Halloween - October 2012

Our traditional Halloween feast!
My kids LOVE mummy dogs!!

My Handsome Husband.

Summer (age 6) dressed as some kind of cute fluffy monster.
Ben (age 8) was dressed as a Ninja. 

And they're off!!  Time to fill their bags with candy.

Happy Halloween - 2012!!

Summer and Ben were so cute.  Ben loves trick or treating.
Summer loves the candy and dressing up but she gets nervous
knocking on doors.

We went all through the neighborhood for two hours.  We had
to stop by the house to drink water and empty out their bags to make
more room for candy.

And now for the best part - candy sorting and trading (after
mom takes a few of her favorites of course).

What a fun Halloween. The kids are at such a great age!

October 2012 - Indian Maidens Fall Camp - Catalina Island!

Summer and I are a part of Indian Maidens and have so much fun together.  There are 3 camps a year:  Fall Camp, Winter Camp, Spring Camp.  This year we were able to go to Catalina Island for Fall Camp - so exciting!!

Summer and Samanth on the ferry over to Catalina.  We stayed in tent cabins, had flush toilets, showers and all of our meals were prepared by the people who run the camp - this is my kind of camping!!!  And it is right on the beach!!

Our induction ceremony.  My good friends and I started our own tribe - we are the Shoshone Tribe.  It was fun to get to know all of the other tribes.

We went kayaking, snorkeling, swimming, and played in the surf.  It was such a great time!

October 2012 - Indian Maidens Fall Camp

We spent lots of time at the beach - the weather was awesome! 

Lots of fun in the surf and sand!

Summer and I had so much fun together - she was just so cute to hang out with.

Our cute little Shoshone Tribe - What a great experience!!

September 6, 2012 - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

First Day of School!!  And on Summer's birthday!  She turned 6 on her first day of FIRST GRADE!
Ben is in 2nd grade and both are at Eader Elementary 1 block from the beach!

Summer was very nervous and cried the first day - just briefly.  The 2nd day she cried even less and on the 3rd day she told me she wasn't scared anymore and was very brave and didn't cry.  Her teacher is Ms. Hart.

Ben is so easy going and was excited to meet his new teacher.  He gave me a hug and kiss, a big wave and he was good to go. He is such a sweetie.  His teacher is Ms. Vigor.