Disneyland and California Adventures

Happy Holidays!

It's the start of the holiday season. I love this time of year especially when you see that holiday sparkle in kids' eyes.

Our Minnies and Tigger too

The morning of Halloween in our front yard.

Dressed and ready to go trick or treating for the first time.

Pumpkin carving

Everyone was recovering from a winter bug the past couple weeks. Finally carved the pumpkins Halloween morning. Here are the 3 jack-o-lanterns smiling at you. Noah was napping so Alexandra drew a face on his pumpkin.

Pumpkin patch

We made our yearly visit to the local pumpkin patch farm in Half Moon Bay a couple weeks ago. It just happened to be one of of the coldest days of Fall.

Smile!!!!

These are some of our favorite pictures. Taken after bath time and getting ready for bed.

First day of preschool

Sophia, Hannah and Alexandra officially started preschool today.

Here they just hopped out of the car and are walking to school.

Sitting and Crawling

A couple months ago, Noah was learning to sit up on his own. Here he is still practicing, but I think he got it, as you can tell with his proud grin.

He is also learning to crawl, or should I say edging forward like a catepillar.

Santa Barbara and potty trained

So what does Santa Barbara have to do with potty training? Well, we decided to take a mini vacation to Santa Barbara this past week. They have a zoo there that was very kiddie friendly. The fences were low enough for a toddler to view the animals so that mom or dad didn't have to carry them to see. We stayed right across from the beach so we were able to walk there instead of loading all the kids up in the car.

Here are some pictures from our trip. This trip also served as a potty training experiment since the girls were all diaper-free during the day. Overall, it was a successful experiment and we would like to report that our girls are potty trained!

Noah chilling in the hotel room.

Summertime fun

We will definitely miss the warm days of summer when the weather begins to get colder. Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the hot days of summer in our front and back yards.

Just staying cool

Before we invested in a kiddie pool, we used this water table to stay cool.

Look at our new tricycles

Art time

Gilroy Gardens

Gilroy Gardens is one of our favorite places to go these days. It is a very kiddie friendly amusement park. We never finish walking the entire park in one trip before the kids need to nap so we have gone multiple times. It's always been 90 degrees when we go so the kids love cooling down by the waterfall.

Look forward to going there during their Holiday Festival of Lights.

Mommy's little helpers

I took the girls grocery shopping with me to Trader Joes. They have the "shopper in training" shopping carts so each of the girls pushed one. Basically, I loaded their baskets with what I needed to buy. It was one of the cutest sights I have ever seen.

These pics were taken by my iphone

Sand, water, sun=fun beach day

We took our first trip to the beach last week. The girls have been eagerly waiting to go all summer and were so excited as we got ready in the morning.

Sophia loved dipping her feet in the beach waves. The water was freezing cold to me, but it didn't seem to bother her. Hannah loved playing in the sand, filling her bucket with sand and dumping it out 5 feet elsewhere. Then, she would repeat that again and again. Alexandra enjoyed sunbathing and relaxing by the ocean breeze. Noah was a trooper. He really enjoyed his first beach experience and had lots to look at, especially his sisters running around and exploring.

If the weather stays warm, we'll be making another trip to the beach very soon.