Oak Glen and Ice House Canyon

From our recent trips to Oak Glen and Ice house Canyon:

Election Day

Got this shirt as a hand-me-down from my nephew Will and there wasn’t a better day to wear it than today.

We’re just glad not to have anymore “Don’t vote for my opponent because…” ads.

Halloween

Had a fun, eventful Halloween weekend.

Kicked it off early with a visit to Disneyland. Made sure to hit Pirates and the Haunted Mansion for some spooky Halloween fun, complete with Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Halloween shirt (for the baby, obviously).

Liam could not get enough of Winnie the Pooh. I’ve never seen him so happy.

    The ward party/Trunk or Treat was on Friday. Liam was a “Snugglesaurus” and I was a car crash victim since I had already sprained my wrist.  You can’t tell in the picture, but I have tire tracks on my pants and an “I Love Insurance” (like Flo).

We were debating about dressing Liam up as either a nerd, a rocker,

a track star (note the Nike),

The Flash,

 

or a dog,

but his dino jammies came with feet and a hat, so that won out this year. Luckily, we have years ahead of us in which to spend ridiculous amounts of money on a costume for one day of candy hunting.

Steve declined to dress up, even though I brought him duct tape and a pocket knife so he could be “McGuyver”. But Steve’s friend Dave got him in the holiday spirit and convinced him to dress up as the “Dharma Initiative”, complete with “Dharma Cola” for their work party on Saturday.

  

And for Sunday dinner, we had blood, guts, bones, and eyeballs.  It was fun for all (especially the dogs, who were more than happy to clean up after the baby).

Not very many trick or treaters, though we did have WAY TOO MANY adults/teenagers begging for candy. Next year, we’ll have to get stricter on them.

A Lame Excuse for the Lack of Posts

We’ve been busy.

Spent a weekend in St. George, with Liam screaming and waking up every few hours like he was a newborn.  When 3:45 rolled around, and my alarm went off, It felt like I had just fallen asleep (thought I actually did get to, thanks to my sweet husband staying up with the vacation-hating baby). Luckily, the perk of being awake early in the morning is the view.

I ran about 6 miles and found a volcano (and 20 more miles) that decided to make me question my love/hate relationship with The Marathon. We’ve decided to start seeing other people for the next year.  Non-marathon people. We’ll see if I get in next year.

I felt like I should have been fast enough to finish the marathon in time to watch conference.

I wasn’t.

But we did have lots of fun with Steve and his parents.

And after the trip with The Trip-Loathing Son, we still decided to fly up to Utah the next weekend for Kristi’s Wedding.

One of the first times we have gotten to go to the temple since this guy was born (since we still haven’t sorted out the whole babysitting thing in our new place).  It was nice.

Lots of trips and milestones.

Take the weekend of the St. George Marathon, for example.  The day we were planning to leave, I woke up to William doing this in his crib:

A trip to the pumpkin patch turned mildly disappointing, but made for some nice holiday photos.

                   We’ve had numerous Adventures in Eating.

As you can see, Liam can now feed himself (and is almost done with baby food).

And he FINALLY learned to crawl (for real).  He’s still slow.

And still cute (as if you ever doubted).

Eat More Tacos

Some pictures of our recent trek downtown to Olvera Street

We especially enjoyed the world’s greatest taquitos at Cielito Lindo.