Wow, what a DEAL!!

I found out about a great deal and wanted to share it with you all...at least those who may read my blog. :)

I recently saw that Shutterfly will give you 50...yes 50, FREE photo cards if you blog about them. Wow, how awesome is that! PLUS, they have some really, really cute options for Christmas cards...so many that I can't decide which I like the best! This decision making could take me a while...

Be looking in your mailbox during the next few weeks up to Christmas for a card, just from us, the Pfnisters', with our faces smiling at you from the card I finally decide on! :) And feel free to check out this deal yourselves too, right here! Of course, they have lots of other products too - calendars, birthday invites, photo books...all kinds of great stuff! I have personally made a photo book for Hannah with our Disneyland pictures last year and it turned out GREAT and she absolutely loves it. She looks at it a lot and it has withstood lots of page turning. So if you haven't used Shutterfly before, you should give it a try...you might just like it! Maybe we'll be seeing a card from you and yours in the mail from this special deal I've told you about too!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the celebration of our Lord Jesus coming soon!

Happy Halloween!

Since we're not really into the whole trick-or-treating scene, we dressed the kids up on Sunday evening and headed to Dayspring church, which is about a block away from our house, to attend their harvest party. The kids had a fun time and there were lots of fun game booths and of course they were excited about all the candy they got. After Dayspring we went to another church just down the block that our neighbors go to and they had trunks of cars all decorated so the kids could "trick-or-treat" at each car and get candy. They were pretty tired out after a couple of hours so we headed home and stopped at a couple neighbors' houses. Then headed inside, put them to bed (with lots of resistance from them because they wanted their candy!) and I hid the candy. So funny, because once its out of sight, it really is out of mind, because I don't think they've asked for it yet! :)

Our little monkey and pretty princessHannah and her pumpkin she wanted to help carve until it came to cleaning out the insides, then she refused to touch it and preferred to watch. :) I didn't get a pic of Isaiah and his pumpkin.

Disney on Ice!!

Back around the first part of October sometime, Anna and I came across a BOGO coupon for Disney on Ice. We were so excited, because it actually made it affordable to take the kids! So on the 30th, Anna and her 3 kids, Hannah and I, Mom and Melinda loaded up and headed up to the Rose Garden. I was going to take Isaiah, because I thought David was going to be out of town, but he ended up not, so they stayed home. It was a SURPRISE for the kids and they were SOO anxious to know where we were going! As we were walking to the building, Hannah noticed lots of girls wearing princess outfits and said she thought we were going somewhere with princesses. Josiah thought we were going to a Blazer game because he saw a picture of Greg Oden on the building. It was fun to hear them guess where they were going. We told them just before we walked in to the doors and they seemed really excited, even though I don't think they completely knew what it was all about. When the show started, they were on the edge of their seats, totally intense on what was going on. It was really cute. Hannah told me she thought it was almost better than Disneyland and when I asked her why, she said "Because I've never seen the princesses ice skate before!" And of course the princess part was her favorite! :) However, I think if she liked it as good as Disneyland, I would think she would talk about it all the time like she does Disneyland. I did find her pretending to ice skate the other day though. :) The show lasted about 1 1/2 hrs and then we headed home to our house to join the guys who were watching the Ducks vs. USC game and had some pizza for dinner. It was a fun day in all!

The kiddos when we first got there...all excited!

Cami apparently thought it was too loud, even though it really wasn't. :) Cami & Hannah in their tutus and princess wands after the show

Pumpkin Patch

The 2 weeks before Halloween, we went to 2 different pumpkin patches. The first one the kids and I went with our neighbor Khristy and her little girl Brooke. We went to EZ Orchards, just a few miles away from our place. It doesn't have much to do on the week days, but it was free and the little that it did have entertained the kids.

Having fun petting the animals

Love this pic - "ugh, just can't get this thing goin'..." Collecting pumpkins

The second one we went to was Wooden Shoe Tulip farms, which did a pumpkin patch this year for the first time. We went to this one as a family and Stacy and Ashlynne went with us. And while this one cost a little bit, they had a lot more fun stuff for the kids. They had these boxes with seeds and wheat - the kids LOVED it and could have played in it all day if we had let them!

Isaiah didn't like this slide too well...

This was Isaiah's favorite - the train, but boy was it bumpy and dusty! We were all more than ready to get off, and he was ready to just keep going on it.

The kids got to plant a tulip bulb in a cup and then take it home to plant.

He didn't like the swing to well either