Halloween Time!

On Halloween we went to a costume party... as a pear and fruit inspector! (Totally not our idea to take credit for... Katy made the pear in college and Ben was her fruit inspector.)
I think I passed my inspection.

We went with the Peanut's to the pumpkin patch, but unfortunately I wasn't too successful at capturing the trip on film! This was my best attempt.

They have adorable halloween costumes, but with the craziness of the pumpkin carving party I wasn't really able to get great pictures of that either, although this one shows Amelia's Tinker Bell pretty well... you'll have to look at Katy's blog for some real pictures of their costumes!

My pumpkin won the mad skillz award with my tribute to the king of pop!

Mark's didn't take home any awards...but he did get some votes from the wife and mother in law!

I forgot the best part of the story!

So I forgot the most entertaining part of our camping trip, and the reason I said we ran into some troubles... we had looked up the weather and knew it was supposed to get to down to about 40 degrees at night, and to be honest we probably weren't even fully prepared for that temperature. Well, we spent the coldest night of our lives in the tent, my feet were literally numb the whole night, and Mark woke up shivering, at this point we had already decided we were going to cut our two night trip down to one...and thought we were huge whimps because of it. When we woke up, and were tidying up some dishes from the night before we found a shallow dish that had water in it the night before...and it was a large ice cube!! We were quite pleased to discover that it had been at most 32 degrees at night to freeze the water... and therefore we are slightly less whimpy than we thought!

Camping in the Laguna Mountains

We went for a little belated birthday trip for Mark, camping in the mountains of East San Diego County. We had some troubles, but overall it was a fun trip!

On hike number 2, once again, my aim is terrible!
The awesome origami dishes we got for Christmas last year from Mark's parents, love them!
This was the destination of our second hike, it was literally an oasis of greenery and flowers in the middle of what looks like mountain desert, it was pretty cool!

Our little tent underneath some serious trees.

Crazy clouds.

It took him quite a few tries...but Mark got a few pretty sweet woodpecker photos, they LOVED the trees around our tent!

Unwanted House guests!

Our weekend started off quite well; we had a nice little Wii and Sushi night on Friday, then yesterday a BBQ with some of Mark's work friends. Sadly, today we discovered some unfortunate and very unwelcome house guests. Tiny little brown bugs that sort of look like walking pieces of sand... have invaded our pantry! Everyone comments on how nice it must be to have such a large walk-in pantry, but we have now learned that it can be quite a daunting task to de-bug such a large pantry. Wish us luck in our battle, so far I think the score is: bugs 20, Mark and Allison 0 (seeing as how they have forced us to throw out half of our dry food and turn our entire kitchen upside down.)

We are excited for next weekend though, look for a fabulous post on our awesome mini camping adventure in the Laguna Mountains!

The Peanuts Turn One!!

This weekend the peanuts turned one! Mark and I had a great time at their birthday party!

Mr. Paul loves his cake!!

And his auntie!!

The adorable cake that Katy made them
New swings from grandma and grandpa! Yay!

A Lil' Trip to the Zoo

Mark and I have had quite a busy summer what with our wedding and Nick and Emma's wedding and family trips...and the list goes on! We were pretty excited to have some down time at home this weekend... so we decided to go visit the new Elephant Odyssey at the zoo with my mom. I'm not quite sure I'd call it an odyssey, but it was a fun trip to the zoo and we got to see some cute animals.

I'm not sure what Mark has against normal pictures....oh well, what can ya do?

I don't know what makes a camel's hump fall over... but it makes for one sad looking camel. Poor guy.

This guy was super close to us, he just wanted me to take his picture.

Sky buckets... always fun!

I haven't watched the sea lion show in quite some time... but it was pretty cute!

Nick and Emma's Wedding!

Well actually the wedding was last weekend, but it was so much fun and so gorgeous that I hate to leave it off the blog just because I only started it this week. Emma and Nick are my friends from college and Mark and I were so excited to go to their wedding in Lodi (Norther California) this last weekend. The wedding was beautiful and we had a great time! Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Davis!