10-30-2013

brenny's pumpkin!
he told me all about how he made the humpty-dumpty arms by folding them back and forth

10-28-2013

 my students were playing snakes and ladders
with the game cards that i made that have QR codes to show the answers.
although it took quite a bit of time to prepare, it was lots of fun!
here are some of them hard at work!

10-27-2013

a couple of sj friends came over to carve pumpkins with me

sam had car trouble and mary's son had an accident at work with the meat cutter so they couldn't make it.

10-26-2013

went to chuck e cheese for the birthday party of two TK twins.  mom met their mom (who's filipina) at school.

10-25-2013

peri-girl seemed to miss her daddy, and came up on the bed with me

so i thought i'd take some close up pictures of her 

 snarl!  the missing tooth of hers always causes a snarl-y look.

 then the boys came up together to read a book.
brenny's library books was called "diary of a worm"

10-24-2013

 chs homecoming game vs. la mirada
matthew went with me; he had to pose with PAWS (club) for attending the game

christina and i, after successfully selling 254 50/50 tickets during the first half of the game.  whew! it was hard work.

10-23-2013

trying the grenache blanc i picked up from the wilson winery on sunday

 brennan picked this up while biking around the cul-de-sac

 so serious!
he can't wait for halloween to dress up like this to go out!

10-22-2013

brennan's awesome art project!

 my new talon (sp?) splint

10-21-2013

10-20-2013

i know, i know, it's too soon after the full marathon to have another race!  =P

but i couldn't pass up the deal because it was $55 for TWO entries and pascale splurged for the wine tasting at $10 more.  

we left for temecula at 5am, since it's almost 90 minutes away...

 it was really cold when we got there (40-ish?) but once the sun rose, the temperature started to climb.

 there were hot air balloons in the air!

 i took this while running, so it wasn't too clear.

 one of the long inclines...

 another one

 pascale finishes!

 woo-hoo!

 here we are resting, with our wines

 then this peach bellini slushie was quite delish!

10-19-2013

 i downloaded a new app for the boys, this one is called 'my storybook'
kids can create their own book using this app!
very cute.
so he started making one called, 'mama and brennan', by brennan.
LOVE IT!

 then i went to go visit allison for a short while.
she had her baby girl, emma jane, last week 10/14/2013.

danny boy and i were looking at her, waiting for her to open her eyes for me.
i forget how small newborn babies are.  *sigh*

 then of course benny wanted to see himself in the camera, too!

 here she is, trying to wake up because i un-swaddled her!
precious!!!

 aww, look at her.  isn't she ADORABLE??
and she had dimples!  ;)

 eventually she started crying...
i'm not mommy!  so off she went back to mommy, and i think she was getting hungry...

 (man, i gotta do something about my awful bangs.  haircut?!)

 i had to keep all these pictures because you can see emma's expression changing in each one.  =D