fit in the pumpkin head!

Handing out the candy!

Linden with "Little Bo Peep"....I mean Kendall!

Tira and Eva came over and we went trick or treating, the girls definatly got the hang of it and they were soo excited to get candy! Eva was a Peep (Easter candy) and Linden was still stuck on being a pumpkin! They were so sweet and enjoied passing out candy as much as getting it!