Love our 3rd week of winter vacation

Our school district gives us three weeks for winter vacation, and boy do we love it!  We get a week for Christmas, a week for camping, and a week for play.  We go back to school Tuesday 1/14 this year.  

We fixed up our bikes, and enjoyed a family ride at Lake Murray 1/11 (pictures lost).

We got our motorhome back from warranty work (fingers crossed).

Our local Rancho San Diego/McGrath YMCA gymnastics center has been remodeling with more equipment and held an open house to promote it and celebrate.  Now Piper wants to join the gymnastics team here... I told her she has to finish her swim season but can start in summer.  

We played at home, enjoying our gifts.

Addisyn and Alli built a hamster cage.  I am so proud of them.  They researched larger cage environments on YouTube, Addisyn counted her money, I took them both shopping to buy materials, and they built it together.  They found a tall display case at IKEA that they could lay down and swap out the hinged door for a DIY lid.  They measured, sawed, sanded, drilled, painted, cut, and staple gunned.  Karen helped them use power tools and do things that needed a bit more muscle, but worked under their design and direction.  Don't those hamsters look happy?

Piper emulating Alli while hanging out at Starbucks together. 

More Piper posing, with leftover birthday balloons.