Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Preschool Halloween Festival

Mason's preschool hosts a Halloween festival, so since it was on a Friday of an away game, me & a few of the other football wives with kids checked it out.  The festival was at his school, and it was geared towards little kids, so it was perfect.  They had all of the playgrounds open, and had set up stations with toddler games and prizes.
(Apologies in advance for the low quality photos, I wasn't in the mood to lug around my camera so iPhone photos it was!)

It was costume optional, but I know my child well and opted for no costume, instead deciding to represent our Gators!


I think this trampoline is always there, because he knew exactly what to do!


We of course had to hit up the lollipop stand.

Then it was time for more tattoos.  In case you missed the Pumpkin Patch post, he likes getting his arm painted/tattooed. 


Mason & his buddy Zack and their COOL truck tattoos!

They had a little mini-ride set up that was a scooter on a makeshift ramp - the kids LOVED it!




Last Halloween just the two of us, buddy!



The 3 Amigos, Jack, Mason & Zack.  All three are football coaches kids, turned 2 this summer, and are becoming big brothers in December.  When the 6 of us including moms get together we're quite a site, 3 crazy boys and 3 pregnant mamas.  I wanted to get a picture of all 6 of us, but it was chaos at the festival at this point, so maybe next time.

Gigi just flew into town for Halloween, so I'm sure there will be plenty more October events to post about in the next week or so!

Monday, October 22, 2012

Sing it, Baby!

Apparently we've been listening to enough Top 40/Pop music in the cars for someone to actually learn the words.  So far he has one for sure favorite - "Let's Go" by Ne-Yo.  He rocks in the backseat to that one every time.  He apparently shares my love for Adam Levin as well, because he was pretty familiar with the latest Maroon 5 hit!


I love that he's actually just singing along to himself here, and if you look closely he's pretty close with the words!

He's apparently got my ear for music...although I am NOT musical, I have been known to memorize the words to every. single. song. on the radio at any given time.  I'm so proud, ha :)

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!

Wow, it's been a really long time since I last blogged.  Tristan's always on our computer these days watching film, and I'm just...pregnant, tired, and don't feel like looking at a computer screen in the evenings after working all day.  Not a whole lot missed, though, being as it's football season we've been laying pretty low.

However, we've now entered one of my favorite months of the year.  October brings cooler weather (allegedly...come ON San Diego, what's your deal lately???), Oktoberfest, pumpkin & Oktoberfest beer (wah for me), pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween, and of course, pumpkin patches!  It's the 2nd weekend of October and we've already been to two!

The first patch we went to is down the street from us, and this is our third year going with Mason.  They have a small hayride.



They also have a little corn maze that we checked out.  Now that I'm looking at these pictures, apparently Mason ate/drank his way through both of these activities.


Then it was time to pick out a pumpkin!

So bright, sorry buddy!

The glasses only help if you put them over your eyes, cool guy.

Better on the glasses, but if you look closely they're totally sideways.

I need to go back and find some old pictures, because we've taken this same picture for 3 years.  


My 30-week picture with my two little pumpkins!  If you ask Mason where his little brother is, this is what he shows you.


This weekend, Laura & I decided to take all the kids to another well-known patch up in the mountains some called Bates Nut Farm.  I had never been and was hoping to go this year, so despite the hubbies being busy, we decided to brave it ourselves with all the kiddos.


Oops, we forgot Ava!  Right after I took this picture I made the observation of "well, if Madden comes out with black hair and dark skin like his parents, he's going to be quite a sight with this crew!"

They had a really great hayride - we got there early so grabbed the first car behind the big tractor!



Then it was off to the maze - this one was awesome b/c it was made out of low bales of hay, and it was a hunt for 7 stamps hidden throughout.  These three monkeys spent an hour running around the maze as fast as they could.


Check out that backdrop :)

And this little lady, who's 1st birthday was yesterday, followed along at her own pace, big smiles the whole time.

Buddies :)

Next it was time for an early lunch.

And more smiles from Ava :)

Then Grace & Mason decided they wanted to do some body painting.  Mason insisted on a car on his arm, so the lady did a cool train for him.






And Grace braved the rock wall.  She made it all the way to the top!


Last but not least, we had to get our pumpkins.  Poor Laura...at 31 weeks pregnant I'm no help when it comes to heavy lifting, and we didn't have a stroller. 


Yeah Laura!  I offered to carry Ava but she insisted she had it.  So I just stood aside and took pictures of her instead :) 5 pumpkins and a 25 lb baby on her back...rockstar!

Yeah for pumpkin patches and October!