Last day at Bishop's

This last Wednesday we went to the pumpkin patch for the last time. It will close today. We love to get their pumpkin bread that they bake. It is a good way to keep the boys busy for an afternoon. They have a train, petting zoo, fort, slides, and much more and the best is that it is free entertainment. We already can't wait until next fall.

Haloween Party / Arabian Nights

This past Saturday was the annual halloween party that Rob's cousin puts on, this years theme was Arabian Nights. The boys stayed at my mom and dad's so we has a child free evening.

Connor's Field trip to the pumpkin patch

This past thursday was Connor's field trip to the pumpkin patch with his kindergarden class. We had a lot of fun. I can't believe it is almost Halloween and the patch will be closing. So sad.

Connor picking out his pumpkin

Trail Ride

Today we went for a trail ride in up in Auburn so Rob could get used to riding. This year for his hunting trip to Colorado they will be riding in, so Rob needed to get some practice in. It was beautiful scenery and a great day for for such a nice ride.

I got to practice some more photography this weekend when I went with a friend of mine to their ranch in Ceadarville. She needed some help vaccinating and moving cows. It was about 35 degrees on saturday and a warm 40 on sunday, once the sun hit you it wasn't bad. I wore lots of layer so I was nice and toasty. Sunday we drove them 8 miles to the next town to a new pasture. It was beautiful scenery and a lot of fun. It was a great way to spent the weekend and get to see more of this great country that God created.

BADGES, WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES

I think I have the giggles today. Chance came in with this outfit on and I laughed so hard I cried. The movie "Blazing Saddles" comes to mind.

Chance's first field trip

Today we went to Bishop's Pumpkin patch for Chance's first field trip.

Our son CRASH

This is Chance's latest encounter with the pavement. On Monday he fell while getting out of the car straight onto the pavement. We were on our way back from town and I had bought some ice cream so I was stopping at the house to put the ice cream in our freezer in the garage before we ran to pick Connor up at school. He proceeded to unbuckle himself and climb out my door which I had left open and fall head first onto the driveway. It scared the beejesus out of me. We recovered and didn't have to take a trip to the ER but he this nasty scab. I think he has my lack of coordination.

This is our newest addition to our herd of hay burners, I think I am up to five now. Little did Rob know that when he married a cowgirl that horses are an addiction for me. LOL. He is always giving me a hard time because I am constantly looking at horses on line. Buck out newest horse I found on Craigslist of all places. I bought him for the boys he is such a sweet horse, I can put both the boys on him and take them for trail rides. Connor is able to ride him by himself he is great. Poor Rob I dont think my addiction will ever cease I will always be looking for a reason to get a new horse. Sometimes I think a gambling addiction would be cheaper.

Party

Rob's parents had a party this weekend in Bob's shop that he built it has a bar with three taps an office, and a stage for them to play on it is really incredible. The party was alot of fun there was about 100 plus people there one of the pictures is of the pig they roasted it was so good. The boys got to see Rob play in the band and dance. For those of you that don't know Rob's family plays in a band together called the Auburn Ravine. They mainly play for their own parties, but they have played a wedding or two. They sounded great on Saturday and the boys loved seeing their dad play guitar.

1st Soccer Game

Connor had his first soccer game this past Saturday. I am so proud. He made four goals!!! He is hooked already, he loves it. He does really well considering he has never played before, I guess he inherited some natural tallent lol. They actually have a pretty good team for under 6. Usually at this age it is a bunch of kids grouped around the ball, no one in position. They were pretty good still a little bunc ball but not bad. It is so cute the field is so small and the goal is tiny to not much taller than they are. This is all foreign ground to Rob he never played or ever had any interest in soccer, he could not believe the mass amount of people that were at the soccer complex. There are 3000 yes not a mis type I did say 3000 people in this league. I myself was surprised, the complex has at least 20 fields. I love it though since we were such a soccer family growing up I think I stared playing around Connor's age, I loved to play up until my knee injury playing powder puff football my junior year( which my coach had warned me not to play, oh well I never listen, ( no more soccer since i had torn my ACL)I guess now I can live vicariously through Connor. Our games last until November so I know where I will be on every saturday for the next couple of months. Connor said he likes soccer more than t-ball we will see he does love it, it is right up his alley with all the running.

School Days

School has officially begun, I can't believe it. Connor is in Kindergarten and Chance is in pre-school three mornings a week. They both had no problems at all. Chance's teacher asked if he wanted mommy to go the the classroom with him and he said " no I can go by myself" this is no surprise I think it is his favorite saying. Kindergarten is all day here so Connor does not get out until 2:30. He was very quiet the first day which is not like him at all he is my chatter box, but he went right in and sat down no problem. This morning I walked him to the playground again and stayed for a few minutes, and of course he was fine he gave me a hug and a kiss and was off I felt sad but happy at the same time I am glad he is a happy confident child. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings I have all to myself, since Chance is in pre-school. It is so strange and quiet. I thought I would be so upset about Connor starting Kindergarten, don't get me wrong I was sad but I didn't bawl like I thought I would. I think I was more upset about dropping Chance off, I am not used to that I think that was harder on me. Oh well now I have to work on getting a routine down instead of walking in circles and wondering what to do. Hopefully this week I can get into the groove of things. Maybe I can actually ride on a regular basis now, Woooo HoOOO!!!!

Pool time

Summer fun

We went to the cabin last weekend for one last summer mini-vacation. Rob took friday off and we headed up to Lake Almanor with some friends for some fun and relaxing before school started. Chance and Connor knee_boarded and tubed, it was so hot up there it doesn't usually get that hot so we would stop the boat every now and then and jump in. We had a lot of fun and it was a good way to end summer.

I came across this pic from Connor's Birthday, no he did not attend his party in his underwear, lol the bouce house arrived early so they were outside bouncing in thier underwear before the party started. They love to run around in their underwear I am sure those of you moms with boys will agree with me, they must get it from thier fathers lol. My parents had arrived early and had let him open his present which was a cape and of couse there was one for Chance too so i just had to get this picture of them before they headed off to bounce notice the cowboy boots Chance is wearing, this will be a good picture to post on a memory board when they graduate from hight school in the future. I seem to have many of those

Just more of me practicing my photography

Tide pools

On Wednesday of the second week we took the boys up the road to the tide pools. They had fun looking for crabs and sea creatures. Chance of course lost interest and started jumping from rock to rock giving me a heart attack because the rocks are so slippery. I was afraid I was going to have to visit the ER.

more pictures for newport beach

Here is a picture of the house we stayed in. It was nice to have the sand box right off the porch so the boys had some where to play. At low tide they could hope down off the wall and play in the sand by the water.

Family vacation

We are finally back to reality after two weeks in Newport Beach. The family picture was take on the dock of the house where we stayed, that is the bay and the view from the porch in the background. We had so much fun we went to the beach, Medieval Times,Disneyland, tide pools. WE didn't want to come home it was so relaxing the house was on the Balboa peninsula and was right on the bay and you could walk across the street to the beach. We went with my parents, my aunt and uncle, my brother his girlfriend, and my sister and her boyfriend. This house was perfect for all that stayed it was in great location too.You could ride bikes down the two lane bike path along the beach for miles (the boys loved that) , walk to the Ferris wheel, walk a few restaurants/bars(one night we watched my brothers girlfriend karaoke, she was better than anyone else there), and walk to the ferry that would take you to Balboa island for shopping. The hardest thing about being back home is adjusting to the heat the hottest it got there was 82. The boys also had a good time playing with their cousins whom they don't get to see very often. They practically lived outside. Chance tried crab and clam chowder for the first time and loved it. Every time we went to a restaurant he asked if they had crab. I guess he has an expensive pallet. We had a great time and got to see lots of family that we don't see often enough. I cant wait for next year.