Halloween Weekend..

We started the weekend by getting Taylor and her cousin Ethan out of school a little early so that Jill and I could take the kids to Sea World. I love that place! Then the next day we went to a Scooby Doo Haunted House with my mom and sister Jill. After we left the Haunted House we went over to Scripps Ranch where they were giving away free candy in all of their stores which the kids loved! We then headed over to our Trunk-or-treat! We had a VERY busy day getting candy and more and more candy!
My mother-in-law went to Spain and bought these dresses and she let me borrow them for their halloween costumes. I decided to use the same hair things that the girls used last year when they were Mulan. This is Olivia, she really wanted her picture taken by herself.
Taylor also wanted a picture, I couldn't get Grace to take a picture!
The whole gang, minus my mom, she's taking the picture!

Merrick's Bday

It has been over a month since I posted but it's because we have been soo incredibly busy! We just moved into our house last Saturday and then my family came over last night to celebrate my nieces birthday. It was actually a really good thing too because it made Robert and I get soooo much done around the house. It was really fun to have everyone together!! Happy Birthday Merrick!

Grace and Olivia in Preschool

This Girl...and This Girl...
had their first day of preschool and loved it! I can't even believe it, they were so scared to go and now they look forward to going! It's such a cute little school and thankfully they have each other since they know no one yet!

What we've been up to...

Grace and Olivia set up all of their toys to watch them have their "dance party"!
We have my sister's kids with us while she is in Utah shopping, shopping, and shopping! (how fun!) They decided to build a fort, it was so cute! We've had so much fun with them here!

Taylor's First day of school....

So Taylor started first grade today! She was so happy last night to meet new people until we went to school this morning. Hopefully she'll have a good day today. Everyone told me she had the teacher that all the mom's try and get their kids in, so that's good! She has her cousin Ethan who is in Second grade going to the same school as her too which she was pretty excited about. We'll see what she has to say when she gets home from school...it seems like a great school though and everyone is so friendly!

Date night (sort of)

So we finally moved down to San Elijo Hills, San Marcos but not into a house yet. We are still waiting (patiently...kindof) to hear about the short sale house that we have an offer on. So now we are in a 3 bedroom apartment. We have our cousin Baily visiting us for a few days and Rob and I have been so stressed out so I decided to sort of make tonight a date night. :) I made fruit with dip, taco soup and chocolate chip brownies. I had Taylor and Bailey write the menu and a sign that said "please wait to be seated" for Rob when he came home from work. The girls got so excited to help out and it was really fun and gave us an excuse to sit down and talk. It was nice to have the girls serve us (even though of course I had to make the entire dinner)! Hopefully we'll have an update soon about our house.
ps. We REALLY miss orange county and our friends soo very much! :(

A wedding reception

We went to a wedding reception this last weekend and it was a lot of fun seeing people we haven't seen for over 5 years. (of course I don't have any pictures of any one at the reception except for my family...kind of embarrassing!) With all of the pictures we took you would have thought we were the ones celebrating something that night! :)