Wine, Turkey, and my Reunion!

We celebrated Mom's birthday a month late in early November. We did the limo wine tasting trip again and it's always hard to get all those ladies together on one day! My boss and her mom joined us this time so we had a big, fun group of ladies! We were worried about the weather, but it turned out to be a beautiful day!

Shane got to check out the limo before we left

Fun times at Ravenswood!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Thanksgiving was nice and simple this year. None of the family was around this year so it was just us and Mom's cousin, Niki. Dinner was great and it was nice to be mellow for change.

My handsome man

Shane had lots of fun reading books with Niki

Then it was time for my 10 year high school reunion! I still can't believe it has been 10 years!! Mom even had us pose for a picture, just like before a school dance! Thanks to FaceBook I have been able to keep up with lots of people from high school, but it was really fun to see everyone in person. It's very rare that I get a chance to go out in Petaluma! I had such a good time and I can't wait for the next reunion!!

"Let's go get MORE candy!!"

We have created a fun tradition of taking pictures of Shane and Dakota at the pumpkin patch every year. This year they wore their Halloween costumes and Dominique took some amazing pictures! Of course it is near impossible to get one with both of them looking at the camera AND smiling, but they are always cute!

We had an awesome Halloween Cootie party this year and all the ladies dressed up as Rockstars! I had to post this so the world could see Mom dressed as a member of KISS!



We went back to the pumpkin patch with Daddy to pick out pumpkins. Shane had a blast checking out all the animals and farm equipment and PUMPKINS! This pumpkin patch went all out this year. It was more like a fair than just a place to pick out a pumpkin! They had all kinds of food and yummy treats...HUGE blow up jumpy houses and slides...tractor rides and train rides...animals and crafts...a haunted house...it was a bit overwhelming! Shane was bummed that he didn't get to ride the train (and talked about it for weeks afterwards) but there were just too many people! We picked out two big pumpkins and two tiny pumpkins and he was happy.

Last year Shane was totally into the whole process of cleaning out the pumpkins...this year, not so much!

Then it was time for Jackie's birthday party! My best friend's birthday is the day before Halloween and she always throws a big costume party at her house. This year I was Jem from the cartoon Jem and the Holograms!

Dr. Ryan...you can get what he prescribed all night!

There were some great costumes this year!

Birthday girl...a.k.a. Sally Jupiter

I loved Popeye and Olive Oyl!

Shane's first lollipop!

This was Shane's first year going trick-or-treating! We went in Grandma's neighborhood since the houses are all close together. We had been talking about it for weeks and he was soo excited!!

Grandma and Shane heading out!

So excited to get candy!!

We met up with other kids in the neighborhood and he felt like such a big boy! He wanted to do it all by himself, but some of the houses let him pick his own candy out of the bowl and he would take it all if they let him! After every house he would say, "Let's go get MORE candy!!!" It was the cutest thing!

First piece of Halloween candy...YUM!