Merry Christmas!!!

I thought it would be fun to do a little flash back :)

Maddie 2008; Maddie's first Christmas.

Maddie 2009.

Maddie and Myla 2010; Myla's first Christmas!

Madeline told Santa that she wanted candy canes for Christmas. Myla loved him and just snuggled with him. It was so cute and the first time Matt got to be there. Love these girls!

Got Milk???

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE HALLOWEEN. I was about to say that it is a time for my inner child to come out, however my child is not inner and it is always out, so maybe this season really just gives me an excuse to be how I always am.

Life has been way too much fun lately. I know that California is not renown for its change of seasons and its fall weather, however there has still been a nice chill in the air and in fact a good amount of rain. All the stores have pumpkin everything and the colors are absolutely beautiful. I feel so warm and cozy and mushy inside during the fall, I don't know why, but I love it! Anyways, we have been visiting the pumpkin patch often and today we got to attend a Halloween, Costume, Birthday party for our neighbor who turned 5. IT WAS A BLAST. I know it sounds kind of bad, but I can actually understand how that Mom in the movie "Problem Child" wanted to adopt a kid so bad, just so she could get invited to all the neighborhood parties. Madeline is at such a fun age, where she has friends now and gets invited to parties. Basically she has assisted in making us popular :) I am partially kidding of course, Madeline is a party within herself and provides entertainment non stop. Myla just adds to our happiness everyday, with her super chill personality and a smile that never ends. I don't think I could be anymore blessed! Anyways, I've become a pictureaholic and I am going to post a ton of pics. I just cannot stand the thought of missing out, or not capturing one moment of our lives with our beautiful girls!

Regarding our costumes I keep thinking that maybe Matt's cow costume has been overdone, yet we seem to bust it out again and again each Halloween and it brings guaranteed smiles to everyones faces. Now, after tonight, Matt has won twice for best costume, once on the Caribbean cruise we went on in 2007 and tonight at the Birthday party. We went to Walmart when we were dating and got that costume and he was the cow and I was a milk bottle. It was pretty funny. Since then I decided to be a cow girl because it is an easier costume to pull off last minute. Matt's Aunt got Madeline the Cindarella costume for her second birthday and surprisingly it still fits. My Dad also got her the Snow White costume that she had on in my previous post. I figured she could switch off between the two for her different Halloween parties. I actually got a princess costume for Myla too, but it was so cold outside that I decided to put her in the cow costume at this party. Plus it is fun to compare pics of Maddie and Myla in the cow costume.

I am going to post the many diff occasions the cow costume has made an appearance in the Deter family. I am not doing them in order, so I will put a heading under them with the year. Enjoy:

So, this first one was when chic-fi-la was having a deal that if you were a cow costume you would get free food. When I hear the word free it does something to me :) Oct. 2009

So, here I was prego with Madeline and we were on a cruise in the Carribean. Can you see my prego belly? I was 24 weeks in this pic. Oct. 2007

This one is my fav. We were right in front of a cafe on the boat and took this. All the people in the cafe were cracking up.
So, this is when Madeline was no longer in my tummy and we went and visited Dad at work in our costumes. Oct. 2008

I wanted to show the comparison of Madeline and Myla in the costume. This was today, so Oct. 2010.

Now, some more of our second trip to the pumpkin patch. I kind of overdid the Halloweeness of Maddie's outfit, but I loved it.

I love this one, Maddie struck a pose :)


So, now we are at the costume, birthday party pics. Maddie makes a beautiful princess.


Myla, my precious little angel, well, actually cow right here.
We are so meant to be together :)


I am obsessed with pics where food is all over children's faces. To me it captures how yummy their food was and how much they enjoyed it.
I love this beanie, it looks like her brain exploded.
Now that was one good cupcake and one happy little lady. She looks a little high from the sugar.

Recent Happenings...

Things have been a little crazy this year; a whole lot of fun, with some trials and blessings mixed in between. I've told the story many times on my blog on how we landed here in CA and ended up getting a house, which was my dream. Well, for the third time this year Matt was on the job search once again. I freaked out a bit, but this time I guess it was a little more expected. The lack of insurance for our kiddos and our mortgage and car payment were definitely on my mind. I didn't blog about it, because at the time I was not in the mood to share. However, we have been blessed once again and Matt has received two job offers. I think Matt should be a professional job finder. He is a man who knows how to interview apparently. Matt is still titer tottering between the two, however he is supposed to start one of them on Oct. 18. In between this speed bump in our lives we have tried to have as much fun as we could, while not spending money. My AMAZING friend Allison gave us three tickets to lego land. My Mom said she would babysit Myla and we were off. It was so much fun and really just what we needed. It is not a place I would probably get a season pass to, but the mini lego lands that they made were so cool to see. I can't believe what they made with those legos and how real they looked. Madeline was tall enough to go on a good majority of the rides, so that was helpful. Their water areas were her fav though, especially since it was about a 100 degrees outside. We also recently went to the new Disney store in mission mall, which I would highly recommend to those who live near by. They built a new princess castle in there and if you wave a princess wand inside, it plays clips from the princess movies in the mirrors. The people at the store told us that Mickey and Mini were coming to the mall and we could get pics taken with them. We went, did not have to wait too long and Madeline fell in love with Mickey once again. Later that day we headed to the pumpkin patch at Laguna Hills mall with the counsin's. Needless to say life has been hard, but a blast at the same time. Most of all, we are mainly healthy and really happy!!!

This was a boat ride through all the fairy tale stories, like three little pigs.

We were cracking up here because how much I look like lego lady. So sad :)
Matt said lego man was ripped.
Totally soaked and totally happy.
Trains are Maddie's life right now.
Hot lego woman with my man.

One good day!!!
This is the princess castle inside the store.

I wish Madeline was smiling in this pic. She had just cried before we got up there because she could not wait any longer to see Mickey, therefore her eyes are all watery in this pic.
I think this was her and Hailee's fav ride at the pumpkin patch.
Most of the cousin's. Myla was sleeping.

Tea cups with Matt. Hailee went pale on this one. She was a little scared. However Matt ended up holding on to her and she loved it. Madeline was clutching on for dear life, but with a huge grin on her face.
Madeline sang her choo choo soul song a good majority of the time. She was in choo choo heaven.





Do you love her pumpkin head band that I got for $1 at target? I'm obsessed.
She woke up. She looks so big in this pic.
Almost all of us. Auntie Kristina was taking the pic. Madeline could care less and was climbing through the pumpkins. It is like a where is waldo boook with Maddie's head band making her blend in. We will be going back, it was so much fun!!!