Halloween 2011

Lots of fun and LOTS of candy. We hope you guys had a wonderful Halloween, too.

Loving these beach days

KIDS + BEACH = ONE HAPPY DAY

Canalino Jog-A-Thon

Merrick's school did a jog-a-thon on Oct. 14th to raise money for their school. Merrick ran/walked the whole 45min. Grandma Donovan, Leia and I were there to cheer him on and give him lots of high fives. We are so proud of him.

Leia trying baby food

We've started giving Leia baby foods and as you can see she reallly loves it (joking). She doesn't seem to like anything I give her. So far I've tried rice cereal, applesauce, bananas, avocados, mashed potatoes and a few other things. The only thing she really likes is ice cream but who doesn't right. Whenever the boys eat fudgecicles around her she attacks them. I'm sure she'll come around soon enough.

Family Pictures 2011

Kindergarten

Merrick started Kindergarten this year at Canalino Elementary School in Carpinteria, California. He has Mrs. Keturi and she is the SWEETEST teacher I have ever met. She has a piano and a guitar in her class and uses music as a form of teaching. Merrick has just barely started making friends with some of the kids in his class ( Miguel and Isaac) and I am so glad because for a while I thought he was going to boycott all things Kindergarten, he really misses his friends in New York, so do I :0(

Mafia Car

This little beauty is the car we're driving these days. It was a hand me down to Sean's parents and so when family comes into town this is the car they get to drive. It's suppppperr long and the trunk is humongous. We joke about it being a mob car.

Sean hates it but I told him that maybe with a car wash it might not look so bad.

Here it is with a car wash. DRAMATIC difference, I know.