Halloween 2014

 I always like doing something fun for Halloween.  Of course, our house is completely decorated with lights and tombstones, fake limbs, etc., but food has to be involved somehow.

Ta Da...

This made me laugh, and the kids loved it.  

Speaking of kids...

Mavis and her skeleton brother.  His costume had LEDs all over the chest piece.  It was great.

So, after the kids went TOTing, we decided to have a movie night.

Nightmare Before Christmas.

Mother nature had other plans.

The kids actually sat out under umbrellas for a while, but alas, we pulled the plug (literally).

Next year....

As we were then sorting through candy at the end of the night, we found this.

SERIOUSLY!!!!

At least cover or scratch out the name so we can't see that you did this.

Ha Ha Ha!

My husband wanted to hand out leftover candy from Easter and such.

I said" No! Who does that?"

Apparently, Kade does. 

Beach Camping Trip 2014 - The Food

Kebable Lunch for the kids.  Cheese and Salami.

Campfire grilled pizza.

Kebab for the boy with olives.

Italian pressed sandwich.

Steak, potatoes, and onions.

Campfire Cupcake

breakfast of champions

My happy eaters

Chicken bacon paste kebobs.

Beach Camping Trip 2014 Menus

So, this year, K brought a dry erase board with her that I took over.  Mom's perogative.

Doing a menu for each meal started as a lark, but quickly became expected as the trip went on.  Creativity also went downhill, but what do you want.  I have to plan, prep and cook every meal.  I don't always have extra brain cells to write up a witty decription.

Fancy table

Ha Ha.  Yes, I'm know I massacred the French.

The kids loved the Kabables which may be TM'd.  Sorry.

Fancy scrambled eggs

Options.  The hummus plates were for the kids.

Getting less fancy.

Tired of doing this.

Getting some energy back.

K did this one.  Wishful thinking on her part.

Starting to repeat.

So that's enough of those. 

More to come on the rest of the trip.

So, I have been a slacker in many ways.  No blog posts.  Only one movie night this summer.  Yep, sad but true."

However....

the one we did have...

AWESOME!!!

Without further ado, I give you

SUPERHERO Movie Night!

Clearly, the feature presentation was "The Incredibles".  The funny thing was that by the end of the movie, only one kid was actually watching the film.

We had a face painter.  Thanks to my talented friend Kristen.

Group shot.  Sorry it's fuzzy.

I have more pictures somewhere, but here is a teaser of how things looked.

  Action words were everywhere.

Good times!

Bermuda Part 2

Because of the rain, we did a lot more signseeing than would normally happen on a tropical getaway.  We hit up the Crystal and Fantasy caves which were amazing.  Story goes that some kids lost a ball down a hole.  The adventuresome two then decended into the hole with a flashlight, and this was what they found.

It is very drippy down below.

One of my favorite shots.

From the caves, we walked to the Swizzle Inn made famous by its drink, the Rum Swizzle Punch.  We ordered a half pitcher, and they "accidentally" gave us a full one.  Oh no...would it go to waste?

  Umm, NO!!  Yes, I drank almost all of it.  Jason got A glass.  That stuff was GOOD!!

Spent the rest of the day wandering around a rainy town.

Ahhhh Bermuda...Part 1

To celebrate what we thought was our 20 year anniversary, Jason and I left the kids at Nana's and flew off to the island of Bermuda.

In keeping with most of vacations, it rained...every day.
Destination wedding in Maui - Rain.
Honeymoon in Fiji - Rain.
WDW trip in 2012 - Rain, in fact it was a tropical storm.
DCL cruise/ St. Thomas - Rain
Almost every Pacific Beach trip we took - Rain.

If only it worked here at home as we are always facing water shortages and drought in So. Cal.

Anyway....

On the plane.  Two stops and some of the worst flights ever.

Against the law to take this picture.  Oops!

Rainy view from our lanai.  Amazing suite upgrade at the Cambridge Beach Resort.

Front view of our suite.  Turtle Bay

So it was actually our 19th anniversary.  Apparently my math skills are a bit rusty.  I'll have to work on those before K's math homework gets any more difficult.