Jack-O-Lanterns.....

The girls and I had some fun this afternoon.....both were Catie's designs, carefully drawn out on paper (including the one snaggle tooth on the one on the right).....mind you, it was almost 80 degrees here today...one would think summer was upon us...not Halloween......

some pictures need no words.......

however this one does...

anyone want to guess how many Trader Joe's stickers it takes to keep Meigan quiet??????????????

Soccer Season ends......

Catie LOVED her first soccer experience....they had a great team, named the Shoukas (after an orca whale at Marine World)....Catie had never played before this year, and she really had a great time (which is really what sports for 7yrs. is all about)...

The team got beat today pretty bad, but the girls kept up their fight....after the game we had a little party with cupcakes and snacks, and their coach gave them each a trophy and some photos! Our coach, was just amazing...so great with these girls she was...just fantastic!! (as we saw other coaches who just take 8 & under girls soccer WAAAAYYY to seriously...it is a kids game)...


here is Catie getting her trophy from Coach.... ready to start the game!!!

Trick or Treat Preview

Here are the girls this morning, on our way to the safe trick or treat that our town puts on every year....the kids walk along the downtown and all stores hand out candy....very very fun!

Bri, notice the cobwebs!! The girls were insistent on them, so we got some and put them up...the front of the house looks great.......

tomorrow we carve our pumpkins....

we miss you Daddy! hurry home from London!!!

Now You See it......Now you don't......

This HUGE tree, sat on the easement to our backyard, above our pool.....causing tons and tons if pine needles in our backyard and in our pool, jamming the pool equipment, and in the late summer blocking sun from the pool..........

The picture after....NO MORE TREE!!!
it was a very happy day here for us, as our neighbor behind us on the hill cut that big ole' tree down...so...bring on next summer and the loads more sun we'll have on our pool!!!!!

Brian..check this out....it's amazing! and just think, we didn't have to pay a penny for it to be cut down!!!!! which is good, because I think the dishwasher exploding under the kitchen sink, is gonna cost us some $$$$$$$$$$.......

hurry home from London.....:)

Daddy's in London...week 1....

Brian's been gone since the 21st....and as it stands now, he's due back Nov. 15th....spending time working outside London in Godalming...a very cute suburb or London....he has already found a great pub, and a record store (for those who know Brian well, you know he's hit paydirt with a record store in this little town).....

so, the girls and I have been solo for almost 7 straight days.....so far there has been the usual busy stuff with school, etc. during the week....

now, it's Saturday night, and at 7:30pm, my dishwasher blew a MAJOR leak under the sink, flooding out the garbage disposal AND the pipes....ANd the HD cable box went out, so I had to move the very large TV we have and the stand, and I think strained my neck and shoulders in the midst of that, rewired the cable to work now......and I've had no dinner...

however, I did buy myself a nice silver bracelet today, for my anniverary (Nov 11) as Brian will be in London then....I think I deserve that...

stay tuned...week 2 without Daddy starts Sunday.....we'll see what this has in store for us...

GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All geared up in our house to cheer on our Red Sox.....Game 1 World Series...tonight!

as the girls chant " Go Red Sox, Go Red Sox, Go Red Sox".....

Another Month almost gone by....

Hard to believe it's been almost a month since my last post... seems I can't find time anymore to blog or even take pictures of the kids anymore....between flying between 2 schools, volunteering at each school, and dragging myself back to the gym and working with a trainer...I'm just too wiped to blog lately....

October is flying by....school, playdates, gymnastics, birthday parties, soccer practices and games, homework...blah, blah blah...and on and on it goes....

no pictures to share from lately (bad mother I am on that front)...but I'll have some next week after Halloween!

The Month of September

wow, the whole month went by and I didn't blog ONCE! how that happened, I'm not quite sure...but it flew by at quite a rapid rate! I'll recap best I can...

We spent Labor Day weekend out at Stinson Beach with friends who rented a house...FUN was had by all...and what a warm weekend it was out there...gorgeous...the kids were in the water for 2 days straight, and they learned to boogie board...even Meigan was riding the waves in...hilarious.....the adults sat and ate yummy food and drank wine on the beach and relaxed for 2 days...now, that is what I call a vacation!!!

after that, nothing much happened....Meigan wasn't in preschool until the 20th of Sept...then, that glorious day came, and off she went, lunchbox and all! She was so happy to start preschool again!!

We've been in soccer every weekend and Meigan has started gymnastics again every Tuesday.

Last weekend we headed up to Tahoe to do more cleaning out of the house (which isn't selling, by the way)...and it was CHILLY when we got up there Friday....well, by morning time...we had SNOW!!! and it was 28 degrees when we got up...the kids were so excited to see snow, and I thought "oh no, we have no snow clothes"...there was no snow in the forecast.....it was chilly, but it warmed up a bit in the afternoon and we went to an Oktoberfest at the Village at Squaw Valley where Catie and Meigan did kiddie bungee jumps, and Brian and I got a nice big stein of yummy beer! love those events that have something for everyone!!!

Pictures below capture the whole month of Sept...enjoy!!

Catie gets some air.....

Meig gets going....

all strapped in and ready to go!!

SNOW on September 29th????????????? yep....

All ready to go back to preschool....think she's excited???

surfer chick....she LOVED boogie boarding!!!

Catie became a pro....she was on that board for hours.....