Grandma for Thanksgiving

We never do anything fun when my mom comes. I guess we are always just happy hanging around enjoying each others company, but this time I was determined to take her somewhere. We live in such an awesome place with so many things close by and she needed to see some of it so we took her to Stinson Beach and Muir Woods and of course the beautiful Muir Beach lookout point. It was super fun. We always like an excuse to head to the coast! It was supposed to be 70 and sunny and ended up more like 55 and cloudy so not ideal weather for the beach, but we still had a great time.

Here is Lane throwing a perfect spiral with the football. I swear this kid is awesome. Seriously he can throw a football better than Jude. Maybe every 5 year old can do that, I don't know, but we think he's amazing.

with Grandma at the Muir Beach lookout. So pretty!

Muir Woods and the giant redwoods

inside a tree

Grandma was here for Ivy's birthday, too. She has been asking for an itouch for a year now. so we finally caved. She wrote out a contract before her birthday saying that IF she were to get an itouch for her birthday that she promises to clean her room every time she is asked and that if she doesn't clean her room her parents can take away her itouch for as long as her parents decide to do so. Then she signed the bottom (on the line that had her name printed under it). She was so happy when she opened it, she started crying and kept saying, " thank you so much. thank you so much!" through her tears. It was really sweet.