Pumpkin Painting and Trick or Treating

we tried to do our annual pumpkin painting for several days but there has been lots of rain and this is an activity I prefer to only do outside because its a huge mess. But its waaayyy better than giving my kids a knife.

 I was really impressed with Caleb's ability to paint and his dexterity with the paint brush. Not what I expected.

She loved getting to paint her pumpkin.

After naps we got the kids dressed up and headed to the trunk or treat at the church. 

 Caleb was OBSESSED with the pumpkin game! he played this one over and over.

 Caleb found his spiderman twin!

 He won a football player at the fishing game

showing off his prize with his grammie

 madison spent her entire evening with her grandma teresa. they played games together and did the cake walk together.

Ready for trunk or treat with daddy!

 Nothing like going trunk or treating with your best friend...these girls love each other like sisters

After trunk or treating the kids were not done or exhausted so we stopped by my grandmothers house and trick or treated on her street

 after we were done trick or treating there we headed to our house and we went up our street and down my moms street next door. After the kids were done with those they were beat! so we took them home and snuggled them in bed and they passed out.

It was probably one of my favorite Halloweens because both kids really got into it and understood all that was going on.

Annual Halloween Party

 Burnt sugar is now my favorite way to put together cookie and gingerbread houses. they stick together easily and dry within seconds and become hard as rock.

 All the kids in their costumes decorating their spooky cookie houses

 My sweet little princess elsa

 Elsa and her bestie cinderella

 Spiderman didnt need any friends

 however, caleb loves his bestie brayden and all the candy that came in the spooky house bag

Caleb was soooo sugared up after the party he didnt sleep for almost 2 hours after his normal naptime.

Cal Poly Pumpkin Patch

 She loved picking her own pumpkin and for the very first time she was able to pick it up all by herself.

 Caleb on the other hand probably tried 10 different pumpkins and couldn't pick up a single one! But it was fun to watch him try to be like his big sissy.

 We loved that grammy came to spend the Saturday with us.

 Caleb loved running through the kids hay maze and mommy could barely keep up.

grammy offered to let the kids go on a horse ride and she would wait in line for them.

 Caleb wasn't too sure at first but he eventually got into it.

Madison on the other hand loved every minute of it.

6th Anniversery

We have been married for six wonderful years. There have been ups and downs but there have been soooo many more ups than downs. Life is truly good. We have two kids, a beautiful house, and anthony is in the middle of trying to start a career as a correctional facility officer.

For our anniversary we went whale watching and then went and got dinner at a place called jo's sushi.

Whale watching was amazing and we were really lucky to see tons of dolphins and a blue whale who gave us quite the show.

 waiting for our boat!

 we rode right by the queen mary

 Look close to the boat and there was a dolphin swimming next to us

 dozens of dolphins

 the blue whale spouting at the surface of the water

 the whale came right up next to the boat and then just hung out there for almost 10 minutes while we watched

After we got back to the doc we headed for a quick walk because after that ride neither one of us wanted to jump back in the car. we headed to get dinner at a little sushi place I found on yelp. In all honsety we have no idea why this place had 4.5 stars on yelp. it was terrible and all of their sushi is premade and they just add sauce and serve it to you... the California rolls were dry and none of the sushi was cold. it was really disturbing and we learned a lesson this time never eat sushi at a place you don't know! we still had a great time together and its been a long time since we have spent that much quality time together and it was amazing to reconnect.

Apple Picking

First Day of Preschool 2014-2015

Madison's first day back to preschool this year went very smoothly. I changed her schedule this year and instead of her going 3 days a week for 1 hour each she goes 2 days a week for 1 1/2 on Wednesdays and 1 hour on Friday. She is getting bigger all the time and I was so proud of how well she delt with going back to school especially since all but 1 of her teachers were changed.
Over the summer Madison has begun to use multiple words in a sentence but is still struggling to speak clearly and her fine motor skills are still very poor so that's where we will be focusing until she is given new goals in November before her birthday.