Blooper Photos at the Botanical Garden

        I am a garden fanatic. I love the flowers, trees, the greenery and peace of gardens. For this year's holiday card, we went to take pictures at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.
     The time of the day was not so pleasant for Melany. She was annoyed at posing and on occasions, did not want to smile for the camera. And I can't blame her as we forgot to make sure she took a nap before picture time. Overall, the scenery was beautiful and so was the landscaping, trees and plants in bloom.
      We want to mail out the cards soon but in the meantime, enjoy the pictures that did not make the cut for obvious reasons. Did I mention how hard it is to take your own family pictures(with a tripod) and edit them? I will post the "nicer" ones in another post;)

Scratching her head, that was her pose:)

I don't know what Enoch's pointing at and Melany's not looking at the camera because she was looking at the ducks

Picture taken by Enoch, this is definitely a "NO" for our holiday card

Too bad Melany looks very blurry:/

So happy pictures are done!

Halloween/ Trunk or treat

        Our church's trunk or treat was the Saturday before Halloween. And I had been wanting to make my own Halloween costumes since last year. So we bought the sewing machine and I finally had no excuse and made the Flintstones costumes. It was my first time making clothes with the sewing machine so I was a little nervous on how the end product was going to turn out. But we finished the costumes right on time for Saturday.

        At the Trunk, Melany had loads of fun dancing to the Halloween songs. We got many compliments for our costumes, so I'm guessing I did better than I expected. Enoch helped me cut out the triangles and applied them to his costume and Melany's Pebble's shirt.

        On Halloween night, Melany was up and ready to trick or treat around our new neighborhood. She was not shy saying "trick or treat" but she was terrified of the scary masks people wore. I felt so much joy seeing how big and independent she is. I love my Fred and Pebbles Flintstones!

Our sewing machine!

What a cute looking Pebbles

So in love with lollipops

Candy rush

All clean after taking a bath- Halloween night

The Flinstones!

October happenings

October was good chilly month. The hot, dry 90 degree plus weather has so far ended and we are enjoying the nice, "California" like weather. We did some crafting and fun fall, Halloween decorating in our home.

     Enoch worked on adding shelves and making a table to fold our clothes in our laundry room. We got a new, gently used sewing machine and we can't wait to work on so many projects we have in mind.

     We took Melany to the pumpkin patch 3 weeks ago. Melany is a pumpkin fanatic as she always has to get a small pumpkin from Trader Joe's when we go grocery shopping. As Melany's memory retention gets better, she's been able to remember and sing several songs. It's so cute when she sings the Barney" I love you song" and kisses and hugs when the words come up on the song.

   Two weeks ago, I ran a half marathon as part of my marathon training. It was not easy at all but, I felt so much satisfaction after I was done. The new chiropractor I'm going to, is God sent and LDS. Enoch continues to be so supportive with my marathon training. He and Melany take me water half way through my run and cheer me on.

Some of our projects

Folding table for our laundry room

Enoch's finished table

Dinner at Olive Garden

Crazy hair day

It's been cold