Here are two of my new favorite pictures:
B and I drove almost 2200 miles to b-ball tournaments -- first to Anaheim and then along I-5 to San Francisco, then the Pacific Coast Highway to Seattle, then home. On the way home, we picked up L and Baby D. It was fun having them here with us for the holiday. We also went to Grand Junction for another tournament. Along the way, I read a lot of books having picked up a sackful from our local book exchange. Some of them were good, some not so much. The standouts were The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle and The No. 1 Ladies Detectives Agency by Alexander McCall Smith series (I've read the first two and have four more to go!!). When I got home there were three books waiting for me: Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (have read twice prior but can't wait to read it again), Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons From My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani, and Lemon Tart by Josi Kilpack. I also fell in love with a new song: Valerie (original by the Zutons, covered by Amy Winehouse, covered again by Santana (Naya Rivera) on Glee).
I really liked the Josi Kilpack books and plan to get others -- not only for the stories but for the recipes. I've read the first two chapters of the grandmother book by Trigiani and am totally loving it. If The Hunger Games trilogy doesn't show up under the Christmas tree, it will probably be an after-Christmas purchase.
My book club is reading The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens, a great story to read at Christmastime. I've read it previously but it is almost scripture and can be read again and again to remind us who He is and why it is important to know Him.
