Happy Halloween!

What a great day! We started the morning at Soccer, followed by Donuts! How can that be bad! From there we hung out until the Ward Trunk-or-Treat this evening. And although it was a pretty small gathering, the kids still had fun and Lincoln collected enough candy to keep his Daddy happy for awhile! :)
As we were trying to figure out what to do about a costume this year, we just couldn't find anything "cute" that fit our little boys personality! But then I came across a UPS Delivery Truck costume online, and I thought that was the perfect fit. (For those of you who don't know Justin works at UPS!) So I ordered it online and it came quite awhile ago, just waiting to be opened.
But for some reason, I started thinking I needed something else to make it really "pop". So I decided it would be fun to try and turn his wagon into a UPS truck. Of course I did not think of the idea weeks ago, so instead had to make this thought a reality today. But considering, I think it came out great! (It went even better once my Mom and sister stopped by and gave me the idea to go over the top instead of all the way around! That was soooooo much easier!!) And it really did make the "outfit"! I also made him a box to act as his Trick-or-Treat bag. Overall, I think it turned out great!

Nevada Day=Fun!

Can I say I love Nevada Day! Always have! Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the celebration of said day always fell on Halloween as a child growing up, which meant a vacation day was in store. (Which many times meant a quick trip to Disneyland to take advantage of much smaller crowds-since not everyone gets Nevada Day off!) And now as an Adult it still means I get a day off of work right around Halloween! We did not plan a trip to Disneyland but we still had a great day.
Lincoln woke up at 4 in the morning, so that wasn't the best start to the day. But luckily, he did go back to sleep so I got to sleep in a little bit past my usual 4:45 wake up time! We met Justins family at Claim Jumpers for Lunch-love their pretzels!! If you have never had one, don't! It's better that way, because once you have them no pretzel is ever good enough again. It is kind of like pizza. If you have never had New York Pizza, you don't realize just how bad all other pizza is! :)
It is always fun to spend time with family. And Aunt Donna and Uncle Alex love spending time with the boy. I imagine they like the rest of us too, but Lincoln is generally the center of everyone's attention!
After lunch we headed out to Floyd Lamb State park. Justin and I had not been back there since taking our engagement pictures. Quite a bit has changed since then, but it's still pretty much the same as it has been. We brought a ton of bread to feed the ducks. And what started out as a fun adventure for Lincoln turned into a feeding frenzy!! You would think those animals had not eaten in months! If it had just been ducks it would not have been bad, but with the large number of geese that we attracted, everyone had to retreat to the table tops, just to get away from them! It was crazy how many of those dang birds we attracted. Lincoln wasn't too scared of them, but he wasn't too excited when they tried to eat out of his hands. It did not take those birds long to eat every piece of bread we had brought!
We took a kite with us, but did not even bother to get it out of the car considering their really was no wind. I swear this town has the strangest weather! One day the wind gusts are up to 65 miles per hour, the next the temperature soars into the high seventies. It's just weird!

Mr. Jack-o-Lantern

We found an awesome Pumpkin at Costco a few weeks back and have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to turn it into a Jack-O-Lantern! We thought about it doing it earlier this week, but it was extremely cold and windy. (Okay, not as cold as some places, but cold enough to not want to stand outside carving pumpkins!)
So today was the first time that we were both home without anything pressing on our time and the weather was cooperating. So we went ahead with the carving process. Now Lincoln has been engrossed with his Pumpkin ever since it came home with him, but he was not too sure about touching the innards! The only reason it looks like he might be helping is he wanted to hold the tools. But if we are being honest, Daddy did all the work. Well, Mommy cut off the top and pulled out some of the guts, but generally Daddy did do most of the work.
We had a few different books of possible pumpkin carvings to choose from, but then decided they were all a little small for this giant pumpkin in front of us, and Lincoln really did not have that much of an opinion about what to do. We even contemplated carving two or three different ones all around the pumpkin-which I am glad to say we opted against!
Finally, we decided to just do a run of the mill Jack-o-Lantern. We asked Lincoln what shapes he wanted for eyes, the nose and the mouth. Which he is used to because he goes online with Aunt Rina and builds "virtual" pumpkins quite a bit! So he chose triangles for the eyes, a circle or oval for the mouth and a happy mouth with "teef"!! According to Lincoln, it is a cute pumpkin!

My Little Soccer Stud

We signed Lincoln up for the Fall soccer season and he has been playing since September. He loves soccer, but sometimes he is not much of a fan of the actual "practice" and "play with others" part of soccer. But he is only 2, so I guess it is to be expected. He is amazingly coordinated for a two year old. He can run and keep the ball with him as he goes, so in my book that is pretty good for a two year old.

My Poor Neglected Blog

Man, what a slacker I am. I guess I have been enjoying my summer so much, I have not taken the time to actually post the goings on for over a month! And now I am back at work and so there will be no more fun to speak of! At least not for awhile. I think I better gear up for crazy mode again! Opening a school is just one problem after another, on top of the normal set up that needs to occur to get a school rolling in the first place. Anyway, we did do some fun things since July so I will try and make it back here and tell you a little bit about it. But right now I am exhausted and I have no idea where my camera is. And it would not be fun to tell you about our activities without some pictures to go along with the story. I hope everyone else has not been as neglectful as I have!

Seeing Shamu

Since we wanted to pick up a few things at IKEA to help with storage at Nana's house, we decided to make a weekend of it. (It is pretty sad that we don't have an IKEA here in town, or maybe it's a good thing we don't. I think I could spend a lot of money there.) Anyway, we headed down to San Diego Friday after work for a short weekend trip. And since we had Lincoln with us, we decided it was time to introduce him to Shamu.
I have actually only been to the Sea World in Florida, so this was my first trip to the San Diego park as well. I love all the shows they offer. It is so interesting to see how different animals can be trained. Lincoln enjoyed the Pet Show the most I think, but he was also really into the whales during the Shamu show as well. He also was enthralled by the Walrus and the fact hat there was Popcorn everywhere! :) He was not too sure about the whole getting wet thing. And I was extremely glad that we had seats a little higher and to the left than some other rather unfortunate audience members when we watched the dolphin show.
Overall, we had a great time at the park. It was a pretty nice day considering it was the middle of the summer- not too hot and not too crowded. Plus we had plenty of time after to make our way to IKEA to pick up a few closet organizers and doors for the Food Storage area we are trying to build at Nana's.

Should have known better!

Over the past couple of days Lincoln has decided it is pretty funny to take off his own diaper, pretty much whenever he feels like it. Especially, if his pants have already been removed for whatever reason. So I should have known better than to take his pants off today after church. But he just looked hot, and I really did not think to much about it.
Well, after dinner Justin and I were cleaning up in the Kitchen. Everything was pretty much done and I had started on making some shortcake, so Justin went into the front room. And what he found was totally disgusting! Lincoln had decided to take his diaper off, the problem was that the diaper in question was full of "poop"! Now let's just say that Justin does not do well with messy diapers, so when he found Lincoln covered in his own feces, I was afraid I was going to have two messes to clean up!!
I rushed Lincoln up to the tub and cleaned him off, while Justin gagged his way through the cleanup in the Living Room! I am hoping we can save his beanbag, but that is yet to be determined! Maybe I need to seriously consider this potty training thing! I just don't want to start to early! But if he is going to take his diaper off, he needs to know that he just can not go to the bathroom where ever he wants!