October 2020

The kids had the best time at Morrison's 3rd Birthday Party.

The kids had a sleepover with Sophie at our house.

Heading out for our Halloween Boo Missions.  

Skylar and her friends favorite night of the year is the annual Halloween Baking Champion contest.  Skylar had the theme of ghosts and graveyards.  She came home with "Best Use of Theme."

Nothing better than a visit from Grandma!

Some of the local middle school boys put on a Haunted Trail that Madden and his buddies walked through.  I must say, I was really impressed.

Pumpkin craving.  The kids are doing more and more of the carving each year.  I was really proud of Skylar who carved her entire pumpkin herself.

Halloween 2020

Covid or Not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my favorite holiday.  I had already picked out costumes for our family months and months ago, but with the pandemic still in full effect and knowing that Halloween wasn't going to be what it normally is, we made the switch.  I wanted to make sure our costumes were "covid safe," but still cool looking, so Alien masks it was.   

Several people in our neighborhood already proclaimed that they wouldn't be passing out candy or letting their kids trick or treat.  I didn't agree with that and felt that both those could be done safely.  Jake built me a candy shoot to keep with social distancing.  I usually purchase well over 1000 pieces of candy, but not knowing what this year was going to look like I kept it calm and only bought 500/600 pieces.  By the end of the night I still had about 200 pieces left so it was definitely a lot less people this year.

Madden had a bit of a rougher Halloween than last.  He started his day by waking up at 5:00 AM which Jake and I knew wasn't going to be good.  By the time it was to head out and go trick or treating his mood changed and he refused to go and then pouted inside the house.  Luckily he came out for a bit and helped me pass out candy, but by the time Skylar came back from trick or treating I never saw him again until he asked me if he could go upstairs and take a shower.   I think next year he will come back stronger than ever.

Alien Invasion

Madden and Jake's Pumpkin

Nicole and Skylar's Pumpkins

For the majority of the houses not passing out candy Skylar and her friends got a nice haul of candy.

Aubrey as Arthur the Mouse, Skylar the Alien and Ava and Lucy as Pepper and Salt.

Jake and I are the top of the candy shoot.

Had to drag these two apart that night.

Even though it wasn't your typical Bressi Halloween I'm glad we still made the best of it and enjoyed the evening...well at least 3 of us did.  #poormadden

 

Back to School.....well, kind of!

 

So after 7 long months of at home learning and not being in school the kids finally got to go back.  Since we are still in the days of Covid they are only letting the kids go back to school two days a week.  Those two days are only half days which we all know isn't enough, but I can't tell you how happy the kids were to be back.  They have to wear masks the whole time they are there and can't play on the playground of even be close to friends.  They are such troopers and I couldn't be more proud of how they are handling all of this.

Nothing can hold these two down.

Walking into the last first day of elementary school for these two.  How fast did that go??

Madden insisted on wearing is Fiend mask.

We are still fighting the good fight by rallying to get these kids back in school full time.

September 2020

 

Celebrating Ava's 10th Birthday with a pool and bonfire at the beach.

Homeschooling with the bestie.

These two finally got to celebrate their birthdays at the Sugar Factory.  They have been wanting to go since May.

Honestly I have no clue what is going on here..haha!

August 2020

 Daddy Daughter Camp out in the Rossitto's back yard.

Madden got what he wanted all summer...A weekend away at Lennon and Morrison's house.  They swam, ate treats, played video games, went to the drive in and stayed up way to late.  He loved every minute of it!

5+ years later we finally meet again.  On our way to Tahoe we stopped in Fresno to visit our college friend Brandon and his wife Tiffany and their two daughters. 

Just another beach day for this crew.

Sunset beach visit with Sophie.

Ocean temp was near 80 degrees so we went back to the beach on the weekend.

Yep, right back to the beach the next day for a "Last Day of Summer"/ Ava's birthday celebration. 

Could not have and still can not be surviving this covid nightmare with out these ladies.  Having them has been such an outlet during this really dark time has saved me.

First Day of School 2020-2021

 When school got shut down out back in March we never would of thought we would be starting the new school year still at home, but we are.  I must say this is one of the most heartbreaking things for me as a parent, not being able to see my kids go back to in person learning at their school.  It's Skylar's last year at Poinsettia and I really want to see her be able to go back to school at some point.  Madden got the best teacher at the school and Skylar is in class with all of her six best friends. I'm trying to keep all positive thoughts and hope that it won't be like this very long.  

Until then we are going to have to settle for the online learning.