This Halloween we decided to go to pick out our own pumpkins. S we went to the local pumpkin patch and the girls were able to pick their own. Holly was a little grossed out by some of the moldy pumpkins on the lot, but the girls both had fun.  Cleaning them out was another story. Neither Holly or Sienna like the feel of the internals of the  pumpkins, Daddy tried to get them to help but ended up doing much of it by himself.  He also ended up being the one to carve them as well. Since it is a house full of girls you can see the pumpkins we carved were not scary at all. We also had a castle and a Cinderella pumpkin, but could not find any of the pictures of those ones. Holly went trick-or-treating as Snow White, Mommy even cut her hair for it. Sienna went as a shark, and when asked what a shark says she would reply with the music from jaws...Na-Na... Na-Na... Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Naaaa. Sorry you'll have to figure out the tune for yourself.

 

 

We Just got back from a week trip to California, It's nice to be able to get away, if even for a short time. We first went to our Niece's baby blessing in L.A. While we were there we went to Goofy's Kitchen, it is a buffet style restaurant where the Disney characters come and visit you while you are eating. It is a little expensive for the quality of food. But it's worth it to see Holly's face as Minnie Mouse comes up and gives her a kiss!

After our Three days there it was up to Brentwood to see some friends, we were able to get to San Francisco for half a day, we went to The Zoo with our Friends Chris and Brooke and there little one. The rhino was interesting as you can see by Dan's staring! Unfortunately this was the only elephant we saw,  even though Holly's favorite animal is an Elephant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a day and a half in Brentwood, we were off to Sequoia to camp with Family. We were only there for two days, so it made it difficult to do to much. But we were able to go to Hume Lake and let the girls swim. Holly is quite the courageous one running out deeper than her older, much taller cousin Danielle. Lucky for her, Ben was there to catch her  We got little sleep while camping, but it was worth it for me. I was wanting to stay longer, Julie on the other hand was ready to leave.

So after two days we headed home, tried to get a room in Las Vegas on a Saturday night, and we were out of luck. headed on to Mesquite and checked in close to Midnight. Woke up the next day and finished the drive, over 2000 miles of driving in 8 days, with potty breaks, that is about 32 hours total driving! I'm guessing that is close to the same amount of hours of sleep we got during the 7 nights we were gone!!

But it is always worth it to see family and let the girls play with their cousins!!

 

 

The girls enjoyed Easter this year, in their pretty new dresses.  Holly was able to help decorate and color the eggs. Which she had fun doing, and didn't even make too much of a mess! She also found quite a few eggs on her own, without us pointing them out. Sienna, on the other hand, wasn't really sure what to do with the basket or the eggs. So by the end of the day, Holly had a full basket and Sienna was trying to eat her one plastic egg! So we were forced to take a socialist approach this year, and divide up the eggs and candy evenly. Then we tried to keep them from eating too much before bed time.

 

 

 

Well it is about time that I updated the website. I have been forced to move my domain, and change domain names due to my previous hosting company. Now I know not to do business with  a company that scores an "F" by the better business bureau (link here to BBB company's report). Although when I first had this problem they were a "D" rating. but since then they have had at least 6 unanswered complaints (1 of which was mine)!!

    The kids seem to be growing up so fast, I guess that's what happens when you only update your site once a year! As you can see Holly has learned how to pout. She is turning into a very helpful big sister, when she wants to. Sienna just enjoys playing dress up and being the center of attention. She is finally starting to sleep through the whole night (Only took a year!).