Pumpkins for New Years

Yeah, yeah, it's New Years time now, but we're still catching up on blogging. We figure everyone is still eating pumpkin pie, so what better time to remember the Pumpkin Festival at Half Moon Bay? The highlight was the parade.

Which included this dude.

And this tiny tractor pulling a larger tractor.

Pulling some pretty large pumpkins.

This is the largest pumpkin sculpture.

And this was the largest pumpkin this year.

There was even some sweet pumpkin carving.

Delicious pumpkin carving.  Nom.

Hitting the Beach

After all the road tripping we did, you would think we would just want to stay in forever. Instead, we headed out to the Marin headlands to explore some of our new nearby beaches.

We also headed down to Capitola for the annual Begonia Festival.

If for no other reason, I think we're happy we moved to California because Norman hearts the beach.

Holiday DP^2

This year we spent Thanksgiving with our favorite California friends, Dave and Dana.  They were kind enough to let us crash and we had lots of fun cooking noms.

Dave and Little Dave love turkey.

Mostly I did this.

But I also did some of this.

We also played games while we were there.

I'm the first citizeness of Arkham. In fact, we did so much game playing that there was a casualty.

Eddy now owes DP^2 one dining room chair.

Hearth and Home

When we moved into our house, we were excited to have a gas fireplace in the living room. The only problem was that the gas unit itself was pretty dated and wasn't inspected before we bought the house. Also, the hearth tile was falling under the floor and the trim was broken and missing. So, you know, we probably needed to rip it all out and stuff.

Just like everything in Project House Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny, it was pretty dirty and filled with spider webs.

So once we cleared out the tile, there was just a big hole in our living room floor.

That's when I started in with the paint.

Then Eddy laid in some sub floor for me to tile on.

I did the tile.

And fixed up the trim.

Once the grout was in and the old gas unit was out, this is what we had and all we had to do was wait until the new gas unit came in.

Hitting The Road (Again!)

The Road Trip was over when we got back to Texas, but we still had to grab the kiteez and head out to our new home. First, we re-acclimated all the fur kids.

Once everybody was rested up, we hit the road with two new passengers in the car.

On the way out to California we breezed through Arizona and New Mexico again but when we hit Nevada we had to see a few new things.

We saw Hoover Dam.

And of course we stopped in Vegas.

After a brief brush with the Fist of Faith,

we made it to California to start our new life!

Beginning the Library

We have a room in Project House Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny that has been designated the library. I figured if it's a library, it better have some bookshelves. Luckily, the room had a wall of built in closets when we moved in.

The first task was the remove the doors.

Considering the decades of paint and rust on those hinges that was easier said than done. Next I painted. And painted. And painted.

Then it was time to get friendly with the power tools.

Next I had my first go at wiring light fixtures without Eddy assistance.

Then I added the books.

And prettied 'em up.

But bookshelves weren't enough. I decided to do a mascot mural.

Now all we need is some comfy cozy furniture and we're ready to read.