The Happiest Place on Earth

GUESS WHERE WE WENT???

The Happiest Place on Earth

Noah was pretty excited....that is why we go, right?!

{California Adventure}

{The carousel at California Adventure} {Main Street, USA}
{This is one of Noah's most favorite rides in the whole place: The Rockets}
{this is one of my favorite rides, Buzz Lightyear, but of course, I'm the photographer, so you get to see Grandpa & Grandma instead....they'll love me for this!} The funny, {or not so funny} part of the day, every ride we tried to go on broke down! First it was Pirates of the Caribbean, then it was the Haunted Mansion, next was Thundermountain...take a look as we had to walk out of this ride. It was actually kind of cool because you really got to see details of the ride, that you normally cannot see when you are flying past them. Plus, as a bonus they gave us a fastpass pass for up to 6 people. For those of you who are not familiar with a fastpass, it is another line at a ride that allows you quicker entry onto the ride. Usually you go to the ride, put your ticket in a fastpass machine, it will then give you a ticket telling you to come back to the ride between a certain time frame. Then you get access to the fastpass lane, which really cuts down your waiting time.

One of the fun things about going to Disneyland during the holidays is all of the really neat decorations. Halloween is a big holiday at the park now...next will be all the beautiful Christmas decorations. That is my favorite time to visit.

{The Haunted Mansion...decorated & changed to be The Nightmare Before Christmas}

What is a day at Disney without Disney treats.

This is actually dinner! I know, horrible, but it's not every day!!
After a lot of walking, heading back to the car, sounds pretty good!

We had a great time & were glad to spend it with Grandpa & Grandma. When we left the park, we drove Grandpa & Grandma to Los Angeles to stay at a hotel for the night before their flight home the next morning. We had a great time with them and were so happy that they came to visit. Noah is already talking about our trip to Ohio for Christmas, I think he's really hoping for snow!

The Peltzer Farms Pumpkin Patch

We have some fun visitors that arrived Thursday afternoon....someone was very excited about these people coming.......GRANDMA JUDI & GRANDPA DICK

They came to visit and play with Noah & to see him in our primary childrens program on Sunday. We are planning on having a lot of fun!

Today we went to The Peltzer Farms Pumpkin Patch. We went early in the day because the weather this week has been HOT. It was in the mid 90's & that makes for a hot day when you are out in the sun. We also wanted to beat the crowds...and this is one popular place to visit during October.
Noah really loved all the pumpkins everywhere....he just kept going from one to the next saying it was the perfect "punkin"

Now, there are a lot of pictures on this post. But they were cute pictures & we wanted to post all of them.

{ Noah & his Mommy}

{Noah & Grandma Judi}

{Noah & Grandpa Dick...there were smiles from both of them, just not caught on film}

One of the highlights of the day.......... Taking a ride on Nippster the pony!! Noah was so excited to ride a pony. This was the first time ever being on a horse. He immediately had a grin from ear to ear...and they hadn't even started moving yet!

On one of his times passing me, he said, "Mom, look at me, I'm a real cowboy!"

Then we were off for a quick ride on the Peltzer Railroad....and quick it was! But Noah has a love for trains & this was something he definitely wanted to do.

{riding with two of his favorite people!}

For some reason, Noah LOVES goats! I know it's crazy....but he LOVES to pet them, feed them, talk to them. He is so funny. It takes some serious talking to get him out of the petting zoos.

{I think he's breaking the news to this poor turkey, that in a few weeks he will be sitting on our dinner table!}

{using those strong muscles!}

Picking out the perfect pumpkin....he wanted to go straight home & carve this huge thing...luckily we've put that project off for a couple more days.

We had a fun time at the Pumpkin Patch. We left there & headed to Old Town Temecula, for some shopping {Grandpa - the coin store & Grandma - the quilt store}, then we had a yummy lunch at a mexican restaurant & then off to take a nap at home.

We had a great day!

Clifford the BIG Red Dog....

Clifford had a full weekend at our house....but one of his last meals needed to be a BIG meal because you know he is CLIFFORD the BIG RED DOG...

Would this categorize as BIG???

Can you believe the size of this thing? Crazy. He wasn't even able to eat almost half of it. He had to take it apart to eat it. The second part was lunch for the next two days.

Noah & Clifford at this BIG pizza....with Noah's favorite topping PINEAPPLE.

Then.....because this was such a special occasion....Noah & Clifford shared this BIG cookie

Clifford will be going back to school on Monday....but he's had a BIG fun weekend at our house. Noah will be sad to see him go.

When I Count My Blessings, I Count You Twice

I know this post title could mean a lot of things, because I do have a lot of blessings {that I am very thankful for}, but this post is about how we have been working on our bedroom & I took some pictures of our last attempt at completing our lovely room. We bought these really cool large square frames at Ikea about 4 months ago & they have been sitting. We decided that we were going to finally hang them up. So, we measured, measured, nailed & voila.....they are hung, pictures are in them & I finally got to use my vinyl saying that I ordered earlier this year.

These two are definitely blessings to me....and now I can look at them everyday!

WHO DONE IT???!?!?!?!

We are part of a Dinner Group that meets once a month. There are 12 couples that make up the group...but not every couple can make it each month. This was actually the first one we were able to attend. We had such a fun evening.

WHO DONE IT?!?!?!?! Tonights dinner in honor of Halloween was a MURDER MYSTERY...AND costume was required {Scott was thrilled}. We were assigned our character & suggestions for a costume.

So we are pleased to introduce you to Heidi Evidence & Ed Lines. Heidi Evidence is a Swiss Bank Clerk...a girl with freckles & pigtails. hmmmm......I instead went for a different look. So, I had my banker glasses, my red jacket {for the swiss part} and my bank name tag. Now, for Ed Lines. He is a reporter for the New York Times....a reporter who is always ready with his notebook & pen, waiting in the shadows for the next headline. He had a great time & I had to add a few pointers in his outfit. He was making me laugh....really laugh. It was pretty funny. I think the socks is what did it for me! I cannot remember everyone's names....so here are a few snapshots of the evening.....

Doesn't she look innocent? Well she's not....she's a MURDERER! She was the killer. Kiki De Legs....she's a can can dancer with a pair of great legs....
Everyone had such a fun time...some people were really into their characters. We tried our best. Scott was pretty good at it. Me, not as much, but I had fun doing it. We have a good group of friends & getting together outside of our normal lives for a night of conversation & food is always a great night!

Please meet our newest family member....

We are happy to introduce you to our newest family member {at least for 4 days}. Someone is very excited about this new addition....Clifford the Big Red Dog...in this case, little red dog!

Here are Noah's little friends....in order Clifford, Bolt, Baby Jaguar & Millie.

These little friends do a lot with our little man....Millie has been around since BEFORE Noah was born...he named her one day {after a visit to Grandma Judi's...could it be because she has a cat named Millie??} Baby Jaguar was named after a marathon Go Diego Go.....Bolt, well no explanation is necessary on that one {his name tag says so!}....then CLIFFORD!!!

Noah's teacher, Ms. Melissa, LOVES Clifford! There are little, medium & big Cliffords all around her classroom. Once a week, one child is picked to take Clifford home for the weekend. He has his own special little box & he gets to experience "your life" for 3 whole days. By mistake the box was given to Noah today, so he gets 4 WHOLE days!!! You could not believe how excited he was when I went to pick him up. He was a great little man today, well......except for the incident where I found him standing on the bathroom counter peeing into the toilet.....WAS not happy about that. He said he was just washing his hands....ANYWAYS...that was way off the subject!!! So Clifford gets to hang out with Noah, we will take more pictures, we have to write in the Class Clifford Journal & we will return him to school on Monday morning. Noah is a little concerned about the whole returning process.

{Clifford, please be nice to my fish.....we have a hard enough time keeping them alive!}
{Clifford going to the mailbox & carrying it back to the house}

{Stay tuned to see what exciting adventures await all of us during the next 4 days!!}