SUNDAY BEST...

It seemed to take forever until I had a child that was old enough to be a part of the Primary program for Sacrament meeting and now I have three who were up there. It is always my favorite Sunday of the year and the girls of course have always been excited to be a part of it. This was Josh's first year and he was not so into it, Joe had to go sit with him and he would not get up with the class to sing, oh well. He still looked out and gave me big smiles and a few waves. I had to take this picture before we walked out the door because it is the first time ever, I have gotten him to wear a white shirt and tie. He has always freaked out when I have even suggested such an outfit. I was desperate, because all the boys where told to wear white shirts so it took a Disneyland bribe to get him to do it but that is always O.K. with me:)

ARGH MATEY...

My Josh is now 4 years old and had been talking about his PIRATE BIRTHDAY
since the day after his spider man birthday last year. It was lots of fun,
so much fun that he is insisting we do a pirate birthday again next year.

All who arrived needed to look the part


His newest mate is his Pirate Dinosaur, JOSHASAURUS that he made at Build a Bear the day before.

The Awesome pirate cake

I found these cute underwear to complete his pirate outfit :)


What kind of Mom would I be if I was not doing a few things at once. So while we were busy doing the party Anika was at soccer practice on the field next to us.

He was able to take home lots of bithday treasure.

Thank you to our friends and family who made the day so special!!!

HALLOWEEN...

seemed to take so long to get here and now it is gone just like that. We were lucky to have Grandma arrive Halloween morning to help us do pumpkins. I blew it this year and did not buy them in time so I had to settle for pie pumpkins which you can not carve so we used paints instead. Luckily I had a 1 pumpkin that we got for free so it was the family pumpkin and we made it a witch.







There is nothing better to welcome in November than a another great USC game.

It was Josh's turn to go this time and he had a blast.

I keep telling him that football is the sport with biggest Trophies:)

USC has a room full of them so he is a believer now !

I LOVE Pete Carroll! He is treated like a rockstar at USC.