Cary Halloween Festival

This past Saturday we went to the Cary Halloween festival.  We had a lot of fun playing games and eating treats. G2 wanted to wear his Bombero costume. After a while he got sick of wearing his hat and gave it to me to wear. We went to the festival with another family from our Church.  I love Halloween and all the events and parties. We carved pumpkins friday night at a friends house so we were ready to start our Halloween activities.

Visiting Friends

This week has been a lot of fun with a good friend from Utah visiting.  We have known each other since I was about 15 years old.  William was here for a training for work but got to spend the evening together. I really miss my friends and family.  We had a great time going to dinner, getting cupcakes, seeing Despicable Me 2, and just having dinner at my house. William is so good with kids, my son loved playing with him.  He was helping him walk on the ceiling, color, and draw.  I told William he should move here, let's see if I can convince him.

Hopefully more friends will come visit.

Life and Science Museum

A couple weeks ago my work had a family day at a children's museum.  It was such a fun day with pumpkin patches and train rides with lots of bugs and butterflies in between.

From Beaches to Birthday's

This past weekend we went out of the beach.  We stayed in Wilmington with Ron (my brother). He went to a special Battleship tour, while G2 and I went to the aquarium on Carolina Beach. G2 loves spending time at the aquarium and there is an awesome playground outside. During our visit we got to see a diver go inside the largest tank and play with the fish.

After we finished with those we ate lunch on the beach. It was a beautiful day. The Oceanic is right on a pier of Wrightsville Beach.  It is the only commercial place around. They always have a good menu with a few fresh fish options. I ordered an awesome Salmon salad.  I can't wait to come back when the warm weather returns.

On Sunday we celebrated G2's Birthday with my brother and the sister Missionaries in our ward.  He really enjoyed opening his presents and eating the frosting off his cupcake.  For his birthday we order Lego's and he got books from grandparents and a rocket from my brother.  He hasn't stopped playing with the lego's yet.

Awards

Last week I received an award for Innovation.  It was really great for the 5 minutes I got to celebrate before a bunch of stuff started happening at work.  I was two thousand miles away at the time and it was difficult to get on the same page as everyone. I wasn't sure what was going to happen when I came back to work the following week. All is okay now but I was a little worried as to what was going to happen.  It was nice receiving an award for a project I have been working on for 8 months. Everything turned out good in the end, with lots of lesson's learned for the future.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee Labor Day Weekend

This is a great place for families to visit. We had so much fun on a short weekend.  We hope to come back again.