Halloween (I know I'm late....)

We had a great Halloween this year. Makes me laugh just looking at these pictures.

Here we are at our annual Family Halloween Party at Grandma Jean's. Everyone keeps their costume a surprise and then.. we all laugh our heads off at the party that night.

My Hilarious SISTERS!!!

Heidi, Stephani, me, Kari & Lindsay

Isabel dressed up as a fairy

Sophia was the Little Mermaid

Savannah was a cat

Here we are eating lunch at one of my favorite places, the Old Spaghetti Factory.

Izzy's school had a fun costume parade.

All in all it was a great Halloween this year, prefect weather, crazy costumes and tons of candy.

a weekend in the BIG APPLE

ahhh, I don't know quite where to start. I GOT TO GO TO NYC LAST WEEKEND! I'm still a little shocked and amazed it all happened. Heidi, Monica and I decided to go see our friend Miki who lives out there and it happened to work out on my birthday.

So what a great way to celebrate!

Saturday Morning we took a run/walk all through central park and had breakfast. It was sooo beautiful, the leaves were changing & all the colors were so bright.

Here we are in Brooklyn.

Me, Miki, Heidi, Monica

It was so fun seeing Miki. She is a big time editor for the NY Times.

She does their travel pieces, I want her life!!! =)
Skyline of Manhattan.. hmmmm beautiful

Miki loves food as much as I do... and we ate some of the best food I've ever had. This cafe was called Little Giants in Soho. I ordered duck.. wow. it was so good, I wanted to cry.

I wanted to take pictures of all my food.

On Sunday we went to the Brooklyn Flea Market. It was under the Brooklyn Bridge and had tons of cool vendors. Here we are eating again..

Martha Stewart was there too, She was checking out all the amazing street food vendors. I was surprised at how nice she was. wow. I've always heard the opposite. but she couldn't have been nicer. We're going to be on her show in NOV!


yes, I did take a picture of some of my lunch. This was insane. ahhh so good. At the booth of Salvatore Bklyn--an vendor that makes its own ricotta cheese--little toasts with serrano ham, arugula, and peppered fresh mozzarella sell for a mere $3, and olive oil is poured over the top at the last minute. I wanted 10 of these, but I held myself back.

Miki lives in the upper West side. I loved her neighborhood. She has a really cool place. Thanks for having us Miki, we had the BEST time ever!!!!

Heidi, Miki, Me

we did a ton of shopping... ahhh

here we are sitting to take a break.

I loved the subway! we got lost the first day a few times and I couldn't believe how NICE everyone was. People were constantly helping us find our way.

Heidi & Heather

Here we drank milk chocolate at Mariebelle 's
too sweet for me, but it was good.

Here we are on the Staten Island Ferry. We got to see the Statue of Liberty!

getting ready to shop on Canal Street.

There was so much to see, I feel like it was hard to take it all in. I needed at least another week there. There were so many cool sights. I absolutely loved NY!!!

Thanks Ryan for watching the girls so I could go & Thanks again Miki for letting us crash at your place and for entertaining us all weekend!

I'll never forget it.

Isabel's Baptism

Our little Izzy got baptized this month! I can't believe she's 8 already. We had a really special day celebrating here baptism. Thanks to all our family and friends who came to support Isabel!

Our family means to the world to us!!!

Isabel and Grandma Hill & Grandpa and Grandma Konold

G & G Konold came all the way from San Diego to be there!

Quinn and Savannah

Kathy & G. Hill, Grandma Jean and my mom Karen

everyone came over to our house after for a big luncheon

Becca, Stacy & G. Jean.

I love these two!!! They are amazing women!

American Girls Store

While we were in San Diego this last month Kathy took all the girls to the new American Girls Doll store in LA. We had the best time. I can't believe all the fun things they had for the girls to do. I thought my Izzy and Sophie were going to hyperventilate.. they we're so excited about EVERYTHING!!! Thanks Kathy we had the best time!

Elly, Grandma Kathy, Izzy & Sophie

Here we are eating at the American Girls Cafe. we had so much FUN!

Now that summer is coming to a close, maybe I'll be a better blogger.. I'm hoping anyway.

Our family just got back from a fun vacation at our home away from home -SAN DIEGO. Ryan's family lives down there and we LOVE anytime we get to see them and enjoy paradise there.

We did so many fun things while we were there. We were there for almost two weeks so

to save you some time & boredom I'll just sharing some of our highlights. =)
Here we are at the San Diego Zoo. My girls love the zoo- especially with Grandma Kathy because she knows every last, little detail about EVERY animal. (i want to be you Kathy)

our family

Uncle Tyson, Savannah, Uncle Quinn and Ryan at the Zoo

We got to spend a whole day at Magic Mtn. (while Kathy watched our kids)

We had soo much fun. It's been a while since I've rode all those huge, crazy roller coasters. We had the best time- until we went on a ride called "log jammers" that got us so wet.

thanks Kathy for watching the kids!)

Quinn, Tanner, Mike D, Tyson,Cameron, Me, Nanna, Izzy, Alex & Ryan

My favorite part of the whole trip was just hanging out at Ryan's house with everyone. We loved playing around the world ping pong while Tyson played some good tunes. Happiness

Another fun day, we met up with our good friends the KANES.

We spent the day at the beach together. The girls had so much fun playing.. and I loved every minute catching up with Brooke. I miss her soooo much!

Claire, Meredith and Izzy

Annie and Savannah

such cute little friends.

I'm really sad that they aren't our neighbors anymore.

At least we get to see them every time we go to Cali.

Here's Grandpa and Savannah at our favorite taco shop. so cute. Tim is such a FUN, spend every second with his family kind of Grandpa.

We love and miss YOU!

Quinn, Ryan and Tanner swimming

my beach girls

We went to the beach a lot this trip and I still couldn't get enough.

loved it.

I still have more pictures from the trip and more days to ramble on about so I'll post more tomorrow.

THANKS TIM AND KATHY FOR SUCH A GREAT TIME.

Happy 8th Birthday Isabel!

short trip to Vegas...

Heidi & Heather

This past week I got to go stay with my twin sister in Vegas. Ryan had to go to scout camp, so I decided to take the girls to see their cousins. We had such a FUN time. Anytime we get together whether we're just hanging out & talking or chasing all the kids.. we have the BEST time.

I love every minute we get to spend together!

I though this place was soo pretty, it's close to Heidi's house.

One night we went to the strip and had dinner. We were laughing so hard because there was street dancer, all painted gold that gave me a huge hug... I wish I had a picture of it. Thanks Todd for watching the kids so we could have such a fun night!

Heidi's Noah.. such cutie.

I think it's pretty bizarre that she has 3 boys and I have 3 girls.. we need to switch things around because I want a boy so bad.. specially this one!

Jake, Izzy, Sophie and Savannah

Vegas has the best parks. I'm not kidding, this one was huge with water toys and everything. The kids had so much fun. After we went swimming at the YMCA.

saying good-bye is always so hard for me..

I wish they lived closer.. hopefully they'll move up here sometime soon!

Thanks Heidi and Todd for everything. We had such a fun time.