Halloween 2011

Halloween 2011.  This is one of my all-time favorite family photos. =)

Pilot Sebastian and Firefighter Matteo.

And my little tiger Luca!  So neat that the boys have all worn this costume!

My little monsters before we left to go to the preschool’s trunk or treat.

Snacks for Sebastian’s Fall party at school – I got to volunteer and just spend time with him – what a treat!

Adorable walnut boats they made.

Sebastian with Riley, the little girl he always talks about.

The boys!  They were all together last year too, just two new ones in the class.

Hanging on the playground.

Searching for treasures in a giant haystack.

Daddy and Luca.

Luca and one of his buddies, Lawson at a Halloween party.  They look ferocious don’t they?

The collection of kiddos – the ones that could be wrangled anyways….there were more.

And all of the Mami’s with the Round #2 babies. =)

Time to carve our pumpkin!  It’s as big as Luca!

Great picture!  But so not descriptive of how things went down.  The boys wanted nothing to do with getting the gooey pumpkin insides out.

At least Matteo was into the carving part.

When Daddy got home from work we went to another Trunk or Treat event.  The kids had fun since they had all sorts of games and bounce houses too.

Matteo wanted to eat the candy as fast as he got it.  We just let him have it.  It’s Halloween, why not.  I did have to try to stay calm though….

My happy little tiger!

Another favorite picture!  Thanks, Christine for taking it!  Loving on this little guy is so much fun!

We ran into Sebastian’s little girl friend Riley and they were so happy to see each other and jump in the bounce house together.  Ahhh….=)

We rounded out the evening giving out candy from our driveway to the neighborhood kids.  Matteo was cranky and hungry for real food since all he’d had was candy so he didn’t join us this year.  But Sebastian loved handing out that candy!

Day at the Kennedy Space Center

So every year there is a Brevard County resident weekend at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and was have taken the opportunity to go the last couple years.  Last year I insisted we needed to arrive at the crack of dawn…and I didn’t think I’d be able to live that down, but I didn’t get made fun of too badly for it this year.  You can see last year’s pictures here.  My how our family has grown!

This years group.

Family picture.

Family picture 2010.  Wow….

On the KSC bus.  This year, that was the main attraction for Sebastian.  Forget the rockets, space capsules and other historic stuff.  He just wants to ride the bus.  Oooiii!

Luca was pretty happy about the bus too.  But he just likes to ham it up for everyone.

Blast off!

Rocket garden.

We had a fun day and hope to do it again next year!

Fall Activities

We managed to do a little bit of fall crafting this year.  I would have liked to do so much more but between Luca wanting to be held and my craft cabinet being a complete wreck, we only did a little bit.  Matteo had fun painting the triangles.

And these were our final products – candy corn families!  The boys both LOVE candy corn – which is fine by us because it’s our favorite seasonal candy too!

Happy with his little family.

This little guy hung out in his exersaucer and watched us paint.

Sebastian’s class went on their first field trip.  It was down to the Produce Place close to the house.  The owner is the parent of former students and he always has the kids come to learn about cool fruits and veggies, see the giant truck and have some fall treats.  It’s nice that all our field trips are “family friendly!”

I think the favorite part was going into the giant walk in refrigerator. =)

Decorating pumpkins and having homemade goodies.  It was a challenge having all three on my own for a field trip, but thankfully it went pretty well!

My best friend Sarah came over with her boys to hang out one weekend.  Our local fire station was doing an open house so we headed there to check it out.

This was so sweet.  They were just holding hands on their own.  Such buddies.

When we got back home the kids decorated cookies…

And painted pumpkins.

Matteo the pumpkin bandit. =)

Luca, 5 1/2 months and sitting up almost by himself!

This is just so him.  What a face!

Tiny toes.

I just couldn’t get him to stop chomping on those fingers!  Oh well, Happy Fall!