Sean goes to Santa Cruz for Turkey Trot Race

Sean, Daddy and Mommy headed to Santa Cruz early this morning.  Mommy registered to run in her first race since her last in April 2010 (before the birth of Sean).

8AM start time.  Race distance 5K (3.2 miles).
Mommy was back after 29 minutes.  It was a beautiful race.  Sean hung out with Daddy waiting for Mommy to cross the finish.

After the race, we took a walk to Natural Bridges State Beach to see the Monarch Butterflies.  We took a brief walk down to the beach.  After our walk, we drove to Companion Bake Shop for coffee, cinnamon roll and pumpkin cake!   Excellent coffee and delicious cinnamon roll and pumpkin cake!

We headed back over the hill.  It was a cold, but beautiful sunny Fall morning.

Sean visits his friends Clinton and Margaret Ann

Sean went to visit his friends Clinton and Margaret Ann.
He played with them at their house for over an hour and had a lot of fun!

Clinton and Margaret Ann played and shared their toys with Sean.
Sean had a lot of fun!

Sean's Weekend Adventures

It's Sunday afternoon and it's been a great weekend for all of us (Mommy, Daddy & Sean).

Saturday morning started off with a trip to our local library.  We found some interesting books on the Monarch Butteryfly & Lady Bugs and decided to check them out.  Learning along with Sean has been so much fun!   Mommy is learning a lot of what she forgot from her childhood studies.  What fun!...to discover the world through a child's eyes.  

We stayed for Family Story time.  We sang songs, listened to a couple of stories and watched a movie all within 30 minutes.  We learned that Sean loves the song, "itsy bitsy spider".  

Saturday evening, we joined family in celebration of 3 birthday's!  Sean's cousin Derek turned 15!  Sean's Tia Valeria's father-in-law and sister-in-law also celebrated birthdays.  We were invited to Pedro's Mexican Restaurant.  The service and food were awesome!  Sean especially likes their corn tamale, rice and black beans.  Yummy! 

Today, Sunday....we took Sean to The Children's Discovery Museum!   What fun!   Sean is a little older than he was the last time and today we could see that Sean really enjoyed himself.  We ate lunch while we were there.  Their food was good and surprisingly reasonable in price.  Sean is a good eater, he ate a variety of food, but his favorite was the corn dog.  

Train Ride at Vasona

Saturday Morning, we met Uncle Stan, Aunt Linda and cousin Stephanie at Vasona Park.   We played at the park and took the train ride at Vasona.

Sean had a great time riding the train and playing with cousin Stephanie.

Saturday evening, we celebrated Stephanie's 17th birthday by going to dinner with all the above plus Grandma Harriet and Grandpa Richard.  Sean enjoyed himself at dinner celebrating cousin Stephanie's birthday, especially the yummy icecream!

Sean's Halloween Adventure

Daddy painted our pumpkins with ELMO.  So cool!  Sean loved his painted pumpkins.

Halloween night we all went to Avo and Avo's for dinner.   Avo and Avo's neighborhood typically has more trick or treaters than ours, so we thought it would be fun to hang out and hand out candy to the kids.   Sean had a blast handing out candy to the kids in costumes.

After seeing how much fun the other kids were having, he decided to let Mommy put on his Curious George costume and do a little trick or treating himself.

We stopped by Senora Maria's house (Avo and Avo's Portuguese neighbor).  We also stopped by the Japanese neighborhor's house across the street and Daniela's house (another neighbor).  Sean loved it!

We went back to Avo and Avo's and handed out a little more candy.

On our way home, we decided to stop by Tia Valeria's house to see Tia, Tio Steve, Derek & Bryce.  They were all so happy to see Sean especially in his costume!  

What a fun Halloween!  Looking forward to next year's!  Sean should be old enough to choose his own costume by then.  It will be interesting!