It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...

It was time to put up the tree at the Lopezjones home. The twins were very excited to start.

With four people helping the tree was done in no time. PapaJason chose a wonderful tree and with all the decorations on it looked spectacular.

On the walk home from school one day Ada spotted a diferrent kind of tree. A Christmas tree made of bread at a local bakery.

Family Outing

On a slow Sunday morning the Loezjoneses decided to go out for lunch and then take a walk at the Moraga/16th Ave. steps.

It was a beautiful and great work out.

And the views were spectacular.

Everyone enjoyed the walk, even it was a little bit cold.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! The twins were up in Squaw celebrating with family. They were very happy to be up there playing with all their cousins.

The next day, as is now their tradition, everyone headed to Kingvale Rd. for Christmas trees. The road was full of sno and none of the cars could make it through so in everyone walked and out they all dragged a tree.

Super Moon

Ada and Navi missed the main night of the super Moon, but were still awed by the moon rising a few days later.

Gilroy Gardens

 Ada and Navi finally made it to Gilroy Gardens, after several attempts ruined by rain.

 The theme park was decorated with Chinese art. Marky joined in on the fun and was excited to see the twins.

 And Marky was not afraid of any of the rides. This particular ride was a spinning garlic that went around in circles and everyone loved the fast spinning. He was able to ride most of them except one or two.

The car ride was fun. Both Ada and Navi felt they were practicing to drive in the future.

Even Abue and P'ete got in on the driving.

Both Ada and Navi's favorite ride was the mushroom swings. The center of the ride would rise and tilt and spin.

Emigdio and his wife, who live in Girloy, joined the family on the outing. A family picture was captured, even if Navi was doing his best pose it is still a good picture.

Before calling it a day there were a few more rides to do. The mushroom ride or course, the driving ride...

And the very last one was the Banana Split. Navi loved the zero gravity feeling of the ride as did Ada!

Overnight Guests

PapaJason's cousin Bryan was in the bay area with his wife and his 8 month old son Eddy and stopped by the Lopezjoneses for dinner and an overnight. They were in town for a football game in the eastbay.

Navi and Ada met their new cousin. And both were very curious about the baby.

Eddy was very happy to get the attention.

It was a wonderful evening for everyone.

Navi and Bryan, PapaJason's cousin from Grandpa's side. Nonna and Grandpa made it over for dinner. It was a great little family gathering.

Happy Hallow's Eve

 Halloween arrived in San Francisco with a very light drizzle outside. Nonna, Grandpa and Linda joined the Lopezjoneses for dinner and dessert at their house before trick-or-treating.

 The twins were ready to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood and it looked like a few houses were handing out treats.

 First stop was across the street. Most houses insisted that Ada and Navi take several pieces of candy. The Lopezjones home had 3 trick-or-treaters this year, 2 more than last year.

 On the 20th street block the twins received treats from 7 houses...

And that was more than enough candy for these two!

Rainy Weekend?

 The forecast for the weekend was rain. But luckily there was not a lot of it like last weekend. Both Ada and Navi's calcio games were on.

 Ada's team almost won their first game, with 30 seconds to go the opposing team scored and the girls tied the game.

 The next day, the after a rainy supermarket run to buy pumpkins, it was carving time.

 This year was wonderful for the dads. Both kids needed very little help with cleaning and carving their jack-o-lanterns.

 They both came up with their own designs and carved them all on their own.

Stay tuned to see all the jack-o-lanterns.

La Scuola Atumn Festival

 La Scuola celebrated their Halloween festivities on Friday, things fit better into their schedules that day. Ada and Navi chose their costumes, both in black, but two very different mammals.

 Navi chose the only flying mammal in the world a bat, or at school un pipistrello.

 Ada went with a black cat. She got the idea from her own cat at home, Lucy.

 At school they had a freeze dance...

And other activities including paper flower making in honor of Dia De Los Muertos.

Parent Teacher Conferences

 Ada lost a front tooth last week!

 The daddies attended parent teacher conferences this week. For the most part both kids are doing fantastic. Ada needs to work on her short term memory when learning and Navi needs to work on expressing his emotions in a constructive way. But best of all Ada's Italian is coming along great, so the whole family went to the supermarket to pick up a few things for dinner.

 As some may recall, PapaJason and Ada made a deal about a year ago that if/when she speaks Italian to all Italian speakers at school for a day then she could have banana splits for dinner.

 It finally happened so for dinner they each made their own banana splits.

 Navi of course benefited from this arrangement, but it took some waiting.

Congratulazioni Ada! She earned it!

Weekend Activities

 Over the weekend Ada had a play date with her classmate Maria Sofia. The kids in their class have been fascinated by rocks, minerals and gemstones so they went on a little outing to a store on Valencia Street.

 With money that Ada found on the street, on the way to school one day, they bought two geods to break open and reveal what's inside.

 They had a bit of trouble getting them open, but DaddyQuique helped them out.

 And they were excited to find crystals inside. Maria Sofia and Ada hope one day to open up a stand and sell their collections.

 Later that day DaddyQuique took Navi to his soccer game where he scored 3 awesome goals to help his team with the game 6-0.

There were treats and Navi was so kind in thinking of his sister, who was at another part of the city starting her game, that he grabbed an 'spooky' extra treat to take home for her. Ada's game was a forfeit by the other team so she and her teammates had a scrimmage.