Santa trouble

This is the very best picture of Caiden with Santa this year. This picture was taken at the base Christmas tree lighting. After waiting in line for half an hour there we were Anna was sitting on his lap, Caiden was put on his lap and we had to be quick!
AS you can see but ten seconds later the situation deteriorated! Later when I took the two to meet Santa in the mall, I ended up only getting pictures for Anna. 6 feet away from Santa Caiden was fussy. 5 feet he was nervous. 4 feet he was crying and 3 feet he was crying, panicking, and shaking so hard! The poor boy was absolutely terrified! We tried one more time at the ward Christmas party and the same thing happened. Santa is Caiden's bad list!

Another fall day at the beach Oct 2008

Anna is the supreme big sister! She adores helping her little brother (almost smothering Caiden in helping, in the process). But they are so sweet together and he adores her too.

For those who have not been to the beach in awhile.......this is what sand looks like, ha ha ha ha.
This is one of the views of Carbrillo Beach looking out at the Pacific Ocean.

Catching up Halloween

Well, as many as you know I am notorious at being slow in posting pictures. But last night I finally downloaded from my camera and am posting the pictures, starting with Halloween. At first Anna wanted to be a princess or was it a fairy...oh no, it was then Tiger Lily, but her friend Kaylee was going to be that. So then she was goign to be Lucy from Narnia (she listens to the story on cd all the time). Yet with luck I was able to find her old costume in the garage for Caiden to wear. She was adorable as a little leopard when she was 10 months old. And Caiden has done the costume justice with being completely adorable in it this time. So Anna had to match Caiden and it all worked out..whew. They even had a tiny picture in the base housing paper that Tierra Vista (our landlords...kinda...lol) puts out.