Family Vacation

In October we were able to take a family vacation, and where else would we go but Disneyland?  It's our favorite place and it was fun this year because the boys were actually big enough to go on all of the rides.  They even went on Space Mountain.  I had to drag Mason on the ride with him crying.  I put him in the seat and buckled him really quickly.  Well, he ended up LOVING it.  Archie on the other hand, was trying really hard to smile when it was over, but he burst into tears!  Poor kid.  We bought him a churro, and all was forgiven.  On the way home from Disneyland, we stopped at my sister's house in Santa Cruz.  It was a perfect little vacation!

Archie was a little mad that he couldn't "drive" first.

This really cool park was by my sister's house.  We spent a few good hours there.

This slide was built into this big hill and it went super fast!

Random Fun

In September, Mason got a tooth knocked out at school when a kid was swinging his lunch box around.  They couldn't find his tooth because he lost it in the gravel pit.  This picture was taken before picture day.  I told the boys to show me how they would smile for the picture and this is what they did.  Silly boys. :)

We live in the middle of lots of very tall pine trees, so our roof and rain gutters get FULL of pine needles.  Max has to get up on the roof and clean them all off.  The boys were helping to keep the deck clean while Max was dropping the needles down.

In September my brother's baby, Ruby was born.  We finally got to meet her in October and the boys fell in love with their new cousin. 

He's going to be such a good big brother!

Mason loves to use my camera.  Whenever I upload the pictures there are always a bunch of selfies. :)

Bishop's Pumpkin Patch

I realize I'm way behind on the blog posts, so I will be doing my best in the next couple of days to catch up. :)  We went to Bishop's Pumpkin Patch in early October for a friend's birthday party.  The boys had a lot of fun petting animals, going on a hay ride, and picking pumpkins off the vine.  This pumpkin patch has so much to do, it would take all day to do it all.  Unfortunately, it started raining really hard when we had only been there a couple of hours, so we didn't get to do it all.  Oh well, there's always next year.

Under this hay was a trampoline.  The boys loved it!

The reason for the big smile?  He found a big, hairy caterpillar!

They weren't even interested in picking a pumpkin once they found that caterpillar.