Thanksgiving and the pre-christmas festivities

Thanksgiving was great. We started it off with a little parade in a big shirt.

 And ended it with a ton of great food! 

An action shot of Celine and Ha Jyn.

This year I am thankful for:

friends

family

companies that give employees good health care

Jobs 

people who give people without jobs, jobs

science 

medicine 

hope 

Monterey is crazy with free holiday activities.

I am slowly morphing into my mother and am taking 

Ha Jyn and Boo to all of them

The Monterey tree lighting party. 

These days Ha Jyn is crazy over fish and octopus. There was a balloon

man at the party. While most little girls came away with their princess and butterfly 

balloons, mine got a giant octopus. It was not a pretty day when her octopus 

had to be thrown out.

My noodle Queen

 One morning Ha Jyn  refused to leave for our run without her purse.

It goes so well with her cow hat! 

Yesterday at another free event. 

This one included petting zoo, Santa and fair and horse rides.

Ha Jyn was very timid at first with the animals. 

But towards the end warmed up to a huge bunny.

Boo preferred the mid-sized bunny, while I loved the tiny chicken. 

 Ha Jyn and Boo on the horse ride.

 A sneak peak at this years Christmas pictures.

We almost got her to look at the camera...almost.

 Tonight we walked down to watch the annual Christmas boat parade. 

The tiny triangles are actually boats.

The boats were a little far off for Ha Jyn to enjoy. 

Boo and I loved it. We decided to make it a tradition and to go next year.