Birthday Destination

For her birthday destination, Linda chose to go to the American Girl Store in Los Angeles so that she could pick out a doll. We headed to LA the day after Thanksgiving. We had no traffic there or back, a Thanksgiving miracle. :)

She had a great time going through the entire store checking everything out, from the doll hospital to the doll beauty shop and cafe.

She picked out the EMILY doll.

Afterwards we had some lunch and then did some shopping. Linda loves to shop! It was a nice day.

Linda's 8th Birthday

Linda's turned 8yrs. old on Thanksgiving day this year! So, we started the day off with her baptism, then a little party, followed by Thanksgiving dinner at Claim Jumper.
After Linda's baptism, we came home and had little birthday party. Linda picked out her favorite cake, red velvet. She was excited to get some clothes, and giftcards to Target and Olive Garden. It's hard to believe my little Linda is already 8!

Made My Day

On our way home from church last Sunday, Linda told me that I wasn't allowed to go in to my room for two hours. We got home and she locked herself in my room. When she came and got me to see what she had done I discovered that she had gone through all of the clean clothes that were scattered everywhere on my floor. There were seriously, mountains of clothes. I had been dreading going through all of them. It was the nicest thing. She is so sweet. It made my day.

Here is the note I found on my bed.

Change of Plans

So, we decided NOT to wait until the end of the school year to move. Our last day at this house will be December 31st. Where are we going? Umm, we don't know yet. We will either stay in Oceanside, but move in to a better middle school district, or we will move to Carlsbad.
Stay tuned....

Ward Halloween Festival

We had fun at our Ward Halloween Harvest Festival. In the first hour they had a chili cook off. Robert won under the category of, Must Have Seconds - Most Delicious.
The kids had fun at all of the carnival games they had. My youth group ran the cake walk and face painting. In all of the fun I did manage to get a couple pics of the kids in the costume parade.

Do you think Claire could be any happier??

Halloween Costumes 2012

Bruce wanted to be Santa Clause. In the end, we decided to go with a SoCal Santa look. Surfs up, Santa!

Linda is a queen, but we knew that already. I couldn't figure out what she was doing with her hands in this picture. She said she was making a heart. :) I guess that's what queens do.

Jane is a witch this year...and a pretty cute witch in my opinion.

Claire is my little pumpkin. She loves wearing her stem headband around the house.

I think they're a cute crew.