Thanksgiving II

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in SLO.

We hiked Bishop's with my brother's family

and

then Sharon and I began getting the feast ready on Thursday morning.

Unfortunately,

a half and hour before the last family members arrived for dinner our oldest got really really really reALLY SICK.

Yikes.

So we tried to keep him in the bedroom, poor guy.

And then.

Everyone decided not to stay the night and left early.

However,

Just about everyone in four families got sick with the stomach flu.

What a bummer.

A Thanksgiving that will surely be remember for sure.

Yuck.

Hope your Thanksgiving was good!

Outings and Halloween

This is Santana Row in San Jose.

There are shops under all these condos.

Beautiful shops, some with security guards if you get my point.

In any case, they have a toddler Halloween event where toddlers come one morning and go from shop to shop and get candy; they also have some cute activities and entertainment.

It's cute.

So here we are all ready to go.

We met a friend, got Starbucks and wandered around.

 On the streets in Santana Row

 Waiting for our friend

"Peter's mean face" okay that's really mean Nolan...

 Walking down the row.

 Do you see those faces and all the candy, crazy!

 Taking a break and having some sweets, yummy.

Tesla picture for Jason (he likes cars)

Finally caught them all together.

(btw: the below were about a week later...)

 Grrr I'm Dylan it's about time Dill.

These are there mean faces, cracks me up!

Time to "trick or treat"
(and yep those are the "N and Out" palm trees on the pumpkin)

 Still can't get Dylan to not do a mean one...

 I threw this one in because remember the window I finally hung it...yeah!

 Eating candy...

 The effects of candy on kids.

 Hope you had a great Halloween!

Pumpkins...pumkins...pumkins...

Pumpkins

How I adore pumpkins; their shapes, color, smell ...

Avilia Barn is a great place to take kids for pumpkins.

Super cute and fun and just long enough.

(One little note: I have not been for years and can not believe how crowded it is, still beautiful and fun, but just a wee bit busy)

 And if you are wondering where the missing families are some had strep throat, others had to work...

 Smiley Nolan!

 Dad purchasing pumpkins...

 Mom celebrated her birthday, doesn't she look great!

I'm trying to get caught up.

Beginning to feel like FALL!

Okay so I'm trying to get caught up on my blogging.

So the first couple of pictures are a weekend in SLO with just my brother and kiddos.

It was so much fun.

The kids just love each other.

 Jason, Sharon, Jeff and the kids...cute.

 I am gramming a lot into my blogs, but the next set up pictures are from our trip to Monterey just the two of us, Jason's company trip.  It was just beautiful that weekend in October.

The view from our room.

The Intercontinental, the hotel.

 This is the "Red House Cafe" one of our favorites in Pacific grove you can walk there from downtown Monterey.  Best crab cakes (if you like those) and salad, yummy.

Loved the decor. 

Tried to copy a little, but you know I can only do so much.

LOVE LOVE LOVE

FALL

Do you?



Fun Fall

Some fun fall photos

disclaimer:)

a ton of photos follow for all the family members we don't get to see as often as we would like, bear with me
We've been going and going to this and that since October hit and below are some photos from a number of different outings.

The first being a pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill; we weren't able to make it to our favorite pumpkin patch over the hill in Santa Cruz, but this one did the trick and was pretty cute.

Dylan with the twins on the back of a old truck. We gave up trying to get them to all look at us. This one is pretty funny because they are both looking in opposite directions.

It was really hot that day. Taryn and I hanging out while the boys went on a hay ride.

Dylan found a nice pumpkin

Daddy and Dylan picking out pumpkins
Nolan found a white pumpkin, cool?
Nolan peaking through a hole of some decor at the pumpkin patch (sure wish i had a cool high tech digital camera...hopefully for Christmas)
The boys
Random shot of the twins outside playing. They enjoy pushing each other in the dump truck. We don't have a ton of outdoor toys, but they do enjoy this little tonka truck that was Dylan's.
OOPS had a pumpkin patch trip and so the pictures below were the first "official" time the twins went to the pumpkin patch. They were just amazed at everything the first time around.

What a cutie!

On the go...which is my life these days... Megan a friend from SLO who recently moved back to San Jose.

Thanks for the pictures Megan.

A sneak peak at the twins costumes. We had a little trip to Santana Row for "mommy and me". It was pretty cute, but i'm thinking Harnesses with monkey back packs would be a good idea for the twins in crowded places... I was so against these the first time around, but we DO have twins now and for safety sake i think i'll give it a go (and for mere sanity).

Anyway...here's Taryn and Nolan...

i'll add the three of them together later in the week.

Check out Taryn's hands in the below picture. She is SO girl!

Nolan...they both love dogs so these were the best i could find, especially with time restraints on me these days.

"Yes" he always smiles unless he's hungry or tired. Everyone asks me all the time if he always smiles. Most of the time "Yes" he is our goofy kid. Dylan and i just laugh so much at Nolan.

Santana row with a friend.

Does anyone notice Taryn's bow?

Audrey is just adorable.

Outdoor kids singer...

Check out the tails, too cute.

Craft for the kiddos, it was really cute.
Lollipops my friend talked me into giving them one...

A new friend of mine, she's becoming such a dear friend. She has three girls and this is her youngest.

Thanks for all your support and friendship lately Kari!

(and thank you for talking me into giving them lollipops...)