Piñata, and other winter wonders...

We drove up to Lake Tahoe this weekend to celebrate a 6th birthday. Pictured here are a very well behaved group of youngsters about to go medieval on a sturdy but ultimately doomed piñata. We got precipitation almost constantly while we were there, but it was mostly rain and not snow. Of course, there was snow at the higher elevations as we found out when driving the pass on US50 to get back to San Francisco. Before we even got 1000 miles in our new car, we have now driven it through a winter snow storm complete with mandatory chains!

Maiden Voyage.

We bought a new car! It's a MICROVAN (which is Mazda5 Matketing speak for "well, it's a minivan but it's so small that you can pretend it's just a hatchback). Honestly, it's actually a really cool car and it understands me - I can say "call prickly grandpa" and it dials my dad! Small miracles. Charli had named the car "Lava" because it's red, but that name has not yet cleared the Korin-chaired naming committee.

Anyway, we drove up to the top of Twin Peaks in our new rig on Sunday and I got this great picture...

100 Days!

Today is officially Charli's 100th day of school! Miraculously, she hasn't yet been late...

Fiesta on the Hill!

Today was the Bernal Heights Fiesta on the Hill. It was a little chilly out later in the day, but that didn't stop Charli and Buster from braving the bouncy Baja Buggies ride.

Swingin'!

the captain

20130807_181127, a photo by kolyang1 on Flickr.

my lovely child whom i adore

20130803_192524, a photo by kolyang1 on Flickr.