A Beautiful Weekend

On Thursday my Mom and Jesse drove down and picked us up, and we headed west to Carpinteria State Beach for the weekend. We had a lovely time! We could not have asked for better weather (sunny and 75 degrees) and as always we enjoyed spending time with "Grandma" and "Grandpa Jesse".

Gathering wet sand for a little sandcastle-making

Busy at work

Jonathan was intrigued by the water and would smile and giggle when the water touched him.

I love this picture of my mom! She looks so happy and it will always remind me of her and Jonathan's giggles that could be heard from my chair on the beach.

The weather was so nice and warm the boys actually got sunburned cheeks! (despite their hats and sunscreen)

Digging with Daddy


Jonathan loved toddling around on the beach...he'd follow all the seabirds calling out, "Doggie, doggie..."

Aden spent a lot of his playtime "mowing the lawn" both at the beach and at the campsite

Beautiful Carpinteria

On Friday night we let Aden stay up late so he could roast marshmallows and make s'mores with the grown-ups. He was so excited to eat the marshmallows that he would hold his stick over the fire for 2 seconds then say, "It's all done!" at which time he would pull it off and shove the whole thing in his mouth. Needless to say, his s'more making experience never made it past the marshmallows. Maybe next year he'll get to experience s'mores in their full glory.

Looking out the window of the motorhome at cars passing by

My monkey boys crawling on Grandma

Halloween Fun

Surprisingly Jonathan was really into the pumpkin carving. He had fun playing with the "guts" and carrying around the lids to the pumpkins. He also (as you'll see in the video) enjoyed toddling around with the jack-o-lantern cut outs in his mouth.

Aden wore the cutest little chicken costume and he had a great time trick-or-treating!

Jonathan missed his afternoon nap and was ready for bed by the time we were leaving to go trick-or-treating. Poor guy, he was SO tired and was having a meltdown in this picture because he didn't want Grandma to set him down. Unfortunately we didn't get many pictures of him in his adorable elephant costume.

All done with trick-or-treating and ready to transition from costumes to jammies.

Jonathan discovered that he can fit through the doggie door at my mom's house. He thought it was the best thing ever! I can't tell you how many times this kid ventured back and forth through this thing! Aden kept saying, "Jonathan's a really silly boy. He went in the pet door!" I'm sure Aden wished he could fit through it too since the garage houses really cool things like the lawn mower and Grandpa's "mokeycycle".