January returns

January 12th we awoke to more snow

A fun morning of making snow people

Multiple snow people arrived 

Nikki sewing her first quilt with Grandma's sewing machine

Mateo and Dov playing around

January Beginnings

Mateo's first day at Waldorf School

Stepping into the classroom

Mateo in a pillow case 

reading on the kitchen floor after school

Mateo painting

Mateo's paw prints

Blue paws

Mateo's new train track from Grandma and Grandpa Anderson

Mateo painting his letters, M-A-T-E-O

Mateo learning so much about color

Photo by Mateo

Photo by Mateo

Photo by Mateo

Juliet and Mateo in the greenhouse weeding and planting seeds

Dov, Juliet and Mateo tending to the young green

Mateo and Nikki  making pizza crust for pizza night on the farm

December Travels

Driving South on I-5 down to California

Neary Lagoon, Santa Cruz

Mateo's dream truck

Santa's helper

Testing Santa's cookies

Mouth full of milk'n cookies

Santa will be very happy

Mama Nikki at work

Grandma Pam reads to Mateo

Mateo and Sarisa playing in the kitchen

Mateo reading

Petey-pu and Margoji

Family walk on Westcliff

 Westcliff walk

 Westcliff

Westcliff sunset light

 I Love Sushi with Zenovio

New Years Eve with Kaira Moon 

November Snows

Our first snow,  November 20th

Turkeys in the snow

The Beautiful goats

69 mph NE winds

25 degree daytime high and single digit nights

 The Chickens 

 Our greenhouse and home

 Kale growing in the snow

 Second snow on Thanksgiving Day

Playing with our neighbors Britney, Aaliyah, and Molly the dog

 Little cabin in the snow

 Thanksgiving feast fresh from the farm

 Pies Oh My

Copper (the dog), Rosie and Mateo

some post-feast late-night fun

October trip to North Carolina

 Seth and Mateo canoeing at the Chetola Resort 

Cousins

Enjoying the 70 degree fall weather 

 Mateo, Sophia and Qais on the dock

 Grandpa and Mateo

 Cousin Wizard Qais

 A stroll through the fall colors

 Tubby time with the cousins

 Poet walk with G-ma Jo

Tiger Boy