Happy Halloween

Go vote for Ari ....

Now .... Happy Halloween !!!!!

We had so much fun at the Ward Halloween Party - Ryan and I had planned on going as two of Ari's patients - but last minute we decided to go buy scrubs and go as his fellow Dr.s (I think we should have gone with our original idea but oh well - I will go as a patient for actual trick or treat.)

Ari and his Papa

Ari and Ryan, best looking doctors by far

We carved our pumpkins today - I wanted to do something different so while we were at the pumpkin farm I got this blue moon pumpkin (I think that is what it was called ) anyway its this cool greyish blueish color . It was a pain in the butt to carve however.

But fun was had by all and the finished product is what counts - Ryan carved a coffin on his pumpkin and a bat on Ari's (he carved both pumpkins in the time it took me to carve mine)

Before

After

Happy Halloween - Now go vote for Ari !!!!!! www.gap.com/castingcall

problems with the link below

ok- riddle me this - the link doesn't exactly work, it will take you to his pictures but I don't think the vote button shows up - scroll down to the bottom and click register to vote and then follow the instructions - (you have to be registered to vote so that people only vote once per day per email) so register and then find Ari (you can stay logged in for two weeks so every time you go back to vote you won't have to enter your member name and password --- now GO VOTE

Vote For Ari

Vote for Ari ..... (hopefully this link will work I have been having a little trouble with it) if not - you can go to www.gap.com/castingcall and then search for Ari's pictures under 12107mom

VOTE VOTE VOTE

leave your email if that still doesn't work and I will send you the email that has the link attached too - (for some reason cut and paste does not want to work -) and the website will let you paste straight to your facebook (which I did - check out my profile tab) twitter (which I don't do) and myspace (does anybody myspace anymore ?)

VOTE VOTE VOTE - I am really curious just how well my call to action can do - were up against kids with 36000 votes already - I have faith that if I tell you and you post this on your blogs, twitters and facebooks and your friends post it on theirs and so on and so on and all those people vote ..... maybe Ari could win - it would be awesome - he is such a fun guy - for those of you who might vote that have never met him - your really missing out. He is the greatest blessing I have ever had - I know every mom says that - and for every mom its true - Ari is such a unique, amazing little guy -

OK Ari's pictures went live

ok - seriously I need everyone who sees this post to tell like 100 friends to vote for Ari - he is starting out a little late and if you look at some of the other kids on there they have like 36000 Votes - Ari is WAY cuter than them....

anyway so pick a picture and vote daily and tell your friends, your dentist, your neighbor, etc - VOTE VOTE VOTE

you can find Ari's pictures under 12107mom

they don't add the votes up from all of his pictures so pick one and spread the word to vote for it

THANKS

It's pumpkin time

Today we went to a pumpkin patch in Santa Paula (there were closer pumpkin patches, however our Mazda was getting a new engine in it in Santa Paula... whole other story, and it just happened to be ready for pick up today)

It was such a fun little pumpkin farm/ festival. Ari had a blast in the hay bale race (is that how you spell bale, spell check didn't catch it if it is wrong...) Anyway Ari had fun running through the race, he had slightly less fun running through the corn maze which actually resembled a crop circle more than any corn maze I have ever seen.

I have to say - it is still awkward to me to be picking out pumpkins in 80 degree weather - but I will adjust, eventually. I was a little heart broken that I couldn't dress Ari up in cute jeans and a flannel or sweater for his little pumpkin patch adventure but we were sweating in the shorts we wore so its better that I didn't. Ari wasn't really that interested in the pumpkins -

As is totally expected when ever we plan on going anywhere, one of our cameras was dead by the time we got to our destination, this time it was our video camera. Luckily our digital camera takes video with sound ( we had never tried it out before, but it actually worked pretty well ) sorry its a little shaky.

I am so glad at least our camera took some video - since its nearly impossible to get a glimpse of Ari not on the move (pictures are almost pointless) - While we were there this little girl kept finding Ari and "flirting" with him - too cute

Ari is obsessed with knocking on doors - I think maybe he is practicing for Halloween - anyway - of course while we were at the pumpkin patch Ari was so much more interested in the port - o - johns then he was in the pumpkins ..... he kept knocking on the doors - it was so funny

All and all it was a great day - we had so much fun chasing after our little guy ....

ITS COME TO MY ATTENTION....

It's come to my attention that I was a little early on the call to action - please stay posted - I guess an actual person at the GAP has to approve Ari's picture (you know make sure its not porn and such) before they put it up to be voted on - I should get an email shortly (any day now) saying my pictures have been approved and then the voting madness can start - sorry to all of you who wasted time searching for our cutie pie who just isn't there .....

I will post an update on here and facebook as soon as his pictures go live -

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION

Vote For Ari http://family.go.com/gapcastingcall/?cmp=OTC-Gap-Vanity tell your friends and your neighbors and their friends and their neighbors and their aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters - ROCK THE VOTE !!!!! (I think you can only vote for one picture a day or something like that and we have five pictures on their - they don't add the votes together for all the pictures so I suggest to make it most effective you just pick one of the pictures and vote for that one repeatedly......

We may not have captured they many sides of Ari, but we got some of the good ones !!!! V

We couldn't get any really great pictures of Ari (we just found out about the contest on Saturday) so we had to work with what we had... but I think he is pretty cute regardless.... We love our little boy

Where have we been?

Ok so its been roughly forever since we updated our blog. SORRY - long story short, our laptop (aka the thorn in my side) died and we were trying to decide if we wanted to buy a new one or buy a desktop and then we were trying to decide if we should wait til Windows 7 was released ... and after much deliberation we decided to get another lap top - before Windows 7 ... so now were connected again.

BUT ... nothing really that exciting has happened in our world to make us blog worthy?!. We bought a jeep liberty (not really planned- but ok) so now we have 3 cars. Anybody want to buy a 2002 Mazda Protege 5 ? (super clean runs great sad to see it go)

I am now officially a Grad Student at Cal State - Northridge, Ryan's job is going well, Ari is getting so flipping big... same ol' same ol'

A keep getting bugged for more pictures of Ari - sorry I have been horrible at documenting his life- but in my defense, come to my house and just TRY to get a decent photo of my son who is constantly in motion from sun up to sun set....its just near impossible. And the other thorn in my side (our camera) doesn't make things any easier

but here you go for those who were asking:

DODGER NIGHT - (Mormon Night)

we went to Dodger Night this year it was so fun. Andre Either hit a grand slam to win the game -

Ari was such a good little guy the whole game

Here is our sad attempt at a family picture.
Ari and his daddy
Look how cute my boys are

Okay so that was Dodger Night ....

Ari has taken up reading as a favorite past time. He is such a funny guy I will be looking all over for him and I go upstairs and find him in his room sitting in his rocking chair looking at his books-

Here he is reading away

look how cute this kid is

WE love Ari so much

I still can't believe this is the boy I thought would NEVER sleep in his crib, he is such a champ at sleeping in his own crib ( although now I worry he will never sleep in an actual bed) Thank goodness he hasn't even attempted to climb out of his crib.

We took a day trip up to Santa Barbara to go to the zoo up there- and decided from now on we will go to the LA zoo (hopefully next year we can make a trip down to the San Diego zoo.

My favorite sign at the zoo

My favorite Animal at the zoo

My favorite boys at the zoo

Ok so a while ago I told Ryan to grow his hair out like "Edward" - so to spite me he is growing it out, and wearing it like Zac Efron
He even got Ari to do the "Efron" look