Friday, November 11, 2011

Disneyland, Day 1

In August of 2010, my mom called me to say she (or rather my grandparents) had found a great deal on a cruise.  It was supposed to be an Education Week at Sea, and the best part was that it was free!  (we had to pay taxes and shore excursions, but that was it!)  We booked it and have been so excited to go.  However, in September of this year we got a letter from the travel agency saying that because of Civil Unrest in Mazatlan, they could no longer offer the cruise for free.  We had to choose a different vacation to go on, so we all got together and decided to go to Disneyland!!  It was no relaxing cruise, but we still had a lot of fun.  The kids did really well in the car, and Zachary absolutely loved Disneyland.  Daphne liked it as long as Grandma was holding her and she got to do whatever she wanted, but we'll just say that I'm never taking an 18-month old to Disneyland again....




The "neighs" was by far Daphne's favorite ride.  It was the first thing she saw, and I think she rode it over 30 times through the three days....

Neil wanted to get a panning shot while on the carousel.  I think it turned out pretty cool!

Wow, look at those Elephants!!!



The kids started to get cranky, so we searched for some French Fries and of course they were happy


The kids loved the little petting zoo (which I didn't even know existed!)

Hi, goat, how are you today?


Since it was Halloween, they had some cool pumpkins

Classic!!!

On the train, one of their favorites!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween

I have kind of lame pictures from Halloween this year, but that is not because we didn't have a great Halloween!  It was just kind of a crazy month...  We started carving pumpkins, but once we got our home-grown pumpkin hollowed out and realized it was 4 inches thick, we kind of bagged that idea.  I did use the pumpkin to put cute little newborns in, though :) 


This pumpkin was so thick that we almost broke a few knives trying to get the lid off!


Daphne had fun making animal sounds while we were carving


This is my little Nephew Anthony, who did not really appreciate me putting him in a pumpkin!


We went to a Halloween party as well as our trunk-or-treat this year, so here's the pictures I got from those:






Sunday, October 16, 2011

Sibling Love

I needed some pictures of my kids for a project I am doing, so we headed outside the other day to take some.  After bribing them with cookies, I actually got them to sit by each other!




Love this one!


Pigtails=pure cuteness!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Expectant Mother Pics

My sister-in-law is going to have her first baby in a couple of weeks, and so last weekend we got together and took a few maternity pictures. It was lots of fun, and hopefully I'm getting better with my photography as I try to take more and more pictures....