a hippie and a historian: October 2011

10.30.2011

Cuties

Sometimes these boys are a little too crazy for this mama, but some days they are just too cute...

Me: "I love you"
Kade: "I love you 159, or maybe as big as that tree. That tree is pretty big, and 100 is really big."

We usually don't have the music on in the car, but today we heard Adele several times and I heard a small voice (Kade) in the back trying to sing it!

We turned River's car seat to front facing yesterday and he LOVES it. He keeps looking around at everything and saying "Hello Mama, Hello Dada, Hello Kade. I love you."

And, the boys were holding hands.

I can't think of everything else right now, but I'll share more later.

10.27.2011

Family Time

Play this song while you check out our pictures!!

Rivvie going to school

Bill and Kade bought Mama flowers from the Farmers' Market

New desk, took us 3 hours to assemble...<3 ikea

The boys teaching Mama the art of paper airplanes

Tea time with Mama and Kade

10.23.2011

It's that time of year...

10.19.2011

Date Night

Hubs and I have finally started having a date night this past year. I owe my friend Melissa a BIG BIG thank you for starting this for us. She said that I needed a night with my hubs and would babysit for FREE Sunday nights. I would pretend like I didn't expect it, because it was too good to be true. Then, every Sunday she would text me and say "what time should I come over?"! She moved away to grad school, so now we have date day on Thursday while the boys are in preschool. We try to keep the dates original and low cost. So far we have used our passes to go to Sea World, had a YUMMMYY Ethiopian lunch, walks on the beach, used Groupons for lunches, Brunch date, cleaned (yes, but it was together)...and this week we are going to Ikea and Lowes. That may not sound exciting, but we are getting stuff for our garden and a new desk, since both of us work from home. It will be so great to do this WITHOUT the kids...they HATE shopping (even thougth we aren't allowed to say hate in our house, lol). We also watch "our shows" once a week or a movie while folding laundry and sharing snacks...so cute.

So, if you are married, I pray you get to have a date night/day!!!!

10.15.2011

Pumpkin Patch 2011

FAIL...

Well, partial fail...We did get pumpkins. We are not yet used to SoCal weather and were hoping for something a little more seasonal. Well, it was HOT at Bates Nut Farm and the boys were GRUMPY! We got a few pictures in the short two hours we spent there. The one smart thing we did was to go EARLY in the morning before the crowd showed up.