We Give Thanks

We had a great time at Robyn's parents' house for Thanksgiving with all her family. Time seems to fly by.

Apollo loves to help cook (eat) and even cleans with a rag alongside mom.



















Apollo's hair grows like crazy-we have given him a lot of trims.



















Our niece, Maddy, is a great climber like her dad.



















We got a cradle for Annie. Grandma Tammy made blankets to go inside and framed a picture of Great-great-Grandma Annie with Robyn.














Justin is prepping for the big race the next day.



















We ran a race on Thanksgiving morning.















We had an early Christmas with Robyn's family.















Thanksgiving day-yummy!















Apollo took his first steps to Grandpa Kevin and is still practicing. He can stand for awhile and takes a couple steps.














Here's the kids in their new pig and monkey jammies.














Apollo loves the computer. He climbs up on the chair and onto the desktop. He likes to use the mouse to scroll around.














Apollo makes tons of animal sounds so we thought it would be fun to take him to a zoo that had farm animals too so he could see what the real animals looked like. He had fun feeding the baby goats with Dad.















Apollo was jumping up and down on his stroller and throwing his arms up when he saw this playground on our way out of the zoo. He did not do the same when we left. He is a daredevil and loves to go down the slides and play on the toys.

It's been a great couple of weeks - we're taking full advantage of the beautiful weather here with some fun outdoor activities.















Carol offered to babysit for a night while we went out to a great restaurant and a movie. Apollo loves Carol, books, and dogs, so this was the perfect combination.
















He really likes books.











































We had a great time kayaking in the Newport Bay - Apollo just sat between us. He loved dragging his hand and his rubber duck in the water.




















Our little son loves to climb! He never got bored of crawling on the rocks while we checked out a new wall on Lake Perris.















Nick and Jordan came with us - they've got that newlywed glow, can you see it?














Apollo is here with Carol - he needed some sustenance after his tough climbs. Between bites, he made sure we all knew where his belly button was.



















It was a great wall that we'll be sure to visit again.

Busy Halloween

We had a busy but very fun Halloween this year. Apollo was so excited to get candy at every door and gave out some thank-yous.

We have spent a lot of time making calls and holding up signs for the yes on 8 campaign. Apollo is always strapped to Carleton on the front pack or in his car seat stuffed into a closet while we make the phone calls. We hope we are making a difference and that we will be able to protect marriage between a man and a woman and that kids will have both a mother and a father.




















We went with some friends to trick-or-treat in an old folks home. Raggedy Anne was 101 years old. Apollo had a great time. He loved Miss Piggy.
















Our little vampire family had a fun Halloween night. Apollo always had his hand up to get the biggest handful of candy possible.

Happy Birthday, Apollo!

For Apollo's birthday, we went to Apollo's great-great-aunt Ida's house and had Halloween cupcakes and ice cream. We also took around scary cupcakes around to Carleton's work and others in our area. Mom made a hand puppet of Little Red Riding Hood and Dad gave him a remote control tractor. On his birthday, Dad taped a bunch of boxes together so Apollo could climb around.



Apollo was spoiled by friends and family for his birthday. He got a puzzle and makes the sounds of the pig, cow, and sheep.


Carleton went kayaking with some coworkers. Apollo had a very high fever for 5 days so he'll be going probably next Saturday.


We carved pumpkins. One was a ghost and the other was Apollo. Carleton carved a bunch of teeth with spaces on it. Apollo is getting his 10th tooth (second molar!).

Apollo loves his Daddy!!! He gets so excited to see him when he comes home from work and clings to him when he sees him getting into his work clothes. Carleton is indoctrinating him early to be a BYU fan. Don't mention this game to Carleton because it was BYU's first loss this season, to TCU.

Apollo is helping Daddy clean off the back porch.

Apollo likes listening to music and has started making his moves.

Welcome Little One

We've had a fun few weeks discovering more of CA. Carleton has been training (running) hard for his 10k coming up in January and is excited to be a daddy again. Robyn has been working on Christmas projects and catching up with old friends. Apollo is the happiest and most fun baby-we completely adore him. He looooves climbing (on the stove, playground, toys-whatever he finds) and smiling. He says a lot of cute words and phrases that surprise us all the time. He is an outdoors and water baby.


Here is Apollo cuddling with his little sister, Annie Elizabeth. We are way pumped we're having a girl and couldn't be more excited. Apollo loves to give hugs and will be a great brother (except he also likes poke eyes, pick noses, take toys away, and wrestle smaller kids too). The name Annie comes from great-grandma Annie Skenandore who was a little girl at the Battle of Wounded Knee. She was Sioux Indian and had great stories to tell. She was very kind and thoughtful of others and was a strong woman. Carleton also has a great-grandma too. Elizabeth comes from Robyn's best friend from high school. Liz will be a great example to Annie of how to love and live life. We're glad Annie will have a grandma Heidi that will share her middle name too.


We went climbing with Carleton's coworker, Carol, at Ortega Falls. Carol was a pro even though it was just her first time and Apollo found some rocks more his size and climbed too!


Of course Carleton is training his son early to be a football fan too.


My friend Ali from high school came over for the afternoon to play. Our kids had a fun time together. It was great to catch up.


Robyn had so much fun at her high school proms, she went back for more last weekend. Her friend from Quantum Learning had a prom theme for her birthday. Nothing like a pregnant prom queen.

We took a beautiful hike last weekend. It's amazing how we'll be in the middle of a city and a little further will be some amazing open areas. We had a cool view at the top. Mom Skenandore would have loved the wild flowers.

On the Road Again

Carleton, Heidi, Josh, and our cousin Corey ran in the Peach Days 10k race. Going to celebrate this has become a yearly tradition for us (we've been there 6 out of the 7 years we've known each other). We had a fun time with all the family at Grandma/pa's house.

Apollo and Mom went to Idaho for a week with the family. We were visited often by a moose right in the front yard. Gracy was happy to find someone to pick on her own size. Apollo had a fun time in the outdoors with his buddy (Grandma) and loved playing with the kids.

This weekend we went to a BBQ with people from Carleton's work. Carleton and his coworker, Brian, did a "Jump on it" dance from Apache. Brian wanted to do the "Carleton" dance from Will Smith. Good times.