The Doctor and the Cell Phone

That's kind of a funny title for my post. Isn't it? Well, once you see these pictures, you will know what in the world I am talking about.

If you know Ryan, you know that he is very “into” his electronic gadgets. He has about 4 of our old cell phones and even though they don't get service any longer, they can still do a bunch of cool things when they are charged up. In fact, Ryan figured out how to do a ton of things on my old cell phone that I never knew it was capable of doing! So...this leads to his Halloween costume. Yes, my child wanted to be a cell phone for Halloween. The amazing thing was that I was actually able to find a cell phone costume and didn't have to make one like I had originally planned. LOL!

Here he is pretending to dial for Hannah.

Is that not the funniest costume ever?

Just look at my cutie patootie Hannah. She was dressed as a doctor. Although, if you asked her who she was that day, she insisted that she was not a doctor. She was “Hannah.” But if you reworded your question ans asked her who she was dressed up as, she would quickly reply, “A doctor.” Talk about being literal! Personally I think she kind of looked like a nurse with those white tights, but either way she was on a mission that day to heal everyone with all of the goodies she had in her doctor’s bag.

Last Minute Pumpkin Patch

We waited until the very last minute to go to the pumpkin patch this year. After school on Friday, my mom and I took the kiddos to Peltzer Farm which is about 5 minutes from our house. They had a good time checking out the pumpkins, going through the corn maze, and eating super messy ice cream cones.
Hannah took one look at the ponies and decided that she REALLY wanted a pony ride. Ryan REALLY didn't. Once Hannah was up on the pony, Ryan decided that maybe it wouldn't be so bad. So here they are taking their very first pony rides. Aren't they cute? Hannah cried for more when the ride was over. And Ryan just wanted to go wash his hands. LOL! Oh the joy of having two completely opposite children!
I have some cute Halloween photos of the kids that I still need to upload. Just wait until you see what Ryan dressed up as. You will never guess...

We are official aeronauts!

Apparently the official term for hot air balloon passengers is “aeronauts.” Andy received a gift certificate last year from one of his vendors for a hot air balloon ride for two with breakfast afterward at South Coast Winery. We thought we would save it for our anniversary which is this Wednesday. My mom was here for a couple of days this weekend, so we decided that as long as she was here to watch the kiddos, we should take the opportunity to use the gift certificate. So, at 6:30 am yesterday morning, we headed out for our first hot air balloon adventure.

I, of course, was a bit nervous for no reason. It was actually really fun. I didn't get scared once we were in the sky. It was really beautiful. It was very quiet while the burners were off. The pilot had to turn them on every couple of minutes. I jumped almost every time he turned them on because it was soooo loud. Our neighbors were so excited that we were going that they, along with 5 of the neighborhood kids, hopped into their mini van and drove out to wine country to see if they could find us. (I had to call them on my cell to tell them what color our balloon was.) They said that they saw us and were waving out of the sun roof. Unfortunately we didn't see them.

This is right before we took off. There were actually 11 of us in that tiny little basket.

Our balloon was called Fantasia. It was blue with yellow stars and a moon and had a picture of Mickey Mouse's wizard hat on the very top.

This is a photo I took of the other balloons while we were flying (or floating I should say!)

Here is Andy just after we landed. The red balloon in the background was another one that took off when we did. It was in the shape of a strawberry.

Now I can cross off one more thing on my bucket list. LOL!