Sunday Best

 It always seems hard to get everyone ready for church.  It shouldn't be.  There are only 3 of us and church is at 1pm.  But once we are ready, Dieter is always so handsome!

 If he had his way, he would just go naked....everywhere!

visitors, we had visitors

 These crazy kids drove all night on a Friday night from Salt Lake to Sacramento.  They woke up spent the day in San Francisco, hoping to get into the World Series Game Giants vs Royals, woke up early on Sunday to go to church and then drove back to Salt Lake.  They didn't into the game, but I think they had a great adventure.  And we were happy to have them stay with us, even if we only saw them for a few hours.  Crazy kids!  

Aunt Amy and Dieter were making silly faces (actually Dieter was crying and Amy was making silly faces)

halloween

 To kick off the halloween season, we had our ward trunk or treat the weekend before Halloween.  I decided I would be crafty and make a dinosaur tail for his costume.  I had seen this on Pinterest and thought I could make it.  I turned out okay for me not being a seamstress.  Maybe I should practice?  Leading up to the party, he would have nothing to do with his tail.  I thought I had made it in vain.  As soon as he saw other kids in costumes, he was ready to join in.  And as soon as he saw other kids in costumes getting candy, he would not take the tail off!

 The young men in our ward were in charge of games and face painting.  Dieter stood in line to get his face painting.  Not just by anyone, it had to be done by our neighbor E, who Dieter thinks is pretty great! Dieter couldn't stop talking about his face painting.  

 Full Dinosaur costume finally came out in time for the parade around the cultural hall. 

 I didn't get a pumpkin this year.  And we didn't go to a pumpkin patch.  So the only photo opp Dieter had with a pumpkin was with the next door neighbor's pumpkin.  And it wasn't much of a photo opp. He was sick of me taking his picture. 

 Halloween night!  Our little Dinosaur was ready to get some candy. 

We had a fun night of walking up and down the street, knocking on doors, saying "trick or treat", and last but not least...eating the candy 

it's ours!!

 We are officially owners of a cabin.  I took a drive up to Tahoe to give the title company the check.  We stopped at the cabin to take a look and explore  We didn't have the keys then, so we could only explore the outside.  We are so excited and can't wait to spend our first weekend up there. 

 This will be the perfect place for a little boy to make great childhood memories.  There are rocks and sticks and a stream and did I mention rocks?

Dieter was a trooper on our quick trip to and from Tahoe.  However, he hates, hates, hates the sun in his eyes.  I let him borrow my sunglasses and he became such a ham!

downtown

 This kid loves to explore,  he loves all things pertaining to trains, and he loves to be independent.  So independent that he thinks he can walk to the train station without holding Mommy's hand.  A couple of Fridays ago we took the light rail downtown to visit Wes, eat lunch and play at the Railroad Museum.

The entire train ride is spent gazing out the window (or staring at crazy people that get on and off the train!)

Wes and Dieter waiting for our train to take us home.