Halloween 2008

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to write a quick blog and post some pics of all our October festivities. I took Timmy to a great pumpkin patch in La Verne with his mommy and me class. Dan and I went to our friend's the Tottens Annual Halloween Party. Katelynn had her songfest at preschool. We did our traditional Pumpkin Patch pictures at the Pumpkin Patch in Brea on Halloween. Took the kids trick-or-treating in my parent's neighborhood. For those of you that don't know yet we sold our house this month and are now living at my parent's house until we get our next house. Most of our belongings are in 2 storage units while the rest is also at my parents' house. We have found a house and are now in escrow but it won't be closing until Dec. 10th. So we will be at my parents' for a few more weeks. Of coarse I will blog and post pics of the new house when we move in and change some things. For now, enjoy the festive October pics!

The Lake House

Last weekend we took a trip out to the Lindsays' (Dan's aunt and uncle) Lake house. It was a big family gathering of about 16 people, more or less. We haven't got together at the lake house like that in 10 years so it was really fun. The kids loved it. We brought our trailer and parked it on the side of the house so they thought we were camping. Dirt and water are their favorite things. Dan got to go wake boarding. It's been a while for him but he got up like a pro. I was eventually talked into going on the inner tube. It turned out to be a lot of fun. Katelynn and Timmy loved going on the boat rides and watching mommy and daddy do their things. They also loved playing with Aunt Susie and Uncle Tom's pugs. Katelynn is in love with cleo and now wants a dog of her own. It was a great time and we need to do that more often. Thanks for having Bruce and Christy!

Princess Katelynn

Katelynn dressed up as a princess for the first time. She was invited to her friend Tiffany's birthday party that was princess themed and she got excited to dress up for it. At first we picked a ballerina dress at Walmart but Tiffany's mommy Lori said she had a princess dress that Katelynn could borrow so I took it home to show her. She was hesitant to try it on at first but once we put it on her, that was the dress she wanted to wear. You could tell that she was out of her comfort zone while wearing but none the less she liked being in it and she looked very pretty in it and had a great time at the party with all the other little princesses.

Lake Mohave

Last week we took our longest camping trip yet. We took off for Lake Mohave Tuesday night stopping in Baker to sleep and meet up with our friends the Decks. The next morning we finished the drive to Lake Mohave. The kids had a great time. We rented a boat for a couple days and took it to our own personal cove that had a great little beach area for the kids to play and have fun. On Saturday we stuck around the Resort and played by the water. The kids loved feeding the ducks and fish popcorn and sneaking in some handfuls of their own. Katelynn has established quite a rock collection that we of course had to bring home with us. We got back Sunday afternoon. It's funny because the kids did not want to come back home. They wanted to "stay at camping" as Katelynn put it. I kind of did too. ;) Anyway I have posted a few pics. Enjoy!

A Wet Day at Disneyland

Last Thursday my friend Lori and I wanted to take our girls to Disneyland as a little celebration for their end of their first year of preschool. We had planned it for over a month and kept having to reschedule for various reasons. We finally settled on a date and it happened to be last Thursday. I had checked the weather a couple days before to make sure it wasn't going to be hot since the Sunday before was hitting record highs in the 100's. I guess I didn't notice it said 20% chance of rain or maybe didn't believe it. Anyway when we got there it was overcast and it started to sprinkle a little but I was in denial that it was supposed to keep raining all day. It just didn't seem possible after the weather we've had. I had to run back to the car to get Katelynn's jacket and when I got back down it was raining harder. Lori and I decided it probably wouldn't last and we were already there so we stayed. Sure enough it stopped (for a little while) and we got into the park and got in line for a ride. Everything was fine when we got off the ride and a minute later it started to down pour. We tried to find a line that was covered to keep us dry. It was the line to the carousel and unfortunately the canopy did not hold up against the rain. When we got off we found a store to buy some ponchos (like everyone else) and we still stayed for a few more hours after that. The girls still had a great time and Lori and I just thought it was hilarious that we were there in the rain. The ponchos did a great job of keeping us all dry. I have posted a few pics from the day. Enjoy!

Mother's Day 2008

I had a great Mother's Day. It was nice and relaxing after having to keep the house clean the day before for people to come and go looking at the house. Anyway, Dan cooked breakfast (french toast) and it was tasty. Later we went to a local park for a picnic and a bike ride and I accidentally forgot my camera so there are no pics from that. Later in the evening my parent's came over for dinner and our traditional color coordinated pictures we take every year. My choice for dinner was Joey's BBQ. I know that BBQ is more of a man's type of dinner but I just love their sliced bbq beef and their baked yam. Yummy!!!!

Green Eggs and Ham

"I do not like them Sam I am" Well Actually Katelynn and Timmy did. Katelynn has been into the Dr. Suess book "Green Eggs and Ham" lately so Dan made her green eggs and ham the other night for dinner. She loved that she was eating the same thing as in the book. She loves eggs and had like 3 helpings of them. It was fun. Timmy even surprised me and ate them all up too. Dan was a sport and ate the green eggs and ham with them but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I stuck with an artichoke. It's green too so at least I stayed with the theme. Anyway I have posted some pics of them eating their green eggs and ham.