Oh Boy..Catch Up Time Part 1

So we last left you in August when Lawsyn turned 7 months, September came and as you can expect Lawsyn turned 8 months and learned to pull him self up very well into standing position and cruised along furniture gracefully:

Jen and Matt celebrated their 7 year anniversary, enjoyed a beautiful dinner at the Crab Catcher in La Jolla and a gorgeous view of the sunset. Ah....

October was an actually well packed month full of events. We had guests in town. We had Halloween costumes to be completed. The kids decided to be part of the movie, FROZEN, this year.  Kalista wanted to be Elsa and Lawsyn got to be Olaf. Jen made both of their costumes this year and as you can see, did some dress fittings along the way.

Lawsyn celebrated his 9 month milestone. He was cruising along furniture even better than before.

 

 

As yes..our guests: We had Yin-Yin and Yeh-Yeh (Grandpa David and Grandma Evelyn) visit at the beginning of the month to spend time with the kiddos.

We enjoyed our annual fall trip to the Bates Nut Farm to see the amazing pumpkin patch and animals.  Kalista enjoyed feeding the goats and piggies. She even got her face painted. Lawsyn was shocked to see pumpkins bigger than him.

Oh my!  We have plenty more October events including a magical wedding, but need to start a new blog post to fit it all in.

TO BE CONTINUED....

Happy Halloween!!!

Kalista's 2nd Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

We have been very grateful to have Matt's parents in town for the past few days. They came to visit Kalista and spend Halloween with us.


We pumpkin carved a few nights ago and made some royal beauties. Kalista thought the pumpkins were a little too slimey and decided to bail on Jen and Grandma Evelyn as they were adding on the final touches.

Kalista is a woman of many alter egos. We bought a costume a few months back which happened to be a little blue monster, but we found a costume from last year that she still kind of fits (It was a daisy). We had it way in the back of her closet and brought it out for this fine occasion. Kalista looked cute in both Halloween outfits.

Kalista, Matt and Grandma Evelyn stopped by Jen's office to visit and show-off Kali's outfit before they went trick-or-treating. Since Halloween happened to fall on a Monday, they did some early trick-or-treating and even some friends came out to join us. Kalista's friend, Catherine, dressed up like Strawberry Shortcake and Kalista transformed into her alter ego...the one-eyed blue monster. When Jen got home from work, she decided to dress up in her Monsters Inc Sully costume and joined them as the evening got darker.


We thought it would be a quiet Halloween, but amazingly enough, the streets were filled with little ones and their parents. We saw some amazing costumes! One family even dressed up as the Angry Birds Clan....2 green pigs (parents), the white, red and yellow birds. We made it around the neighborhood and trick-or-treated for about a half an hour before Kalista started to tire herself out.

Pumpkin Patch

We finally made it out to the Bates Nut Farm last weekend to enjoy a good afternoon of fall festivities and to see why other families rave about this place. With the smell of kettle corn in the air and pumpkins scattered about...we explored the farm to find a small petting zoo, inflatable monster slides, barbeque and pony rides. We didn't get Kali on the pony ride, but she was fascinated by the horse drawn wagons that trotted past her very own parent drawn carriage (a.k.a. stroller). There was a pretty cool John Deere tractor train circling the event area too.

We saw a few pretty good scarecrows..even ones made out to look like Angry Birds characters. Evidently, they won first place in the scarecrow contest.

Kalista enjoyed the fields of pumpkins and we meandered through the actual pumpkin patch in search for the biggest pumpkin we can get our hands on. We didn't find a giant, good-looking pumpkin, but instead the patch resembled a battlefield of wounded pumpkins. Many of the pumpkins look like they had exploded from the scorching hot sun. Kalista felt adventurous enough to sit on one of the decent pumpkins we did find.

Hold on..I'm concentrating

Whoa...so many pumpkins!

I love the Bates Nut Farm!!!

Out and About

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day Weekend! 

Here's our latest life snippets:

School is back in session and Kalista's teacher came to visit today.  Our goals for the school year are to have Kalista say a few more words and phrases and of course, feed herself more.  She'll get there...we know it.  She has already kicked butt in the walking, smiling, hair modeling and looking cute skill set.

Jen and Matt celebrated their four year wedding anniversary today and celebrated with a nice sushi dinner at Sushi Deli 3.  Yum yum tuna and salmon! 

Because it has been so a muggy sauna here, we hit the pool this week/weekend.  It's all a blur when we went since the heat has melted away some of our brain cells.  All we know is that we had a refreshing time.

 Kali knows that she's gotta protect those precious eyes

Come join us for a swim!

Auntie Jeanette and Mike came to visit this past weekend.  We celebrated her belated birthday with a few tickets to a good 'ol game of baseball...yes....Giants vs Padres.  We're sure you all know who we rooted for.

With Jeanette's help, Jen ironed out all the wrinkles in how to make cake pops look more beautiful and tasty.  This batch was pretty good.  Yay Jeanette!

 Jeanette and Mike waiting to catch some foul balls.
There were a lot of them flying everywhere.

 Watching the Giants kick butt! Go Kung-Fu Panda!!!

Kalista knew it was going to rain on us while we were at Petco Park. 

Her little hand caught a few raindrops.

Kalista picked out her Halloween costume this past weekend as well, so she is ready to go trick-or-treating.  We have decided to all be monsters of some sort this year.  Roar!!!!  Argh!!!! (whatever sound a monster makes)

Last but not least...HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE BILL!  Woo Hoo!!!