More California Pictures!

Well, as promised here is the picture with all the cousins. Even though Tia isn't really smiling and Josh isn't smiling - two out of four isn't bad for how things were going that day. Besides the individual pictures this is the only one where everyone was looking and making a decent face. :o)

The day before Halloween IHOP was giving a free Scary Face Pancake to children so we took the three older kids. They loved it! (Notice Jacob trying not to smile.)

Saturday night was the ward Halloween party. Aiden ended up going home sick so we didn't get pictures of all the kids at the party, but here's me and my little clown.

Lion Melissa and Penguin Joshua.

Grandpa and Joshie

Melissa took the kids over to Aiden and Tia's great grandmas house. These are all different costumes then the ones they wore to the Halloween party. Jacob's gorilla costume jacket is a little small and doesn't quite match the Thomas the Train PJ bottoms he's wearing but he's cute none-the-less.

There are so many birthdays in our family this time of year so we decided to celebrate everyones birthday. We had a pizza party and invited my in-laws (Susan and Stephen) to join us. We decided to decorate cupcakes for each person.

Melissa - January 1 - Rainbow Cupcake

Mom - March 17 - Eyeball Cupcake

Josh - April 26 - Didn't get a cupcake (plus he slept the whole time)

Dad - August 29 - San Francisco Giants cupcake

Zion - September 14 - Laptop cupcake

Aiden - September 15 - Elmo cupcake

Stephen - October 5 - Fishing cupcake

Me - October 6 - Movie cupcake

Susan - November 5 - Music cupcake

Brooklyn - November 6 - Monkey cupcake

Jacob - November 10 - Soccer Cupcake

Matthew - November 17 - Italy Flag cupcake

When we were in Bakersfield Susan and I took Jacob and Josh to the park. He love throwing dirt clods, feeding the ducks (eating their crackers in the process) and sliding on the slide but he DID NOT like the swing! Josh had a great time just looking around at everything.