Harvest Carnival

As I predicted, the Harvest Carnival (although fun) was way too much for my son. He was so excited he did not know what to do with himself. He just has way too much energy, I can barely keep up. As tired as I am now, I'm glad that he got to have fun. Afterall it only happens once a year. This is one of the times when I wish Brent was around so we can take turns running after Aaron. Here is Aaron with this Buzz costume. Isn't he cute? One of his friends kept trying to push the buttons on his costume.
Here we are in line for the Daniel and the Lion's den maze. I was supposed to be helping in there, but I knew I would have my hands full with Aaron, so I passed. I actually never got to see the inside because as soon as we went in, Aaron freaked out so we had to leave.

Here is pic of me and Royce. He is like the brother I never had.
Here is me and Lizette. We came dressed as moms. ;-) We even brought kids to be props for our costumes j/k. This may be the first picture of us together. Our cameras are usually pointed at our kids.

Candy! Candy! Candy!

There were so much candy at the Harvest Festival! They were giving us handfuls and handfuls of candy at each booth. When we got home, we dumped it all out on the floor and Aaron practicaly rolled around in it! Like mother like son. Just kidding... I don't really do that. ;-)

Pumpkin Patch Today, Harvest Carnival Tomorrow!

Today we went to two different pumpkin patches. Aaron was so excited to see all the "punkins". He got to ride on some rides too! We are very excited to go to the Harvest Carnival tomorrow!

Gymboree Halloween Party

Here is my attempt to get a good picture. This kid refuses to sit still!
Showing off his muscles to the other Buzz Lightyears in the room. (There were three.)

As Aaron's last day in Gymboree, I signed him up to attend a Halloween party. I figured that it will get him excited for the upcoming Harvest Carnival on Halloween night. The kids were all dressed in thier costumes. They got to play games, eat snacks, and took home some goodies. We had a lot of fun in Gymboree, but we will not be attending for a while since Aaron and I will be returning home pretty soon.

October 26, 2003 (Four years ago)

Happy Birthday Isa!

We had a surprise birthday party tonight for Isa. Everyone made "pretend" plans to go out to eat after church. But everyone except Lester went! So Isa thought that we all ditched her and did not care about spending time with her on her birthday. Little did she know that we were all at her house decorating and getting ready for her suprise party! By the time she got home, she was sad and depressed... but then she got really happy when we all jumped out and surprised her!

Getting ready for winter!

It's getting cold! We are getting excited to spend our very first winter and Christmas here in the states. I can't believe that we spent the last 5 winters in Okinawa. We were blessed during the holidays over there, but we're pretty excited to spend Christmas here! I just about flipped out when I saw all the Christmas stuff out at Walmart! It seemed like forever that I've been limited to the stuff available at our base exchange store. There's so much stuff to choose from to decorate with and shop for!

Some random pics of Aaron

A day with the Reedy family

A couple of weeks ago, Aaron and I were able to drive down to see our friends: Debbie, Rachel, Andrew, and Julia. We know the Reedy family from Okinawa. Debbie's husband is also in Iraq. We had a good time eating together, and catching up with what's happening in our lives. I couldn't believe how big their kids have gotten. I used to babysit them before I had Aaron. Oh... the memories! I was blessed to see them, and I know we will see more of them in the days to come.