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!!!!

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.  

Art Project....nOOdLes!

We dyed pastas and let Kade get to work...

Chef Kade

Kade has been saying that he wants to be a chef since he learned the word at age two.  Well, here is his latest work...

http://smashedpeasandcarrots.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-bake-energy-bites-recipe.html

YuMmY!!

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LoVe iT!

i know, i know

Okay, so it's been a while...6 months or so.  Sorry!  I don't know if anyone reads anyway, but I like having a way of updating everyone on the kiddos.  Can I use the move as an excuse?  What about that we didn't have internet in our apartment until November?  And THEN my power cord died and I didn't buy one until two days ago because it cost $80 and I couldn't justify the purchase.  Anyway, I'm back...

The latest news is that our baby boy is ONE!  He had a very warm and sunny Winter ONEderland birthday party at the community room and playground.

We had a great visit with Pap Pap this past week.

(Love you and miss you lots!)  

and we hung out by the pier

and Kade got a haircut

and a pic of River just to be fair.

I'm at work right now, so I should probably work, but I'll post more updates and pictures from San Diego soon.

Miss you all!

Love,

Bill, Jodie, Kade & River

Da' Burgh