55 posts tagged “friends”
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. It's a holiday where people get to show their creativity and where children are everywhere!
My little ones LOVE how we transform the house with spooky things.
Halloween morning Maddy had Nutcracker rehearsal but afterwards we carved pumpkins.
This year Christian decided rather then Trick-or-treathing he wanted to have his own booth at the Church's Harvest Carnival. My Dad always has one, so rather then signing up for 1 he got 2. Christian designed his game and found his bible verse.
The other chicklings did however dress up. Maddy and Kenna selected designs from a friend of mine who made the most fantastic tutu costumes.
Ethan wanted to be Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. He's been flying around the house for weeks in it!
So after we got dressed up and did hair and makeup we headed to the Church's Harvest to play games. Afterwards we trick-or-treated in our neighborhood ending up at Craig and Laurie's for a fire, tortilla soup and margaritas.
As usual with 4 kids getting candy we have a ridiculous amount of candy at home. Slowly Ryan and I will both take some to work so the kids won't notice and the dentist will thank us.
Last weekend we went with my brothers family, my cousins family and our best friends family to the local apple orchards and pumpkin patch... Jeez, look at all those kids!
So what does a chestnut look like?
Picking them was interesting for sure....
My brother and Roxanne introduced us to a game called "Spoons" and we are so addicted! Now anytime we have company over it turns into a Spoon game, ok, scratch that. It turns into a all out WAR with spoons.
Last night Charlie and Holly were over and we taught them how to play. We managed to get really involved and played until after midnight. I won 2 of the three hands.
Holly was so tense, my palms were sweating, its kinda ridiculous how competitive we each are!
I read on my girlfriends blog that while watching tattoo shows she feels tattoo envy.
So on that note, yes my first one hurt like a B%&$@, I would like to get another one. I contemplate where or what. Sometime I think maybe something in a 6 sequence to represent my family, or a small wedding band under my real wedding band, or maybe a small butterfly on the nape of my neck?
All I'm saying is I'll go with you, if you promise not to laugh because I have been known to fAiNt!
Summer is here and we are in full swing summer mode! Schools out, swimming lessons have begun and vacations are planned....
Our schedules and always packed and there's never a dull moment with four children. Our weekends consist of bbqs, friends, family, celebrations and very rarely is there time to stop and breathe. But, you know what? I love it! I love constantly being surrounded with things to do, people to meet and fun to be had!
So, this week and weekend are no different. Ryan had four nights of summer school, Maddy went to two sleep overs, the babies had swim lessons twice, the kids and I worked on a "secret project" with a good friend, I walked two nights with Michelle and now onto the weekend. Tonight Holly, Charlie and their girls are coming over to hang out and have dinner. Tomorrow my mother-n-law is taking the two little ones to a craft thing, while we take the two older kids bed shopping for Christian. Sunday my husbands family is coming over to celebrate a belated fathers day and Maddy birthday combo and then Monday night we're going to my brothers to celebrate our cousins two June bithdays with a bbq and swimming.
See what I mean. The calander is always full. We are so blessed with a houseful of children, good friends close by and tons of family!
Ahhhhhh.....................
I love long weekends.
Our run down will be as follows.
Friday- off work early, doctors appt. Drop Christian off for his camping trip, go out to dinner for Maddys award, rent a movie from the Red Box and relax.
Saturday- sleep in, soccer games, clean house, do the yard, have some friends and family over for some carne asada, margarita and the Freeway Series. (Angels walked the Dodgers to a win....stupid)
Sunday- make brunch for my Mother-n-Law and visit, then spend the rest of the day working in the garden followed by some bbq and dinner in the back yard and then a few rounds of Phase Ten with the kids.
Monday- nothing. rest. lounge. siesta.
Our dear friends Willie and Anastacia just created a blog here on VOX.
Last year they left us and the heat and moved across the country where they have settled in and made a home.
The 6 of us miss them terribly but are excited keep tabs on them via VOX!
We're perched on a cliff over looking the lake. The gentle breeze feels good in the warmth of the suns burning reyes.
It's about time for happy hour amongst the campers. The table is filling with margarita makers and salsa. mmmmm.
God is good! I am so thankful for the world he made for us and for the family and friends that I am blessed with.
Yep, life IS GOOD!!!
We got an email from our dear friends Willie and Anastacia this week with news that they closed escrow on their first home. They recently moved back East and took a pieces of 6 hearts with them. Each of us miss them so much, we can feel the absence of their laughter and company in our home.
But we are however very happy for them and very proud of them. Their laying roots in their new City and will eventually start a family, which I personally can't wait for!
This is their cute new home.
This is Willie.
I have always known I was stubborn. It's a genetic trait. In the past I have let some really special people slip out of my life. There may or may not have been specific reasons, maybe just circumstance.
Anyways, I decided the year 2009 would be all about reconnecting and reminiscing.
So last night I met up with my girlfriend, Katie. (We were extremely close friends all throughout junior high and high-school, until one day we just stopped. Literally overnight we lost the friendship. Sometime last summer we met back up and picked up where we left off.) Last night we got our kids together. While they played, we talked and laughed like old girlfriends, even realizing neither of us knew what happened, just that we both knew that we've missed eacthother and are grateful for the time we have now.
Her two little girls, Lia and Sophie, are close to Kenna and Ethan's ages and are so adorable. Little Sophie, who's one, is such a daredevil. She played her little heart out with the older kids. At the end of the night Maddy asked, "Can we get a Sophie". First I explained that Sophie is not a toy and then I reminded her that we already have one, we have Ethan.
