We had chili and cornbread at Leah and Jeff’s before the kids went trick-or-treating.

When you ask Carson to pose for a picture, this is the look you get:


Mama llama:

This afternoon I tried to go to Sophia’s championship volleyball game but there was a brush fire which closed the freeway about a mile from my house. All the traffic was diverted onto local streets – it was awful. 20 minutes to go one mile. I gave up, went home and tried a new pretzel recipe – a definite success!
Sophia’s team won. Thais sent me this picture:

Thais took Carson to gymnastics, Lenin took Sophia to a volleyball event, and I got to watch Avery play a great soccer game. Avery took the ball to the goal 4 (of the 5 total drives) and scored once.

He told me he has a “really good juke.”

Carson was excited to show me how his stomp rocket worked.

As soon as Adrienne dropped me off after .. flying from Brussels to London to San Francisco and driving to Sacramento, I drove over the Jeff and Leah’s for Avery’s family birthday party.

at Thais and Lenin’s.
Rita made pan leche:

Ready for Halloween:

St Ignatius has a good team but tonight’s outcome was quite lopsided. Sophia and at least one other teammate never touched the ball and we were finished in 40 minutes.

Phyl arrived at 6 pm last night – a couple of days before she and her sister Carol were supposed to leave for Hawaii. She arrived with a kidney infection and the medication to deal with it. But something else was going on. By midnight, we were on our way to the emergency room at Woodland Memorial Hospital.

The life-threatening diagnosis:

The best time for all of us to get together for my birthday was tonight. We didn’t go to the restaurant with these pretty flowers (too crowded)

but rather Mas Taco Bar:

Mas tacos: