Happy Halloween!

We had a wonderful Halloween this year! First we celebrated Jeremy's birthday with a little party. Then we went trick or treating with the neighbors. Everett was a pirate for the party and he wore a superman costume for trick or treating the next day. Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate!

The Rogina's Pumpkin Party

The Punpkin Party we attended on Saturday was such a blast! The Rogina's hosted the party for all the kids and they did such a great job! And for the most part the kids were happy and well behaved.... Just a few small break downs during pictures, but even those are too cute!

Macy was the lucky little girl surrounded by all the handsome boys. Don't tell Eric, but I think she kissed one or two of them!!

Dads hard at work...

Everett found a toy that spins Macy

Macy and Troy cruisin. Jace and Quinn bobbing for apples. Everett didn't quite grasp that concept yet, maybe next year.

Happy 30th Chris!

This weekend we celebrated my brother's 30th birthday! In honor of his nickname "pumpkinhead", we threw him a pumpkin themed party. And we even played some poker. Happy 30th birthday Chris...we love you!

The Hyatt

Everett and I were so furtunate to get to spend 3 days at The Hyatt, Huntington Beach last week courtesy of my employer. My company CEP puts on 2 conferences per year. The locations vary, but they are always all expenses paid and so much fun! They have multiple speakers each day on topics relevant to emergency medicine and to our company. They even provide child care through an amazing company called kiddie corp....so you have no excuse no to attend! (But they don't check attendence, do they Kristine?!) My company is all about "wellness" these days and they are doing whatever they can to help keep their employees happy and healthy. So day #2 of the conference was actually a beach day complete with free surf lessons. After getting cleaned up, I dropped Everett off at kiddie corp (which was in a banquet room at the Hyatt) and headed to the awards ceremony for some free drinks! Last year Arrowhead Regional Medical Center was named ER of the year. This was an amazing award for us that recognized all the hard work we had been doing. So needless to say, we did not win any awards this year! But quite a few PAs and Docs were awarded for 10 years of service...which is amazing! Day #3 I got my blood drawn for the first time in a long time. Our company knows that PA's and MD/DO's don't ever go the doctor. So they sent up blood draw stations with whatever tests you need, free of charge, and mail the results directly to you for interpretation. And then you can write your own prescription to fix all your problems!

Day #3 was also the day that Jeremy was able to join us...and I was SO thankful! Being a single parent in a tiny hotel room is quite difficult, so we were both relieved to see him. We swam at the pools including a very clever 1 foot deep kid pool, and we went down the waterslides. It was a great conference at the perfect location! Thanks CEP! Everett eating sand... Auntie Kristine

Marie and Kristine loving on baby Everett

These floaties are the length of his entire arms and the did not work!

These water slide pics are in sequence...

so fun and calm.....

and opps! Jeremy lost his footing and took my baby boy underwater!

...and after all that he is still so cute!

My two boys...

Water fun, a clown, and some rock-n-roll!

This weekend we had a Rockin’ good time at Everett’s rock themed birthday parties! We started off the weekend with a children’s party for all of Everett’s friends. A clown painted tattoos and made balloon space guns (?) while other kids (and dads) slid down the inflatable waterslide. Everett had a great time until we made him eat cake! I think he was just sad that his party was almost over! And maybe making him eat cake three times that week may have had something to do with all the gagging and crying! The next day we hung out with family for the perfect ending to the perfect weekend. Jeremy and I later opened all of Everett’s amazing gifts. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family! Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate Everett’s 1st Birthday!!