Halloween

The other night we decorated our pumpkins. I love these Mr. Potoato-Head type pumpkin faces. They make decorating pumpkins so much more fun and kid-friendly.

Here is Tommy with his alien. He did another face on the backside and will turn his pumpkin around every morning. Variety is the spice of life, right?

Hannah with hers. She wanted the bow tie and hat. What can I say, the girl loves her accessories!

Jake even got one of his own.

Here is Hannah just before our church's annual trunk or treat. Unfortunately a cold front blew in that morning and froze our little buns off. Usually we're in short sleeves passing out candy on our neighbor's driveway on Halloween night. Here's hoping we get our perfect "fall" weather back before the "real" Halloween!

Hannah wanted to be a ghost for one party and Aurora (Sleeping Beauty for all of you who don't speak fluent princess) for her preschool party this morning.

California '09

Over fall break, we decided to get outta town. It kind of made up for being able to do absolutely NOTHING during the summer. We headed over to California to meet up with some of Tim's family and enjoy great company, Disneyland, and the San Diego Zoo.

Here is the crew that made it for the final night at Disneyland. Boy it was crowded. I think all of AZ came for fall break and all of UT came for the BYU San Diego football game. Luckily there was good company to wait for rides with.

As you can see, the cousins LOVED spending time with each other. After we come back from most vacations, Tommy is so distraught and does NOT want to be home. Too bad we don't live closer.

Poor Tommy got sick during the trip. He had an ear infection and was pretty miserable for a few days. He and I got to spend more time than we wanted inside of the hotel room.

He lost one of his teeth on the drive to California and is showing his "Jack-o-lantern" smile just in time for Halloween.

Thanks to Nana Jane and Papa, the girls got to go to the Princess Breakfast. Hannah is in LOVE with Aurora and although her face isn't showing it, she was so delighted when Aurora came out and when she signed her paper for her. She says that when she has her princess dress on she's Aurora, and when she doesn't she's just Hannah.

Tim and Hannah got to meet up with Tim's grandparents. Unfortunately that was one of the days Tommy was feeling miserable, so he, Jake, and I didn't get to visit with them. We were really bummed we didn't get to see them.

We made a trip to the San Diego Zoo and were amazed at how well you could see the animals and how many animals were there. It really was pretty neat. Here is Hannah following Daddy and Jake up one of the many hills.

And us chillin' in the polar bear cave.

There were peacocks just wandering around, and one came right next to us.

And I just loved this picture of Abby staring down the albino python.

Hopefully next vacation we won't be so weaksauce, but we are glad we went and saw family and did some fun things!