Happy Halloween! Trunk or Treat

Beautiful Barbie Princess Swan
I think she looks like my sister Chrystal


Tough Guy Incredible Hulk

Grumpy Pants Minnie Mouse

Attempt to smile when she learns she's gonna get treats!

Once Tyler realized he was the only one with a mask, he decided he needed face paint instead of the mask. So I did my attempt to make him "hulkish" with green eyeliner and hairspray.

Cousin Wyatt, Urban, Johnny, and Dylan got to come participate in the fun!

Uncle Justin and his family were SUPER HERO Family! Iron Man, Super Woman (I missed her somehow in the mayhem... she was beautiful), Spiderman Johnny, and Batman Dylan.

The Halloween Bunch!

Annual October Tradition! Visit a Pumpkin Patch

Brea Mall Pumpkin Patch
Lil buddies!

Can you tell they are excited to be here?

Tyler's favorite ride! Surprise surprise!

This ride was faster than we all thought. Morgan had to have Kamryn in a death grip to help her from falling out. Tyler wasn't sure he liked it at all!

A few days after my little nephew Ryker was born, Jared wanted to go meet the little guy, so we decided to go to a Pumpkin Patch for FHE with the kids first, along with cousin Kamryn and Uncle Jason. They had the time of their life, and really enjoyed all the fun rides. The rides were built just for their size, even Brooklyn got to go on most of them. Kamryn was hilarious, and made it all the more worth the visit!

Morgan singing for Final Family Friday and Student of the Month

Kids honored with "Outstanding Student" Award.
Morgan and her best classmate Destiny ( I hear about Destiny often)


Morgan and her Teacher Mrs. Calderon and the tortilla press. They got to press their own tortillas and then grill them, and eat them with butter. Highlight of the semester!




Mathias is two to the left, in the striped shirt, yelling the song. He is one of my favorites in Morgan's class.
Mommy and Morgan at the Rosa Parks 1st Semester Awards
Morgan waiting to be Honored
STUDENT OF THE MONTH

Sorry for the 6 week delay..... its amazing how in the home stretch of pregnancy every ounce of spare time I have, I seem to only want to crawl into my bed for a little nap!

Morgan learned some very fun songs in the 1st semester of Kindergarten, and was honored with an "Outstanding Student" certificate. She earned a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut that we had to celebrate that night with. She was also was honored as Student of the Month, for her Kindergarten class. She was awarded a free dinner to Sizzler, and a fancy certificate, and wall banner. She was very excited about these events and we were excited to share them with her! She is such a pleaser, and wants to do good in all that she does. I love her so much, and feel sad at times to see her growing up.

AWESOME Disco Dancers!

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L.A. County Fair

Today we got to go to the L.A. County fair... compliments of Aunt Kelsey! SCORE!!! Although reaching temperatures in excess of 102, and drudging along in a worn out prego body pushing 3 kids and a stroller equivalent of 115lbs all afternoon.... It was a fun day!

Brooklyn in the petting zoo.

The coolest eyes on the llama.

Once Aunt Kelsey introduced riding the sheep, she would select other varieties of goats and sheep that she wanted to also ride.

Kamryn concerned that she just witnessed a bowel movement of one of the animals. Ewe Gross!!!

Cute little Urban- trooper with his teething

Best buddy cousin Wyatt, who mostly had to be holding either Morgan or Tyler's hands at all times, or up in their faces suggesting where we needed to go next with full enthusiasm and excitement. The piggy races was his favorite and one he looked forward to all day to share with us, since it didn't start til 1pm and we got there at 9:30. He suggested it several times as we tried to decide where to go next. It wouldn't have been the same experience without his energy. So cute!

Morgan was exceptionally helpful with keeping tabs on Wyatt, Tyler, and Kamryn... which made the trip way more enjoyable for the moms! Love this girl and her patience with the little ones!

Tyler and Wyatt held hands most of the walk out of the fair

Grand Finale

Tyler told me afterwards to please not bring him back to this part of the fair next time. The Jurassic display, although very impressive, also very frightning and in need of much reassurance as we walked through it.This stood at least 10 ft tall. Very scary!

Hopefully no nightmares tonight.

This last weekend we went Beach Camping for the first time with our kids. It was a great first-time experience, and one we plan to start doing annually. We had lots of fun friends we got to joing along with, and scored an awesome campsite and great fun.

The veiw from our campsite

Jared axe-ing his hand with the WORSTE tent stakes into what seriously seemed to be concrete ground... very fun for him. He claimed it killed him, twice. Once going in, and the 2nd time taking them out. One guy we were with broke like 6 stakes in his tent set-up.

Just Us

Brooklyn and her buddy Aiden- and the beloved doggy, riding in the "bucky" -Bucky means buckle, and because the wagon had a seat with a buckle strap... the whole wagon was known as "bucky." She would have rode and rode all day long. When it wasn't her turn she would follow the wagon with tears yelling "bucky... bucky!"

Tent troops and air mattress jumping... most definitely entertaining!

Tyler Signing off.

Nighty night little sleeping bag buddies. Surprisingly enough, Brooklyn went right down in her pack'n play and Morgan and Tyler slept through the night.

Great Sunset

Rise'n shine at 5:45 AM.... Thanks choo choo train!!! (One unfortunate part of the nightime, was a train that went off just below our campsite about every hour.) As you can see Daddy in the background was not interrested in getting up yet.. regardless of the train or the little early birds. Being almost 7 months pregnant, sleeping on the airmatress did me no good. So once the kids were up, no reason for me to keep tossing and turning either. The super killer treck to the beach. This hill was megga steep, and on the way back up, I had the stroller, the cooler, and 2 wimped out kids on top of the cooler. I pushed about 1/2 way, then Jared pushed the 2nd 1/2. We both about had a heart attack, due to the breathlessness of the hike. It was so steep! We laughed so we wouldn't cry how out of shape we were for this. I'm sure we were a sight to see. We got all kinds of laughs and smirks from strangers that passed us both coming and going.

Brooklyn happy to be in the water with Daddy

Splish Splash!

Big wave... muscle mommy to the rescue!

Best of all..... Quality time with Daddy!