Carving Pumpkins - October 28, 2013

Sorry about the quality of these pictures...my camera had died so we used our phones!

Tyler wanted to try and carve his himself...he didn't last too long!

The boy's don't like touching the slimy stuff, so we have to do that!

 All done!!!

All ready for Halloween!!

It's A.....

GIRL!!!!!

We found out that this little peanut is a girl on October 17, 2013!! We are beyond thrilled and she is looking healthy and strong! I had to ask the ultrasound tech twice if it was really a girl, I was just in so much shock and wanted a girl so bad that I was having a hard time believing it!! 

Let the shopping begin!!!

Pumpkin Patch - October 19, 2013

We found this really awesome pumpkin patch down in Morgan Hill, which is about 30 minutes south of us. It's called Uesugi Farms and it was beautiful and huge with lots to do!

The Entrance...

 Biggest pile of pumpkins I've ever seen!!

 Pumpkin Patch

 There were several rides there, we let the boys each pick 2 to ride on...luckily they both picked the same 2!

 Yes, snow cones in the middle of October!!! I think it was in the low 80's or something that day...not your typical Pumpkin Patch experience!!

 Parker tried to help dad with the wheelbarrow, but decided it was too heavy and just let go without so much as a warning, it may have tipped some when that happened!!

 The other ride they picked! It went all around the pumpkin patch and they really did have fun on it, despite the picture!

The pumpkins were a great price, we all had fun, and I think we will definitely be going back!!!!

Discovery Children's Museum - September 2, 2013

Well saying that I'm more than a little behind is an understatement!! I know I have said this before but I PROMISE to do better with the blog this year!!! I'm going to try and get this thing up to date as best I can over the next couple days :)

So, to start off...

Back in September we took the boys to the Children's Museum in San Jose. They LOVED it!! It was a little smaller than other ones we have been to but it was fun just the same.

There was a fire truck and an ambulance to play on...

 This water area was by far one of their favorites, they could have played here all day!! It's not pictured here but there was this cool blower tube thing that you put a ball into and it would shoot up into the ceiling and land in this big water funnel where the ball would then spiral back down the bottom, they were pretty amazed!

 This was in the Curious George Exhibit...It was a construction site.

 Another of of their favorite areas!!

 Watching the bubbles fall from the ceiling...

There was also a huge area with play kitchens and restaurants, I didn't get any pictures of those but they seemed to like that area too. We will definitely have to go back there!!!

Fire Station Visit

So while Parker attended his first day of Kindergarten, Tyler and I went with our park/summer group to the fire station for a tour! It was pretty fun, however most of the fire fighters weren't there until closer to the end because they got a call before we got there. Tyler hasn't ever really gone anywhere or done anything without Parker so he mostly clung onto me and was shy with everyone and didn't even want to stand with the large group of kids to look at the fire truck. It was like he didn't know what to do without his sidekick, he has gotten better now though...I think he still had fun doing something instead of just sitting at home hanging out with me the whole time!

 This is the fire truck they use to go up into the hills/mountains.

Fist Day of School

What?!? Really? Has this time really come?! Why YES, yes it has!! Parker has officially started Kindergarten on August 21, 2013. I still can't believe we are at this point already. He has been so excited for like the past year to start kindergarten. He had a rough week and a half or so but now that he knows the rules and how he is supposed to behave,
these last two weeks have been AWESOME!!! He seems to be loving every minute of it. We walk him to school pretty much every morning, which is about 2 blocks or so. This is the first year that his school is starting Full-day kindergarten but they are easing them into the transition. They are starting out with half day until November and then it will switch to full day for the rest of the year. Both his teacher and I are really starting to see changes in his focus and work ethic. She told me the other day that he is starting to become such a hard worker and she is really excited to see what the rest of the year will bring!! Here is to our first year of school!!!!

 

All done for the day!

 

Birthday Time Again

Part 1

This year Parker and I were able to celebrate our birthday in Arizona!! It started out with going to listen to my brother's homecoming talk and ended with cake and presents. Parker turned 5 years old, which is just crazy! He has been on a Lego Chima kick lately, so this year we got him his first "real" Lego set, which he just loved. Although, I'm not sure who loved it more, him or Chris! Chris was in heaven! He also got some money which he used to buy a Nerf gun and something else of which I really can't remember! I got some money and a Magic Bullet, which I LOVE!! I have been using it almost every day for smoothies and we have just started making milkshakes, which are so delicious!

 Our camera stinks on the indoor setting so these next few are blurry :( I'm really bummed they didn't turn out better!

 Even though this is so blurry, his face just shows truly how excited he was about his newest gift! 

 The boys helped make the birthday cake this year...didn't they do such a great job? It was so delicious too!! Can never go wrong with Funfetti Cake!

Part 2

And well, since we have pretty much made this a tradition, we decided to go to Red Robin for our birthday dinner when we got back to California. We just love that place and the free ice cream sundaes always make it that much better!