Fall Festivities

A few weeks ago, we went to a pumpkin patch about a half hour away with our friends Bob and Rachel, and their boys, Jack and Cooper.  It was a lot of fun, but the place was packed.  We stayed and played for awhile and then went out to dinner.  It was a fun day!

Here are all 4 of us going down a giant slide.

Keeg and I zooming past

Landon on a big jumping thing.

Keegan and Daddy jumping.

Cute pic of Landon with some pumpkins.

Our sweet boys.

Family Picture

A picture of all 4 boys….Cooper, Keegan, Landon and Jack.

The boys holding hands walking to the car after dinner…love this pic! 

Matt and I when we got home.

The next day the boys made a Halloween gingerbread house.

Decorating...

It turned out really cute :)

The following weekend, Landon and I didn't have school on a Friday and Matt took the day off to hang out with all of us.  We went to a pumpkin patch/apple orchard for the day.  We had a blast!

The boys in front of some decorated hay bales.

 In all the pumpkins.

 Little apples in the tree.

 Posing by the giant pumpkin.

 Love this pic!

 So big...

 Riding in the wagon out to pick apples.

 Landon picking some apples.

 Keegan holding his first apple he picked.

 Keegan had to get on Matt's shoulders to reach some of them.

Love this picture of Landon….all grown up

The boys eating a couple of the apples they picked.

Family pic

San Diego

Matt and I went to San Diego at the end of September.  My parents came to watch the boys and we headed there on a Friday after work.  I came home Monday morning and Matt stayed for a work conference and came home on Wednesday.  He was going because of his work conference so we just went a little early and hung out in San Diego for the weekend.  The weather was beautiful, upper 70's and sunny!!  We had a lot of fun and of course the boys loved staying with Grandma and Papa :)

Saturday morning we got up, walked to breakfast and then went paddle boarding.  Matt has always wanted to paddle board, so he was in heaven.  It was fun, but I cut my toe right at the beginning and it hurt to stand on my foot so it was a little harder for me.  Matt didn't understand why it wasn't as easy for me until he saw my toe afterwards.  I'm glad we did it though and now we know we can!!  

 We went paddle boarding at Coronado Island and Matt went all the way to the bridge.  Here is a pic of the bridge going to the island.

 Here is another view from where I was…it was fun to watch all the planes come in so low and land.

 After paddle boarding, we headed to the Naval Base.  We went in some helicopters and Matt also got in a hummer.

 Next stop….the beach at Coronado Island.  We had gone here the last time we went to San Diego and it is gorgeous.  We spent the afternoon just laying on the beach and enjoying the weather.

 Right before we left, a jet made a heart in the sky.

And then another one... 

 We went to a sushi restaurant Saturday night and then got dessert downtown by our hotel.  Sunday morning we got up and walked to another breakfast place and then we went on a kayaking tour at La Jolla.  We are glad we went with a group because we saw a lot of fun stuff and learned a lot of interesting facts as well.  We kayaked over leopard sharks, saw a lot of orange fish (Ghirabaldi), went into a cave and saw a ton of sea lions.  It was a lot of fun!  Here are some pics from our adventure:

After kayaking, we headed to Torrey Pines Golf Course.  Matt really wanted to go here and it was gorgeous.  It would be hard to focus during a golf match. Here are a few pics from the golf course. 

 Look at that view...

 We went to a couple other beaches that day and then went to Sunset Cliffs to watch the sun set before dinner that night.  It was so pretty. It looks like we are right on the beach, but we were actually high up on a cliff, overlooking the water.  It amazed us how quickly the sun actually went down. 

After that, we went to a seafood place for dinner, downtown again for dessert and back to the hotel.  I left at 5am the next morning for my flight.  The next two nights Matt tried different places for dinner and also went to a Padres baseball game.  Here he is at the stadium:

 The ballpark has sand in Center Field!!

We had a great trip to San Diego and hope to go back again.  A big thank you to my parents for coming out and helping us and taking such good care of the boys.  Thanks for also staying with me until Matt got home!!  We really appreciate it! :)

Random Summer Fun

We haven't had any major events happening here lately, so I didn't have any blog posts to do.  As I was looking through our pictures though, I found some random ones from the summer that I have never put on here so I thought I would share those with all of you.  Hope you like them!

We spent some time with Landon's friend, Ely, this summer and the boys had a lot of fun together.  He came over one day to go swimming and brought his Jake swim trunks, so the boys put theirs on as well!

We also took Ely with us to a Frozen sing-a-long at Barnes and Noble.  All of the boys wore the same shirt again (this time, not planned) and got their picture taken with an Olaf cut out!

A couple pictures of Landon reading a book to Keegan

 We tried to get Landon out of the habit of taking naps this summer since he was going to start all day Kindergarten.  There were days that he still needed one at times, but he didn't usually take one.  One day he was playing in the play room when Keegan was asleep and I didn't hear him for a few minutes so I went to check on him.  He was out!  This is what I found:

 We went back to the outlet mall one more time in August to see characters.  This time it was Clifford and The Berenstein Bears.  We had just gotten back from Sesame Place so Keegan loved the characters and wasn't afraid at all!

 On our official last day of summer before I had to go back to work, we met Matt over lunch at a bowling alley.  The boys had a blast!

 We also got to see Chuck, Michelle, James and Sophia a couple times.  They stopped for a few hours on their way to Philadelphia, and then stopped and spent the night on their way back home after their trip.  Here is a pic of Sophia reading a bedtime story to the boys.

Landon has been into being a DJ lately and having he and Keegan dress up like they are rock stars.  We aren't sure where Landon saw this, but it is pretty funny!  Here is the pic of the boys...

And here Landon is being a DJ...

Landon called me in when he was showering one night to show me what he did to his hair!

Last weekend Matt made a chalkboard for the boys play room.  It looks great and the boys love to draw on it, especially Landon.  Here is the first thing he drew….I love that he loves his brother so much! :)

We are back into the swing of things at the McQuality household and trying to get adjusted to our new routine.  Landon loves Kindergarten and Keegan is doing great at the sitter by himself.  We don't really have anything else to report on.  Stay tuned for pictures of our next adventure when it happens!