This is our trick - or - treating crew. We are so lucky to be blessed with such great friends! Hope everyone had a happy halloween!

 

 

 

 

Here they are....we had a knight, Navy Seal, Batman & Spiderman. I'm so lucky to be so well protected!

 

Mickey's first Pine Wood Derby. He and Mike enjoyed building this car together. He's already planning his cars design for next year.

 

Great Grandma Witters was in San Diego last month -- what a treat! I was able to go visit her at my Aunt Kathy's home. She is an amazing woman. I am so blessed to be named after her. Love you Grandma!

 

Here is Sam hard at work. He's is loving Kindergarten. His teacher is very patriotic which is nice. She used to be a Naval Officer and an aerobics instructor (among other things) so exercise is extremely important. Every morning she makes the kids do push ups and sit ups and then they do an aerobics excercise to the theme song from "Rocky".

We're baaaccckkkk! So my problem is I have no more space on my computer. Everyday I am clearing things off to make more memory space available. I bought an external hard drive, but I'm not sure if I'm using it correctly. I think it's time for a new computer....maybe I'll ask Santa.

Okay....so I'm lame. I thought I could keep up with this once a month....and yet here we are a day away from October and I haven't blogged a thing. I'd like to think it's becaue I'm too busy playing with my kids that I don't have time. So here's the update...pictures to follow. Mickey's best friend from Austin came to visit for week. He had so much fun he could hardly stand it. School started -- Sam's first day of kindergarten. There was actually a picture of him on his first day of school in the local paper. Soccer is in full swing. Mickey, Sam & Jonathan are all playing, and Mike was called as the first counselor in the bishopric a few weeks ago. Life is great!

 

 

Jonathon was a little nervouse at first to go off the big diving board, but he did it! After the first jump he wanted to start jumpin off the board doing his "dolphin dives". I'm so glad he loves to swim.

 

 

 

Some of our favorite freinds the Chavez's came down to celebrate Mickey's baptism. Of course we ended up at the beach (again--big surpirse). We love to spend time with them. We can't wait until we get to see them again!

 

 

It truly would be nice to get at least one good family picture...unfortunately there's always someone who doesn't want to cooperate (check out Jonathon:)

 

Grunyan hunting. I took the boys out for the annual grunyan hunt. It was a beautiful night and athough we left at 10:45pm (before the grunyan showed up) the boys couldn't resist jumping in the ocean with their freinds and capturing sand crabs.

 

 

 

 

Our boys have the most AMAZING grandparents. Here they all are playing in the ocean. We love you guys. Thanks for a wonderful week!

 

 

 

 

My cousin CJ works at the Wild Animal Park -- We had a great time seeing and riding on some "cool" animals. Thanks CJ!

 

 

 

 

Mickey's big day! On Saturday August 2nd Mickey was baptized at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We're so grateful to friends and family came to share in this special event.

 

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MICKEY!!!!! For Mickey's 8th birthday he and some friends celebrated at Laser Tag. I was able to join in a game (or 2) which was a lot of fun, however I kept getting "tagged" because the kids said I was an easy target! It was fun -- Mickey's begging to go back!

 
I just had to put this picture in...it's one of my favorite pictures of Mickey and his cute freckles.

 
So, I took a month off to "play" with my kids. Summer is so fun here in San Diego. Here are the boys having a backyard battle. They're hiding behind their fort.

HOORAY FOR THE BEACH! Our boys can't seem to get enough of the sand and surf. I finally caught a picture of Sam surfing. He caught a handful of waves, but I kept missing the shot. He LOVES surfing with his dad!