Enjoy Every Bite

Happy Thanksgiving, friends. 

We are so thankful.

 Enjoy every bite.

Amen.

Star Rock Ministries

One of the many pieces of Ron's job includes being the Executive Director of Star Rock Ministries, a non- profit organization founded to help "give the gift of camp."

Want to see something amazing? Check out their latest promotional video:

http://vimeo.com/31400016

Halloween

We continued our annual tradition of trick or treating with the Paschalls and company in Tustin. Rosie chose to be a cat and Sadie, well, cooperated in being a butterfly. Needless to say, our mob made out like bandits. The highlight of the night for Ron and I was watching the girls walk up to the door in preparation to get their candy. "Come on, Sades, let's go get some candy," 

Rosie would say as she sometimes held Sadie's hand but mostly pulled her by the collar up to the door, Sadie staggering in a way that somehow reminded me of ET. Once the door opened, Rosie would say a robust, "Trick or Treat," to which Sadie would reply, "Happy 'ween," and walk inside the stranger's house. Ron and I had to fish her out of people's living rooms on more than one occasion. 

Another highlight was walking along with Sadie and suddenly hearing the crinkle of a chip bag. I looked down and realized that she was eating a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos. I choose to believe that someone ran out of candy and started getting creative, rather than that she picked up the bag off of the ground :)

Note: I realize that both of "highlights" make me sound a little like a negligent mother. I really was present. I promise. 

Back of the Bus

Rosie brought home this adorable 

school bus picture last week. 

She said, "That's YOU driving the bus, Mama! 

And, that's DAD riding in the back!"

Do you hear that, world? 

Finally.

Am I the only one that thinks "Ron" bears a striking resemblance to David Hasselhoff? 

Tanaka Farms

We ventured back, once again, to Tanaka Farms for CSA Day.

We fed some goats, took a hay ride, played some games, and picked some pumpkins. Never mind the fact that it was a nippy 89 degrees outside.

My dear husband with months of collected CSA boxes.

                                                  

The perfect pumpkins are found!

A Caleb Eckert in the making :)

Here we are at the loveliest organic farm, with amazing fresh produce, and my daughter is eating.... a Dorito. Sigh.

Home Help

I mentioned in our last post that we are rearranging the furniture in our living room. We have the blessing and curse of living in a bungalow in which the living room is basically also the family room, kitchen, dining room, laundry room, den, racetrack, and art room. Yes, a lot goes on in this space. We have lived here for 5 years and we've never been able to get this space to "work" for us. It's a journey in progress, to say the least. We took a big step in the right direction and said goodbye to our "beast" entertainment center and "baby beast" coffee table, but not before the girls put the empty space to good use.

 Can I just mention how grateful I am for the brawn of young men? I was so glad that Ron recruited some camp guys and I did not have to help move this thing. 

To quote my dad, "This thing is so heavy it makes me want to scream!"

So now we are slowly rearranging. I made all of these bold statements about not buying anything new...  using things that we can salvage or reuse. The next day I went out and bought a loveseat from Ikea.

 I digress.  

I do need your help with something. I found this little antique cart. I think this might have inspired my salvage decorating kick that lasted for a minute second. I had visions of blankets or games like I've seen on some of the blogs that I look at... but as of now, it looks like a homeless person dropped their belongings off here. That's not entirely bad! It's just not the look I was going for :)

So, what do I do? Erin mentioned keeping the contents monochromatic... Brieann mentioned painting it.. what do you think?

Insta-Fun

I jumped on the bandwagon and downloaded the instagram app on my phone. So the goal is these grainy, sort of blurry polaroid pictures? Yes? Alright then, here we go.

Here was our weekend (minus the Saturday morning bike ride. I left the phone at home where it belongs on Saturday mornings).

The Carousel on the Balboa Peninsula is closing after 75 years. We thought it would be fun for the girls to ride the horses one last time.

We also visited the candy shop...

..... rode the ferry and the ferris wheel

 

 ... and rode the carousel... at last.

 This guy waited patiently for his girls to get off of the horses.

 Sunday, we Skyped with Allison, our niece.

We are in the process of rearranging the furniture in our family room. The furniture there is temporary for now... Ron arranged his chair like a man with optimal Sunday afternoon nap and Vikings game in mind.

I made some pesto with some left over Basil from my farm box. Yes, I made it in a plastic bowl from Sea World. It's how I roll.

That's our weekend! How sweet it is!