Stop-Motion Family Home Evening

Featuring Lego!

Halloween Again!

We love Halloween! How can you not? Any holiday revolving around CANDY is A-OK in my book! I send the children out to work the streets for goodies that I take away and eat over the next couple of months! They shouldn't have it -it's not good for them. Decays the teeth, makes 'em crazy-hyper, and stunts their growth! (Hee Hee Hee more for me!) No really, last year we sent it all in to work with Mike. The story goes: we put the candy on the porch for the "Candy Witch". She takes the candy and leaves a toy for the kids in it's place. 

Here we have a ghost, witchie-poo, and another witch. Not pictured is momma witch. We had a full coven this year!

Back to School

We are back in school again. Isobel and Ian are both excited about school still! Isobel has the same teacher as last year, we love her! Ian has a very nice teacher. She's very patient. She thinks Ian is a little bored. So she sent Ian some sight words home to memorize. He can read a few simple books now. He is JAZZED about it! Now on to teaching him the alphabet.

Vampire baby

Do the books you read during pregnancy and breast feeding influence your offspring? Check out this pictures of Ellie:

She has cut the two top teeth second from the middle on both sides. Can you see the fangs?!

I have Stephanie Meyer to thank for this! I borrowed the first book when I was about 6 months pregnant with Ellie, and I finished the last book now while Ellie is 6 months old- I was enthralled with the series! - along with a majority of the female population out there.

So cute when she smiles!

10 Years!

Happy Anniversary to us! We met 13 years ago.



Tied the knot after 3 long years!



And have been blessed with 3 beautiful babies!


I am so blessed to have snagged Michael! What other husband cooks, cleans, brings home the bacon, makes the kids lunches... I had better stop here or else you'll question what's left for me to do. Well someone has to eat all the Bon-Bons and watch the TV!!! Happy anniversary Mikie-poo. I love you! Here's to 100 more lovely years (with modern medicine you never know!)

One Last Summer Fling

We had a whirlwind last-week-of-summer-vacation trip. We went to Monterey, to the aquarium. We drove to Mike's Grandma's house in San Diego (well, actually Lemon Grove. Check out the cool, huge lemon!).
We took her and Mike's little brother to Coronado beach
The kids got a little sandy from burying each other.
And the zoo.
Can you figure out the theme here? Butt... maybe it's too obvious: And we couldn't just drive on home by way of Disneyland, without stopping there! Ellie's first D.L. trip (outside of my tummy).

Workin' on our summer-skills

Ellie is learning to sit up all by herself.

Remember Weeble-Wobbles?!

Isobel and Ian made great leaps in their swimming skills this summer. They are well on their way towards the olympics!