Labor Day Weekend Beach trip

We had family up from California so we all went to the beach on Sunday.  What a great day, aside from the weather.  It was suppose to be in the 70s and it was in the mid 50s, but we had fun anyways!

Zoe looking at the Sea lions

The kids showing off their suckers

Chase

Steve & Chase burying Zoe

Brianna

Chase digging a big hole

Grandma Shirley & Aunt Connie (Sisters)

Zoe throwing sand at Grandma after she put her in the water

Running from the waves

Playing in the sand

Steve trying to throw me in the Ocean

crazy boy the water was freezing!

Zoe after rolling in the sand

Little Mermaids!

Zoe & Brianna both got their Halloween costumes today.  They both wanted to be Little Mermaids.  Here they are!  Brianna is my cousins little girl.  Their up from California for the weekend!

Were all ready for school here!

So my long list of things to do before school starts is finally done!  We visited Zoe's classrom on Wednesday and her teacher visited later with us at our home.   She has a great teacher and I'm looking forward to what this year will bring.  She's in her last year of preschool.  Thursday  I took all the boys to get a haircut.  They all fussed about it not wanting their hair cut short especially Parker.  So we compromised and I think they all are happy now.  Then we were off to drop off school supplies at their school.  They both got to say Hi to their teacher and put their supplies away.  They also got to see which kids were going to be in their class.  Parker starts on Tuesday and the rest of them start on Wednesday!  I'm not going to know what to do with myself !  Also Chase & Parker's school is newly remodeled so we got to see all the work that has been done.

Parker playing around at Zoe's school playground

Zoe trying the Monkey-bars first thing

Chase making his way across

Mad because she wanted to go to school that day

Chase before the haircut

after

Conor before

After

Parker before

after

Chase sitting at his desk at school

The kids in the new hallway!

Conor on the morning news

Conor was on the morning news this morning.  He was chosen this year to be an Ambassador for the Type 1 Diabetes walk in October.  You can view it here!

The Beach

We had a quick trip to the beach today for some last minute shopping!  Here's some pictures from today.

the water was this cold

Checking out the starfish( which turned out to be dead)

Holding the starfish after we determined it was dead

Dad getting a hug

Anna & Sean's Baby Shower

Today was Anna & Sean's Baby Shower.  Sean is my little (BIG) brother who's 6 foot 4in.  There baby is due on October 25th, and I'm so excited.  They decided to not find out the gender of the baby, so were all getting anxious about finding out on the big day.  Here's a few pictures from the day.

getting ready

Very creative idea with the watermelon

Anna, Shirley (my mom), Sean (brother)

Zoe loves touching the baby

all the presents and the cradle Anna's dad made when she was born

opening up the stroller we got them

Sean and Mom

Me and Sean

Bowling!

Today we got to go bowling!  Parker returned home after a week down south with Grandma.  Grandma brought our niece Mckenna for the ride.   We had a BBQ today for Steve's birthday and had some friends and family over.  We all went bowling later, the kids had fun, here's a few pictures from today.

Conor won the first game with a 116

Chase did good with a few strikes

zoe loves bowling and boy can she throw the ball down the lane

zoe

parker

The strike team!!!

Mckenna