Christmas in Surprise

We went out to our town's Christmas party this weekend and enjoyed seeing the Hot Air Balloon's, riding the ponies, and petting man eating...

and then the non man-eating animals....

Giddy-up horsey

Carousel ride

Lovin' Life

Bryce decided one day after school that Life Cereal sounded like a pretty good snack so, he raided the pantry and helped himself to a box of cereal...

Hot Air Balloons

All things Halloween

Bryce has had fun celebrating Halloween all this month. He had a Fall party at his school last week and the kids wore their costumes and got to decorate Halloween cookies and participate in a cake walk and different activities in each of the classrooms. Then last weekend, we went to the pumpkin farm and played in the corn maze and picked our pumpkins. (It was hard to get into the pumpkin picking mood though since it was 95 degrees out!) Last night, we took Bryce to GlendOberfest at the ranch where he got to trick-or-treat, go on an Egg Haunt (like an Easter egg hung only with orange & black eggs) and play games.

Decorating cookies

At the pumpkin farm

Playing in a "corn box"

Pumpkin carving

Trick-or-Treat

"Haunting" for eggs

Playing games

Beautiful Sedona

We took advantage of our 3-day weekend and headed up to Sedona on Sunday for a little getaway. What a beautiful place! We kept saying that it reminded us of Keystone. It was in the upper 50's and sunny which made for beautiful hiking weather. Bryce was in boy heaven being able to climb on all the rocks. We stopped and hiked at Bell & Cathedral Rock and then walked through town enjoying all the tourist stores.

Fire Truck Parade

Last weekend we took Bryce to his first parade. Since it was fire prevention week, Glendale had a fire truck parade. Bryce had a good time seeing all the different fire trucks and would wave at them as they passed by. They had a lot of neat antique fire trucks in the parade. Afterwards, we got to look at the fire trucks up close and he even got a hat from one of the firemen.

Update: I finally got a job. I will be working for the Glendale Elementary School District in their Human Resources Department. It's very similar to the job that I was doing in Okinawa so it hopefully shouldn't be too hard to get back into the swing of things.

Soccer Practice

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted pictures. We've been so busy around here lately. I believe last I posted, Bryce was getting ready to start daycare & soccer practice. Both are going well. The first couple of weeks at daycare were pretty emotional but, he loves his teacher now and has fun playing there. He's doing good at soccer but has the attention span of a typical 2 year old and is usually doing his own thing by the end of practice. His class is supposed to have a soccer game in 2 weeks and the coach said he's just going to let them do their own thing and see what happens. It will be interesting to watch a group of 2-3 year olds try to play a soccer game.