Once Upon a Time...

Once Upon a Time we took some family pictures at The Orange Patch in Mesa... ...and brought along our pups for a few (since they are apart of our lil' fam of course)

Now I just need to pick some for 1. Christmas Cards and 2. A blown-up family pic for our soon-to-be California home

P.S. I LOVED how our pictures turned out...thank you Alissa! Check out alissamelodyphotography.com

SpookyWeekend.:.Halloween2010

Have I mentioned how much I love this time of year? The smells, the weather, the fall decor: everything! October came and went so fast...but an eventful one it was. We spent our last weekend in October with some fun Halloween activities:

We went to the AZ Scream Park with Em & Levi.:.Very entertaining and sometimes spooky

Me and my bestie

The next night we went to Jimmy Eat World's HALLOWEEN SHOW

Everything about it was amazing and we loved being front and almost-center


We celebrated Halloween at home.:.We made an entire day of it.:.the perfect Halloween!

We decorated Halloween sugar cookies

We had yummy Taco Soup

We carved more pumpkins

Owen's Skeleton.:.Alyssa's Spider

The Trick-Or-Treaters Welcoming Committee
Lily the Pirate.:.Jade the Witch.:.Jax the Bat

Yummy Candy

I loved doing ALL of the fun Halloween traditions with Owen this year

In other non-Halloween news...we FINALLY found out from Owen's work where we will be relocated too.....

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SAN FRANCISCO HERE WE COME!

(not until after the holidays though)

October Fun

This past week was a busy one for us (or me...since Owen was gone for work during a lot of it). Owen's parents were in town for a whole week so had fun activities planned for almost every night.

It all started with Owen's Great-Grandma Watkins' 100th Birthday Party! Can you believe she is 100!? She looked great and we had fun seeing all sorts of family at the party.

This is when Owen disappears from pictures since he is out of town.:sad:.

There were a few birthdays to celebrate this week. This is Kennedy's 1st Birthday Party that Nate and Steph had. LOVED the giant cupcake...so cute!

Ashley and Zach get married next month so she had bridal shower #1

Ashlyn turned 8 and got baptized! I haven't been to a baptism in forever so it was nice to go to one again. Ashlyn was beautiful...and so was the program.

Owen's BFF, Rob Wick, and Courtney got married on Friday. Owen was able to fly in and make it to the end of the reception. We are happy to have more married friends to add to the group!

Owen and I went to Hillary and Courtney's FAB Halloween Party. They had the cutest decorations and festive games. Could you expect anything less from them? I love Halloween time!
Can you tell what our costumes are?
Hint: Toystory

The Party Hostess'

Ashley Wick's Bridal Shower #2/Bachelorette Party

We ended the weekend with some more Halloween Fun. We had some friends over for a fire, treats and pumpkin carving.

The boys playing Smash Bros

Some of the girls

Our finished pumpkins!

Next up for this weekend: Haunted House, Jimmy Eat World concert, Trunk-Or-Treat and HALLOWEEN!! I can't wait for the hubby to get back on Friday to start another busy weekend. I love this time of the year!

Weekend in the Woods

This past weekend we headed up to the mountains for a quick camping trip with some friends. I LOVE camping and it was our first camping trip ever together so it was an exciting mini-trip. We even brought our dogs along for the adventure.

My mountain man

The puppies enjoying our camping adventure. They did pretty good at staying near our campground...only disappearing for a long time once. Poor Owen was worried sick that they were gone forever.

Making our mini cooking fire

Nothing is better than a BIG, warm campfire

Eating our dinner (tin foil dinners)

Puppies staying warm around the fire

The stars are amazing in the woods!

Some of the group the next morning:

We will have to continue our camping adventures next summer since fall/winter is here and it's a bit cold to camp. We were glad to at least fit in one quick trip.