Haircuts!

It was time for haircuts in November! Both kids cooperated extremely well for me. I let them choose what show they would watch and I worked as quickly as I could.

Mmmm Candy...

After trick-or-treating we let the kids pick out two things to eat. Kaleb, having no idea what candy really is, picked out Swedish Fish for one of his choices. And I don't think he realized how long it takes to chew one of those fish. He just kept shoveling them in his mouth. It was almost as if he thought we might suddenly realize it was candy and take it away.

The drool was running down his arm.

Costumes

This kids were so cute. Of course... slightly biased, but seriously. Kaiya was kind of forced into being Pooh. A couple weeks ago she told me that she really wanted to be Ariel - The Little Mermaid, but I told her that it would have to wait until next year. I had gotten Kaleb's costume a year ago June at a yard sale and since he was the Honey Pot, I really wanted her to be Pooh. Dream crusher that I am. And actually... she looks quite sad in this picture below. But I promise -- she warmed up to the idea after I found her costume at a yard sale this summer.

I wanted to give her a black nose. Well, Kaleb saw that and just had to have one too. I gave him freckles instead. Of course Kaiya saw that and had to have freckles too. At which point he remembered that I never gave him a nose. So they are both freckled and nosed. :)

Tuckered out. It rained for about 20 minutes while we were out. The kid insisted on walking by himself, carrying his own bag without any help. It was pretty cute. But he was spent.

Pumpkins!

On Halloween morning we went to a fall festival in the neighborhood. The kids got their faces painted. Kaleb happened to get the 11 year old aspiring face painter... she tried. :) We came home, grabbed lunch and then started carving. The kids helped pull all of the seeds out. Kaiya wasn't a fan. Kaleb thought it was awesome.
After the pumpkins were scraped out I put the kids down for naps and got started. There were special requests this year -- Elmo & Ariel. Thankfully I managed to pull it off. For the record, I got a blister scraping the outsides of these... the best tool I had was a lemon zester. Yeah. It was awesome.

More wedding...

More pictures from the wedding!
She was a dancin' fool.
Kaiya & Uncle Brent

Awww...

Dear Aunt Ruthie & Uncle Chris: Thanks for having our favorite food at your reception. We LOVE breakfast food and our parents actually let us eat most breakfast foods. :) Eggs are the best! And we even got to eat fresh fruit instead of cake. A-mazing!

Wordless Wednesday

Kaiya at the beach

Kaiya had a blast at the beach too! Her favorite things were getting buried in the sand (and burying Papa),

building and decorating sand castles,

throwing seaweed at Uncle Brent,

and swimming next to 4-5 dolphins! Papa was holding her out in the deeper water (waist high on Papa) and a huge group of dolphins came within 3-4 feet of them. When we came down in June she saw dolphins from the shore. On our car ride down to Florida this time she said, "I really hope I see dolphins this time!" So cool that she really saw them this time!

Wish I could tell you that I took a whole month off of blogging on purpose. But nope. I didn't. It just sort of happened. :) Got my camera connected to the computer here, so I can share some pics from our trip to Florida for Ruthie's wedding. We had such a great time!

Here are the pictures of the beach time that we had. Ruthie was super organized so most of our time was spent relaxing before and after the wedding. There wasn't too many last minute things to take care of. Well... except for maybe the bouquet. But I couldn't really do that too far in advance. I'll have to post a link to the picture of it. Cause it turned out pretty good for only having half an idea of what I was doing. Oh the trust she had in Bekah & I. :)



A little sequence of Kaleb pictures. He was being a stinker and didn't want to smile for me.

























Eventually I got one out of him...


Kaleb had so much fun at the beach. Glad I had so many eyes watching him, because at one point I looked up and saw this (and I am at least a half zoom on my camera):

Kaiya will get her post tomorrow! I'm determined to get back on the blogging routine. I've gotta have something to document the kids' lives! I'm too busy otherwise and it's all gonna just slip by. :)