Firsts

We had a bunch of firsts this fall.  Landon had been looking forward to losing a tooth for over a year now.  He finally had a loose one in the middle of October.  Then one night while we were in the car running errands he just said "I think my tooth fell out".  Sure enough, there it was in his hand.  He'd been wiggling it and eating apples all week knowing it was getting close.

In the parking lot at Target right after it fell out

At home getting ready to put his tooth under his pillow.

Here's basically the same picture of Landon only 5 months old showing us his 2 bottom teeth coming in.

 The Tooth Fairy came and brought Landon $2 that were shiny and glittery with fairy dust and left him a note & receipt for his tooth.

The other first we had that very same week, was Keegan finally got his first haircut!  It was more of just a trim.  He had a pretty bad Lou-Do combover going right on the top of his head.  We had them just trim this up and they took about 1/8" off over the rest.  He was excited!

He did a great job sitting still the whole time.

His certificate and lock of hair.

We leave for Illinois tomorrow (Tuesday) night after school, so we will try and get a Halloween post up before Thanksgiving! hah!

Apple Orchard and Pumpkin Patch Visits

We're a little late with these, but here's a few more fall activities we did before Halloween and we had a couple of big "firsts" in October as well.

On a Friday in October Kelsey and Landon were both off of school so I took the day off too and we went to an apple orchard in the afternoon.

The next day we headed to Columbus to meet my parents and sister for the day at a pumpkin patch.

Keegan & Aunt Cara going down a slide

Landon on a peddle tractor

 Climbing on a rock wall

 Keegan loved feeding the goats.  Landon just threw the food on the ground and didn't want them to eat directly out of his hand.

Thanks for the fun weekend!  We'll do another post here quickly to wrap up October.

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! :)