Grateful for my 2 little Turkeys

We ate Thanksgiving dinner at our friends the Vega's. The girls did pretty good eating. They loved the pumpkin pie- much to their dads chagrin. They couldn't get enough of it. Makenna went back to the table and got up on the chair and started eating the leftovers all by herself.She was determined to eat it all. Olivia wasn't going to just watch. She got herself a chair too but had to settle for sharing daddy's chocolate pie. 

It has been a year now since the girls were blessed and I have thought about it often this weekend, I am so thankful for them and the gifts they bring with their smiles and laughs, and even their tantrums although it pretty hard to be thankful for those but without them my life would be so quiet.

Orange Smiles

The girls love eating Oranges. They think it is so fun to suck the juice out and then fling the peel on the floor.

Disneyland

Yes- we went to Disneyland. Which with 2 1 year olds was a little crazy but we had a fun time. My cousin was in California so it was a fun way to see her. The weather was really nice even almost hot. I think it was in the high 80's. We have been having a bit of heat wave the last few weeks but it is finally cooling down. We stopped and ate at Mrs. Knotts on the way home and the girls did really good and liked the food but really who doesn't like biscuits w/ jam? We had so much fun there in fact we may  go back on Thanksgiving. I guess we like to live on "the wild side".

                                       Here we are visiting Tinkerbell in her new fairyland.

                                             Makenna ran right up to her and hugged her.

                                                                    Olivia did not.

                                            Here we are with Minnie- the girls were not sure about her.

              They liked the slide in Toon town- That is Hannah my cousin Julie's daughter.

Halloween Night

For Halloween we did go "trick or treating" but only to a few houses of people from our ward and neighbors. The girls had fun. Makenna especially. She was not shy at all and would walk right up to the doorways by herself. Olivia didn't ever warm up to it. She preferred her daddy's arms. We also learned that they don't like riding in their wagon at night and had to either carry them or hold their hand while they walked.

Before we went out we went to eat at Chic- Fil- A because we were already in Oxnard buying diapers ( what glamorous lives we lead ). I like going there because it is family oriented and on Friday's kids meals are free. The fact that they have really good waffle fries may also play a small role.

The quality isn't great on these pictures. I put the camera on night mode and that is how they came out. Someday I will learn to use my camera correctly.

 

Pumpkin Carving

Here we are more pictures of my cute girls and hubby.

We went to a pumpkin carving  party my friend had. It was really fun. I had never been to a pumpkin carving party/contest before. Ken did the carving. I tried to help with design but I didn't do a very good job. So let's just way we didn't win any prizes. I may have gained 10 lbs from eating cheese dip and the girls had a great time mooching crackers and pizza all night.

Pumpkin Patch

We have been so busy lately we weren't able to go to the pumpkin patch until the day before Halloween ( well- we did try but it was a disaster so we won't talk about). We went to the McGrath family farm in Somis. It is a fun place and the girls really liked it. They loved the animals and playing in the hay. Makenna was fascinated with the animals. Olivia took handfuls of hay and filled the cab of a toy tractor with it. We hope to go back and actually feed the animals soon- we had to go home for naptime.

My Pumpkins

Saturday was the CVMOM trunk or treat. The girls had a pretty good time. I think they were a little bewildered by the whole thing . They got hot by the end. It ended up being around 80 degrees that day. Makenna did good going from car to car.Olivia was less sure about the whole thing. They both loved the suckers.