This is the story of the Pinder life.
We celebrated our Halloween by carving pumpkins, eating dinner, then giving away all our candy and turning the lights off so they would think we were gone. It was a night to remember.
I was Fancy Nancy for school. I should show a picture of all my cute students but I need permission from the parents to do so.
I attempted to spray paint a picture onto mine because I was too lazy to carve it. It didn’t go so well…
Here is a very boring video of a glimpse into our Halloween night.
(Try not to be too jealous of my extremely clever and witty title.)
During Fall Break (another benefit of being a teacher…bet you wish you were a teacher right about now…) Bryce and I got to go to Oceanside, California and spend a few days in a beautiful beach house with his family. If our beach house was any closer to the water, it would have been in the water! It was a perfect getaway. Bryce’s Family was there along with his Aunt Allyson and Uncle Ryan and their two kids. As well as his Uncle Scott and Aunt Pauline and their son Jude.
Thursday: We drove to Cali after Bryce’s class. We got there pretty late in the evening and just enjoyed seeing the place where we would spend our days of bliss.
Friday: We got up and watched the ocean from our gigantic windows then we headed into San Diego. We went to Sea Port Village to see some shops and walk along the bay. Once we got home lots of people went out on the boogie boards and surf boards. I wasn’t quite ready to venture in. Bryce did a great job at trying to stand up on the surf board. When we came in from all the fun outside we saw dolphins swimming in the ocean! In fact, we saw the dolphins pretty much every day we were there. They weren’t very far from the shore. It was awesome! We also saw a seal that scared a surfer, it was pretty funny.
Saturday: We went out to the pier in Oceanside and saw lots of fishing, and crab catching. It was a very foggy day. There was also a surf competition going on which was fun to watch. Saturday afternoon I hit the waves with Bryce and did some boogie boarding. It was tons of fun! That evening we ate at a great fish house. I had some most delectable salmon. It was a great day in California.
Camille, Pauline and Malory On the Boogie Boards!
This is a great video of us boogie boarding and Bryce falling off. The entire time I boogie boarded, I never fell off. Bryce however, managed to do it quite a bit. But he also managed to stand up on the surf board, which I never even attempted :)
Sunday: Everyone else had left either Saturday night or Sunday morning so Bryce and I had the place to ourselves. It was a fun relaxing day. We went and walked the San Diego Temple grounds then went to this great park in San Diego. It is Balboa park and so big and beautiful. While there we went to rose garden, a botanical garden, viewed various artist’s artwork and ate lunch. Then we ventured across a very big, awesome bridge over to Coronoda.
The trip was so fun! We are so lucky to have a family who loves us enough to let us tag along :)
It pays to be a teacher….well, not a lot :)…but I think the general public feels bad for teachers and their meager salaries so they give us all sorts of discounts/coupons. We got a coupon to Cornbelly’s so we thought we would go.
It was a fun night. The pictures explain themselves. We successfully completed the maze! I wanted to give up a few times but we did it. I usually cheat a lot or just go through the entrance--good thing I had Bryce with me or else I probably would have given up.
There was this one cool structure that had all sorts of sweet slides to go down. One time when I was going down the slide, I flew down it so fast that when I went to stand up at the bottom of the slide, I hadn’t totally gotten my balance and fell right on my face!! It was a pretty bad fall. It was so embarrassing. Especially since the little kids were going down it just fine!
Dave and Liz have officially moved to California. We are pretty sad to see them go. We all had a get together just prior to them leaving at the Packer residence. Becky made some delicious homemade pizza, and we played some games. It was good times.
Here is our last picture we will ever have together of us all living in Utah. Now there are more Morris children living outside of Utah than in. Becky and I are the last ones standing.
Bryce and I babysat the Packer children on Friday night. We were a little nervous about it since the last couple of times little Ry-guy has screamed his little head off for the majority of the time. However, this time went great. Both the boys were great the whole time. Ryan hardly ever cried and if he did cry it was just funny because he has a cold and sounds like an old man. Bryce played memory with Bennett and it was pretty entertaining. He had Bryce wrap the blanket around him a specific way because he was cold. I was sitting on the couch holding Ryan and Bennett told Bryce that he needed to “get Mill a blanket”. When they played he would turn over about ten cards at once and pick out the matches. We try to babysit for Becky and Nate whenever they ask so that if we ever have kids while they are still around, they will return the favor :)
