Week in Review

Summer is drawing to a close. It's been a bit slow and a lot "at home" since our trip to Maui in June, with Cora taking Spanish keeping her busy. 

Violet went to Liana's house the other day and they baked this lovely cake - vanilla cake, homemade lemon buttercream and strawberries.

And we baked up most of the last of our nectarines into a nectarine upside-down cake.

Stace has, at long last, finished painting his Spitfire airplane model his Mum and Dad gave him years ago.

Looks great!

He's ordered a jeep to paint, to make a full diorama.

A '90s tribute band was playing at our SClarita Concerts in the Park, and Stace and I went alone for a simple, free date night. The band was great! So many songs that were hits when I was in high school and college.

Voila! Violet agreed to cut off about five inches - look how nice it looks!

Before - it was SO long. It's still long, but a bit more manageable. She also now has some layering in front. 

My parents had promised Cora two aerial lessons with Cheryl for Christmas, and she still had one left to cash in. They finally got to do it last week. 

Also, my dad has been talking about taking Cora out shooting again, for the first time in a long time. 

She did good!

Cora has been playing D&D at the local gaming store weekly, and at her friend Logan's house when possible. Now, she's also running games for her friends online, many of whom had not played before. Seb wanted to be part of the game too, I guess.

More Aerial Training

Cora loved doing silks with Cheryl, but took a break when she got into karate last year. Now that karate has slowed down because of virus restrictions, she was happy to have a couple of private lessons as a Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa.

We did one of those lessons this week, while the girls were off school and Stace has gone back to work.