The Pumpkin Patch

Here are some pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch this year.

Nathan and Ryan

Caitlin posed for me



Owen's first time at the pumpkin patch




Cousins



We had to check out the animals

Quite a haul of pumpkins

I love to make a spooky dinner. We had eyes in our salad and brains
and mummy fingers with bone breadsticks and for dessert intestines that were quite delicious.

Choir Concert

Teresa had her first choir concert at FHS. She was very excited about it. They did a wonderful job and looked so nice.

I'm going to attempt to post a video of her favorite song they sang. It was beautiful and worth the effort it takes to post a video here.

Even better

Nathan lost his 4th tooth today, one week from the last one. He looks pretty stinkin' cute!

Yes, that's his tongue sticking out of his gap

Our little Jack-o-lantern

Homecoming

Last week was Homecoming week at FHS. It started with a dance last weekend. I'll have to steal a picture from Teresa or get her to post it on her blog. 4 of her friends got together and did each other's hair. Teresa wore her new high top converse with a black and silver dress.
Then during the week each day was themed - the whole theme was Disneyland, so each day was an area of the park. The only day they really got into it was Thursday - Adventureland.

Run, run as fast as you can...

...you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man.

Nathan's teacher baked them a delicious gingerbread man on Monday, but then he ran away. It took the whole week of investigating and clues to finally find him. Here are some pictures from their last hunt.

The first clue to where he might be - frosting on the door of Mrs. Hazzard's room

He made a mess of Mrs Hazzard's room

They finally spotted him under a desk

 He was delicious!

Here is a random picture from the weekend. The kids helped me make these amazing donuts.

We had Chocolate, Orange glaze, Cinnamon, Glazed and Jelly filled with powdered sugar.

Labor Day Weekend

Saturday was a family reunion in Anaheim.. It was a lot of fun. We had good food, played games and visited. I played Bunco for the first time. Perfect game for everyone, even the little kids were able to play. Then toward the end we played volleyball with beach balls and the adults had to stay seated in their chairs.

This was the last game of volleyball with 6 balls instead of 1

Evie after playing with markers with Kris's help

Addison with her make-up work

We stayed that night in Anaheim. Nathan woke up way too early with a cough
so he and I went for a walk so the other two could sleep some more.
He took a few pictures on our walk. This is of the hotel

This was a Koi pond on the grounds.
They were nice grounds to walk around and explore

Sunday we headed to Seal Beach. I expected it to be way busier than it was

The weather was so nice. And as you can see there was lots of swimming.
You could walk out pretty far

We stopped at a Chinese Buffet in Santa Monica on our way home(per Nathan's request) It was very nice and quite yummy. It had the biggest selection I've seen.

Monday was spent relaxing, with some deliciuos grilled burgers to end our long weekend