Sunday, January 4, 2015

Ending a year.

So, we celebrated the New Year ringing in with friends from Rosarito and Tijuana.
We went to a family friendly party not too far from our casa and ate good food and hung out 
until 1207.  Then we headed out in the cold back to our place.

We've spent a lot of the last month just settling in and doing things for our home.
We had to get Christmas together in our house and the kids were very into that.
They also have been participating in their home school group a little

Winter solstice...

Carson's Mexican flag cookies
 We have also been spending a lot of time on the beach.  December is a time of sand dollars washing up and orca sighting.  Here are a few collections form the tide below.
Have not been able to catch any pics of whales from the roof deck, but will keep trying!


Sand dollars from the beach

This one was alive when he came to our house.

A colony!


The discovery of sand dollars opened up an entire research chapter on sand dollars and tides and eventually became a moon cycle study....free association!
From this research we discovered 
Not all of these may be appropriate or helpful 
but we have enjoyed some of them.

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