The City by the Bay by Brown and Kleven

While my husband was in dental school in San Francisco I worked up the street from his building in Pacific Heights in the home office of a best selling author.  Her assistant became my very dear friend and while I was employed there she had her first little girl.  Baby Danielle became my little assistant because I helped care for her the first year of her life.  She's now almost 12-years-old and still feels like my first born.  I am truly bonded with this beautiful child, her mother who is  the most generous, classiest, coolest and phenomenal woman I know and her sweet little sister who happens to share a birthday with my second son. We enjoy visiting San Francisco - the weather, the beauty, the shopping, the sourdough... I miss my friend and her family.  :) Love y'all.  

Of course... a snapshot of me with Christina and my four with her girls.  Thanks for the day by the Bay.  

 

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

It's great to be 8.  This kid could not have been more excited if he were 16 and it was a new car in the driveway instead of a new bike. 

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schultz

Our sunny day at the pumpkin patch two weeks ago turned out to be the last sunny day of the month. :) Rainy life in the great Pacific Northwest begins early this year.  

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The boys of summer.  Oceans, reservoirs, lakes, rivers, streams, rocks, fish, rapids, rope swings, tubes, boats, boards...