Jack’s Birthday Part 2…

Jack invited his school friends to the party.  Cameron:

 

Montana and Ian:

 

Cousin Aiden:

 

Winston:

 

Finn and Ry:

 

Madelyn:

 

Taylor:

 

Chance:

 

Madison:

 

Owen and PJ:

Jack’s Birthday Part 1…

Aya and I  were debating…have Jack’s party at a park or some place indoors?   The problem with bdays in November is that you don’t know if it will rain.   In the past, the weekends have been great…but we didn’t want to take a chance and good thing because it rained on Jack’s birthday party.

This year Jack made the guest list and we had his birthday at Giggles n Hugs in Century City.

 

Spiderman Themed party:

 

Make a wish:

 

Jack also requested a cotton candy machine for his party:

Venice Pirates…

We jumped right from one team to another team.  Now Jack is playing for the Venice Pirates:

 

Unfortunately, by joining the Pirates that means now I have to coach Jack’s team.   Jack is now on a Kindergarten team with 10 boys.  I feel like we didn’t have enough time to prepare for the season.  I just got a boy added the day before our first game.   I was a bit nervous because 1/2 the boys can’t throw the ball up into the 8 ft basket and Jack played HORRIBLY in the last season.   Even though I was nervous I had a good feeling about the boy and Jack for our first game.   We scored early and two boys who never reach the basket in practice scored the first two buckets.

Jack came in to lead the second group and Jack played like a champ!!   He scored his FIRST basket ever!!! 

 

 

Granted we played a girls team but Jack kept attacking and ended up leading the team in scoring with 10 points!!

The Venice Pirates 2011:

Fury…

Jack had his last game with the Fury.   Jack played in the first grade division (he is on the younger side for first grade) and we held Jack back so he is in Kindergarten.  Unfortunately Jack didn’t do very well with the Fury.  Jack wasn’t as aggressive as the other kids.  Jack was happy dribbling and passing the ball but was never aggressive on offensive to shoot. 

He was way to rough on defense as he got 4 fouls in 5 minutes.  He should have fouled out 3-4 times but the referee didn’t want him to foul out in the last game.

At least Jack took this ONE shot in the last game….umm….yeah….not good:

 

Oh well, at least they all get trophies and snacks, that made Jack a happy camper!

Halloween Part 6…

It seemed pretty quiet in my parents neighborhood for Halloween this year but that didn’t stop us from being the first ones out:

 

Jack and Stacy had a great time.  Jack couldn’t wait and was off from house to house gathering as much candy as he could.  Stacy was trying her best to keep up and insisted on walking the 3 blocks just like her brother:

 

Aunty Dawn and Uncle Bryan went out with us during our trick o’treat run:

 

 

Not a bad haul for a few blocks!!   Way too much candy for these 2 kids!!

Halloween Part 5…

We got a pre-trick o treat at work as EA lets you bring your kids to work the Friday before Halloween to get candy.   It is a good 'practice’ run to dress up Stacy and have her get candy from ‘strangers’.  Stacy was great and had no problems walking up to people to get candy.  She was dressed up as a ‘wow-wow’  (her stuffed animal dog) this year:

 

 

Jack dressed up as Swampfire from the Ben10 cartoon.  No one knew who Jack dressed up as:

 

Afterwards, Jack came and hung out in my cubicle for a bit:

 

Stacy got jealous and she wanted to sit in the chair and ‘work’ too:

 

Halloween Part 4…

We all gathered at Grandpa and Grandmas the day before Halloween to carve our pumpkins.   Grandpa helped Jack carve his Jack-o-Lantern:

 

Hmm, who knew….I had a timer on my camera and we took a great picture on our first try!! 

 

Displaying all of our masterpieces:

 

I think my Elmo and Scary face look the best:

Halloween Part 3…

We couldn’t leave the pumpkin patch without getting our faces painted.  Jack went with the usual Batman:

 

Stacy got her face painted for the first time as well with a small flower.  She was more afraid of the face painter than the animals!

 

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween Part 2…

The local pumpkin patch had a small petting zoo.  I didn’t think the kids would want to go, but Stacy really seems to like animals and she wanted to go and pet them.  Jack didn’t really want to go but when he saw Stacy go then he came as well.  Jack showing Stacy the rabbit:

 

Stacy was following around the chicken, yelling ‘bok-bok-chicken’:

 

Jack was a little nervous feeding the animals:

 

I dunno what this animal was:

 

Stacy and the goat:

 

Stacy was following the rabbit all around the cage.  She didn’t want to leave.  I really was amazed at how much Stacy took to the animals and really liked feeding and petting the animals.     We could have stayed in the petting zoo all day…but Jack didn’t like the animals and I thought they smelled so I was glad to leave the petting zoo too.

Halloween Part 1…

Man, going to the pumpkin patch brought back flashbacks from last year when I stubbed my toe and broke my big toe nail.   Needless to say I was very careful when walking around this year.

The Giant Pumpkin:

 

Mini Giant Pumpkin:

 

Wheeeeeee…..

 

Pumpkins!!

Vacation Part 12…

It may seem like Jack was the only one in the pool but Stacy was out there trying to do everything brother was doing.  Unfortunately she was not allowed on the water slide but Stacy just liked being in the sun:


Striking her pouty pose:


Making her own pool:


The good thing about travelling during school and off peak times…less people!  Stacy had the whole kiddie pool to herself:


Make in rain:


No real dolphin but at least nice pretty painted dolphins!


Ahhh…vacation!!  So sad to come back home….but it was great 2 weeks!!