pumpkins

sharing this simple holiday card. now that halloween is over, i need to get cracking on holiday cards.

i had these halloween/fall pics loaded on blogger but never finished the post. and i'd have half the photos uploaded here and the rest, would come up with an error message on blogger....anyone else? so frustrating.

we were in SF this past weekend celebrating my niece's 1st birthday. she is SUCH a doll!! took tons of pictures of that cutie and will share some party pics and the boys in their halloween costumes.there were some gorgeous pumpkins!

i like the ugly, bumpy ones and i came home with one.

their choices

which pumkins do we want to take home????

some halloween cards i never got around to posting BEFORE halloween!

silly boys! happy fall! and thanks for stopping by!

bored

sharing 2 pics of the boys from the pumpkin patch last week. one minute, i get a nice photo of the 2 and the next, they break out in silly ugly faces! gotta love boys!

i'm not feeling good today. woke up alright but as i was getting ready to take brandon to school, i began to feel nauseaous and green. my hands were shaky and my stomach was hurting. luckily, the mom i walk with in the mornings to school took brandon today so i could rest. i am in bed, blurffing and browsing. unfortunately, i have bryan in front of the tv which is a treat for him. i don't usually let him watch massive amounts of tv but he's enjoying scooby doo and i'm enjoying not having to move around too much.

saw this on my friend, amy's blog and going to play. feel free to copy & paste and answer them on your blog too.

1. Name your favorite color?
Gray
2. Name your favorite song?

anything robin thicke and glee songs
3. Name your favorite dessert?
sprinkle's chocolate marshmallow cupcake
4. What ticks you off at the moment?
whining
5. Your favorite pet?
my siberian husky
6. Black or white?
black
7. Your biggest fear?
ski lifts
8. Best feature?
i'm considerate
9. Everyday attitude?
make the most of the day
10. What is perfection?
health & happiness
11. Guilty pleasure?
haagen daaz ice cream bars
12. When you're upset you...?

take a nap & sleep it off

have a great weekend!

sushi...for 17

"hi, we're here for sushi. oh, and we'll need a table for 17!!"

luckily, it's our usual sushi place and we had asked them earlier in the week to save us a table for 17! brandon was talking to his soccer coach about having sushi one night and he joined us along w/ his beautiful 2 boys (J & J) AND 2 additional soccer families! what a fun night!

coach M---a big kid at heart! we got very lucky that brandon was put on coach M's team. great motivator but keeps it fun on the field for the boys!

and coach M's wife, H. she helps out a lot of the field! our 2 boys and their 2 boys are the same age. he also coaches the younger son's team and if i had known, i would have switched bryan to that team to make games and practices easier! they have J & J and we have B & B. LOL

another 2 boys on the team. brandon & bryan had a blast. so "special" going to dinner with your coach!

power outage

what to do when the power is out at your work? you get sent home after 2 hours. so i had free time before picking up brandon from school to make this. not sure if i'll have to go back in work (hoping not to ;). hard to think winter in 80* weather!

made this for the challenges here & here. thanks for stopping by!

happy 7th birthday brandon!!

i cannot believe i have a 7 year old! happy birthday brandon!we celebrated on sunday by going to legoland----his choice! they had their brick or treat event going on. love all the halloween decorations!

bryan at the water blaster getting ready to soak brandon & daddy. he did not want to go on it (or any rides that involves water) because he didn't want to get wet!

having a blast!

f0r once, i got good pictures of the boys. they actually cooperated all day!

brandon pretending to be scaredthe boys on the far right 3 lanes

brybry's face still a bit black & blue

treat stations

cool lego bat

lots of legos here!

brandon's best zombie impression

R2D2

wookies

love this:

i feel a bit guilty for not throwing him a party. but, he didn't ask for one and he had fun at legoland. win win.

don't forget to leave a comment here for a free facial treatment.

lesson learned--the hard way

don't forget to check my post here for a facial treatment giveaway!





here is a LO from a picture taken last new year's eve. we were all freezing!!
our weekends are spent taking the boys somewhere fun and educational....either a hike at a national park or museums or aquariums. one weeend, we went to the aquarium.

hello, mr. sea turtle! i think it is more educational for us and fun for them!another weekend, we went to the national history museum to check out their new dinosaur exibit.

interesting fact: rarely on digs do they find the whole dinosaur fossil so they often piece together a skeleton from 3-5 dinosaurs to make a whole skeleton. so it takes years and years and a lot of catologging each bone! gotta appreciate all the hard work!

they boys had fun!

a big hit in our house for the past year---lego mini figures. bryan loves to separate out the body parts. heads, bodies, hair, weapons, acessories. they also hurt a whole lot when you step on lego pieces!

so, this little bad boy learned a lesson the hard way. don't ever try to squeeze through someone while running. that's what he tried to do one night and he didn't make it. he crashed right into a raised stone planter--WITH HIS FACE!!!!! he was crying so loud and hard...i scooped him up right away and carried him to the car. we scolded him all the way home. when we took him out of his car seat once we got home, we asked him where his shoe was and he didn't answer. so we asked him again and he said, "i dunno". we looked all over in the car and figured out, he lost his shoe when he fell. sooooooo, we took the 20 minute car ride BACK to where we were to look for it. we asked him why didn't he tell us sooner that his shoe was missing. and he said, "because you were already mad at me".

didn't look so bad the 1st day. we iced it. he was scraped up a little on his cheek and arm.

starting to get more swollen. this was after our soccer games getting some grub. (anyone know where we were?) the soccer parents probably think we beat our kids.

starting to get swollen as you can see from his right eye.

gettin shades of green, yellow, blue & purple. shall we have a color challenge to honor this bad boy?! LOL i didn't realize it when he first fell but the bruising went all the way alongside the eye socket around the right side of his nose. he is SO lucky he didn't break any bones!

it's finally starting to look better after the 10th day. now, it just looks like dirt on his face. i hope he had learned a real painful lesson from this. but something tells me, boys will be boys!

treated myself & a giveaway!

i had the opportunity to get a treatment at deborah demarco skin skin in orange, ca on 9/23. and boy, did i ever need a treat for myself! hubby was gone all week on a business trip to wisconsin and i was left to "man" the fort. we had soccer practice and 2nd grade homework also started and in full force! a sample of their spelling words: immigrate, mixture, community, kitchen. i don't remember having to know those words when i was 6 years old! anyways, homework was a challenge that week for the both of us. i'll have a question from his math HW in the end to see who can figure it out ;)

my visit with deborah was wonderful! i had such a relaxing treatment! she started our session off with a series of questions. she got a feel of what i needed and tailored a facial for me. i loved that she told me what was going on in each step and what she was applying. and deborah often asked if i was comfortable. it was 2 hours of pure ralaxation! my skin felt so smooth and clean! and i had a great glow! it's a good idea to pamper yourself once in a while.......

i am giving away a gift certificate to a lucky blog reader to have a treatment with deborah also! even if you do not live in the area, feel free to enter and pass it on to a friend who does live here. or better yet, take a trip to get your facial and to visit me! just leave me a comment here letting me know what you do to treat yourself or what you do to pamper yourself. and if anyone can answer my son's 2nd grade homework math problem below, i'll give you a bonus entry. just leave a second comment for that! LOL

math question:
a number has more tens than ones, but the digit in the tens place is less than 4. the value of the ones digit is less than 3. what are the possible numbers?

here's her yelp page. i'll leave the comments open until 11/11/11 just because eleven eleven eleven sounds nice. ;)