A Holiday Tune...

Here is a little bit of Savannah's Holiday Choir Performance.  Sorry about the camera work...I am a little shaky! My girl is in the back with a green bow!

November Happenings...

Thanksgiving Break goes so fast!  I can't believe it! We hosted some family at our house again this year.  The girls and I made "Grandma's Noodles" all by ourselves and they actually turned out okay.  The girls had fun spending time with cousins.

Cousins! The boys were playing elsewhere!

Making noodles...

The girls and I went to see the Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn with our friends the Young's.

Liz and I 

Mission Inn decorations

My girls and I, can you figure out Syd's phase right now?

Wait...Syd didn't make a face...

Rose Parade Float

This year the Girl Scouts are celebrating their 100th birthday.  One of the ways that they are celebrating is by having a float in the Rose Parade!  Our troop was able to go and work on prepping the float for the flowers.  I can't believe all of the work that goes into getting a float ready!  I hope I can finally go and see the parade this year!

Troop 1114 in front of the the Girl Scout Float

Other floats getting ready for the parade.

Another float being prepped.

Rob trimming Status flower.

These were the flowers that we were trimming - Status flowers

Fall Events

Thanksgiving is almost here, and I have not been good about blogging the latest events in our lives...

Savannah had her first choir performance:

Next we went to the pumpkin patch with great friends:

We carved our pumpkins:

We trick or treated in our neighborhood:

And...
since it is a month of being grateful....I am grateful to be able to share these memories with my friends and family!

Girl Scout Camp Out!

Savannah and Sydney on the hike.

All four of us drove up near Lake Arrowhead for the girl scout camping trip.  We camped at Dogwood Campground and it was a beautiful place.  There were 19 girls and 10 adults at our three campsites.  The campground was full of girl scouts, though!  I think the girl scout leaders in charge of the event said their were 400 people?  Crazy.  We set up our tents in the dark by flashlight, went on a short hike, participated in a creative scavenger hunt, made SMORES with girl scout cookies, sang songs and actually got some sleep.
We even managed to win the scavenger hunt!

Setting up tents in the dark

Full moon...

Camp Troop 1114

Making pancakes...

Getting ready for the hike...

Leaves are changing...

Rob and I on the hike...

Campfire Time!

SMORES with Thanks a Lots!

First place in the Scavenger Hunt!

The Blue Angels

Rob loves the Blue Angels. REALLY loves the Blue Angels. He hasn't seen them the whole time that we have been together (20 years).  We have been wanting to go to an airshow with the girls for awhile, but the weekends never worked out.  So this year it did.  We were actually able to plan a trip to Miramar for the big airshow.  Our nephews Joey and Aiden met us there.

Rob and the girls with a TOP GUN plane

Rob, the girls, Joey and Aiden with an F5 Tiger.  

Aiden and his Blue Angel plane

Blue Angels

The boys looking for the planes...too bad I didn't get the picture of them when the Blue Angel flew right over us....low....and they all ducked down like it was flying at them!

Temecula Wine Country

Rob and  I celebrated our anniversary in Temecula Wine Country last weekend.  South Coast Winery has beautiful Villas and we enjoyed the wine tasting, too.

The picture above and below were taken from the little patio outside our villa.