**Back to reality** — who remembers that song? :)

Semi-settled down and back to just living life things…

Like (vegan) V-day donuts for Daddy… gotta somehow health-ify ’em, right?

And chocolate from a new chocolatier for Mommy!

Zoo visit w/ buddies…

Given up on that frozen lemonade fight. :D At least they all just shared one!

Hadn’t caught the red pandas in awhile.

Some mini-cakes for J’s b-day.

Then off to the Midway! Meeting another friend there…

Finally caught a wee little bit of air!

This one is almost like J casting a spell on E to jump. :P

Views from the flight deck are always enjoyable.

What is this contraption? :D

Turn all the knobs.

These ruffians!

Perfect sunset on the way out right when it closed.

CNY performance and celebration at school. Happy Lunar Year of the Rabbit!

Their classroom dragon…

Still getting settled and unpacked… Doing HW on a kitchen counter is a thing! But it’s nice to be somewhat back to everyday things and not in limbo.

Our first time at MCASD on a free admission Sunday afternoon. A Yayoi work right at the entrance… :)

We really enjoyed perusing all the works.

The “artwork” outside was also a masterpiece. ;-)

Ahhhh, so bright!

Took a break from unpacking to check out the trails around our new ‘hood… they’re still in the process of joining up some of the pathways but we were able to go up the big hill right in front of us.

We spot our abode. :)) All the residences are definitely closer together than our other place due to scarcity of land…

Dusk.

Sailing continues in the winter! The days are definitely shorter and it gets a bit nippy in the evening but can’t complain.

We made the most of our last few days at the condo and trying out new cafes. Been wanting to visit this rooftop restaurant for awhile…

They have a little tent for yoga…

And an aerial yoga class was happening.

Took a walk to the cove since it wasn’t too far away… Don’t think we’ve been here at night actually!

The seals are just as stinky in the evening, haha.

Thumbs up on the creative food!

Oh, but their raw carrot cake… The boys rated it too carrot-y.

They needed some fried stuff to balance the healthy. ;-P Hole-in-the-wall Calvin’s is a regular fave for them.

And then, voila, on January 18, we closed on our house and received the keys. We had just a few days to get some third party contractors’ work done that we didn’t use the builder for before our containers arrived.

Put new carpet in as we didn’t like all the builder choices. Felt bad they ripped out perfectly new carpet but supposedly it was donated so hopefully it was put to good use. There was a bit of drama with the scheduling and some of the contractors not making it on the right day as we had such a small window of time and order was important but we just gritted our teeth and tried to make it all work.

LOVE the chevron backsplash. :)) Builder didn’t have this either…

Makeshift workstation for a few days as we didn’t have any of our furniture.

Epoxy-ing the garage floors was a must for Y. The previous builder included it (perhaps accidentally?) for our other house but this time we got to choose the finish.

The epoxy guy did a great job!

Epoxy wasn’t high on Mommy’s list of things for the house but the speckle and smoothness did turn out well…

Mi-Boxes, we meet again. Being in the city, our new neighborhood had much narrower streets but the driver (same one!) angled the two with the doors facing each other.

Last run and morning sunrise by the bay. It was a long time coming but now to officially move in and unpack…