Fall Family Fun

Mom came into town this weekend and we had a great time with the family! We went to the Harvest Festival at Fuller on Friday night with our cute little fireman.
Saturday Joanna came up to visit and see our new place. We gave her a walking tour of Pasadena and had lunch together. Then back over to Shannon and Kev's for some family dinner and playing with Myles of course.
On Sunday we decided to head to a pumpkin patch and celebrate the season. After researching pumpkin patches in the area I realized how spoiled we were growing up going to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm. (See website....its awesome!)
We headed over to a nearby patch to choose our perfect pumpkins, play in the bounce house and wander around. Myles loved it!




We then headed home to carve our pumpkins into masterpieces :)


We are taking off tomorrow to head up to San Luis Obispo for the weeked. We are meeting Josh and Audrey and staying with our friends Scott and Carly (we just celebrated their wedding in August!). I am looking forward to spending some good time with Courtney while we are in town for the weekend. And...we get to celebrate another wedding of our friends Pete and Holly in Ventura on Sunday. A VERY FUN filled weekend coming up. Lots of pictures to come I hope!

Catch Up

Okay, I am determined to catch up on our blog so that it isnt so hard jump on and do a quick update. This time around I am REALLY going to try hard to keep up with it.
Quick overview of what we have been doing since Portland (see below post). Things have been busy for us. We have moved to Pasadena, which has been a great change for us! We love being able to walk everywhere! (Trader Joes is three blocks one way and Target is two blocks the other, so I am a happy camper!) Pictures will come later.
Shannon, Kevin, and Myles live in walking distance as well so we have been able to spend a little more time with them which
has been fun.
We celebrated Joey's birthday by going to the Laguna Art Museum to experience the WOW (world of warcraft) exhibit. Thankfully Dan came up for the weekend to help us move and to join us for the museum so that Joey would have someone else who knew what they were looking at :)...thanks Dan!
Joey shares his birthday week with his sister Joanna, so we went out to celebrate her 21st birthday with the family at Yardhouse.

The WHOLE Higerd family was out visiting California for a few days and we were happily able to spend some time with them while they were here. We joined them at APU for a football game (Joey's first APU football game at APU ever) and then stole Mari and Gabe away for the night to come stay at our apartment. It was so much fun to be able to catch up with the two of them and to see the family back together again!
And, finally we headed up North for the weekend to see Joey's family and spend some time with friends (and of course Max). It was our first time visiting since Jim and Renee sold their house, so we joined them in their new apartment! We were able to connect with a lot of friends while we were in town and had a great time with everyone.
While we were in town, we headed to San Francisco to Warlock Tattoos to see Joey's friend Carlos, and he did a really good job with the tattoo that Joey has been anxiously awaiting. (I wasnt quite sure how a duck head would look on his thigh, but Carlos worked his magic and made it happen).

...okay, i believe that we are now up to date. Promise you wont have to wait as long next time!

Portland!

In the beginning of September we flew up to Portland to be with the whole family for the weekend for cousin Kristin and Benji's wedding! We were there for the entire Labor day weekend (plus some) and loved every minute of it.
It was an amazing weekend. Great location. Great weather. Great family. Beautiful wedding (and bride & groom of course).
Here are some fun pictures from our time there. The Forestry center was decorated beautifully for the big day.

The blushing bride and her sister before the ceremony.

AJ played and sang an amazing song that he had written for the Kristin and Benji while she walked down the isle.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Erdmann!

I made them dance with me while my wonderful husband rested his tired feet. :)

Off to Maui!

The Fam.

The rest of our time there was filled with walking through Portland, Powell's Books, wonderful meals with the family, and relaxing!
Deschutes Brewery for some good cousin time.



At the end of our trip, Joey and I "sacrificed" our seats on our plane home for $600 dollars from Alaksa Airlines and a flight home the next morning along with an extra free night in Portland. Thanks Alaska! We were able to connect with dear friends
Maia and Jeff (Lindsey worked at camp with Maia five years ago and has only seen her once since!) for some frozen yogurt which made our extra time in Portland even more worth it.
Overall, we LOVED it and can't wait to go back and visit sometime!