Halloween

I hope everyone had a fun, happy, and safe halloween. We had a great time today with our little man. We were so clueless as what to do with for Halloween. We knew we wanted to celebrate with Ryder since he has been in love with his monkey costume for well over a month now, has learned what a pumpkin is and can point to it when asked, and just seems ready to participate in all the fun. However... we don't know anybody, where to go, and have no older children to show him the ropes. PLUS... The Phillies were starting at 5 here so it would have been hard to convince Derrik that we had to miss the game for something Ryder truly doesn't even get (He said he would have... but I just felt plain guilty)! We found a little festival in a development around here called Estrella. That really pretty mountain range I put pictures up of when we first moved here... It's an upscale developement in those mountains. It is gorgeous out there, but kind of in the middle of no where. We decided to make the trip out, but made it a little late due to Derrik's basketball schedule today... AND... forgot the stroller! I think we missed the fun part, but Ryder didn't notice. We got him some strawberry ice cream and sat in the shade while we ate it. Ryder then proceeded to walk all around the festival (which was luckily pretty much cleared out) showing off his charm to the few people still hanging around. It wasn't what I imagined we would do today, but Ryder had a blast and that is all that matters!!!

Walking towards the festival

Eating some ice cream with his Da

(we are working so hard to turn Da into Dad or Daddy!)

Cooling our little monkey off
Off he goes...

Having a blast running up and down this hill

Me chasing him all the way down the hill....

Me smiling... Ryder wasn't participating

And that's all folks... Da given Ryder a lift back to the car

Da using all his energy to run just to get some gigles out of Ryder :)

Denoves.... Took these for you guys since you'll be calling this home for two months

The background building is the clubhouse with an amazing pool and water park.

Ryder and I have already invited ourselves for many days of fun in the sun during spring training :) Hope you don't mind!

Gorgeous view of the lake!

When we got home, I contemplated taking Ryder out to a neighborhood to go trick-or-treating, but I realized he was having a blast doing this....

Cheering on the Phillies!!!

(he's clapping in this one)

I hope they can come back in the next few innings so Ryder isn't disappointed when he wakes up in the morning!