Halloween

Halloween is always a fun filled day at work, school, daycare, etc.  Owen’s school isn’t allowed to wear costumes, but it was crazy sock day or something (lame). At Martha’s she has a little party and does some practice trick-or-treating. Its so cute! And then she sends me pictures like these…

I was dying when Martha sent me the one with Paul, the ghost, answering the door. hahaha How the kids weren’t scared shitless is beyond me! haha

Get home, feed kids and then MAD DASH to get ready to get to the Gerke’s before the sun goes down. I wasn’t TOO worried about getting pictures this year since we got some while camping a few weeks prior. But I asked the 3…smile nice for the camera…and these are what I got.

Our annual Fam Halloween Pic

And…of course I need to see all our family Halloween pictures…

Didn’t get a good family pic in 201

And the Halloween before Owen was spent like this…

I was pregnant with Owen…we were living in Redlands at the in-laws…and I was a Fairy GodMother-To-Be (for school). Yeah I laid on the couch all evening with our doggies…Ando and Clare. No mad dash, no craziness…we had NO clue what was ahead of us! heehee

And this was the Halloween in 2002…a month before meeting Yosh and THEN my life really changed forever.

Gosh…I love looking down memory lane. Our lives have changed.

But the trick-or-treaters were ready!! And lasted about 2 hours and then we headed home. I’m going to embrace these Halloweens of us only needing to go down a few streets…and them allowing us to go with them. Someday they are NOT going to want us around and will be out all night…oh dear lord! haha

This year our group was a tad bit smaller. Usually Gerke’s cousins come and Taryn’s parents are around. This year Papa John was sick so he stayed home and only Gaga came and passed out candy.

I hate being scared! I hate scary movies. Haunted Houses. everything that makes me uncomfortable. Well we came to a house that the big kids were scared to go up to. Maggie was already over it and sitting in the stroller, Ella was also sitting…so I said “Oh GEEZ kids…I’ll go up”.

Well when I got up there the pretend Freddy Kruger (my WORST nightmare) hissed and moved and I FLIPPED. I almost pee’d my pants, screamed AND straight ditched the kids. haha. It was a mess. I screamed and ran, the kids screamed and ran and that led to Ella screaming in the stroller also terrified. I might have traumatized these kids! haha

But back to the Gerke’s for some candy trading. Addi had some new ortho work so nothing chewy for her. And Ella gave Taryn all her 100grand bars. haha

LOTS of candy. Was a great night! Love that my kids love spending their Halloween with our dear friends.

Pumpkin Rock Hike

Halloween Eve Owen and I buddied up with the 100mile Club and climbed Pumpkin Rock in Norco.

I had always wanted to get to this place so I thought it was a perfect day to do it with Owen! He loved it and so did I!

And I stole this group picture off the 100mile Club FB page! We are on the right side of the pumpkin…like you can see me and Owen standing in front of me…can you see us?

Luke Bryan

A few months back our friends asked us if we’d be interested in going to the Luke Bryan concert. And YOU KNOW I love that man so I was bummed when we had to say NO because my parents wouldn’t be in the states to watch the kids.

Fast Forward a few months AND my friend who organized the whole thing needed a last minute date! The concert date was changed last minutes from a Saturday night to the Friday night…and her hubs had to work. SoOOO my amazing husband said Go…I got the kids! OH HELL YES!  So off we went!

I was there with Yosh’s best friend…so I was safe, cared for AND would behave myself! haha

We are too old for lawn seats these days…so we paid the bigger bucks and got seats. Totally worth it.  And like the responsible adults that we are we got there earlier enough to see all the acts! It was cool.

And bumping into (or hopping fences and finding) friends is so fun!!

Luke was great…as usual BUT I have to say it wasn’t the best that I have seen. He usually puts on a better, more relaxed show. He usually does a few covers but this time he only played his music…the whole time. eh.

Thanks for being a great date Meg!

R+F Events

Back in May I posted about my new adventure in starting my own business as an Independent Consultant with Rodan + Fields. Well its still going great!!! This month I hosted or helped host a few events. 

I did a multi-vendor event at my house called a Sip & Shop. I have LOTS of mama friends who run small businesses. And I wanted to get all of them over to my house and make some money. We had about 20 people come over but want to do another one and hopefully have LOTS more people.

Had little bits of food…little bits of booze.

Of course my R+F

M.E. Custom Chic Boutique

Lipsense

Tiny Trendz

Parker Pallet Designs

GracefulBracelets

Origami Owl

Two of my girls here selling Lularoe…and only got a picture of one of them! Darnit.

And had my girl here with Stella & Dot as well…whom I forgot to picture. Sorry Liz. AND my fit friend Heather who was here with Scentsy AND BeachBody…who I also forgot to picture! Damn I suck.
  But it was cool. It was a warm day in October BUT it was pretty cool!

But its been a great few months in my business. My “team” has grown…I now have 2 consultants under me…Jennifer and Alex. BOTH such awesome ladies!  So I kinda pretend to call us MotherHustlers. haha Take if for what you want.

Sharon has been such an amazing coach/trainer/sponsor and has made being in this business easy and so fun!

Another event that we had here at my house was just a few weeks later…it was Alex’s Big Business Launch!! Shes natrually a hustler and did so good! Signed her first consultant AT her launch…yes…you read that correctly!

And Alex was already building, growing and hustling her business. Shes freakin’ a little rockstar and I LOVE her!! I’m thankful that she walked into my PE office a few years ago to be a long term sub for a colleague. She has become a dear friend to me and I love her to bits!