October - December 2019

We headed into late Fall and early Winter with lots of activity.  Jack and Kate got to do a little trick-or-treating for Halloween, while Anna was working with the ballet company. That work paid off with an outstanding recital for Anna.  Jack and Dad participated in "Cranksgiving", which is a really fun bicycle-based scavenger hunt to purchase food to donate to our local food bank.  On Thanksgiving, all of us ran in the "Race Against Hunger" 5K on Thanksgiving morning; this helped raise funds to support our local food bank, too.  Both Kate and Anna were hard at work rehearsing for The Nutcracker.  Mme. Peticolas shared a great picture of Anna dancing in her Marizpan costume with us, and we are sharing it with you.  As December set in, we got our "sparkle balls" out for Christmas decorations.  This year, we were able to meet up with our cousins and our uncle at Oma and Opa's house in Tucson for Christmas.  We had our own celebration after we got back home to Tuckaho. The year ended with us looking forward to 2020 - including the Nutcracker performance in early January.

Dress up with Oliver

sunset as we finished the corn maze at Exploration Acres

Kate in her spidery-witch costume for Halloween

Jack as Emmett from the Lego Movie - "everything is awesome..."

Anna with bouquet after the Fall recital
(if you look close, you can see Dad in the mirror - he's all dressed up for the ballet, too)

Dad and Jack at the end of Cranksgiving with the food from all the cyclists piling up on the table

this is the "before" picture ahead of the Race Against Hunger; we all were just as happy afterwards  (no, really, we were!)

Anna in her Marzipan (shepherdess) costume for the January 2020 Nutcracker performance (photo from Sandra Peticolas)

our Christmas lights up in early December

experiencing the "Nature of Movement" sculpture near Rillito Park in Tucson

with Oma and Opa, and our cousins on the Tucson Loop trail

heading east on the Loop

celebrating Christmas back home at Tuckaho