A life full of faith, hope, love, and laughter.
Tonight he went out for just a bit because we left, so he didn’t get as much done as he would have liked. Enjoy!
The final look of the underside of the table with supports and storage box.
Corner support and close up of storage box.
Another close up of support and storage box.
Gino started working on Isabel’s Christmas present last night after work and unlike the crib that he made for her, I wanted to make sure I documented the build for this project. Enjoy!
An oak panel cut in two and then will be joined (see below) to form the table top.
Glued table top being squeezed together.
Then tonight he headed out to the garage to work on it again…
A arc was put on both ends with a router to give it a less square look.
A look at the completed arc’s of the tabletop.
A sample of what the height and look of the legs will be.
The finished height will be: 21 inches.
The happy little woodworker.
A dado cut for the storage box on the underside of table top.
Today we had the honor of attending Gabbi’s school and having Gabbi and her class serve us a breakfast buffet with foods prepared by them for us. Very cool! Enjoy.
The “new” school name; the school was actually called Kitchen Academy and then the second week Gabbi started, the school was upgraded to Le Cordon Bleu!
How cool is that!?!
A little banner greeted all those who attended:
The Bestes Buffet Featuring Stuff & Things Presented by PCA 1-B.
The menu included:
Eggs to order
Omelets to order
Eggs Benedict (Gabbi made these!)
Crepes Suzette
French Toast
Potatoes O’Brien
Sausage links
Bacon
Orange juice
Apple cider
Water
Fruit platter and
Pastries
Gino’s (and Isabel’s) plate with Egg’s Benedict (that Gabbi made!), fruit, a blueberry muffin, and Quiche Florentine.
Gino’s (and Isabel’s) plate after Gino realized he missed the other half of the buffet!
With everything listed above plus Crepes Suzette, French Toast, Potatoes O’Brien, sausage, and bacon.
My plate (I didn’t get to try everything like Gino, it was mostly gone) but I did get Gabbi’s Eggs Benedict! Yum!
Our “little chef” Gabbi!
You and your class did an amazing job today!
Keep up the hard work and you’ll be the next Iron Chef! Woohoo!
Today while Gino and I were getting lunch ready. Isabel calls me into the front room and says, “That’s my name…”
With no help from Gino or I, she wrote her name out all by herself! I was totally impressed, because she usually get’s the letter’s switched around!
This Saturday, with much help from Gabbi, we got our decorations down from the garage attic and started putting up our Christmas decor, starting with the tree.
While we decorated the tree Isabel played inside the tree box…for a little while anyway.
Gabbi and I worked on “fluffing” the branches while Gino did the lights.
Isabel waiting patiently for us to get through so she could put up ornaments.
Isabel and Gabbi just kicking back while we decide what to do next.
Gabbi did the honors of putting the bead garland on.
Afterward we were finished for the night because it was time for Isabel to go to bed and she really wanted to decorate the tree (that’s her favorite part!). So we waited until the following afternoon to finish decorating the tree…which reminds me, I need to get a finished picture. Isabel did a great job (followed by Gabbi who spread the ornaments out a bit and me putting up the fragile ones!).
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UPDATE! I finally took a photo of the completed tree…
Merry Christmas!
This year was a special one for the Espinoza household; we had guests for Thanksgiving! Our friend Dale and my cousin Gabbi! We had a early dinner with all the fixings and then spent the remainder of the evening playing Wii and watching movies. Good times!
I had to use the small camera, so I’m not “in” the photo.
Dale and Gino playing Mario Kart racing on the Wii.
Dale brought Isabel a few gifts…the Littlest Pet Shop.
6 cute adorable little animals (an owl, bird, cow, bear, pig, and turtle)
(and accessories) to play with!
Gabbi practicing her knife cuts with carrots for a turkey stock.
Starting at the upper left corner (clockwise) you have:
julienne, fine julienne, large dice, brunoise and small dice.
I haven’t added any of Isabel’s cutting projects since April but we have done them! We worked with the scissors yesterday and she seems to do o.k., she just needs more practice, practice, practice! She worked on a spiral cut, a zig-zag cut, and other “turning of the paper” projects. A few times she had me worried about her little fingers but after refocusing, she got her hands out of the way. Enjoy!
Her cutting projects; spiral, square, zig-zag and triangle.
She is actually almost finished with her Kumon First Steps Series Let’s Cut Paper book.
So I’ll have to find more projects online or come up with idea’s on my own.
This project was one that I did find on the internet and was a 4-fold project.
She had to color, cut, arrange the letters in the correct order,
and then paste them to the paper.
The finished project. I have the rest of the alphabet (and numbers too) but we’ll work on that another day.
More practice name writing as well. The top one she did better on; the bottom one I have no idea what she was trying to spell!
Today, Isabel and I played her word building game (for the first time – we usually just play the matching game) and she did really well. She looked at each picture and sounded out the words all by herself. She only needed my help with a few of them. I was really pleased with her accomplishment! Enjoy!
Word building game or you can flip the “word” side over and play a “matching” game with the Pooh, Piglet Tigger, Darby, Buster, and Eeyore.
Just getting started with the game.
“What letter starts with “ppp-arty”, she says. “P!”
Her finished word builder design. She did a great job with words like…
cup
hat
bug
pot
honey
bell
door
heart
star
chair
donkey (for Eeyore)
fish
sun
hero (for the Super Sleuths)
Darby (she’s the new girl)
fruit
dance
cake
frog
cow
pie
cat
horn
bird
sleep
plant
shoe
car
Piglet (of course!)
friend
snow
hen
fire
dog
bath
skate
party
bee and finally
Pooh!