Date With Cole

I love to try to go on field trips with my kiddos. Just recently, Cole and I spent the day at Legoland. His class took a class on simple machines where each pair of kids built an amusement park ride out of Legos. I love taking my Legomanic to Legoland. We also went to Pat and Oscar's for dinner and bought a gift for our new nephew/cousin, baby Devin.

She honked the horn!

We went for free play today at gymnastics and 6 year old Addy climbed to the top of the rope that hangs in the gym!!! To the top! The child has muscles, so unlike her mother. We went to 7 Eleven and got her some sour candy to celebrate. Eww!

Thank goodness for knee pads and helmets!

We had a pretty easy going Veteran's Day. It always drives me nuts that my dad and father-in-law who are Veteran's don't have the day off of work. We hung around and did some housework this morning. It is hard to get laundry and stuff done when I am working so much. The kids and Shawn are really helpful which is great. So we did some catch up. We headed out around 1 pm to eat Subway sandwiches, shop, go to Addy's gymnastics class and hit the skatepark. It was Ty's first time at the skatepark and Cole's 2nd. Ty was about to quit but decided to hang in there and was doing great by the middle of the session. It was fun to watch the kids tonight. Cole and I had a date on Sat. and I took him to the skatepark. He spent half the session walking the ramps and sending the board down by itself. It was hilarious to watch. Finally, he got on his board, made friends and was doing awesome. It was interesting to watch of the process of him figuring out the park.

Fall Adventures with Lewis, Clark, and a Pegasus

Tyler's Mountain Biking Adventures:
Tyler is becoming a great mountain biker! Shawn and Tyler hit the trails at Daley Ranch this weekend. We took the fall off from soccer to be able to try some new sports.

Addy's Made it to Level 2:
Addy is in gymnastics and just advanced to Level 2. I am so excited for her because I would have never passed Level 1 even if I took gymnastics my whole life. Yep, I can't do a cartwheel and my mom likes telling about how she tried to do a wheel barrow race with me when I was a kid. She says I just laid there and couldn't hold myself up. She compares me to a dinosaur with whoosy little floppy arms. Addy is the opposite of me and is amazingly athletic.

Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea... I mean the Pegasus:
Tyler and Cole were the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark respectively, for Halloween. Addy was going to be Sacagawea but changed her mind to become a rainbow pegasus. She assured the boys she'd fly ahead and be their guide for the journey. I made the boys costumes and Shawn and Cole built the cardboard canoe. The boys painted it. We had to strap the canoe on top of our van to get to Trunk or Treat at church. I loved seeing our funny shadow as we drove our cardboard canoe on the road as the sun went down.

Tyler and I carved a dragon pumpkin for Halloween. It was awesome!

Bates, Heise, and Geocaching:
We live by Bates Nut Farm and pumpkin patch. We love heading to Bates after school. We also head to William Heise to camp in Julian. We hit 4 geocaches in Julian with lots of cool junk in them.

Addy's New Threads

I made Addy two skirts and headbands. Grandma Wendy embroidered on some T-shirts to match. We need to paint her nails and she'll be ready to hit the books.

In the sand

We headed to the beach last night. I love going to Carlsbad at Warm Water. It's by the Carlsbad Outlets. We park by the seawall and just through our stuff up on the wall, walk around and find a spot in the sand. Cori showed me the spot and it's great. I don't like lugging the loot too far.

I love summer!

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Summer has flown by! We camped at the beach in June and August, celebrated the 4th on Coronado with friends we love, visited with cousins, celebrated Grandma GG's life (I miss her terribly), headed to Idaho for a family reunion, celebrated Grandma and Grandpa Z's 64th wedding anniversary, has the tooth fairy visit 3 times, found the boy heaven at Smith and Edwards military surplus, Shawn got a 4 wheel drive car of his dreams and got to try it our in ID, and have thoroughly enjoyed our summer. Tyler turned 10 (double digits!), Addy chopped her hair, and Cole saved up to buy a skateboard.