California Vacation

We had a great time in California. We stayed with Great Grandma and Grandpa Lowe, the kids had fun picking oranges with Grandpa Great. Peyton got her first mani/pedi. We spent time with cousins and we went to Disneyland.


CHURRO!!

Princess Tiana
Belle
Ariel


We went to Disneyland on the busiest day in recorded history of the park. It was unreal. We've been to Disneyland a handful of times and never seen anything like it. They stopped selling tickets at 10 am because the park had reached capacity. Mason's favorite ride was Splash Mountain, Peyton's was the "merry go around" Even though it was crazy busy, we still had a great time and were able to ride everything we wanted to. (Except Zach and Mason couldn't do Indiana Jones because Mason wasn't tall enough) The kids were zombies by the end of the night and could barely stay awake to walk out of the park.

Mason's Prayers Were Answered

All that praying for a brother paid off. Its a boy and he has a wee wee. Mason is thrilled....Peyton not so much. When we told them, Peyton threw herself on the floor crying her eyes out. We got it on video, but the video is not cooperating right now. She came to terms with it when I told her we'd take her to Wendy's for lunch. We could not be more excited!

Halloween

I had high hopes for the kids costumes this year. Last year I got all creative and made really cool homemade ones. I was up for it this year...I had visions of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bowl of mac and cheese. The problem was that Peyton being the stubborn three year old that she is insisted that she wanted to be a princess. It was all good though. Peyton already had the dress that I got from a garage sale over the summer and we borrowed the karate uniform from a friend. I spent two dollars to make Mason's headband and 3 dollars to make the very necessary gold crown...no ordinary tiara would do. So although the creativity and originality was low, the cheapness made up for it.

Mason Lost His First Tooth

Mason lost his first tooth! He got two dollars from the tooth fairy. At first he wanted to go buy whatever toy he could get for two dollars. When he realized that two bucks wouldn't buy him anything, he decided to put it in his bank to save for our Disneyland trip. About a week before the tooth fell out, his permanent tooth started coming in behind the baby tooth. The dentist said that if the baby tooth didn't fall out on its own in a few weeks, that he would have to go to the dentist and have it pulled. We are now waiting to see if it will move forward or if the other baby teeth are in the way. If they are not allowing it to move into place they may have to be pulled.

Corn Maze

The kids did not seem to enjoy this very much. It only took us about 30 minutes to get through the maze but about halfway through, the kids lost hope completely and started whining about how we were "never going to find our way out" They went as far as to say they were going to need to make beds out of the corn stalks and have to eat the hard corn because we were never going to get home.

Hiking in Castlewood Canyon

Cousin Eli came to Visit

Aunt Allison and Baby Eli came to visit for a week in September and the kids adored him! Although Eli loved his cousins too, I'm not sure he enjoyed being mauled by them for the picture. Eli is such a sweet little baby and we miss him so much!