The Witching Season

Today my mom and I took the boys to Gardner Village to see the witches (and of course the bats, mummies, spiders, skeletons, zombies and ghosts). We had so much fun. I am always looking for fun things to do that don't cost much. This was the best price of all, free! Gardner Village has tons of activites and even a dinner you can go to, but we decided just to walk around and enjoy the scenery. I would suggest you go if you can. You can go to Gardner Village's website and print out a "Witch Hunt" aka scavenger hunt too.

We had been there for awhile and needed a little boost to keep us going, so we got churros and hot cocoa. It was delicious!

There were TONS of really fun witch displays. Including this one that was the favorite of my mom and me. We love GREEN!

There were so many cute things there and I wish I could have afforded a lovely witch hat.

The skeleton was covered in glitter, so naturally, I loved it.

Afterwards we went to dinner and it made for a great day. Thanks mom! You're the best!

New Family Pictures

Today we did family pictures. I didn't do many of them when Porter was a baby and last year I decided to make it a tradition to do them every year. I love to see how much they have changed in just a year.

Here is Bryson last autumn.

This year.

Porter last year.

This year.

Fun pictures.

Making Fishy Faces

On another note, I just finished my "early fall" quarter of school. Early fall covers 10 weeks from the last week of July until the end of September. I am SOOOO excited to say that I passed all my classes this quarter. It was really rough and I was REALLY worried about it. Now, I only hve 3 quarters (about 9 mo) until I graduated. I am scheduled to graduate in June 2012. So, unless I fail something (keeping fingers crossed and knocking on wood that I don't) I will be able to take the NCLEX (the nursing examine) next summer and be a nurse. I am counting down the days!

Happy 4th Birthday Porter!

Today is Porter's Birthday! Usually I get all excited for Birthday's and have a party, but this year, it was all I could do just to be home for his big day. Both the Grandma's helped out so much to make it special for him! Grandma Teri bought his this cake. He was too excited to wait until I got home from work and at the head before I got a picture. Oh well.

We also had a little celebration at Grammy Coral's House. She got him a frog/dinosaur cake. Whatever it was, it was cute! Porter pulled all the little blue dots off and ate them first.


As the saying goes, he made out like a bandit ;)

Today was also dentist day. Both boys got to go. Porter is an old pro at the dentist, but today was Bryson's first visit. As most of us feel, he hated it. The dentist also had some sad news for Bryson. No more pacifier. It is pulling his front teeth forward. Hmmm, who will suffer more? Me for taking it away or him for not having it? This picture is him clinging to the dental assistant for dear life.

These are just some fun pictures.

This is the boys with Grandma Betty and notice how my children have the dirtiest faces ever!