The Christmas season

 This time of year is always busy, and this year was no exception.  Logan was off from school the whole month of December, which made it hard for me to go shopping, but we were able to do some fun things together.  We went to a movie, saw Santa, baked cookies, and spent alot of time with family.  This time of year is so special, especially when you get to share it with your children!

annual pajama party with the Vincents

ready to make the gingerbread house

Christmas Eve service at Church

Logan ready for Santa to come

look at what Santa brought

Thanksgiving 2010

Ths hosts, holding a gigantic bottle of wine

 This year for Thanksgiving, we went over to my sister's house.  My mom and Stan were able to come up from Las Vegas to spend some time up here since Stan had finished his first round of chemo and had a week or two off before having to start radiation.  The dinner was great, and I love spending time with my family!

cute cousins

Another year older

Sawyer turned four on November 8



Logan turned seven on October 29

Both Logan and Sawyer have had a birthday and are now seven and four years old!  I can remember the days they were born like it was yesterday, every detail and moment, and hope that I will never forget.  The years are just flying by, and although I love seeing them grow up and learn new things, I get sad every year because I realize they are growing up and you only get to do this once and I need to hold onto every moment and memory so that years down the road I will remember what it was like when they were young.  This year, I had a combined birthday party for both of them at Classic Fun Center, where they enjoyed riding scooters, climbing and jumping on the blowups, and shooting balls at each other.  They had so much fun with their family and friends, and received tons of new toys to play with.  Happy Birthday boys, I love you both so much!!!

Halloween

"Optimus Prime"

"Skate Punk Zombie"

 Halloween this year included a party and parade at school, trick-or treating in the rain, and a fun get-together with friends afterwards at our house!  This was the first year that I didn't go out with the boys, but I must admit I enjoyed passing out all the candy with Enzo and looking at all the creative and cute costumes the kids had on.   Because of the weather, the boys didn't go out for as long as they usually do, which is a good thing because I usually end up throwing most of their candy away.  Sawyer loved being Optimus Prime, and actually wore his costume daily the week prior to Halloween, so much so that I bought him a Bumblebee costume for his birthday.  Logan loves being anything scary, and I agreed to let him be a skate pumk zombie, the least scary/gory/evil costume I could find that he liked also.  We all had fun Halloween night after trick-or-treating dancing to Wii Dance with our neighbors and friends.  The "sugar" kept everyone going for hours!  

October 2010 Slideshow

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Pumpkin Patch

I love going to the pumpkin patch with the boys to pick out their pumpkins.  The place we go to has tractors for the boys to climb on, a corn maze, and of course hundreds of pumpkins to choose from.  This year I chose some unusual pumpkins, one is all white (for Enzo),and one has what looks like warts all over it (for Anthony), and I even found an all green/gray one which Logan wanted.   This is such a fun tradition, our third year going, and I look forward to it every year!

BMX Redline Cup Race

   

We all went down to Las Vegas last week so Logan could compete in his first big race, the Redline Cup Championship.  Unfortunately, the whole family came down with a bad cold and cough the whole week, including Logan who gets asthma when he is sick and can't breath~it's terrible when you're trying to compete and you need to use your inhaler before each race!  The first day he raced against 45 other six-year old intermediates and was able to finish fourth!  The following day, he made it to the semi's where the first four would make it to the finals, and he finished fifth~right behind the fourth place kid!  He was so upset and disappointed, but we were so proud of him for accomplishing what he did because there were kids from all over the country there and the competition was fierce.  He gave it his all, and even though he didn't feel well he never gave up.  It was a great experience for all of us and we're looking forward to starting our indoor bmx season next week.  The best part of being down in Vegas was we were able to spend a little time with Gma and Gpa K who we haven't seen in months.  Gpa looked so good, after having a major surgery in June where they removed a thirty pound tumor from his abdomen, and he is currently receiving chemo treatments weekly.  Poor Logan had to wear a mask so that Gpa wouldn't catch his cold.  The boys love it at their house, and are definitely spoiled when they are there.  We were also able to "run into" the Vincents who were on their way to Disneyland.  The boys were so surprised to see them and they all had fun running around the MGM and M&M factory on the strip.  We had a fun week, but it was so nice to be back home and back into the routine of our lives!