Well it took a few days to get these on...we were
lazy bums the rest of Halloween weekend and did a
lazy Sunday afternoon family movie...."Marley & Me"! What a
great movie...it sooo reminded us of our
crazy life...and many of our friends lives too, that have kids, work, pets, and so on...just plain
craziness! :) We
LOVE it though...it is what makes
silly...goofy...fun...wonderful memories (although at times you feel like you are going to blow). My favorite part of the movie, was when she was absolutely
losing it, after her husband was suggesting that she was going through postpartum depression...after a rough couple of weeks with the new baby (#2). She was yelling at her husband that she hadn't taken a shower yet, the laundry is never finished and the kids were always making a mess (something to that effect), but that she was just totally overwhelmed. It was
so funny...Anthony turns to me and said "Mom...that sounds like you! LOL :)' Oh my goodness we all laughed...it is
so true! Those
crazy MOM moments when you just lose it! All you Mom's know what I am talking about! ;) Good movie...you all should see it, if you haven't already.
So here are the pic's from Halloween...just a few...it was a good time! Us "
country fokes" have to be creative, sense our houses are not close...by any means. Some friends did a party, called "Treat N' Trunk" on their property. All kinds of country families got together and decorated each of their trunks in different themes and lined the cars up and the kids were able to trick-or-treat from the back of the cars. It was neat! They also had all kinds of carnival games and a cake walk. Here they are..."The Joker"..."Batman"...and a "Little Ladybug"! I barely got this picture...they were only interested in
CANDY and were not cooperative on pic's!
Our "
HAM" can you tell by the look on her face...she is a crack up! She always makes us laugh...
Anthony playing "pin the nose on the pumpkin"!
Mati was so
funny! She was totally fascinated with the lit up pumpkins...
Grammie and Mati going to find candy!
Anthony and Grammie in the car on the way home...everyone was still smiling...we decided to stop while we were ahead...before the melt downs started!
It was a fun night! Kids bathed...then to bed...just in time to raid their candy bags, while they were fast asleep! :) That's our favorite part...it's great being the parents ;)' We hope you all had a
great Halloween!
Here is a friend of ours, Nick. He started out just coming to watch Ant race, but lately he has been racing too!
Nice Nick..."show off"...J/K that's cool! ;)
Another trophy for Anthony. We are so proud of you Ant...your doing awesome!
Dad and Mati hanging out...she just loves the bikes and all the chaos of little kids riding everywhere. It won't be long before she is doing this too...she loves it! :) 
Our "HAM" can you tell by the look on her face...she is a crack up! She always makes us laugh...
Anthony playing "pin the nose on the pumpkin"!
Mati was so funny! She was totally fascinated with the lit up pumpkins... 
Grammie and Mati going to find candy!
Anthony and Grammie in the car on the way home...everyone was still smiling...we decided to stop while we were ahead...before the melt downs started! 
It was a fun night! Kids bathed...then to bed...just in time to raid their candy bags, while they were fast asleep! :) That's our favorite part...it's great being the parents ;)' We hope you all had a great Halloween!
Mati was so interested in the "goop & seeds"!
She was cracking up and was very curious about this whole pumpkin thing...
The boys always find something fun and cool to do and explore when they come to the station. So in between cleaning out pumpkins...Tod and the boys decided to explore our 3 story hose tower...they climbed all the way to the top! 
OH MY...look at that cute tush! How did this picture get in here?? This is a family blog...G rated! ;) I couldn't resist taking this pic...as Tod was climbing up the tower ladder! 
Then the boys found some "fun-noodles" and began a "fun-noodle" fight! I joined in for a bit...but then decided to just take pic's...because, it was a losing battle against Tod and Anthony. Gabe was so funny...he was trying to tackle Tod the whole time! :) 
"Fun-noodle" fights are a favorite -after dinner...after chores game- on my shift, while we wait for the freshly mopped floors to dry in the station.
So enough playing...we had business to take care of...there were pumpkins to be carved! 
The kids and their pumpkins...all done! 
Now for the final test. We needed to see them in the dark, all lit up, with candles! Here are all the pumpkins we did...my shift joined our family the whole evening...so they did pumpkins too!
And these four are our family pumkins...they turned out AWESOME...it was such a nice evening! 
I decided that night, that I was going to try doing what my mom used to always do with us girls in the bath...although I didn't think that I would be doing this with her at the age of "1" ! :) First, during bath time, we always begged our mom to give us a feather on top of our heads. If she used enough shampoo our hair would stand straight up! ;)' We just loved it when she did this! Here is Mati's first feather...
Then after bath we would sit on the bathroom floor, huddled in our towels, waiting for our turn, while she blew dry our hair til it wasn't wet and then lastly braided it! Every night the same routine. She always braided our hair, because it was always long and if she didn't it would be a mess in the morning. So after Mati's bath, I tried to braid it. I was trying to find a way to stop the crazy hair-do in the morning. This didn't go very well...she cried the whole time I was braiding her hair...
But we finally got the braids in...
Off to bed she went! I couldn't wait to see how the "do" held up overnight. I was hoping this would help with the crazy hair in the morning. This is what I found when I opened her door the next morning...Oh my...
We were packed to the max...as usual! :) Our little trailer has been so good to us and has been an awesome place for us to lay our heads...on our many family adventures! 
Dad and Mati making "MARGARITA'S"...yummy, yummy! ;) 
The night of my mom's birthday, we did cake and of course sang "Happy Birthday" to her!
Tod, Mati and Bryan watching the kids swim and play in the river lagoon!
The mornings were cool and crisp for breakfast...then warming up to hot by the afternoon. The weather was awesome all weekend!
One afternoon, Wendy, I and the kids rode our bikes to "old town" Coloma, to visit the local blacksmith! We all liked hearing him talk about all the neat things that have been made in this shop, since the gold rush. There is so much history in this little town...it is so neat to hear about how things used to be back in those days.
We had a great time and the kids did too...this trip was a good ending to the camping season!
