Free Ice Cream!!!

Just so everyone knows, if you haven't heard already..... FREE ICE CREAM!!!!!  Yep, on election day, Ben & Jerry's is giving away free ice cream from 5-8 pm.  So go to your scoop shop between 5-8 pm and get your free scoop of ice cream!  Who doesn't like free stuff?

Their First Dance

So this afternoon we are watching Beauty and the Beast when Belle runs up to me holding her Princess Belle dress.  We put it on and she proceeded to watch the movie.  After about 15 mintues, she pulls Caleb to his feet during Be Our Guest and gets him to start dancing with her.  I had the camera in front of me so I had to grab it and record a little bit of their duet.  And yes, Caleb's lips are very red.  He has very chapped lips right now he had just smeared on his Dr. Pepper Lipsmackers chapstick.  I love my cute kids!

Beach Day!

This past weekend was Jared's 10-year high school reunion!   While we didn't feel like forking out the big bucks to go to the big party at the hotel, we did meet up with a good friend who was in town for it.  Serena was a good friend of Jared's in high school, and has since become a good buddy of mine through IM'ing.   It was great to hang out with Serena and take advantage of the fun weather a tthe beach.  We may never have gotten a beach day in with Daddy during the summer, but hey, we got it in in mid-Oct!  Gotta love California!  We started the day with cinnamon rolls from Sweet Jill's on Main Street, and then we headed to the beach for play time!  Gotta love my fearless kids, they would run right into the waves, and right back out.  Neither one wanted to come out of the water.  It was great cause it wasn't crowded at all, so we were able to park ourselves right at the edge of the water and play for a couple of hours before we headed to Ruby's for lunch.  Afterwards, we drove Serena back to her parent's house where she is staying while here(she lives in Colorado with her husband) and met up with a couple of other friends before we left to go on our way, and they went to the official reunion.  And boy, were we glad we didn't shell out the money for the tickets (it would've cost us almost $200 for both of us to go), Jared talked to a friend who helped plan it and we found out that less than 50 people had RSVP'ed!  We had a great time that day, and can't wait till Serena can come visit us again!

Tagged!

So I have been tagged.  This is the sixth photo in my sixth folder.  It is Belle in December 2006.  She is 7 months old here, and in her first Christmas jammies.  Such a cute little girl!

Oak Glen Fun!

We had a fun weekend!  We headed up to Oak Glen saturday morning for some fun time outdoors with my parents.  We started the day at Law's for breakfast.  Its a great little coffee shop that does a great buffet for pretty cheap.  It was a little chilly, only 46 degrees at 8am!  Glad we brought our jackets!  After breakfast we walked around the village for a little bit before heading off to some of the apple farms.  Our first stop was Los Rios.  The kids had a good time watching the workers pressing apples and making fresh cider.  Inside it was wall to wall apples.  Anything you can think of, it was there.  

Next stop was Riley's Apple Orchard.  Isabelle got to pick her apples right off the tree.  Caleb had a good time helping her pick out apples too.  Both had fun running all over and enjoyed the outdoors.  The only bad thing was they were doing a huge girl scout thing that day, so it was very crowded.  We then left and went next door to Riley's Farm, where they have a huge pumpkin patch that covers this entire hill.  You are able to go out there and pick your pumpkin and cut it off the vine yourself.   The kids were tromping all over and had a great time.  Poor Belle kept tripping on all the vines but she would just get right back up and keep on going.  After the kids had picked out their pumpkins we headed back down the hill.  The only problem with this was Belle was carrying her own little pumpkin herself.  Well, needless to say, she stumbled a little and dropped it!  Off it went, rolling down the hill.  We all started laughing, till we turned and looked at Boo's face!  She was traumatized!  Its my biggest regret that I didn't get a shot of that sad face.  We watched that pumpkin rolling down the hill and we hustled after it, hoping it would survive its fall.  Luckily a group of young adults saw us and stopped the pumpkin and saved it for her!  It survived without a scratch and let me tell you, Belle hugged that pumpkin tight after that.  

Our last stop was Snowline for some apple cider donuts and to buy some cider before heading home, but holy cow!  It was soooo crowded!  The line for the donuts was at least an hour long.  No way.  So we went inside, bought some apple cherry and apple raspberry cider, and some cider donut mix and headed off.  It was a great day.  The kids had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa and loved getting to do somthing new for them. 

Free Bag Give Away!

There's a new site going up and on their launch day they are giving away a free handbag every hour for the first 24 hours!  Check the link and go sign up for yourself!

http://www.handbagplanet.com/

Las Vegas and then some

Wow, it's been a little while!  There have been some issues with phone and DSL lines in our apartment community off and on the last couple of weeks and it seems like it worked that when I was home, I had no signal, but when I was going to leave, or didn't have time to get on, I had a signal!  I think there must be a conspiracy against me going on here.  Well, it has been a couple of fun weeks though.  Jared and I went to Las Vegas together from the 24-26.  How nice it was to get away and just be a couple.  Big thanks to Marcy and Galen (aka Big Grandma and Grandpa) for watching the kids for us while we were gone.  It was Jared's yearly InterBike convention at the Sands Expo Center (attached to the Venetian Hotel) so he went to work, and I got to play!  I always love being in Vegas and seeing all the different happenings going on.  We were invited to a really cool party in the Voodoo lounge on the roof of the Rio Hotel this year.  We were so excited!  Too bad when we showed up the line to get into the door was forever long.  There was no way I was going to wait for over an hour in a line!  It was already 10:30 pm, so we went home and went to bed, cause we had another big event the next night, the World Finals Crit Races.  I know, the what?  Its a bike race where they make a course in a parking lot, in this case the Mandalay Bay event Center, and people race on their road bikes really fast and are absolutely vicious.  We saw lots of crashes and had fun partying till midnight, well, I was mainly partying, Jared was busy working and networking, handing out lots of busniess cards and free JensonUSA gear that I lovingly toted around for him. ;)  We had a great time like always, and can't wait till next years convention.  

The kids are doing good, Caleb is loving school this year, and Belle is missing her big brother when he is gone.  When we go pick Caleb up, Its so cute, cause the first thing Belle does when he comes out the door is give him a big hug and kiss.  She loves him so much, and Caleb is just as happy to see her and tell me all about his day at school.  I know we have lots of fun events coming up the next couple weekends so I should be posting more soon.