Has it really been 3 months???

I guess that I have to apologize to everyone for my major absence from blogging...what can I say, we've been a little busy I guess. We went to Vegas, Alex started classes for his MBA, I started CBS and MOPS with the girls, we've had several colds and illnesses, many small home projects, trips to the zoo, I got second in a chili cookoff at church, Alex turned 35!! I'm not going to write too much today, but will try to put on lots of pics.

A cuddly moment with our big girl...we don't get these that often, so we really cherish them. Alex just had his 35th birthday!! Alicia couldn't take her eyes off that chocolate frosting!! Manny thinks that he is just our little lap dog!

We had a blast trick or treating with our little flowers...

Sophia on a recent trip to the zoo

Alicia couldn't get enough of the monkeys, but her second favorite is the deer in the petting corral.

My little troopers...

Carving pumpkins outside...

I think it was the first time that I ever carved pumpkins in a tank top...or outside!

Best friends

Alicia enjoying her cup of dirt at Fridays...she really thought it was dirt, it was hilarious

Alicia petting the baby goats at the pumpkin patch

On the carousel with daddy at Tom's Farm

A very disheveled Sophia past her bedtime

We tried on the rabbit costume, but it was too small, and Sophia was a very cute, but very unwilling rabbit.

At a dodgers game, just daddy, mommy, and Alicia

On our trip to vegas...Alicia's favorite part was the jacuzzi tub....it was too cold for the pool

and everyone loved the buffet

checking out the dinosaurs

posing with the free entertainment

Sophia couldn't care less, but Alicia was terrified of the human statue

Watching the gondola's inside of the Venetian hotel

waiting to see the free acrobats at Circus Circus...and what a show it was!!

and we did make it to the pool, but it wasn't as warm as it looks!!