Halloween Time

Yeah! I love this time of year. Cooler weather (yeah, right! It was in the high 80's all week long), changing leaves, and trick-or-treating time. This year Natalie sewed her own Pebbles Flinstone costume (thanks Aunt Cyndi!), Allyson donned the Egyptian garb to be Cleopatra, Amanda was a snow princess and Camille cheered on for USC.

Fashionista

With a house full of girls we have a lot of fashion savvy. And the older they get, the more interested they are becoming with shoes, hairstyles, jewelry and stylish clothing. But the BEST part is the posing that accompanies dressing-up.

The Big Fresno Fair

I love taking my kids to the fair because I love to watch their faces when we see all the animals. (You've got to listen to the conversation I'm having with my older kids during the movie.) Oh, I am such a cotton candy junkie. Passed that on to my kids as well.

We always have to take a picture infront of Kerman's agriculture exhibit (home town girl).

All age 5

Here we all are in our Kindergarten photos (me, Amanda, Allyson). Do we even look like we're related?

Kindergarten Field Trip

What a treat to join Amanda's Kindergarten class on a trip to Storybook Land. These park has life-sized showcases of nursery rhymes where the kids can see the wolf sleeping in Grandmother's bed, enter the witch's house with Hansel & Gretal, fall down a hill with Jack & Jill, and sit on a tuffet with Little Miss Muffet (and there was one scary looking spider).

This park has been around for years and brought back memories of coming myself as a child. Very special for me to now bring my own children.

For those of you from Fresno, remember this?

What in the world?

Imagine my surprise while searching for the neighbor boy's ball in my backyard bushes and finding THESE growing on one of our trees! Tons of huge, green, unidentifiable fruit.

See, we planted an orange tree in 1998 but it died. Then 2 years later it started growing. So for the past 8 years we've had a beautiful tree, with no fruit. When I made the discovery I promptly told Troy.

Why he waited until we had company sitting at our kitchen table, I'll never know.... but he went out and picked a bunch of the fruit and put them all in the CENTER of the kitchen table (where they stayed for 2 more days until I disposed of them.)

Our conversation turned into a type of science lecture. After slicing one open, we decided they were oranges since that's what they smelled like. We'll have to wait until the remaining ones on the tree ripen to see exactly what we are growing in our backyard. Kind of makes me feel like Jack & the Beanstalk.

We're obsessed with the chubs!

This is one CHUNKY MONKEY and we are loving every square inch. Good thing being bald and fat are cute when you're 14 months old.