Trick or Treat!!

We had so much fun trick or treating!! First we went to Old Town and the boys rode in the wagon and ran into every store to get candy....they were really excited and would run out after each one yelling..."I got candy".... and at the yogurt shop, you get a free frozen yogurt if you wear a costume so even I dressed up(I wanted my free frozen yogurt of course! and it was worth it!) The boys got chocolate and then had little chocolate faces that looked like they had eaten a whole basket of chocolate. Well the boys were so excited they wanted to keep trick or treating so we went home and got a flashlight and walked all around our block with Ewan charging up to every house(overcoming even his fear of dogs for the sake of chocolate) yelling "trick or treat" He was really into it!! And Lucas kept saying "Let's try this house". I think they would have had us trick or treating all night long if they could. So we came home and poured out all the candy and then they jumped around for about an hour around it and then went for a really long drive to "look at all the decorations" (to fall asleep since they were so hyper) and that was about it. Happy Halloween! They are already planning out next year! Here they are below...Lucas is eating his "special treat from Nonna"- a trader joes fruit leather....best treat ever!

and Emmy was a little flower...She slept through all of the trick or treating, but she did get a couple of extra pieces of candy for us for being so cute!!

Pumpkin fun!

This is George. Ewan's pumpkin. We tried to wait till as close to Halloween as possible to carve him since it has been so HOT down here, but Ewan was not having it. He wanted to carve his pumpkin the night (at 9 pm ) we got his pumpkin, and logical explanations about how we can't carve it in his carseat on the way home and how if we carved it too early it wouldn't last just weren't working.... So Pete made up a story about a pumpkin named George and somehow it calmed him down and we carved him the next day. Anyway, designed by Ewan, here is George with all his friends... Baby Girl, Big Daddy, and Curious
Well since it was 3 weeks ago, George didn't make it to Halloween, but the boys really liked watching him turn all black and moldy and poking him with sticks as he was "getting rotten", but here we are carving the rest. Ewan really liked taking out the seeds and all the "glop" and designing the faces. He designed the big pumpkin with the smiling face and teeth because "pumpkins always have teeth" and he was pretty upset that Lucas wanted a "growly-faced" pumpkin with no teeth........which describes Lucas the past 2 weeks as he is getting all 4 molars at once......he was really excited about that growly face!!! Here is Ewan carving and Lucas running. He didn't want anything to do with touching the pumpkin seeds because they were too "slimy".

And then since we had such a big windstorm the night before, the boys raked up all the leaves into a big pile to play with...

pumpkin patch and best nap drive ever!

so our week was really busy... now that Pete is doing after school tutoring twice a week and back to school night was thursday...which was a 2 hour long process of trying to get all 3 kids to sleep, and even with my mom's help, ended with a nightime drive when Pete got home :) so anyway, Pete took off friday and we went to the pumpkin patch!! We had a great time, except that it was like 100 degrees...what happened to the beautiful fall weather? but the boys were super excited anyway and each got to pick out a little pumpkin and a tiny one for Emmy.

here is Lucas trying to pick up "the great pumpkin"....we have been watching charlie brown and the great pumpkin.
there was a hay bale maze that the boys loved running through....
and then a corn maze.....
and the boys taking a short cut through the corn stalks....
and a tractor wagon ride!
the day ended with the best nap drive ever.....we decided to go stop at disneyland and get our passes for this year! and we were so excited for the boys to wake up and realize where we were.....but as it turns out it was not the best day to go to disneyland. the parking garage was having repairs done and so we had to park out in some lot far away.... the buzz lightyear lot.....and take a bus to the park but it was like 100 degrees still and took an hour to get there and I was not too happy at the happiest place on earth. But the boys were ecstatic!! so we got an ice cream and rode the monorail.....and then left... which is the beauty of having a pass. only to board the bus and have it break down on the way back to parking lot with 3 very hungry and tired toddlers(steph and mason were there too). so seriously the main point is never park in the buzz lightyear lot!!!

out and about!

Here is what I look like these days. The boys in the stroller and Emmy in the wrap.....let me just say that it takes a lot of work to get out of the house with 3 tiny kids by myself. I have successfully made it out 3 times so far. Once to Lucas and Emmy's checkup at the doctor, once to Target, and above is us out at the Arboretum. And so far so good. I am getting more confident, but it takes a lot of packing and preparation to get out the door at exactly the right time after Emmy has eaten, get everyone in the car, drive, get everyone out of the car and into the stroller (and wrap) and into wherever we are going with enough snacks and drinks to last the entire trip, and then timing it right again after Emmy eats, back to the car to pack everything back up, drive and hopefully make it home without too much fussing.....it makes me tired just thinking about. I am going to bed.

7 weeks old!

Here are some pictures of Emmy the last few weeks....she is smiling all the time and just last night started to roll already. She is a very happy baby....she sleeps alot of the time but when she is awake she is smiling at her brothers..... and they still adore her! She has them wrapped around her little finger.

here are the boys helping give Emmy a bath...and here are the boys....being cute after running around in their capes!

so long sweet summer!

Since we could stand on our front lawn and see the flames burning the mountain at the top of our street and everywhere around us was evacuated because of how bad the smoke was......we decided to take a last vacation for summer up to the clean, fresh air of Big Pine where my dad lives. The boys were really excited because my dad has a big rv trailer that they have been dying to sleep in and here was our chance. We got to stay in it all week and have all sorts of adventures during the day. We had such a great time.
Here we are fishing! Ewan and Lucas both really loved fishing for about 10 minutes....which is actually a pretty long time. They liked sitting on the little wall and holding the pole...they liked when a nice lady brought us a little container of live worms( see below) that they took out and carried around everywhere... then Ewan took all the red balls of bait and threw them into the little pond one at a time....and then Lucas joined in not wanting to be left out on feeding the fish. Needless to say we did not catch any fish, but the boys had lots of fun "fishing"

They also loved playing in this stream.....even though it was freezing and Lucas kept saying it was "cold like ice"....they got soaking wet everyday from splashing all around and loved every second!We also went swimming in a natural hot springs which was nice and warm with a fountain in itand visited a really cool old train museum set up like an old town...the boys love their trains!!We fed carrots to horses down the street....And made a few trips into Bishop otherwise known as "town" to feed ducks at a park and we also got to go the the fair which was alot of fun and the boys got to ride some big trucks around the track all by themselves and thought it was the best thing ever...they keep asking to go back and do it again! And Emmy pretty much slept through all of it!!! (the whole vacation)

two years old!

Our little Lucas is now a two year old!! It is hard to believe that it has already been two years since our precious little boy was born and our lives have never been the same. He is the sweetest little boy whose smile lights up the whole room , he loves to sing and dance and adores his big brother "Mikey" and his little sister "Elliet". He loves to share everything he has with his mommy and daddy and if he ever gets a treat he always makes sure his brother has one too. And he is such a little ham always making us laugh!! He loved blowing out candles and got to have candles on all of his food during the day....but if he had candles he made sure we were singing Happy Birthday every time. I think we sung it 3 times before we actually ate his cake.....he kept saying, "again, again" after he blew out his candles. And he got in a couple more rounds of Happy Birthday before he went to bed.

He had a wonderful day starting with Mickey Mouse waffles and then presents and a tractor cake! Happy Birthday Lucas!

Here is his baby sister.....she slept through his whole party.
And here are some of his presents......his very own tricycle which he is very excited about and a lawnmower that all the boys are a fan of...it blows bubbles.

three weeks old!

it is hard to believe that our sweet baby girl is already 3 weeks old. she is already growing out of her little newborn suits and starting to like her baby gym and getting used to her brothers making lots of noise and jumping all around everywhere. so far she has been really calm and sleeping alot but when she is awake she is very alert and wanting to look around at everything. we have had a very crazy and chaotic and also fun and wonderful three weeks.....

here she is in her gym...with her brothers making sure to show her everything in it....they are such good brothers! ...her favorite is the ladybug so far.
isn't that the sweetest picture ever?
...and of course it wouldn't be right to end the post without some pictures of the boys in their boots. this is first thing in the morning....but lucas has also gotten out of bed at night, put on his boots by himself and crawled back into his bed. They love their boots!! I hope they don't outgrow them too soon. I don't know what we will do!