It seems like halloween in our house every day.

Since were always having a dress up party at our house -today was really no different, except that she got to got to a PARTY while dressed up!

We had trunk or treat on Friday night so we got to do a "dress rehearsal" on our costumes. Paige's came together once I found the orange spray in the closet from last year - With the orange hair and eye brows she REALLY looks like she is Craigs daughter :)

This one- I just laughed at him all night :) At first he couldnt stop waving and trying to figure out the new "PAW" he had covering his hand. It was very entertaining. He looks SO CUTE!

Before we left for the party I layed down the ground rules:

1. Mom gets all the Snickers candies and anything else she deems worthy to eat out of Paiges candy bucket.

Paige wasnt so sure that was a good plan :)

Mason and I sat in our trunk and handed out candy to about 500 kids :)

We had THRILLER blasting out of our trunk and Mason and I just had a dance party with ourselves:) I didnt know he could head bob so well . haha.

All the neighbor kids together.

His first sucker...he would have swallowed it if id let him.

Were ready for Halloween now.....bring on more SNICKERS!

Harrison Greeting Cards

If anyone is interested in sending out some different holiday cards you wont find anywhere else, take a look at this company.

They are a small family company that my sister works for.

They can do custom cards with photos also-and they are always REALLY cute.

We use them every year.

http://www.harrisonholiday.net/

MERRY CHRISTMAS :)

I think I have a "problem"......... :)

(ill get to my problem in a minute) :)

We had a full day planned on Saturday to make our annual treck down to Bates Nut Farm to pick out our pumpkins & visit family. We had a slight change in plans and had to go to Plan B. So I searched around to find something else fun to do locally and saw Cal Poly Pomona was having thier pumkin patch this weekend.....and it looked pretty fun. Yeah...up until we drove up to it and saw about 100 people crossing the street each way from the pumpkins to the parking lot carrying thier WHEEL BARROWS AND WAGONS full of like 15 pumpkins each I knew we had NO idea what we were getting ourselves into :)

We can check this pumpkin patch off the list-been there done that....TOO CRAZY :)

But we did have a fun time and it fullfilled my obsession with pictures of pumpkins.

So back to my "problem"

I CAN NOT TAKE ENOUGH PICTURES OF PUMPKINS.

The colors of the orange pumpkins, Green grass, and Blue skys just KILL me...and I cant stop my obsession with snapping EVERY pumpkin I see. I keep saying to myself, its just a Pumpkin....hello....not pretty....but the colors...I just cant stop.

So there are a LOT of pictures in this post, I could have put a LOT more but I held back :)

Heres mason eating his first fistfull of pumpkin dirt.

MY FIRST TIME IN A PUMPKIN PATCH!!

I LOVE THE DIRT, GRASS, and PUMPKIN STEMS.....and I DONT like smiling for my crazy momma and her camera :)

Enjoying playing the drums.

And....we got a smile out of him due to Craigs wierd noises he was making :)

Whatever works.

Masons really excited to be sharing his stroller with 4 pumpkins.....

(we "forgot" our wheelbarrow...(hello?!) so we had to fill our stroller....made for a short trip.)

Wonderful Husband trecking through the craziness!

GLAD WERE DONE :)

Always have to get a "paint face"
And we left the Craziness and went home for naps!

PS going to hunt for pumpkins a day after recovering from the stomach flu, not a good idea

Obama or McCain??!!

So, Last week, I was going through all the ads that came in the newspaper on Sunday.

Paige walked over and started looking over the Party City Halloween ad.

She then said

"thats funny, an OBAMA mask!"

I looked up, and said What did you just say??

"an obama mask mom" - "look!"

I looked over at Craig and started laughing.

I could NOT believe my 3 year old could recognize that picture as "Obama"!!!!

Thinking, there is NO way she would know the other guy running for president....and so I took the Ad and asked "ok, what is that guys name?!"

She then says after thinking a second "John McCain!"

OH MY GOSH!!!!! we were in hysterics.

She then thought what she was saying was halarious because we were laughing out of shock, and so she begins saying "Barack Obama, John McCain" over and over.

I could NOT get over that she knew both of thier (full) names, let alone realize thier faces made into masks.
WOW!

R.I.P My pink and white friends

I just read today that (you might want to sit down for this)

Mothers cookies are DISCONTINUING

making one of my FAVORITE cookies of all time......

the pink and white sprinkled circus animals!!!!

R.I.P
May you come back one day so that my grandbabies may know of your goodness.

PS. Ill be heading to the store tomorrow to buy every last bag I can find :)

10 years......

10 years ago tomorrow...

My "Papa" left this Earth and returned back to our Father in Heaven.

I just wanted to "pay tribute" since it seems so short but then again 10 years seems SO LONG.

He was the most wonderful father, who thought of us kids first and we KNEW that!

We were blessed to have him in our lives for the very short time we had as kids.

I had just graduated high school .

This is him and I at a daddy daughter Girl Scout Hoe down....Im sure he was "thrilled" to be going :)

I love this picture. Its my "life" as I knew it, on a boat in the ocean. I really didnt know any different. Its where we had most of our traditions and family memories.

We all have the face of "just smile and wave....dont tell mom what we were just up to" :)

He would leave us notes in the morning before he left for work. This is one of the last ones he had left and I just found it in my box and im REALLY glad I saved it. Just holding onto a paper he wrote on is priceless. even if it does have this scary Realtor on it :) Im honestly suprised she doesnt have a moustache drawn on her :)
Our Guardian angel from now until eternity.....
As Paige says, We love you Papa Steve "all the way to heaven and back".