Saturday, November 19, 2016

Nani & Poppa's Halloween Party

My parents hosted a Halloween brunch the weekend before Halloween so all of the cousins could be dressed up together. 

Nani had a fun craft station set up

Making ghosts with lollipops

2 Elsa's (Sydney & Ella)

There was a donut eating challenge which was entertaining

It was hard not to use hands


Julia got tired of not using her hands and was hungry :) 







Drawing pumpkins on the fence

Julia & Sydney as Anna & Elsa

Elsa - Anna - Elsa

Meanwhile, theboys were working hard trying to get Poppa's outside tv working

The kiddos (we missed you Finn!)




Spiderman and Olaf :) 

Thanks Nani & Poppa for a fun day!

Sunday, November 13, 2016

October

After our travels to Florida in the beginning on the month, the rest of October flew by.  Before we knew it, it was Halloween!
So pretty as the sun was setting
This girl LOVEs to draw and color and is good at it!  Her is her Elsa and Anna pictures she did all by herself. 


Cole helping me grocery shop and pretending these sausages were hand weights while we were waiting for our deli meat. 

It has been an unseasonably warm October - and we are not complaining!!
Happy beach boy
The forestation hosted their annual open house the second weekend in October.  Last year it was raining and this year was about 90 degrees. We still had a ton of fun!



Car demolish demonstration

Kids inside the smoke trailer - teaching them how to stay low and roll if the room is filled with smoke

The line for face painting was ridiculously long and was moving SO. SLOW.  We told the kids once we got home daddy would paint their faces with whatever they wanted - SOLD!

Cole chose Leaonardo. 

Sydney chose and Elsa crown. 

Our neighbor and friend, Mr. Todd, dropped off this dirt and asked the kids to watch it for him while he was out of town.  Slowly but surely, we saw cocoons appear and two moths appeared!  Incredible for the kids (and parents!) to see. 

Syd syd and momma

Cole holding a friends new baby

Sydney and Cole loving the new babies!

Bike riding by the bay



Silly kiddos

Zoo day

Getting ready to watch the homecoming parade with friends
Nani and Poppa finished off their backyard renovations and making Poppa's dream come true - having his own putting green!  Cole had to test it out... 

Halloween playdate party

Decorating sugar cookies

Sea World day!





Cole normally just watches Sydney touch the sharks but he finally worked up the courage and touched them.  Now, you can't stop it.  He loves it!  It's been fun to watch them grow in their confidence with the animals. 


I told Lindsay that I had a costume I could send out for Finn's first Halloween that Cole wore for his first Halloween,  Of course the second I take it out, Cole is obsessed with it and cannot part with it (he hasn't seen it in 3 years!!).  So, he had to try it on one last time before it was sent to New York. 


Painting pumpkins


She drew this in the sand.  Heart her.  
(If you can't see it, it is the word Mom with a heart above and below. 


Ferry landing playdate with friends


Cole wanted to take our picture!

And then we went through the entire family... 


Skype with baby Finn and he rolled over for us!