Monday, November 9, 2009

Halloween, San Diego and More

My three favorite kids! Aren't they sweet? Lane looks like she's not sure about all of this...
Beau colored this the first week or so of school. His teacher said he was the only one that refused the googly eyes, preferring to draw his own instead. He looks like a little blonde haired, blue eyed boy with dark skin~hilarious!
Lane and Daddy snoozing. We made the mistake of letting this one sleep with us at the beginning - which turned into 7 weeks of a baby between us every night. We just started "baby boot camp" since we have been back from our trip to California. It has been 2 nights, and she has slept in her crib all night both nights. There was lots of crying that first night...mostly from Lane, but some from Mommy (I can't stand to hear her cry - pretty weak, I know...). I didn't give in though - this baby has got to get out of our bed!!!
Toby bought this tandem bicycle to attach to his bike for the kids off of Craigslist. It is supposed to help teach them how to ride without training wheels. Whether it serves it's purpose or not remains to be seen, but the kids sure do love it either way!
Beau loves it as much or more than Abby.
Halloween 2009 - the only pictures I took. Toby was already in California, so I flying solo with 3 kids. I thought I did well to get pictures at all! No...I didn't dress Lane up. I know...party pooper.
Spiderman flexing his muscle. Worth noting are Beau's new RED shoes, which he LOVES. He insisted on me getting him a pair of red shoes.
Minnie Mouse posing without any prompting from her mommy.
Papaw meets Lane for the 1st time.
Toby and I on the rooftop of our hotel in beautiful San Diego. It had a pool, tons of these fire-pit thingees, and huge bar, etc - it was very pretty and lots of fun to have a little vacation. It was much needed time away for a tired mommy and daddy to get rejuvenated and spend some quality time together. Thanks to Papaw for watching the big kids while we were away!!!
Hotel Del Coronoda
The beach outside the hotel, which was beautiful. The water in the Pacific Ocean is sooooo cold!
Lane beat us all to the beach at 7 weeks old!
Toes in the sand
Walking the beach with Mommy
La Jolla - the beach there was awesome, too. There is a little cove where all of these seals come and swim and lay in the sand.
We were blessed with wonderful weather so we could sight see and spend most of our time outside.
We also visited a famous aircraft carrier called the Midway. What do you think - does she look ready for take off?
Top Gun
Huge statue made from the famous photo taken - thought that was really neat
And we made it home - just in time to watch the Vols beat up on Memphis, which was the perfect ending to a great week, of course!

3 comments:

Courtney said...

Love all the new pics! They are great and YOU look great! I am glad the California trip was fun - I know it was much needed! I am so impressed with you blogging these so quickly! Can't wait to see you guys in 2 weeks! Yay!

Pamela said...

Your pictures are always great! Love Beau in his Halloween costume, hilarious! Looks like you guys had a great time in California, so jealous! Hope to get to see you when you come into town, I miss you.

Anonymous said...

oh my gosh such great pictures!! can't wait to hold her! loving toby's hair in this last photo!!!!ha! miss you!!!!!!
niki