Our new baby!!

Sabrina has big news for everyone - she is a big sister! We would like to announce the newest member of our family - Madalyn Taylor Kurtze. She was born on Monday November 15th at 12:16pm, weighing in at 7lbs 10oz and 18 1/2 inches long. We are so lucky to have her and love her already!!

Can you believe this is November???

I'm sorry, but does this look like November to you? No, well we had one last hot spell and we decided to take advantage of it but driving over to Santa Cruz and enjoying the beach one last time. Here is Sabrina horsing around with one of her best pals Lia. These two are some serious double trouble. :) I think it's the blond hair. After the beach we drove over to Pleasure Point Pizza and it was a perfect afternoon to spend with friends.

Enjoying the Halloween Season

Halloween is a busy time when you have a 2 year old! It starts weeks ahead of time, when you start going to pumpkin patches. We went I think about three or four times. They are loads of fun and there's lots to do. Pony rides, hay rides, corn mazes, jumping in the hay piles and oh yeah, looking at pumpkins. Sabrina for some reason was fascinated by the gourds, or "other vegetables" as she called them. Here we are at Usegii Farms. Miss Pumpkin Queen 2010 herself!

This year Sabrina went as a monkey.  I asked her what she wanted to be but didn't really have an opinion.  So I found her a monkey costume and she was tickled pink about it.  Now it's not just about dressing up on Halloween.  We went to a Halloween walk the Tuesday before Halloween at Santana Row, a Halloween party the day before Halloween AND then there's actual Halloween, which we spent at Sabrina's friend CJ's house.  We all had dinner beforehand and went out trick or treating.  Last year Sabrina totally got into trick or treating.  She didn't know what we were getting, she just liked walking up to people's doors and picking out something and putting it in her pumpkin.  The upside was that I got all her candy!  This year she knew EXACTLY what was inside those wrappers.  To get her to go trick or treating I had to give her a lollipop which she ate while we were walking around.  We walked for almost 90 minutes!!  By the end we were all pretty exhausted.  Jerry was a really good sport, he dressed up as Sabrina's banana.  I dressed up as a cranky pregnant mommy.  :)  

Actually on a not related to Sabrina  note Jerry and I went to an actual adults only Halloween party thrown by one of his co-workers.  I was an oven with a bun in it (get it???) and Jerry was a chef!  I thought it was a pretty cute idea.

And in the end, Sabrina forgot all about her candy!!!  Whew!  More for me :D

Sabrina's first trip to Disneyland

So I realize that blogging has been light, but I'm trying to catch up.  Anyways, at the end of September we did a three day trip to Disneyland.  Growing up in L.A. I had never done a multi-day trip to Disney but more importantly it was Sabrina's first time.  Over the last few months prior we've been watching every Disney movie I can get my hands on.  Cars, Toy Story, the old classics, you name it.  I figure if we're going to be there we should try to get our money's worth. 

The trip was simply....magical.  To see Disneyland from Sabrina's eyes was priceless.  And Sabrina was fearless!  She wanted anything and everything that Disneyland had to offer.  Rides, parades, shows, characters, you name it.  She loved every minute of it and we loved being there with her.  She wanted to go on every ride and even went on the Matterhorn!  She said it was bumpy but that she liked it.  Sabrina got to meet and hug Mickey, Minnie, Chip n Dale, Pooh Bear, Donald Duck and Lighting McQueen and Matar.  We had front curb seats at the Disney parade and she was even picked to dance in the parade!  An amazing three days.