Halloween 2008

Our whole family went trick or treating together with our friends the Miller's.
The kids had a wonderful time and Xavier especially loved carrying his pumpkin basket around. Can you believe the Miller's were brave enough to have all of us stay for dinner too!

Autumn weekend fun

Here are some fun pictures from last weekend up at Gaga & Poppy's farm. The kids had a wonderful time playing in the leaves and running around. The weather was cold enough for coats but not cold enough to require hats & mittens. We celebrated Poppy's 61st birthday weekend too. The kids made him a cake that was quite a site! They added sooooo many farm decorations to it that the icing was almost hidden. They were very proud of thier creation.

Our 9 year anniversary

Yesterday we celebrated our 9th anniversary. Thanks to my Mom & our friend who babysat last night so we could go out to dinner. Our favorite restaurant to go to is a nice little French place close to home, Le Titi De Paris. We had a fantastic meal paired with some wonderful wines.

Yesterday evening

Our Wedding Day 1999

Yesterday afternoon

a few other pics from our wedding weekend 1999

Jenn & me

me, grandma & my mom

Michelle, Eric & Bailey

Jenn & Rob Rick & me

Cardboard Testimonies

You can't see it in this picture but there is a big pile of coats, hats & shoes that these naughty monkeys pulled out of their cubbies! They love to do this and don't understand that they need to leave their stuff hung up.

Augustine's 3rd Birthday (10-10-2008)

Here is our 3 year old Auggie! We had great weather on Friday so the kids got to play outside and enjoy the day. Auggie wanted an orange cake, so that's what he got. It looks a bit on the pink side but he was happy.
Gaga & Poppy came over to celebrate with us and brought some cool gifts!
---concentration---carefully removing the tape---

Here are a few pictures from last weekend when we went to Didier Farms in the rain. Just after we started loading the kids in the car it started to rain. After telling the kids we were going and getting everything ready I wasn't about to consider NOT going there. I told the kids on the drive over, that because of the rain we may just have donuts & hot cider under the shelter and walking through the store. We had our donuts & cider, took a pony ride & listened to the band that was playing. Thankfully after the first hour+ the rain stopped and the kids got to enjoy running around and the rides.

Apple Picking

Friday we went to Royal Oaks for our first time apple picking. 83 and sunny is not what I call apple picking weather! Although the weather was not right by my standards for apple picking we went anyway because it was a group outing with our home school group. We got to tour the orchard on an antique tractor drawn wagon. Poppy told the kids he had driven the same type of tractor 45 years ago! Poppy called it a putt-putt tractor. We watched an educational video on pollination, growing and picking apples, picked 5 apples each, and enjoyed a cider donut and 1/2 pint of cider after our tour. The kids had a great time and are enjoying eating the apples. The only downfall was the tired, hot twins. Xavier & Oliver were miserable during the wagon ride back out of the orchard.

here is where it was about to get ugly!

Xavier started to cry, then Oliver, and they cried the whole wagon ride back out of the orchard.