Halloween Party 2011

So we had ourselves a little Halloween Party......

We all got into costume....

 Lots of different characters showed up. 

A pirate and a ladybug.

Another pirate. This one is 7 going on 25 w/ his 5 o'clock shadow

A cutie pie and another pirate...

 A Gypsy and Buzz

And we also had a Batman, Dash, Superman, Iron man's buddy, a few cats and one more little cutie pie. 

Then we all got right down to business..... eating of course.

 Cupcake coma.

Hanging w/ friends and playing.

 Hey is that ladybug climbing the wall?

We played games.  The biggest hit was turning the Dad's into mummies.

 The kids LOVED this game.

I think... even the grown ups had fun.  Thanks friends and Happy Halloween!



One of those weeks.....

Have you ever had one of THOSE weeks? 

In the past few days we've been to the doctor / urgent care 3 tims for 2 of the boys. Yikes.

Oscar, it seems has something called "virus triggered asthma" or "reactive airways". We thought he was just prone to pnemonia and ear infections. For years we've know that it takes him like 12 hours to go from well to coughing until he pukes. Turns out maybe it doesn't have to get that far every time he gets a cold. We are now working with a pediatrician that specializes in asthma and hopefully this is the last cold where he cough until he throws up for hours before falling asleep every night. HOPEFULLY. We'll keep you posted on that.

And then little Jack. We are *THIS* close to bubble wrapping him. While jumping off an ottoman he sprained his ankle so he's limping around the house. Thankfully he didn't break anything. Not sure I can take another broken bone this year....

So. That is our little update. It isn't as bad as it seems. I maybe it is and we just are the "glass half full" kind of people. We are all in great spirits concidering that Jack in limping around while Oscar coughs up a lung in the background.

Wanna come for a visit? I dare you......

Canadian Invasion....

You know a Canadian is in the house when you have this..... on the counter.

We've just had the privilage of the in-laws coming to visit us from Calgary.  Here they are w/ Darren and the kids.

 We had a fun filled week with them.  We went to the pumpkin patch... which we were stunned to learn had had the pumpkins trucked in and carefully spread out on nice grass.  All 2 feet apart, clean w/ the stems up.  No vines anywhere.  We've never seen this... it was a bit surreal to take a hay ride to a field w/ "displayed" pumpkins.  Anyway - the kids didn't care and we all had fun.

 Pumpkin carving.....

Calvin's school had a family fun festival.  Bouncy house & all!

 We decorated for Halloween!  Creepy.....

 They stopped to see a friend in Eastern Washington on the way to see us and brought two huges bags of apples.  So we made PIES!  This pie has 15 apples.  No joke.  It was awesome!

And now they are gone.  It was a lovely visit.  Thanks for coming to see us Peter & Jeanette!  Until next time.

Gig Harbor

The kids & I went to Gig Harbor for the weekend.  My cousin lives there w/ her family.  Cooper (12) and Cassidy (17) are the coolest kids alive in my boys eyes.

Here is Cooper playing LIFE w/ Oscar.

 Kristen still has some little kids toys for Calvin & Jack to play with.

 Cooper plays football.  Here's Jack in his pads.

 We went to the local Halloween carnival / fair thing.  They had a scarecrow contest.

 The boys shot some pumpkins.

 Did a hay maze....

 We got to see Cooper in action.  That was cool.

 Here we are.  His cheering section.  From the left are my uncle & aunt, Calvin & Oscar, my cousin Kristen and her daughter Cassidy and Jack.

 We ended the weekend at "Oscar's" for a birthday dinner for my grandmother who turned 90.  Yes 90.

 More family fun.  It is fun to watch the next generation start to play / visit with each other.

 There is my grandmother.

This is one of my favorite pictures from the weekend.  Cooper was showing the boys the back yard (which is huge).  He has some sort of play pellet / air gun.  This pic is awesome.  Boys.... gotta love them.

So that was about it.  Loved our time.  The boys are already asking when we can go back.... hopfully soon.