Magical

I went here...

with him...

It had been a little while and it was so nice.

cut it, mix it, blend it, drink it

Whole Foods has children cooking classes.
Did I mention it is free?
Sandy Toes and Popcicles, that awesome blog I was featured on once, reminded me that they do these classes and that one was LAST Friday.

We pack up and went.
It was one of the funnest things we have done.
I loved everything about it.

The kids made Acai Berry Smoothies with granola, and then ate it while listening to an author read the children's book he wrote. It was so fun.

We cut strawberries.

We cut bananas.

We mixed our fruit together.

We blended our fruit with Acai Berries and Chocolate Soy Milk.

And then we got purple smiles while enjoying some delicious smoothie with granola!
yum yum

I can't wait until our Whole Foods opens in Huntington Beach, so we don't have to drive so far for more cooking fun.

OCTOBER!

October is one of my VERY favorite months! I have found so many fun things to do, to make, to read... I just can't wait to get this month started.

We celebrated the start of October with some chalkboard pumpkins.

Like 2 years ago, I was blogstalking a friends cousins blog (got that?) and she had chalkboard painted pumpkins with her daughter. They were SOO cute. I put the idea away in my little idea blog and forgot about it... last year, I remembered AFTER Halloween.

This year I remembered and it was the first thing we did!



My first time with chalkboard paint. You have to paint, wait, paint, and then wait for a couple days. I didn't want to do that, so it peeled, but I decided to do it again right!

Happy October!

Our Bed is Happy

My bed has a wish list. Doesn't yours? Lucky for it, and for me, our bed has been lucky enough to get what it wants.

On its wish list was this duvet from Anthropologie...
Unfortunately, I only had a gift card that could cover the duvet cover. which for some strange reason was 50% off, and not the {$$$} pricey Euro Pillow Shams or dust ruffle!

Then I found a dust ruffle that went on sale at the Anthropologie that matched, but didn't, which I love so I forked over the $10 for it. A steal right?

Still the Euro Shams have left our little bed sad and unfinished...

So to make our little bed happy, I decided to take the matter into our own hands! I took some vintage hankerchiefs that used to be my grandmas, and used them to make new Euro pillow shams for our bed.
Aren't these handkerchiefs amazing!

They turned out great! I love them, and more importantly our Bed is Happy!

103 degrees

It is Monday, September 27!!!
So my question is, "Why was it 90 degrees yesterday and 103 today?"
I thought I was going to die.

What do you do when it is this hot and you don't have AC?

Here is what we did...
We went swimming at our friend's grandma's pool for 3 hours.
Then we came home, tried to nap, but it was 90 degrees in our house, so we went outside and played in a baby pool. We were outside from 11-5:30!

We enjoyed some mini ice cream cones.

Caught a breeze on the rope swing.


Then we had cold tubby time at 5:45, ate dinner and were off to bed! I love early bedtimes more than naps I think!

On Saturday, another HOT day, we went down to the beach. The tide was SOOO low. It was fun to walk out 100 yards more than normal and still have the water ONLY hit our ankles.









Ok, Summer, I know you are hangin' on, but we are ready for you to leave.

Its all about Buzz

We were at Goodwill the other day, and found this bad boy for $2.99. There was almost a brawl in the Goodwill because some SUPER WT woman asked where I got it and said we better leave before her son sees it because he will fight to the death for it. I thought, yea, your son, the one playing with those two barbies, I bet he can fight to the death, pansy.
hehe...
But still I have had a couple of confrontations in Goodwill. People are crazy for a good deal.

Anyways, the day we got it, Merrick would not put him down. He told me, "Mom, I love Buzz."
Best three dollars I ever spent!

Yesterday we went to see Toy Story 3 at the dollar theater with some friends.
Oh, how I love that movie.
I cried again.

Buzz himself, loved to watch it with Merrick.

Here are some old, never posted pictures of Merrick pretending to be Buzz.

With every superhero there has to be a villian. Berkleigh was pretending to be Zurg!

Ok, sometimes he likes to be Zurg too.

I am glad he has such a great role model to look up to!
hehe

A "hot & cold" date at the Pond

I got to go with this "hot" guy to the "cold" pond for some ducks watching!

One of Tyson's attending has season tickets to the Anaheim Ducks. We even got to park in his special parking spot that was right next to the Honda Center.
It was fun and free! Gotta love that!

I am not a sports watcher. I love going to a live game of anything, because I think there is a lot of excitement in the air, but I DON'T watch the game while I am there.. Wednesday, I did.
I think I like Hockey!
I think I like feeling scared sometimes, and I did feel scared the whole time.
That puck flew right at us like 5 times!

We were in Row 4. It was awesome!

The fight.

It was lots of fun!
And the Ducks won! Not bad!