Knitting New Hats

I've been back to knitting hats. I've started a bunch of baby hats, since we've had a bunch of babies born this year. For Sebastian, Bernardo and Jayden I made hats out of a blue/green wool/acrylic blend. I had made a gray mohair hat for Sebatian, but his head grew too fast so it became a hat for Lucy (Esperanza's decision). For Cathy's baby Moria I have cotton/wool blend pink hat and I still need to get a yarn for Selena's baby. 

I also made a hat for Ezra out of the same yard I used to crochet his blanket last year. He uses it for everything except to keep his head warm. And then the ruffled edge funky elfish hat that took 2 years, is finally finished. I used a bunch of left over wool yarn from other projects and made it. Hopefully these hats will keep some heads warm this winter.

 Sebastian

 Jayden

Thanksgiving 2018

For Thanksgiving this year the kids, Armando and I drove down to Eugene and spent the Wednesday and Thursday with Geneva, her kids and her dogs. We slept at a cute little hotel down the road from her house but spent most of our time at her house. We went to an interesting pizza and video game place on Wednesday evening where we visited, drank beer, ate pizza and the little kids played video games. We picked Antonio up from the train station that evening too. On Thursday we hung out and visited, drank mimosas, Antonio baked some cookies and we ate Thanksgiving dinner at a hole in the wall place that we thought was going to be nicer than it really was. It turned out to be the perfect visit. 

On Friday we got together at Araceli's house to have food and family time. There was a lot of babies, lots of toddlers and a lot of food!

Cooking With Grandma

Ezra loves cooking with Grandma Angelina. He is getting good at making tortillas and he enjoys helping her when she makes enchiladas, tamales and other things.

Jaguars Fall Soccer Season 2018

Fall soccer season was fun for Esperanza. Her teams name is The Jaguars. She is getting better, learning more and enjoying the game. She of course loves the social time with friends too. This season another soccer mom and I took turns carpooling our girls to and from practice which made life a little easier on us. The team had practice twice a week and a game on Saturdays. This fall has been very warm and dry so the girls didn't get too wet, cold or dirty all season.  

Esperanza and many of the other girls from the team are looking forward to indoor soccer in January with the same coaches.