Fred's Mom came and paid us a visit in October! She is really good about coming each year, usually in the Fall. I have to say, I think she really enjoyed the California weather and our locale. We showed her all our new haunts including San Fransisco (The Cable Cars, China Town, Union Square, Golden Gate Bridge), Half Moon Bay and Sam's Chowder House, the Beach, Rancho San Antonio and the Farm and of course the nearest mall! We had a great time with her, and the kids loved having her here with us.
The weather is truly beautiful right now! Its in the high 70s during the day, and feels like the middle of summer. But at night it cools off a bit. Its great! I have started really taking advantage of a great park we have nearby and do a few big hikes there each week. It has been great to get out by myself for a few hours and sweat
If you know me well, you know we did lots for Halloween. I have more Halloween decorations than I have for Christmas I discovered in the move! We didn't have a party, mainly because I don't know how to have a party in a small house with lots of kids around. Adults fine, but running kids? We had a fun time at Googleween, went to a friends Halloween party, a parade and party at school and then the actual Trick or Treating. Someone in our 'hood set up a large screen in the their front yard and played The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown all night. The streets were filled with kids running around with no parents in sight, and everyone seemed pretty relaxed about the whole thing. Fred and I were very uptight, and Fred even lost Skyler at one point. Seriously! It is really dark here and there aren't street lights. We were a large group of kids with just five or so parents watching them all. We put glow bracelets on them so we could keep track of them, but Skyler bit through his and had glow stuff smeared on his face for awhile. Until he got lost... but anyways we found him. They got lots of full sized candy bars and even went to a slumber party afterwards.
At Googleween the whole family dressed up as People Who Live in Bruce Wayne's House, plus a Witch! Unfortunately the other Googlers weren't in the holiday spirit so we were pretty much the only parents dressed up... except for the MerMale (or maybe he was King Triton). Word on the street was that Googlers take Halloween very seriously, but apparently they save that for the Adult Only party on Friday. No kids invited. In 2007
That counts two years in a row I've gotten my Dutch Mother in Law to dress in a costume! She's a good sport! She had always wanted to try a Carmel Apple, and they had hundreds of them at this party!
It is strange. It was a year ago Halloween that we decide this move would happen. We were on a beach in Florida for Fall Break when we found out and then told friends Halloween day. We have lived in California for 10 months now, and I have to say, it is starting to feel like home. We have started to look at homes for sale here and are *thinking* that when the lease is up in Lone Tree we may sell it. We can't really buy here still owning that house. That is hard for me to say, but it is true.
Fred is gone for the first 3 weeks of November, Prague, Moscow and LA. I am extremely proud of him and he is doing exactly what he hoped he would be doing. And doing it well.
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