November at the Beach

Nothing like a weekend afternoon at the beach in the middle of November without any crazy tourists. Shane's favorite pastime is throwing rocks in the water, the kid is getting a good arm.

Signs of Global Warming

It's pushing 90 degrees in Oceanside this week, for those of you keeping score at home it's hotter now than it is in July.

To fight the heat we spent Monday wandering through Disneyland's many climate controlled rides. The heat made it feel like summertime at the park, just without the swarms of foreigners and sweaty overweight tourists from middle America. In fact I counted a grand total of 20 people walking on Main Street in the afternoon.

As much as I love warm weather even I think Christmas decorations are odd during 90 degree weather

We stayed late to watch Fantasmic and Shane stayed awake until about 5 minutes before it started. He was so tired even the fireworks couldn't wake him up.

New Blog Title

In the past I have had a few people ask me about our blog title "It All Begins In September". Shane, Ken and I all have birthdays in September so for our family that is when the holiday season begins. Once birthdays are done it seems like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year are just around the corner. However, with a new addition coming to our family in May, I thought it was only fair that they not be excluded.

Halloween

Only a 14 day gap in between blog posts, that's pretty good for us. Shane dressed up like Woody from Toy Story for Halloween, it looked great but I'm convinced that there's no reason for a 3 year old to have such a complex costume. When I was a kid my cowboy costume was an old pair of pajamas and a hat. Shane had a great time for about 10 houses then decided he was over walking and too scared to walk up to the decorated houses. Like any good parents we kept dragging him around, mostly out of our selfish desire for more candy, and the payoff was excellent. Here's a few shots of our Halloween festivities

Sheriff Woody

Making Halloween Cookies

Shane was not a fan of cleaning out the pumpkins, he said the pumpkin guts were "disgusting"

Shane and his "Pirate Skeleton" pumpkin

In case there was any concern about us becoming Padres fans...