Adventuring

We decided to take advantage of the sunny November weather and go for a hike. A few weeks ago we went hiking and roasted in the heat so today was much better. For the girls to last the entire hike Daniel pushed the jogging stroller for when their little legs needed a rest. Overall it was a good day~we were out in nature and enjoying eachother's company.

Operation Christmas Child

This was our 3rd year filling a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child and by far the most fun since the girls are old enough to really get into picking out gifts for others. We hit Target's dollar section and found all sorts of fun things for a girl aged 5-8.

Next week November 17-21 is collection week for all shoeboxes (not sure why the the top pic says oct). You can go to this link and enter your zip code for a drop off location. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Paper Party!

So it turns out I was holding on to unimportant (nicely filed) papers for the last oh, 12 years :) Since last months focus on flylady.com was paper clutter I decided to get serious since I do have the time and it needed to get done! The last time I attemped mass amounts of paper shreddings (2004) I thought I broke my shredder...turns out I just was putting too much into it and jammed it up...so after my fix-it skills I managed to rig it to work as long as it's 1 paper at a time and I am very careful! If I could burn the box of papers I would but of course that is a no no in California. Oh well, mission accomplished and lesson learned...shred as you go (or not and let the kids have a GREAT time playing in the shredded papers) :)

Happy Halloween

The girls with Laney and Phoebe

Shannon as Princess Annalise

Lauren the pink unicorn with wings

Pumpkin carving last week since Daniel had a work exercise all week (12 hour shifts)

Shannon painting her pumpkin (unfortunately she painted the inside as well so little jack'o lantern did not last until the 31 :)

Shannon and Caleb enjoying some pirate booty after trick or treating :)

Shan ba-nan

Since Lauren is at preschool in the mornings, Shannon is getting what Lauren got for almost 2 years before she was born....some one-on-one time with mommy. Most mornings we are either at the park, the gym, playing, or doing chores...no matter what we are doing it has been fun to give her some undivided attention and enjoy her sweet company.

I Can Sew! well kind of...

My friend Darcy always has the cutest flannel pajama pants for her little guys so when her mom was in town she offered to host a girls night sewing party! After a few hours of mad cutting, pinning, serging, ironing, and help from her mom Trish and my friend Patricia... voila!...... cute pink pajama bottoms!