September Fun

September brought the beginning of school. Yaaayyyy! I was so excited when school started and I think the kids were too. Thank heavens for school. The kids were bored and Mom was going crazy and salvation came in the form of school.

Here are the first day pictures!

We had some fun visitors in September too! Uncle Charles and Aunt Erika came for Labor Day!
We went to Chuck E Cheese for Jake's early birthday celebration. Here he is with his new
Snake Eyes mask and his green frog cupcakes.

Erika and I also took a little trip out to Forks, WA. We had a great time tootling around and taking pictures. Erika is a huge Twilight fan so we experienced all of the Forks goodness.

This was Jake's actual birthday! We had a great time. He got a new
Razor and bike for his special day!

Our wirl wind tour of California!

Sorry it has been so long since I blogged and I now have a back log of pictures to share and tell you about. So lets begin with the high light of our summer. Our trip to California was fantastic! We had a really great time seeing our friends and family!




This is Josh with his cousin Basil having a great time at Granny's house. They were born 2 months apart and had a fantastic time playing together. Below is a picture of Sammy at the beach. We took a couple of beach trips. This one was at Carona del Mar with friends, but we also spent some time at Santa Monica beach with Uncle Steve!













We also went to the Santa Ana Zoo with Aunt Erika and Aunt Stacy! We loved that day! It is such a great little zoo and we had a great time there with our cousins Tom and Ben.















We also went to the Circus with Aunt Stacy and cousin Ben and Uncle Chris, Lauren and Granny. Our cousins Jacque and Azure came too. The kids loved the elephants and tigers the most and had a really great time at the show.













































































One of the big high lights of our trip was Uncle Chris coming home from his mission in Baltimore, Maryland. It was super fun to hang out with him and play rock band all the time. We love Uncle Chris! We also got to spend some seriously overdue and splendid time with our best friends the LaRue family, who now live in Idaho. We partied with them in the pool and celebrated Daddy's birthday. A fun time was had by all and we were ready to come at the end, which means it was good! Thanks to all our friends and family in California for playing with us this summer! We love you!

Clare and her Aunt Erika. Do they look alike or what?