September

Had lots of fun playing with shaving cream this summer.  After the first time it occurred to me to contain the mess somehow, and our inflatable pool worked wonderfully!  Slippery, but fun. :) 

(Note to those who want to try it: buy the Sensitive Skin shave cream so it doesn't bother their skin!)

Was very surprised and sort of grossed out to discover a lizard hanging out in our Zucchini plant last month.  I was moving the large leaves looking for zucchini to pick and saw this (below), and thought "Hmm, that looks like a different texture than a zucchini"... then I noticed the little foot, moved another leaf to see the rest of the tail, and yet another leaf and saw an eyeball looking up at me!  I ran and grabbed my neighbor and she tried to help me catch him, but we didn't have any luck.  He was much too fast.  Not sure where he came from, but the guy that works at the WOW museum said it sounded to him like an alligator lizard, and that they bite!  Maybe its a good thing we didn't catch him!

The boys happy to see daddy after he returned from ten days in Panama and Colombia.

Play date at Peterson Park.  Boys will be boys - they love to play in the dirt!

Making eyes like binoculars...

We were offered some Giants tickets and decided to take the boys for their first game!  It was fun, we had great seats in the Field Club level (?) and the boys actually sat through the Will Mac Award Ceremony and the first two innings of the game.

The backpack leash was perfect for keeping Landon close by!

Our church had a Family Camp weekend, camping and activities out on someone's property in Clements.  Our first 'camping' trip with the boys.  Lots of fun, next to no sleep!

Landon feeding the horses

Sunday morning church in the country

When the garbage truck comes while the boys are still awake (ours usually comes around lunch or nap time) they love to sit on the front porch and watch him.

Jimmy took Caleb to get a new bike a few weeks ago.  He was so excited that after laying in his bed for about 20 minutes he came out and said "Mommy did I sleep long enough?  Can we put my bike together now?"  I knew a nap would be a lost cause at that point, so he excitedly helped Jimmy put it together and was all smiles as he rode it for the next THREE AND A HALF HOURS!

One of Landon's silly expressions...

When Jimmy's September travels were finally done he and I took a much needed overnight trip to San Francisco to celebrate a belated 6th Anniversary.  It was the first overnight trip we have done since kids (I know, some of you are wondering how we've made it this long without doing that...).  Now that we know what we were missing we will hopefully be doing them more regularly!  It was SO nice to get away and enjoy a yummy dinner together at Kokkari (thanks Steve!!).

First time across the new span of the Bay Bridge!  Neat to see them side by side since it won't be like that forever!

It poured all the way to the City so we weren't sure what we would be able to do once we got there, but luckily the rain passed and we ended up checking out the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.  It was really cool, even for adults.  Going to keep an eye out for Groupon deals there (let me know if you see any!) for a fun winter weather day trip!

I always love to see the jelly fish at aquariums - they are such amazing looking creatures.  So cool that we have such a creative Creator. :)  These ones had color-changing lights shining on them.

View from the apartment that our friends let us stay at - Golden Gate way in the distance.

Our special dessert at Kokkari.  They treated us very well and we left STUFFED!

Beautiful morning for a breakfast outdoors

JImmy reading Caleb the book we bought them from Academy of Sciences, a Dr. Seuss series one called "Hark, A Shark!"

 Landon likes to bring out half of his bed with him when he wakes up in the morning...

Trying on silly Halloween wigs at Target:

Mommy is getting more and more comfortable letting her boys play in dirt. :_  This is a mound at the neighbor's house across the street that we had fun gathering sticks and digging around in.

Check out Landon's dirt shiner from rubbing dirty hands on his eyes.

 Felt artsy one afternoon so we did a few fall art projects

Argh!!!