McKenzie & Benson

Pictures from a recent hike up the McKenzie Head trail. We topped our morning off with a quick jot to Benson Beach. 

 We found a bunker!

A creepy bunker at that

We couldn't find Ruca for a few minutes. Then she turned up on the roof of the bunker!

They looove to explore

I cannot begin to describe how hard it is to get both of them to sit near each other and look in our general direction for a picture

Bird!

Found a creepier bigger bunker

Benson Beach- watching the ASTs do their cliff side training.

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 Pictures from a (different) rare sunny day at Benson Beach.

Ruca-roo

Boags

She kills me. She'll run like crazy and then suddenly plop down.

I love this picture

Birds!

Love watching the leaves change colors

Halloween

It's pretty apparent that retailers put a ton of emphasis on Halloween and then go straight to Christmas, skipping anything and everything in between. I've noticed this is years past but it really hit me this year when on November 1st at about 7am I saw the first Christmas advertisement from a well known store. (Really?!)

This year the Wifey-D household decided to "skip" Halloween and focus on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. We didn't plan on this but with everything else going on, being in California for half of October and then getting settled once coming back home- we didn't have much room to get into the spirit of Halloween. I didn't purchase any pumpkins to carve. 

I know, I know: un-American. 

We were invited to a costume party but I h.a.t.e. dressing up. Despite that, the party plans slowly unraveled on their own. 

Instead, our small celebration consisted of five mini pumpkins scattered across our living room, fall decorations making their appearance throughout our home, and tagging along with our friends' children to trick-or-treat.

 On our way! D hung out with the cowboy...

 ...while I mostly stuck to Batman.

 We were joined by a Love bug...

 ...and a baby cow.

Here's a better picture of the cowboy

 The remainder of our night consisted of left over pizza, bowls of cereal and both of us falling asleep on the couch while watching a movie. Yep... we're that couple now.... and that's probably the scariest thing. 

Smorgasbord

Final collection of vacation pictures. 

 Wifey, McKenzie, Gage, Wyatt, and D

"This band is hardcore!" 

 The Haunted Mansion is my ab-so-lute favorite ride when they change it to The Nightmare Before Christmas

The decor as you're getting on the ride

 My favorite picture

 Wy is the craziest driver!

 Everyone on Autopia

 Small World

D (and others) being honored at the flag ceremony for their enlistment

(Very cool ceremony if you have a chance to see it. I cried.)

Wyatt getting warmed up at his water polo game

 I met this hottie and took him home

 Game face

 On our looong drive home we stopped at Shasta Lake (CA) for a stretch break

Same picture as above but zoomed in

Shredding the Gnar

Since I'm no longer a walking infectious virus, I thought I should finish posting vacation pictures. 

D was obsessively beyond excited to surf in Southern California. Unfortunately a few days before our long trip he accidently delaminated his surf board. After frustration and, yes, even tears D finally tracked down a new board for a great price. 

The weather was pretty cruddy while we were in San Clemente but that didn't stop D from surfing as much as he could. These are pictures from just one of those sessions. 

Pretty Sad

Wifey: "Soooo I really want to order a comic book series. How sad does that make me?"

MH: "Not gonna lie...pretty sad..."


Wifey: "Well, in my defense it's a comic book series that goes along with all of the Co&Ca songs....Wait maybe that isn't a good defense."