Pumpkin Caving 2011

I love that they did their own pumpkins this year. We just helped cutting them out a little but the design was all their own. I love out pumpkin carving tradition.

Pumpkin Patch 2011

A Couple of these pictures are from when we went and picked yummy Jonagolds from an apple orchard with Lincoln's folks it was great.
This was part of the the pumpkin patch adventure. We took the kids to a local pumpkin patch and they loved it. Claire and I exploring the corn maze.

The kids and I on the hay ride around the pumpkin patch and farm.
Giddup
Madee and Sam in the Corn maze. Sam was a little worried we would get lost.
Here are the kids covering there ears for that loud pumpkin cannon that was about to shoot off.
It was a fun little adventure I am glad we took the kids.
Here is the pumpkin cannon and they also had a little one to shoot apples off.

Oct 2011

We did so many fun Halloween crafts that I have not been able to share the pictures for until now We finally have our computer and pictures back. We did some hand ghost(Thanks Aunt Dorothy for the very cute idea)
Yes Sam put spiky hair on his ghosts.
Cutie Pie Claire Bear we sure do love you.
I made these pumpkins with my friend and I love how they turned out. I put them in our living room and couldn't help but smile every time I saw them.

New Year's Eve at the ER!

I do have pictures and we almost have our fixed computer thanks so so much to Lincoln's Dad. I wanted to share the story of our new years eve. Lincoln and I were in Portland visiting my folks and they very generously watched my three children while I went and picked Lincoln up from Beaverton because he was fishing with a buddy. As the story goes Claire was running around Mom's house like a mad girl and ran into the living room maybe slipping maybe not and bumped her head on the stool of the rocking chair. Well it was a big enough cut to cause concern. Mom called me and told me what happened. We came home as quick as we could and tried to take Claire to an immidate care place but at 7pm they were close already so we decided to take Claire to the ER. It was a big enough cut that was still bleeding even after about the hour it took us to get back and run around. Took her in and they looked at her and she ended up having to get six stiches. Poor girl was tramatized by the whole thing. She has a nice looking sore on her face right by her eyebrow. Never planned on spending our new years eve that way.

Thanksgiving at our place

I know, no pictures I am still working that detail out. I really do miss blogging. I just wanted to share a little something I loved about Thanksgiving today. I was a little sad not to spend it with extended family. I did have a very sweet experience today. I made a beautiful Thanksgiving feast for our little family of which Madee and Sam choose rolls as their only food. That is not the sweet part. After Madee and Sam helped me put a table cloth on our table and we filled our plates and all sat down to eat I recommended that we all come up with one thing we were thankful for. Well we each went around the table and said one thing. As we ate my children kept sharing sweet little things that they were thankful for. It touched my heart. Happy Thanksgiving!

Late night rant

I was looking at the wonderful pictures my sister posted on her blog and realized that I have so many pictures I have not blogged because well sadly our kids (and lets not name any names) did quite the number on our computer that we use to store all of our pictures. Here is to hoping we can find a way to retrieve them. Its very sad. I know we will get the computer running again but its frustrating when your kids destory things. That is all. I need to go to bed now.

Weird Dream

I had a weird dream last night. It was kind of like a dooms day dream. I dreamed that I had Madee and Sam with me and we were racing to leave town because everyone knew from the color of the sky that something bad was going to happen that day. Lincoln was too slow and so we left before him. When the destruction started to happen we (me and the kids) (who knows where Claire was) raced into this large building with a lot of other people. We huddled down against a sturdy wall and I destracted the kids from seeing the bus crash into a near by window. (go figure the bus didn't break the window) In fact nothing hurt the building, we were completely safe inside. When we went outside after all the destruction had settled down, we started looking for family. I saw My Mom and Aunt Kate and remember feeling extreme relief that they were safe. I was looking all around for Lincoln but woke up before I found him. This was my dream. Every so often I have a dream that I remember and I really wonder if there is a deeper meaning to it all. That is truly the question.