It was fun.

This last week has been ridiculously busy, I seriously haven't had time to stop and breath. I have a feeling I wont be able to till January.

 But tonight was quite enjoyable, Derek had a bachelor party to go to and I had to attend the bridal shower. After attending the shower, the girl friends all thought we should do something fun so what did we do, we went dancing. Oh goodness it was so much fun just to hang out on the dance floor and just let loose. The wedding is next Saturday so we talked about going again next Friday. It'll be fun, something I need a little more in my life. 

I've heard that before

I have been talking to a lot of my friends who are saying, I haven't had time since I got back from fall break, I feel like this statement has never been truer in my life. So here I am saying I haven't had time since we got back from fall break. I didn't even have time to update pictures from our Fall trip to California because as soon as we got home from trip I was working on our Halloween costumes, then we had parties to go to and now I am finally updating! YAY!! So here we go, we'll start with what we did we the few weeks before we went on Fall break. I should probably put this in three different posts but what the heck we're going to throw it all into one.

So a few weeks before we went on Fall break we actually did something that was so fun! That we did two years ago and that I absolutely love to do. We canned fruit, lots and lots of fruit. I spent quite a few days canning.

Derek did a really good job eating the cherries, I feel like we ate about half of them before we even got them into jars, and I don't really like cherries but these were the most delicious cherries I have ever had in my life.

The cherries when we were done. So yummy and not very much sugar. 

Next we canned peaches. 

One for the jars one for Derek. I think we consumed a ton of peaches too. 

It took us two days to can two boxes of yummy peaches, two years ago we had the help of Derek's mom so it only it took a one day. Since most of it was me and a little bit of Derek, it took a quite a bit longer. 

We were both so proud of all our hardwork, next we are to work on apples. Do you think we could survive during a zombie attack on apples, peaches and cherries? We think so. 

Later that we got into our car and drove down to Casa Grande were Derek's sister and mom live and we made pizza and played games with his nieces and nephews. The next day I drove back up to the valley and went to work while Derek played all day long. He played racquetball with his step-dad and then shot off rockets with his nephews and step-dad. They had a blast and I knew he would appreciate it if I added pictures to the blog. 

Once I got off work on Saturday I drove back down to Casa Grande to pick up Derek and to go out to dinner and then bright and early Sunday morning we departed to California. Our first destination was the beach with my way awesome cousins. I am waiting for her to send the only picture we took together. 

Driving to Hollywood we go, Derek was not impressed with my navigational skills. hahah 

In front of the Kodak theater, to those who go to California, Hollywood is only worth it the first time. It's like Times Square, you go for the feeling and then call it good. 

While in Hollywood, we found our favorite cupcake shop, Crumbs. it's so good we got two... each! 

 Eventually we went to Redondo Beach and found a place of my childhood, Quality Seafood!! It was so yum! There was so much variety, almost everything was caught that day, steamed right there for you and dipped in butter sauce!

 Derek was so proud of his feast of shrimp, shark steak, clam chowder, oysters, and a yummy crab.

 Yep, still looks delish. I wish I could eat here once a week. 

 Nothing survived. 

 Derek makes so much fun of me because I absolutely love churros. There is just something so yummy about cinnamon sugar coated fried bread. 

Even despite eating a whole heap of seafood we were still able to enjoy some yummy churros, in fact these were probably the best churros I have ever had in my life. 

We were finally able to visit my brother and his family. He took us to the Ontario Aircraft Museum with our nephews it was such a blast. 

 My big brother Tony and my big nephew Andrew, Derek would say how similar Andrew and I were. We both needed naps, we would be cranky if we didn't nap or eat, we loved to play and snuggle and we are mostly both chunkers!! We love food so much! 

 Derek in second command of the aircraft. 

 I climbed into the shooting seat, and we blasted off. 

 Aiden my other studly nephew, sitting in the dome. 

 Andrew was starting to get hungry and cranky so he didnt want to take pictures with us. 

 We went to Bucca di Peppo, and it was hilarious hearing my nephews say it over and over the entire drive. Then Andrew started talking in London. (his absolutly adorable british accent, Derek still quotes it to this day, "Mummy can we watch Thomas on the Tele") 

 While at Bucca we all enjoyed the giant sunday, okay mostly just the boys, they all enjoyed.

We weren't planning on going to Disneyland or California Adventure because it is so expensive and we were trying to keep the trip low budget. But we were able to find a very very good discount for tickets So we took advantage of the opportunity and drove down to the Happiest Place on Earth. 

We started in the Hollywood Tower of Terror. We only went once so I didn't get as sick as I did last year.  

 While in California Adventure we went to the Animation Academy, probably our favorite part of this trip. You sit down with a real animator and every one has their own paper and clipboard and the animator shows you how to draw a character. We loved it so much that we did it twice, first time was Pluto and the second time was Jack Skellington. 

 For being October, it was unbelievably warm even wearing shorts and a t-shirts was still too hot. Disneyland needs misters all over the place. 

 The new Star Tours was probably the coolest transformation ever. I was very impressed with all that they did, minus the ridiculously long line.

 The Haunted Mansion was very impressive. We loved every minute of what Jack did to the place.

Once we got back from California, sewing commenced to make our wicked cool costumes. It took Derek and I forever to agree on a costume and once we did I never stopped sewing till I needed to go to work. We had two costume parties to go to and I was so excited to dress up as a couple. This is our first time in three years that we had the opportunity and reason to dress up. And for Halloween being Derek's favorite holiday I was very surprised with how much he hated dressing up. So this year we agreed on a tightrope walker and the circus ringleader. I think he made a great ring leader and people wanted me to balance on everything. 

Hope your Halloween and October was as busy as ours and that the rest of the Holiday Season isn't too overwhelming!