Trick or Treating

We had a fun time trick or treating tonight.

Rachel, Tim, Heather, JuJu, Tía Lizzy, Abuelita and Papa all came over for a pizza party before we went out.

Our little Snow White!

Such sweet little friends!

We had such a fun surprise from "the scary witch" (my boss Peter).

Emma has been talking about Peter dressing up as a scary witch for months.

He didn't want to disappoint her so he surprised us all.

He took his costume seriously and he was hilarious and even brought an apple for Emma.

Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight!

Carving pumpkins

Yesterday evening we carved our pumpkins.

Emma loved helping and playing with the gooey guts.

Emma has 2 pumpkins that we carved, an E for Emma and she requested a sad face on her little pumpkin. Douggie's scary face pumpkin is on the right.

Family pictures

We had a busy weekend, but somehow still found time to work in a quick session with Anjuli for our Christmas card pictures at Lakeview Park.

She offered 15 minute sessions and then had our CD with all of our edited pictures ready for us in another 15 minutes. It was so fast, and it was perfect.

We have even already ordered our Christmas cards.

One of our pictures.

While we were waiting for the pictures to be edited, we played on the playground and went down to feed the ducks.

Disneyland!

The other evening after work we drove up to Anaheim.

We met up with Uncle Andy and Tami for dinner and some ice cream.

After dinner we went back to the hotel to get lots of rest for our big day.

We didn't tell Emma where we were going until we got to the gates.

"SURPRISE we are going to Disneyland!"

We didn't get the big smile we were expecting, but at least we got a little one.

We also surprised Emma and told her that we were meeting up with Jillian, Jason, Kristyn, Ron and Joy.

They had been planning a trip for months and months. I thought it would be great to meet up, but never thought it would be possible with everyone's busy schedules. We were so happy that it did end up working out.

They had already been to Disneyland for 2 days and stayed at the Grand Californian for 2 nights. I thought for sure that they would be so tired of Disneyland and wouldn't be up for joining us. Lucky for us they were having such a great time and still wanted to see more!

On the Toon Town roller coaster.

Emma hated it and said it was too fast.

Everyone wanted to go on the Haunted Mansion ride, so I took the girls on the train while the big kids went on their ride.

We had lunch at Ariel's Grotto and the girls loved it.

They got to see so many princesses and each one of them said hello and posed for a picture with the girls.

Emma loved Snow White.

She made sure to tell her that she was going to be Snow White for Halloween.

The yummy dessert tray.

We even sang an early Happy Birthday to Jillian.

We had such a great time!

Emma's weekend away.

While we were away for the wedding, Emma took a little road trip to Arizona.

She went with Papa, Abuelita, Tía Lizzy, and JuJu.

They went to visit lots of family, play with lots of cousins, celebrate GG Margaret's birthday and she had a blast.

She talked about all of her fun adventures for days after.

Here are a couple of the phone pictures that were shared with me.

Taking a nap on GG Bob's lap.

And this is our classy lady barefoot and going pee pee on the side of the road.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped take care of our little lady.

We were so sad that we missed the trip and it sounds like you guys all had a great time.

AJ and Melissa's wedding weekend

Last weekend we went to the wedding of our good friends AJ and Melissa in San Clemente.

We decided to make a weekend out of it with all of our desert friends and we all rented a beach house for the weekend.

It was a weekend full of poker games, good food, baking and then baking some more, some drinking and so much fun with great friends.

The view from the balcony was pretty spectacular.

Bri baked all of the cupcakes for the wedding so all of us ladies were her baking assistants.

Bri's cupcakes looked wonderful and were so yummy.

We had such a great time with so many great friends.

Congratulations AJ and Mel!

Emma's school field trip

This morning Emma's pre-school took a field trip to the Pinery pumpkin patch.

I took the morning off so that I could join in on the fun.

We went on a super fun hay ride.

We also went in the corn maze.

Then we picked our pumpkin.

Emma had such a great time and I loved that I got to come along for her very first field trip.