Wow, November had a lot of people visiting the Carpinteria Theules, even without including Thanksgiving (look for a separate post).

The month started off with Dad getting to experience a weekend of just children while Mom went to Oregon to visit Buddy and Cena, et. al.  She left Max, Lucy and Roly with Dad from Friday to Sunday night.  Toby’s mom was scheduled to come down for 2 weeks after the Oregon visit.

Camille and Toby came home to Carpinteria on Sunday night (much to Dad’s relief).  And they brought glad tidings of great joy.  Toby announced that the next day, her cousin Sunny Maldonado and brood (husband Jose, children Alex, Bella, Gigi and Luis) were arriving at the Santa Barbara airport to spend a week with us.  We had plenty of meals with the extended family, including the Wassons and Nawais.  Even Aaron’s sister and nieces were in town and visited.

The day after the Maldonados flew back to one of the Carolinas, our good friends the D’Elias made their annual pilgrimage to Carpinteria.  They stayed for the weekend and a good time was had by al.  The weather for our beach day was perfect.

Lucy and Camille did some great bonding activities like hair styling and sewing.  Lucy is excited to spend more time with Gran to develop her sewing skills.

We are glad and thankful to have to have so much space at our house to have our wonderful friends and family stay over and visit.