Halloween Fun

To end our day off we went trick or treating with our friends the Mannings. It was the first time the girls have ever gone tricker treating door to door. They really liked it. The only problem is they got TOO much candy:)

Brayden slept though the party, but he woke up for the dancing after the party. He didn't love his bat baby costume, but he sure looked cute in it.

Brynn had a fun party at her school. She has such a great teacher. Here she is with Ms. Ruby, as Snow White. We got to go and help out with her party. We love parties!

This is Aubrey's little Halloween party. They made little craft, and then tricker treated around to little stations. Aubrey was so cute walking around because she wore Ariel shoes that were like 5 times to big for her, and they made this loud click. She was a cute princess.

Here is Aubrey at her mom and tot preschool. She made the little basket, and then she got a muffin. ( It was a really a chocolate cupcake, but she calls them muffins).

The girls love holding the starfish at Sea World.

On some of the rides they have little lego playing areas for the kids that aren't big enough for the ride. Aubrey and Brayden enjoyed many of these places. (Look how big Brayden is getting. It won't be long before he passes up Aubrey).

There are these Yummy apple fries at Legoland that Brett loves, and now Brayden loves them. (Like father like son)

Brett's good friend Greg Larson came into town, and we went with him and his family to Legoland and Sea World. It was so fun. It was so great spend time with their family. We wish they lived closer. The girls wanted to wear the costumes to Legoland, but they decided to just wear regular clothes to Sea World.

We had a great ward trunker treat. We had a wonderful carnival and the the kids loaded up on the candy from all the cars.

We had a fun Halloween party at our friends the Spurgiesz. We carved pumkins and decorated cookies. The kids had so much fun.

Just doing our thing

First of all we are all okay. We are still at home (and I mean really at home). We were ask to stay at home unless we really had to leave. Alot of areas around us have evacuated. It is sad to think of all those that have lost there homes and belongings. We are praying for all of them, and praying that the fires will stop soon.

Anyways, other than that we are just doing our thing. We had quite a fun eventful week last week. On Tuesday we went to the museums at Balboa. The kids favorite one was the train museum. (We went with two of our friends out here that both have three boys each, so we had to visit the train museum.) Then, on Wednesday we went to dinner with our friends the Mathews and after we went and got the kids Halloween costumes. The kids were soooo excited for Halloween, and to wear the costumes. Brynn is bat girl, (due to the fact that Brett tells them bat family stories at night), Aubrey is Ariel ( she has wanted to be Ariel ever since last year when Brynn was Ariel), and Brayden is bat baby. I actually had to put their costumes away until our first party, which is this weekend because they wanted to wear them all day everyday. Then, on Thursday the girls started gymnastics. Aubrey is in a mom and tot class and Brynn is in Kindergym. They both LOVE it. Brynn is really good. Then later that afternoon the girls help me finish Brayden's name for his room. I have been trying to do this since before Brayden was born. I am glad we are finally finishing it now that he is almost 9 months. :)Then on Saturday I went up to Oceanside to have a baby shower for my friend Jenny. She just had her first girl, Annabelle. She is so beautiful, and Jenny is so happy. So, I guess the picture of the girls with their class tells it all. WE are bright and happy here.

Friends

We got together with some of my college friends yesterday. Malinda, Suzy, Hillary, and I all had dinner with our families at Malinda's house. It was so fun to see my friends and get caught up. We all live within an hour and half of each other, but it still seems so hard to get together. ( These are some of my girlfriends that I go on girls weekend with). Anyways, it was so nice to see them and great to eat yummy food. It was also fun having our husband and kids get to know each other better.

We also had an animal party the other day at my house :) The kids gather up all their stuff animals, and we had a little party on my bed. It was funny because before I decided to take the picture Brayden was just sitting on the bed. The girls just kept piling up the animals. Brayden had fallen over, and for a second I really couldn't see him mixed in with all the animals. So after that I thought it would be cute to have the girls mix in with the animals. We had a good time. I also realized that we probably have way too many stuffed animals. :)

Columbus Day at the Zoo

We loved watching the orangutan. He was trying to do a trick with his blanket.

I love it when I can get all the kids in a pictures. I was really happy that Brayden didn't slip off during the picture.Brynn took this picture. Brett always loves to take the girls to look at the snakes. This really isn't my favorite part.

Crazy my kids take up all the flowers. We went when I was pregnant with Brayden. I had no idea what it would be like to have"3 flowers". It's great having three flower although every day is not always as sweet and pretty.

It was great Brett got Columbus day off. It was a fun day with the family. The zoo here is so cool. We have been a couple of times, and I still don't think we have seen half of the zoo.

Fun with Aubree and Addy

It was so funny to see Aubree and Addy
Hunter. It was a quick visit, but it's always fun
to see friends. Aubree was my running
partner in AZ. (I miss having a running
partner out here).

Brynn, Aubrey, and Addy had so
much fun together.

They really wanted a picture

with "silly"faces.

We fit alot into a short amount of time.

We went to a couple of parks, the beach,

and attempted to watch conference.

Daddy at work

Brett was on call today, so he invited us to come up and have dinner with him. As soon as we got there he got paged. We hung out in the waiting room for a few minutes.(It was a perfect time to take picture) :) It was fun to see Brett at work. They have a McDonald at his hospital, so that it was were we were privileged to have dinner. The kids loved it. When we had to go both Brynn and Aubrey were crying because we had leave without "daddy". I am glad we got to go up there. It was the highlight of our day.