Happy Halloween!!! Better late than never...

Here are a bunch of Halloween pictures for ya, in no particular order. I do most of my uploading pictures while I nurse Addie and I just recently figured out how to upload more than one at a time (I know, I'm genius!) so I upload them and rarely (okay, never) pay attention to what order I do them. I'll let ya look at them and guess what everybody was.




I know you're wondering...











Isn't that just the cutest DALMATIAN you ever did see?! So easy, I was CRUELLA DE'VILLE (thanks Jackie and Autumn for the costume!), Lexi-lu was a GO-GO DANCER (which we decided at the last minutes because we couldn't find a big enough pumpkin costume anywhere and we were too busy moving in to make one), Christian was HALF-DEAD/HALF-ALIVE, and Matt was... any guesses??? EDWARD SCISSORHANDS! Minus the scissor hands which we didn't have time to make because.... we were moving in. So, so tired of moving in!

Most of the pictures were taken off our back balcony. Lots of people have asked for pics of the house. I will get to it as soon as I feel a little more comfortable with how everything looks. It is definitely slow going! And I'm feeling a little overwhelmed at all of our STUFF! Does everyone have this much stuff? We will be doing some serious decreasing before our next move! And can I just say that I hate paperwork! HATE IT!

In other fun news, we just bought our refrigerator last night and Addie and I spent most of today out shopping for food. I love shopping for anything, but man Addie is getting so heavy! I've been noticing my back has been aching lately and finally figured out that it's from holding my sweet baby. She only weighs 16 pounds, but it's a workout! I should probably get going so I can make my first home-cooked meal in over a month! I'm so ready to start cooking again! On the menu is Mom's lasagna, salad, and french bread... yummmm!

Great-Grandma

Since we were down in southern California we also got to stop and see my grandma! She is 93 years old and I hope I look half that good and can be half that active when I'm her age! She still goes to the gym and sells Avon! She's amazing! She had two daughters, ten grandchildren, and now sixteen great-grandchildren. Pretty good haul for just two kids, right?!




Auntie Jerri, my moms sister with Addie.


Christian loves taking the close-ups! Even if no one else does!



We've already got another trip down to see them in the works. We love you Grandma!

Disneyland and visiting with the Reids

The week before we moved into our house the kids and I drove down to San Diego to visit one of my very BEST friends Autumn. We are so excited to be living in the same state now, even if we are still seven hours apart! We figured we better take advantage of the time off from school to go visit and go to Disneyland for some off-season fun!

Autumn, our other bff Jackie, and I have a tradition that we get together for a girls trip every year, but I hadn't seen Autumn's baby Landon since he really was a baby, two years ago! It was definitely time!

The day after we got there we packed the kids up into Auto's minivan and headed to Disneyland! Here are the kids on our hour and a half drive. They were so good!



The park was decorated so cutely! It was so much fun to see it all Disney Halloweeny!



Here we are in line for the Haunted Mansion. That was so neat because it was all decorated for The Nightmare before Christmas. They changed ALL of the decorations!



Us in line for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Little Taylor will turn four in December and she is so brave! She rode on all the scary rides with us. She was so cute, when I rode with her on Splash Mountain I thought she might be scared so I held her hand. She finally said, "I'm gonna take my hand back now, but if you get scared again I can hold your hand again." Such a cutie!









This is my favorite Addie smile! When she gets so excited that she scrunches her nose up and makes her eyes crooked. She is so very sweet!



I told the kids they could each get ONE thing at Disneyland and Christian found something really cool! It was a build-your-own-light-saber! Like build-a-bear, but for boys. Very cool, and the lady helping all the kids had to be so patient! What a job!






The next day we hit the beach. How white am I??!! I sneakily didn't wear my bathing suit bottoms so I couldn't go in the water, but Autumn did and the kids talked her into getting wet with them. They caught some really good waves and what happened after that prompted Autumns husband David to call the kids Pepe Le'Puke. I guess they both swallowed so much water that they threw up! We all laughed about it though so I guess they were okay.







After that we ate lunch at a place right on the beach called the Wave House. That made me miss my husband! We definitely have to take Matt back so he can school those kids on how to surf!




We had so much fun and cannot wait for our next adventure with the Reids!!!!

Back to San Francisco

Okay, so the weekend we went to Half Moon Bay, we also stopped in San Francisco. Matt had to take the kids by Haight and Ashbury. We didn't know where to park and had to walk a good way so by the time we got there the kids weren't super impressed by the street signs. They were good sports though and patiently took pictures with us while we tried to wait for cars to get out of our way.

Here are the kiddos posing obediently for daddy.



And then across the street there's Matt. He could hardly believe he was standing on that historic rock'n'roll corner in his yellow polo shirt, with his wife and three children. I tease him that he's really preppy at heart!



After that we walked over to a park and took some pictures at Postcard Row. So pretty!



Before we headed home we had to drive down Lombard street, the most crooked street in the world.



Addie told you about how excited she was about it, now here are the rest of us. :)





We had such a good time in just a few hours there, we can't wait to go back and explore some more! We would love to have some company when we go back! Sheesh, can you tell we want people to come visit us???

Finally!!!!

Okay, I know it's been awhile again, but it's really not my fault! We moved into our house last Monday, packers came Tuesday, and the house has been a wreck ever since! We were supposed to have internet by Friday, but Friday night when Matt wasn't able to get it working we called and they said they wouldn't be able to get it going until Monday!

A week without internet!!! It was the worst!!! I was behind on my blogging anyway, so now I'm way behind. I'm gonna have to go back in time and get it all blogged because we've been doing some fun stuff!

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! We sure did. And I'm sure enjoying all this Halloween candy!

Here is a picture of the outside of our new home. It's very different, nothing we would ever buy, but we're having fun living here. And we have lots of room for visitors!

Five whole months! - By Addison

It's me, Addie again, coming to you from California! Here I am, such a California girl!



Can you even believe that I am already five months old?! I had some really memorable firsts this month and I can't wait to tell you all about them!

The biggest and best first first. On Saturday I had my first solid food! I'm not real sure how I feel about that yet. I really liked playing with the spoon though! Here is a picture of me eating my bananas with breast milk. Sounds yummy, right?!



I also got to drink some water. Since I HATE bottles my mom bought me a cool sippy cup. I really love holding it myself and chewing on it but I'm not sure that I like the water. I'll keep trying.



I'm learning how to sit up really quickly, mostly because my brother thinks it's so fun to watch me fall over! He thinks I'm a fun toy!



We went to San Francisco and I went down Lombard Street! As you can tell I was really thrilled about it!



We also drove down to San Diego to visit some friends and family and I got to go to Disneyland! Here I am in line for my first ride, the Monsters Inc. ride. This is a great picture of how I looked on all the rides, really in awe! I couldn't stop looking around at everything! It was so much fun!



Christian tried and tried to get a picture of me on my first ride but the ride was too cool! I didn't want to miss any of the ride by wasting time looking at the camera! So here is the back of my beautiful little head.



We went to the beach in San Diego and I ate a towel. Yum!



I also found something else I love to eat.



Can you tell what it is?






Yup, it's my foot.





And it is sooo good!










I got to meet my great-Grandma Clayton. She was super fun and thought I was super cute!



I finally got big enough to use my cool Johnny-Jump-Up. What a fun time! Even when my brother was spinning me!



I discovered my tongue. Oh how I love my tongue! It's like a toy, but it's attached!



Okay, I gotta get going. We just got our internet hooked up and my mom is dying to get online! But here's a preview of what she'll be blogging about...



See ya' next month!