Spooky in September

Pirate party at the Encinitas Library.

At least he is not eating the glue.

So excited for all of the Halloween spook, candy and decor. I am thrilled to display my score from last years 75% off sale at PB kids. I think they had so many left over from last year the decided to sell them again. I love it. The days are already stuffed with treats and fun things to do all month long. Brayden is quite fond of these singing toads to his right. They come with us everywhere. Hopefully the novelty will wear off or the batteries will run out of juice.


This year we are getting a jump start on the Halloween season. Tony is making some wooded lawn ghosts and scary critters, I am making a few things for the house in addition to the costumes. I am rather excited that we have started our projects and costumes early. We are even toying with the idea of having a Halloween party. Hooray!
Sadly we decided we will not be going to San Francisco for our belated anniversary trip. I was going to run my half marathon and Tony was going to cheer me on. Awwwwww... but actually it was a fair trade since we spent the majority of our anniversary night attending a surfboard auction ( but a lovely dinner followed). I was excited for the challenge of the run and have been diligently been running at least one distance run a week. I am running from our house to Seaside which is a milestone for me. The economics were not in our favor. When the cost for 2 days staying in dirty Union Square was exceeding the cost of 2 plane tickets to Hawaii , time to reevaluate the trip. I am fairly confident I can find a local race to sign up for here.

Savoring Summer

We spent the last week of summer doing a lot of hanging around. Realizing a little too late that we live in a home with air conditioning that works fantastic. One of the highlights of our week was a midweek boat BBQ. My dad put their boat in a slip in Oceanside and wanted to BBQ and have Brayden have his first harbor cruise.

His life vest made me nervous. I am pretty sure the coast guards would frown on it. We managed to keep him from climbing overboard. I will be in charge of selecting the vest for the next boat outing instead of my mom. She brought the one that looked the most comfortable.

My dad was THRILLED to finally take his Grandson for a ride. Tony goes fishing with him a lot but it usually takes drinks and food or a trip to Catalina to get the whole family on board.

THE NEW BED.........

The bed rail-the best $30.00 we have spent lately. Brayden and his parents love his big boy bed. (Did I mention Tony made the bed frame for him? I think I did) We obviously take every opportunity we can to point out how fantastic it is to keep the excitement of sleeping IN the bed alive. So far so good. He got a new rug to help hide the hideous green( new to him anyway- Thanks garage sale on Neptune), a new pillow, and gets to use his quilt I made for him before he was born.

A brief demonstration of how you access the top of my bed with the assistance of a friendly whale step stool.

This is right about where I lay down. Right in the middle.

And this is what I think of mom's lame useless pillows. And there is the quilt crumpled on the floor which she slaved over.