Aren't they so cute.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Oreo Turkeys
I love holidays and everything that goes along with them. I also love crafty things especially ones that kids can get involved in. I had some of the cousins over for the afternoon and decided to do some holiday fun crafts. We decided on oreo turkeys. They are so cute and the kids loved putting them together.
Paint me a Story
ur local Color Me Mine has a class once a week for preschool age kiddos called "Paint me a Story" The kids get listen to a story and then paint something that goes along with the story they just read. This month they made a turkey hand plate in honor of Thanksgiving. It's so precious. It's something that will always remind me of just how small Sawyer used to be. This month our friends Violet and Blaire joined in the fun. Augie and Owen were there too. The kids had a great time together and really enjoyed the painting. Here are the pics of our time together.
Lunch at Chipotle to finish out our special day
Halloween
We had a very low key Halloween this year. We were just about a week away from our move so we thought it best to keep it simple. After dinner the 3 of us got our costumes on( yes, you read that correctly. We all had costumes this year.) and headed out for some trick-or-treating. I didn't get any pictures of us while we were out because I stupidly forgot our camera. So you'll have to make do with what I had. Enjoy!
Luigi and Mario
Off we go!
Harvest Festival
Sawyer's preschool puts on an amazing harvest festival/carnival every year for Halloween. It has tons of games, arts and crafts, bounce houses, costume contests, food, all the candy your kid could ever hope to get, etc etc. I really could keep going but I think you get the idea. We got Sawyer all dressed up in his costume and headed out for some fun.
All ready to go
Our friends the Palmers joined us for the fun
Saturday, February 26, 2011
We're Back!
It took us a little time to settle back into our new/old life here in San Diego. It seemed at times like we were here for vacation. We spent the first few weeks trying to see everyone and fit in all the things we love to do here. Getting Paul's office all set up and our living arrangements in order. We were busy to say the least. The blog definitely took a back seat. When I would get ready to post, sometimes things would come up and other times it was just to hard to see the old memories. I just couldn't make myself get into it. I even considered weather or not to keep the blog going. After some thinking I have decided it is time to get back to it. I'm finally ready. I don't know if anyone stills reads it or not but that doesn't really even matter anymore. All that matters is that one day I will have these blog posts to remind of what we were and what we've become. How Sawyer and our family has grown and all the memories in between. I'm even hoping one day that I will get motivated enough to turn them into books. I have a lot of catching up to do so please be patient with me. I'm hoping to be all caught up in a couple of weeks. If any of you are still out there I hope you enjoy catching up with the Balcombe's!
Pumpkin carving and haunted house decorating!
We had our dear friends the Dickerson's over for dinner and pumpkin carving. Tre had never carved a pumpkin before. Crazy right? After dinner we got everything all set up and the guys got to it. Erin and I decided to get the kids a haunted house decorating kit to do while we did pumpkins. As you will see there are no pictures of the kids decorating the haunted house. This is for a number of reasons. 1) the kids were only interested in the haunted house to eat the candy. When we told them no more candy it didn't take them long to find something else to occupy their time. 2) Erin and I may be a little on the controlling side and we may have offered more help then the kids wanted. In the end I think it worked out best for everyone. The kids got to spread some frosting, and eat some candy and Erin and I ended up with a haunted house the way we wanted it to look :) Tre and Paul worked and worked and created some of the best looking pumpkins i've ever seen. We laughed and laughed all night. Hope you enjoy the pics.
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