Nature Wednesday

Weather was great one day last week (mid-50s), so Benji and I decided to take a walk after school. Of course, after refusing to take his, he got cold halfway to the creek and needed my jacket.I think it makes him look like a Jedi:

The creek was covered in a thin layer of ice

Which Benji took much pleasure in smashing up

Charming

For Hanukkah, we gave Abby a clay charm-making kit, which she and Julia broke out last weekend. She loved it so much, we've been making charms together all week:

Aren't they cute?

Our improvised drying rack

Superbowl Sunday

We went to a lovely Superbowl party at the Daly's house. The kids only had eyes for the halftime show:

Katy Perry love. Benji said he wanted to give her 10 billion "likes"

Awesome Sunset

The sky was just amazing one afternoon. Judging from my Facebook feed, I was not the only one who noticed.

Bear Hat

We originally bought this for Abby, shortly after we moved to Cville. Benji has adopted it as his own (and it is soooo cute!)

Disney Pictures, redux

While we were at Disneyland in July, our friend Julia gifted us a photopass, which would allow us to download all the pictures taken of us by Disney photographers. Because they had to download to her account first, it took a while, but I finally got my hands on them. :)

Disneyland Pictures:

Iron Benji

Iron Abby

California Adventure Pictures:

Drawing class at the animation studio

Abby did an awesome job on Olaf

With Julia, Jordan and Laurana in Radiator Springs

Bryce and some of Julia's friends joined us in the evening

Garfield

Benji discovered Garfield comic books at the library last week, and he has been reading them non-stop since. Every so often, he breaks into giggles. He's taken out every volume in our local library, so we may have to find him more: