Horsing Around

Cousin Karley has been in love with horses for a long time now and she now has her very own!  Dave, Shannon, and Karley took the boys for a visit to ride the horse.  Gannon wasn't too sure about this experience, but Garrett went for a ride after some convincing. 

Monarch Butterflies

The Monarch Butterflies visit Pismo from November through April every year.  We have been when the trees are SO full that all you can see is the butterflies.  This is the first time that I remember taking Garrett and Gannon to visit the butterflies.  My parents were down to visit also so they joined us.  It had rained quiet a bit the night before so some of the butterflies can fallen off the tree onto the walking path.  This is where you find out if you have gentle boys or not....our boys are gentle.  They were very careful to watch where they were walking to be sure not to step on a stuck butterfly.  The man would then take them by their wings and place them back on the safest area for them.  It is amazing to see how many there are.  Gannon could even say butterfly by the time we left.

A Night Out

My parents came down to visit for the first time since Dave and I started dating so Dave's sister Shannon said she would watch the boys for us to go enjoy a nice dinner.  When we went to take them to her house she said, "oh, just leave them over night".  Since we don't get a night out very often you think I would be all over this, I wasn't.  I had to think about it over dinner and then we called after to check on them and said okay!  They boys love Aunt Shannon and Uncle Joe and they are always so FUN for the boys.  They had a great time and so did we.

After a nice dinner with my parents we met up with Juan and Heather who were out celebrating her birthday.  We had a few drinks with them at a wine bar before heading to Bill's, a local bar.  Bill's is a crazy little place, lots of freaks and karaoke!  It was a fun night out without having to rush back to relieve a babysitter, we were able to relax and enjoy ourselves!

 Juan and Dave

Heather dancing!

Cousin's Visit

Dave and I had the week of Thanksgiving off so for the first 5 days we headed down to camp at Pismo Sands and we got to spend lots of time with family!  First stop was breakfast with Gramma Toni and then off to visit Dante.  Dante was in shock with my big boys taking over his toys at first.  Gannon was in heaven because Dante had a few big trucks, which he loves.  Garrett had fun with the farm toys and computer toys.  It was so cute, by the end of the visit Dante was mimicking Garrett's actions!  It's always so fun to watch the boys play.

 Not so sure about this visit!

 Gannon in love this with truck!

Gramma Toni and Dante

Oh Bananas!

Gannon has never been a big fan of fruit, but recently has taken to pears, bananas, mandarin oranges, and has always like applesauce.  We didn't think anything of it and starting giving him fruit.  This particular weekend Gannon had bananas for breakfast, a few slices for dinner on Sunday and Monday night he ate almost a whole banana and they had bananas at school on Monday too.  When I picked him up from school on Tuesday this is what he looke like! Oh my, what happened to my baby's face!?!  I called our pediatrician right away and went straight there!  The first thing she asked was, "what did he eat?"  The only thing different in his diet was the bananas.  Holy cow, NO MORE BANANAS!  After two doses of alergy meds he was fine. 

I told the school no bananas for Gannon!  A week or so later, his poor teacher didn't realize the blueberry muffins were made with bananas until after he ate it.  CONFIRMED...no bananas.  He broke out with a few red bumps on his face, but nothing like this.  Add this to our list of no, no's for Gannon!

A Birthday Party

Gannon's little friend from school, Owen, invited him to his 2nd birthday party and boy was it fun to watch them be crazy boys. Just Gannon and I went so it was fun to watch Gannon play with his best buddy from school.  It's amazing how different boys the same age play vs how Garrett and Gannon play.  These two boys are ALL boy and the energy they had was amazing.  Running the entire time.  Owen was interested in the first two presents which were both trucks and after that the two of them just ran around and played.  They literally ran so fast it was hard to get a good picture!!!

 Owen and his truck

 Gannon and the police car

Gannon waiting patiently to enjoy some cake!

The Things I Said I'd Never Do

Before we had kids there were lots of "things I will never do"! Yeah, well once you have them you realize that some of those "things" aren't so bad.  To list a few, watching Barney, eating in the living room, and watching TV in their rooms.

We all know Garrett was addicted to Barney for a good year and a half!  Eating in the living room on the boys picnic table is fun every once in a while. And....

Well, football season is here and since we only have one TV and Daddy wanted quiet time to watch football I decided to watch a movie with the boys in Garrett's room.  I set up the portable DVD player and we enjoyed our movie.  Daddy couldn't resist a picture!