The Brown’s: 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Pumpkins, Pizza & Caramel Apples

So last night, Troy and I decided to have a fun filled night of pizza, pumpkin carving and caramel apple making.....We had a great time and the kids attention span lasted longer than we thought they would. We started the night with a Papa Murphy's "pumpkin shaped" pepperoni pizza - this was a huge hit with the kids (definitely a tradition we will start if Papa Murphy's keeps it up)! After the pizza, we got started on the caramel apples and pumpkin carving. The caramel apples were made pretty quick, BUT pumpkin carving just isn't what it used to be when I was little.....it used to consist of two triangles for the eyes, one for the nose and a mouth with a couple of square teeth (one always on top, and one always on the bottom)....20 minutes and you were done! Well after 20 minutes, we decided what "designs" we were going to do on each pumpkin (4 total) and got the designs taped to the pumpkins......2 hours later, Troy was finishing the last details on the FINAL pumpkin and we had both about had it! The kids had fun pulling out the pumpkin "guts", but kept asking when they were going to be done.....they were each proud of their pumpkin and loved it when we lit them up as the grand finale!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Miscellaneous Summer Fun 2009

With summer ending and fall quickly on it's way, I realized that I have not posted some of our summer day-to-day fun! We have spent endless hours at parks, riding bikes, playing with cousins and friends, late night walks to get frozen yogurt from Maverik, Thrillin' Thursdays, late night movies on the tramp with dad, and eating endless amounts of otter pops and capri suns! Here are some of our pic's in no particular order....

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Oceanside California - 2009

I am definitely the biggest blog procrastinator! This post has been on my list of things to do since the day we got home (September 19th)....so here goes.....

This year our big family trip was to a beach house in Oceanside California for 1 week! We flew out early on a Saturday morning and came home late in the afternoon on the following Saturday. We had a total blast - here was our agenda:

Saturday: Arrive, Go straight to Legoland

Sunday: Beach

Monday: Beach

Tuesday: Disneyland - Carson's favorite ride - TOWER OF TERROR (he is only 3 and barely tall enough to ride, but loved every minute of it)...Grace's favorite rides - Matterhorn and Soarin'!!!

Wednesday: Beach

Thursday: Beach

Friday: Farmers Market in the am, Beach rest of day

Saturday: Pack, clean and cry as real life starts to settle back in....fly home.

As you can see, we didn't do a lot except for sit and eat! I feel like I ate and ate and ATE....good thing I am pregnant so I could blame my hand to mouth problem on "eating for two"!!! The kids had a total blast living in their swimsuits, playing with cousins and hanging out on the beach! Since we have been home, both Grace and Carson have asked me several times when we are going back to the beach! I was a little nervous wondering how Chloe would be, but she was AMAZING!!! She napped regularly, hung out in her stroller on the beach and the few times we let her down.....she headed straight for the ocean and LOVED every minute of it! You will see from some of the pic's below, she would have no problem being a California-girl! It was so fun to go with family and friends so our kids would entertain each other and we had the opportunity to spend time with family and create memories together. I hope we can make this work for next year....with baby #4 coming the end of January.....I don't know how "relaxing next year would be".....we are going to TRY, TRY, TRY to make it work next year......we'll see.....here are some pic's from our trip: