Alicia's 31st Bday- 2010

Ok- so I know it's been a little while since I blogged and I'm planning to be a lot better this year. The holidays kicked my butt this year (forgive the French) :) and I'm ready for everything to get a little more back to normal. This is my 31st birthday post- with pictures from my family/Ryagr party and when we went out with our other awesome friends- the Clarks. We went to Incredible Pizza for the Fam/Rygar party and it was so fun! It was a great place for all of the kids to play. Devan decorated our kitchen for cake and presents afterward with a scrapbook-style theme- which of course I loved. It was great. My birthday started off the first of 7 November/December birthdays we have this time of year. I know- CRAZY!!! Here are a few of the highlights from this first event.

Halloween 2010

Halloween is definitely one of our most favorite times of the year. The month of October started with Witchfest at Gardner Village with Izzy's Grandma and cousins. We had portraits taken before going on our fun adventure.

Then we had our family Halloween shots taken. Although Izzy "wasn't perfect" during the session, we managed to capture some great moments.

We also had our Rygar Halloween party this month with our friends, the Ryser's. We had a great time playing games and making monsters.

The month ended with Halloween night. We had so much fun taking Izzy on her first real trick-or-treating. She really started to get into it and the most adorable part was when she would sign thank you to our neighbors after she had picked a candy. As you can see, she had a little entourage of 8 people watching her. Later that night, her cousins joined her for some serious candy time and fun.

October was a great month!

Salsa Party 2010

It's that time of year again! Time for homemade SALSA! Gill and Shelley have an awesome recipe so we all picked our gardens and met at their house to can three HUGE batches. Izzy was a huge help putting the peppers in the bucket (and then taking them out). She also decided she needed to smell every single pepper to ensure we had the highest quality ingredients. Salsa is actually a lot of work but we powered through it like it was nothing. I was even able to can the last of my tomatoes to use later on. The yellow ones are a special sunburst tomato that are just beautiful. It was a fun day.