In September we took a road trip with the in-laws up to Ohio to
visit Craigs family. Cody had never met his only living great grand parent and we thought it was very important for Grampa Plaster to meet our little Monkey. We were also able to spend a few days with Craigs brother and family. It was a short trip for us but we has such a nice time. We saw Curtiss play in his last football game of the season, Miss Avery play in her Basketball game, visited the BEST pumpkin patch I had ever seen and a fun Fall Fair. We had a blast! but agreed, n
ext tme we need more than 4 days to visit everybody.
October brought lots of fun Spooky outings. We have a really nice farmers market called Bedners (strawberry picking place)that has all sorts of outside events for all the different seasons. For October the had hayrides, a corn maze and a pick your own pumpkin patch.
We also went to The Spooky time festival at the South Florida Fairgrounds. They have the older kid section that has all the scary rides, haunted houses and scary people walking around. We of course went to the little tyke section that has trick or treating, bouncy houses and a few carnival rides.
Now you are probably wondering where our Halloween pictures are.... Well there are none. I made the mistake of not letting Cody wear his costume around the house before the actual day. Lets just say Cody was not having a good night, actually had a complete melt down and refused to put on his super cute Pirate costume... didn't even want to hold the sword or his candy basket. Instead of causing a HUGE scene at the in-laws we decided to skip Halloween this year. Note to self... next year, wear the costume for a couple of weeks prior to the holiday!
What a fun Holiday season we had this year. One of the best things about living in South Florida is the Holiday season. For the most part, it's never too cold to go anywhere and between Thanksgiving and Christmas we have the best outdoor events. We had our local town's Winter Festival, Christmas @ Yesteryear Village, The Enchanted Forest @ Hoffmans Chocolates plus Christams parades in almost all of the bigger towns.
This year we had a vistor from Thanksgiving until Christmas eve. Joey the Elf on the Shelf has joined our family. Joey arrived on our front door step a couple of days after Thanksgiving to watch over Cody and report back to Santa every night, then returns to our house and hides every morning before Cody woke up. We had alot of fun with this. Every morning Cody would get very excited to go find where Joey was hiding. It was super cute to watch him.... The one thing... nobody can touch the elf or he will lose his magic!
ext tme we need more than 4 days to visit everybody.
Now you are probably wondering where our Halloween pictures are.... Well there are none. I made the mistake of not letting Cody wear his costume around the house before the actual day. Lets just say Cody was not having a good night, actually had a complete melt down and refused to put on his super cute Pirate costume... didn't even want to hold the sword or his candy basket. Instead of causing a HUGE scene at the in-laws we decided to skip Halloween this year. Note to self... next year, wear the costume for a couple of weeks prior to the holiday!
In August we went to Seaworld for the first time for Craigs birthday. Cody absolutely loved it. We road on the kiddie rides and there was a big splash park and lots of games, but Cody's favorite was the Elmo and Shamu shows. He was in awe... just kept staring and pointing especially Shamu... He kept calling them "Willie" this because one of hos favorite movies is Free Willie. We had a great time amd agreed Seaworld was better suited for his age than Disney. Early next year we will be tackling Disney.....
Cody and I also went home to Mass in August for 10 days. We had such a nice time time. Because we were home for so long we were able to spend a good amount of time with all our friends and family. Cody was so good and cute with all the kids and his older cousins just ate him up, even grampa Elliot came up to see us. It was so nice to him with his cousins and all our friends kids. Really made me miss home....
Wow time fly's. Can't believe its already August and more than half of the year has already passed us by. We were pretty busy in July. We had a bunch of fun cookouts but the most fun was Family from Ohio was in town most of the month.
Craigs brother Travis and his family came in for about 10 days at the beginining of July, then the kids stayed for the remainder of the month. My in-laws take the kids for about 3 weeks every summer, its great for them to be able to spend the time with them and us as well. We made a point to see them at least a couple of times every week and Cody was just thrilled to have someone to play with all the time, both Avery and Curtiss are great with him.
