Thanksgiving, Halloween... so I'm a little behind

Maybe for Christmas I'll have some Thanksgiving pictures up. :)

Last month, or a few weeks ago, that sounds better, we went to Bates Nut Farm. One of our favorite things to do, that we look forward to all year.

Pony rides





Farm animals

And pumpkins!

Baby Kate's first time of many.

This year we also took the kids to Julian for the first time. Apple cider, apple pie, and well, apples.

They were some good apples too. We found a you pick place that had dwarf trees so the kids could reach. I didn't know that dwarf trees meant tiny tiny apples, but they were really good. Next year we are filling 2 bags. :)

The week before Halloween we went to the YMCA carnival, then the night before Halloween a church carnival in Escondido. Then on Halloween we did trunk or treat at our church. whew. We did not wast any Halloween fun this year.

Fun! And tomorrow we eat turky! I realy need to get more on top of this blog thing. Ah well

birthday boy

As requested we had a very Tomas Birthday party for Michael. All he wanted for his party was "a cake with Tomas and tracks on it", and all he wanted for his birthday was train tracks. He got both, he was a happy boy. Uncle Donny hung the pinataIt was hot hot, like 101, but it was also windy, so that helped, and we were mostly in the shade. The next day was more like 114 in Escondido, so a windy 101 day suddenly seemed not so bad.Avery is so dang cute.. Some how Rhiannon is now the big kid that knocked all the candy out of the pinata. These kids grow at supper speed.

Ah, ice on a hot day... So our little man is 3 now, and starting preschool on Tuesday. Which means, yes we finally reached the title of potty trained! yay! Just weeks before turning 3 he decided he was ready to be a big boy. They really do potty train when they are ready to. A year of trying and not getting anywhere, then when he was ready it happened in 1 week. I can't wait to see how he does in school. And I can't believe he's 3! It's sad how fast those babies grow. Slow down!!

The Gardens

I am so bad at keeping up with this blog thing. So this was weeks ago, but Uncle Kevin was in town and we hit up Quail Gardens. I have only been there once for a wedding, never knew this place for the kids to play was here. We will for sure be going back. Lots of fun.

For fear of this never getting posted, I am going to leave it at that and post. Maybe some day I'll get too putting up picks of Balboa with Uncle Kevin..... That was fun too.

little fishies

Rhiannon has been taking swimming lessons over the summer, and over her last week of summer break she had a lesson every week day. She has graduated up to the "eel" class. (Make that the ''Ray" class. Wow, up 2 levels in one summer..)

She can jump in and swim back to the side of the pool...

She is working on her "ice cream scoops"

And floating on her back

She also picks up rings from the bottom of the shallow end. She swims under water easily, but she's still working on keeping her head up while swimming. All of my kids love the pool. Michael is the only kid in his parent and me class that does not cry when he dunks under water, he gets to move up to no more Mommy or Daddy in the pool with him next week. Kaitlyn surprisingly loves the pool too. I was sure she would scream at the cool water, but she is happy going in up to her arm pits. She just splashes, laughs, and giggles at big sis in the water. My water babies.