Daddy is home!

Here are the pictures from picking up Chris from the boat and hanging out in san diego. We also pulled out the tree and decorated it. Haley has been dying for us to do that for 2 years. With dady coming home and us all being together, we couldn't say no, even though we had no where to put it in this tiny house. So we put it in my room. It actaully looks pretty good in there. My room is probably the same size as the living room, so it worked pretty good. We even took a christmas card picture in front of it. So if everyone gives me their address, I will make sure and send you one. I also took a couple of videos that I am going to try and post. One is of us going through the tank of shark and the other is greg doing his peguine walk. We are so happy to have Chris home and had a great time. Hope everyone else had a great holiday too.

Fires and Ash

Not sure if everyone heard about all the fires that we are having here. I just wanted to tell everyone not to worry, and that we are fine. The fires are not way far away from us, but far enough away that we don't have to worry. Course with the wind, you never know what is going to happen. One of the fires is right by my sister in Chino hills. She is fine and has not been evacuated, so far. The fire burned the canyon that we always drive through to get to her house and she can see the fire from her house. I wanted to show you a picture of how thick the sky is with all the smoke. The air really smells like smoke too. The sun is also so red, which is kind of hard to tell from the picture. The ash is falling down like snow and covering everything. So we have been tapped inside for now.

Cooking/ Indian Home Diorama

Haley wanted to take some pictures of us cooking, so here they are. The kids are all pretty good cooks, and they can pretty much do it all by themselves.

Haley and John are both in the gate program at school and so they get extra work and projects to do. Haley had to do a diorama on Indian homes. Took us two days to do, but I think it came out pretty good. Painting and glueing on all the popsicle sticks took foooorevvvver! It is kind of like a lob cabin with a totum pole on the side. The side is off the house so you can see inside. There is a rock fire place with a family sitting around it, and some beds in the corner. The house is in the forest, so there is a lot of trees.

STAR FOR THE DAY- Writers of the Month/ Haley's Girl's Night Out

Haley and John got to be stars today, when they won writers of the month at school. They got to get an award and trophy from their principal, and each got a present from mom and dad, for being such good writers. Were so proud of you guys, keep up the good work.

We also had a girl's night out for Haley's Birthday today. Her birthday isn't until Dec. 16th, but Haley really wanted to go to High School Musical 3, so we wanted to go to it while it was still in theaters. Haley Aunt and Cousin came along, cast (becca broke her arm the day before halloween) and all. We went to Haley and I favorite resteraunt, Souplantation, and the we got to go the High School Muscial 3Sing a Long version. We had such a good time. It was so much fun to hang out with just the girls. Just a little side note about where we went to souplantation, in case anyone is interested. Turns out that the soup plantation was in the same parking lot that back to future was filmed in. Haley didn't know what that was, but we are going to watch it tomorrow, Because I think it is a pretty awesome movie. Not sure if anyone remembers that movie, and the Huey lewis and the News song "back in time". I put it up on the song list, in case anyone feels like a flashback. Kids always have a way of making you feel old, but I try and expose the kids to things that they think is "old" anyway.

Trunk or Treating

I hope everyone had a good Halloween. Our Halloween turned out to be different then we had planned it to be, but was good. We had planned to go to my sisters, but my niece broke her arm, so we needed to change our plans at the last minute. The kids were disappointed at first, but were pretty good sports about the whole thing. We went to the church trunk or treat. We had never been to the tunk or treat before, and what a great idea it was. All the cars park in the parking lot and the kids trick or treat right from the cars (trunks). It was safe enought that the kids could be on their own and walk around, which was nice. We had a good time and the kids got tons of candy. Then we came back and watched a scary movie.

Haley and John have know what they wanted to for halloween for months, but Ben and Greg were constantly changing their mind. They decided to be super heros together, which turned into a night of super heros poses and play fighting. Haley was a pioneer, as well as her anne doll, that she dressed up. She wore her pioneer costume from her trail blazer play she was in last year. John was a pirate, which really looked good, since he was been growing his hair out. He originally was going to grow his hair out over the summer, and then we decided until his dad came come. Now he has decided to grow it all out the same length to the bottom of his chin. I did take him to get it cut yesterday so that it was a little less out of control. Trim it up a bit. I think it is funny, that Haley, my girl, spends hardley any time on her hair and won't let me do anything with it, but my boy spends 20 minutes on it everyday , and wants to grow his out. He loves to get his hair styled and cut. Too funny.