Halloween 2009

All dressed up

Halloween night with all the kids ready to go trick or treating Taylor's school Halloween party

Trip to Cali

Disneyland

Crew, Kennedy and Taylor in front of the pumpkin mickey

(there was a huge line on the other side and after trying to get the kids to smile into the sun...we understood why!)

Cooling off and playing in the water...a total life saver from the heat

Its a small world. The kids favorite ride at Disneyland

The tea cups...another favorite

Pictures with some of the girls favorite "people"

Taylor and I had lunch with the princesses

Taylor was in heaven

After three days at disneyland we headed for Huntington beach

Playing on the Peir

Our preferred mode of transportation

Swimming at the hotel pool (waterslides, hot tub, 3 1/2' deep pools and fire pits...the girls didn't ever want to leave)

the koi pond at the hotel (pretty from afar, a little freakish upclose)

With all the fountains, ponds, and pools at the hotel the girls were constantly entertained

After walking down the beach at lunch time Taylor started wanting to eat but only pancakes, lucky for us the first beachside grill we stopped at served breakfast all day long so she got her wish.

The last of summer and a little bit of fall (in reverse)

Grandma Ricks came to visit

we made a spooky gingerbread house

Aunt Christine also came to visit

We headed for BreckenridgeWe painted our nailsWe snuggled by the fire and drank hot chocolate
We shopped on Main Street

The girls got balloons...and ran

and ran

We took a day trip to Steamboat Springs and went for a hike

(the hike was not planned...the proof is in our choice of shoes)

We saw a waterfall

Nate took the girls to tiny town

They rode the train and saw tiny things

Taylor completed her first "season" of soccer.

They had a party...the girls turned green from the cupcakes

Taylor got her first trophy

We spent a weekend in Breckenridge

I played my first 9 holes

We pretended we were Forest Gump outside Bubba Gumps

We played in and by the river

Good times...