The Beach!

58 degrees + blue sky + warm sunshine + slight breeze = fall beach day!

Raking Leaves?

We spent much of the afternoon raking leaves. But was it really raking? Last year, Maya and Kai decided to use shovels to "rake" their leaves. This year, they were even more creative and used a broom and croket mallet. Who knew how effective these two tools could be to gather leaves into a pile.

After the front yard was finished, Maya begged to rake the back yard. Oh how I wish Dom and I shared this same enthusiasm towards household tasks and yard work.

FYI, Maya's arm is fine. She just happened to be sporting an ace bandage because she wanted a pretend "broken arm" today.

Happy Halloween!

Well, it wasn't as warm as last year, but at least the long stretch of rain stopped in plenty of time to allow for some fun trick or treating.

As you can see in the pics, Maya was a beautiful princess bride (donning a recycled version of Jen's prom dress from high school), and Kai was a handsome fire fighter.

Considering Kai just had surgery earlier this week, he spent most of the time cruising in the wagon, getting out at each house to get his candy.

After one time around the block, Kai was ready to go inside to warm up and play with his trains. Maya, however, insisted on handing out candy with Daddy and Uncle Rick.

Maya and Her Pink Teeth!

Soccer Mania!

This was Maya's first time ever playing "formal" soccer. She had a blast! We too got a kick out of watching 8 kids chasing a ball around the field. Her very young team made so much progress during the season and really had a great time out on the field. Maya can't wait unti the Spring season.

Handy Manny and the Pumpkins!

Today, Maya and Kai pretended that they were Handy Manny as they "fixed" their pumpkins by driving golf tees into them using their toy hammers. Maya even decided to make patterns using her golf tees (you know the kind...red, black, orange, white...red, black, orange, white). Needless to say, this activity offered many minutes of entertainment.

Afterwards, they ran around the yard and played with leaves. Oh how I love beautiful, warm, fall days.

On the Horse Trail!

I actually took these pics while riding Sunny. They are all of the back of Collen and Kai on Rain. Maya and I were just steps behind. I think the trail is just beautiful!