Happy Halloween!!!!!

Tinkerbell and Peter Pan had a great Halloween!



All the grandkids, in costume....

The Benton's and the Breech's hanging out.....

Lukas can walk! Sort of....thanks Mommy!

Waiting for Halloween to come

The kids were very happy while they waited and waited for Halloween to arrive.....they took some time to pose for the camera..

Downtown Trick or Treating in Lodi

Due to some tear in the fabric of our universe, there were two Minnie Mouses at the same place and time....but they got along great!

Squirt was deep in thought....

A day at the Pumpkin Patch

We all went to the Pumpkin Patch and had a lot of fun! This was Lukas' first time at one and he absolutely loved it!

Wow, mommy and daddy sure look funny.....

K Street Mall

Leiya got her very own camera and took a lot of pictures on our trip to the K Street Mall, already taking after daddy.....

We love Hockey

Go Thunder!!!!

Happy Eight Months Lukas!

Eight months have gone by in a flash! It's hard to believe our little guy is 8 months old! He is such a blessing! Happy 8 month birthday buddy! We love you! Love Daddy and Mommy xoxoxo

Big Sister

Leiya loves it when Lukas wakes up from his nap and she loves to climb into the crib with him...as you can tell, it doesn't bother him a bit!

Lodi Grape Festival

We are all a bunch of crazy grapes!

Our Family!
The clan at the Grape Festival

Leiya Through October

Leiya the Artist

Lukas through October

Leiya's First Ballet Experience

Leiya is now tkaing Ballet lessons. This is the story of her fist day, and the evening leading up to it when we needed to get all her Ballet stuff.






Carla and Leiya went by themselves, as sort of a mother daughter adventure, and what an adventure it was...They first started off with dinner at Taco Bell, which went well and spirits were high.

At Wal Mart, they began looking for the required items: Black Leotard and Pink tights. Carla had been told they were at Wal Mart. They were, just in large kid sizes. Nothing even close to what Leiya needed.

So then it was off to the shoe store to get the Pink Leather Slippers Leiya needed.

Well, although this pictures looks happy, what you dont see, is that they looked and looked and had to settle on these shoes, which were a couple sizes to big.....

Now it was off to Target, surely they had the Leotard and tights......um, no they didn't...back to Wal Mart to see if they could make something work....

At Wal Mart, nothing seemed to work....the Leotards there were way to big and there was nothing Carla could do to make them work....well, back again to Target in a last ditch effort to find something....

Well, couldn't find anything black, so again, they had to settle....



A compromise....black with pink.....cute, but not what the class required.....Luckily, a friend had an old Leotard Leiya ended up using...what an adventure they had...thanks Gianna!!!!


With the clothing adventure out of the way, it's down to business....getting ready to do Ballet!

Leiya in a tu-tu....doing ballet of course.....

Doing ballet stuff

More ballet stuff

Getting instructionas on how to do more ballet stuff

She broke her foot doing ballet stuff......well actually she just needed to have her slipper fixed....

More instruction

Doing some REAL ballet stuff......Ryan couldn't do this...he tried....

Thanks to Kaelyn staying after her own class, she made Leiya feel more comfortable and Leiya had a better time....Thanks Kaelyn!