It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

The holiday season has been of course CRAZY!! However, my holiday decorating is done...thanks to the Holiday House Tour. Yes that's right, I being the crazy lady that I am agreed to have my house on the Holiday House Tour which was the weekend after my last week of school. So, I was a little busy this last week. However, everything is done and over, I completed my final assignment on Friday and by Saturday my house was clean and decked out for Christmas. The house looks great. We ended up with three trees. It's kind of a funny story. We have been going to this place called Wiley's tree farm where you cut your own tree. I have to admit they are not the prettiest trees (I prefer Nobles)however, the kids have a lot of fun when we go. Mr. Wiley is very nice, he gives the kids tractor rides, hot chocolate and best of all they get to cut down their own tree. This year I wanted a noble tree because it would be prettier. Well the kids weren't having any of that, they wanted to go to Wiley's. So, we made a compromise, I would get a Noble for downstairs and they would get their Wiley tree for upstairs. Then they thought it would be fun to make their tree a John Deere tree. However, when we got the tree home it was too bushy and it had ants (yikes). So, we put clear lights on it and put it out on Sydney's balcony. Problem solved right? Wrong..they still wanted to have their John Deere tree (we couldn't put ornaments on the tree outside because of the wind). A friend gave us her old fake tree and ta-da we had three trees and everyone was happy. The John Deere tree was a big hit on the tour. I'm sure this has started a new tradition of having a "kids" tree upstairs. Aubree already has plans for a pink princess tree.

Halloween Fun

We did the usual carving of the pumpkins. Of course Aubree thought she could do it all by herself. She did most of the work except for the carving. She drived right in and cleaned it, didn't get grossed out at all. It took me a while to come up with a costume idea for Liam, since his idea was to be a center pivot (don't ask)and get this...Aubree could be his booster (it's a farming thing). Finally, I thought since Aubree was going to be "Dorothy" he could be "Scarecrow". Sydney wasn't going to dress up...you know she is too cool for that now. However, a friend of ours had a good idea that she and her cousin Brooke could be beauty pagent queens. Brooke was "Miss Beverly Ct." and Sydney was "Miss Spreckels Rd." So, that was settled. We went trick-or-treating then ended the night at our friends house for a Halloween party.

A Lot of Catching Up to Do!

Well, on Friday the 12th I completed the CalStateTEACH program and now have my teaching credential. I am already enjoying my newfound free time. So, needless to say the story of my life for the past three months has been that I have had little time to do anything other than work, take care of family, and school. Even though it is December I am posting stories and pictures as far back as our trip to Borchard Farms to get pumpkins. Jennifer and I found this place when we first moved to King City and it began sort of a little tradition for us. Borchard Farms is just outside of Salinas and they have every kind of pumpkin, gord, and squash you can imagine. This of course includes the GIANT pumpkins. The kids love it and we always have a lot of fun. This year we went during the giant pumpkin weigh off. They had a haunted house, corn maze, and jump house. Lots of fun for all.