Halloween 2008

Tonight was Halloween. Elena dressed up as Jasmine (one of the Disney Princesses for those of you out of the loop) and Landon was an army man. This was the only thing we could find to even come close to fitting his little butt. I wasn't going to dress Landon up at first and then I started feeling bad so I ran out at the last minute and bought him a costume. Here are some pictures of them all dressed up. We all met at Tina's house at about sunset. We all loaded up into the trailer and went on a hayride. The kids had a ball. Everytime we would get back in the hayride after a stop, Elena would start eating 90 miles an hour. She looked like a little rat. Open, eat, open eat. I bet she ate half of the candy just on the hayride. Afterwards, we went back to Tina's house and had a bonfire with hotdogs and all kinds of stuff. The kids were so wired on candy that they just ran around to warm up. Elena crashed when we got home because she was just exhausted. We had fun and they already can't wait for next year.

Our First Halloween Pumpkin

Barrett and Elena went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday. They went to get our first pumpkins to carve. Elena picked out one pumpkin for her and one for Landon. She picked out a GIANT pumpkin for her; one almost as big as her, and then she picks a teeny tiny one for Landon. She had so much fun carving her pumpkin last night. She had no problem putting her arms and head in the pumpkin to clean it out. After it was done, we took some pictures. We put it on the picnic table on the porch and we faced the pumpkin in towards the house. All night last night she would go to the window to check it out. We kept the lights off most of the night so she could really look at it. Her and her daddy did a good job on our first pumpkin. We ended up painting Landon's pumpkin since it was too small to carve. We painted it white last night and tonight we will paint a black face on it.

Ship Island

We went to Ship Island this weekend. It was really nice. The weather was great for this. It was nice and cool and a little breezy. A perfect day for a boat ride and the beach. The kids loved going. It was like practically having the beach to yourself. The kids got to explore and go all over. We didn't have to worry about people or highways. We brought a picnic lunch with us so after a little morning exploring, we sat and had lunch on the beach. Grandpa took a nap after that although he swears he didn't. Here is the picture to prove it though. Anthony built sand castles and I took the girls down the beach to find seashells. There were shipping boats off the coast and the kids just thought it was so great that we were on an island and pirate ships were there too.

Ashleigh kept eating sand. I don't know what she thought it was but she would just put loads of it in her mouth. Elena, Ashleigh and Anthony all got burned. I guess because it was breezy we took advantage and didn't slather them up with sunscreen. None of them are complaining about it though which just proves that kids are tougher than adults. I would have already been whining.

Anyway, this was a fun day and hopefully we will do it again.

BACK TO WORK :(

OK. Today was D-Day. I officially had to start coming back to work today. It wasn't as hard as I thought coming to the office. I dropped Elena off bright and early this morning and then made the gut wrenching drive to Landon's daycare. I dropped him off at about 8. I only made it until 11 am before I drove down there to check on him. He looked like he was doing good. He was wide awake. He was clean and smiling so that made me feel a little better. He is the only one in his class until the end of November so he will get plenty of one on one time. The other classes were outside so his teacher had him outside with them. He was all wrapped up. I feel much better after this visit than I did after dropping him off.

Disney World Again

Ok. So this was our last chance to take a little vacation before I had to return to work. Moma, Krissy, me and all of the kids took the van to Disney World for four days. This was a great trip. The kids were on their best behavior. The weather was beautiful. And the best part, there were no lines. The kids got to ride everything that they wanted to ride and we didn't wait for anything. Landon did great on this trip. He got fussy the last couple of days because of the antibiotic he was on. Other than that, he seemed to enjoy himself as well.

On our first day there, we didn't think Elena would be tall enough to ride the roller coaster in Toon Town so we put her Minnie Mouse high heels on. She would not take them off the entire day. Everybody stopped us to ask where they came from. She loved it. She made sure if people didn't ask about them, she stopped to show them her shoes. She even took a picture with Minnie Mouse so that they could show their shoes off together.

Landon's first ride at Disney World was the Winnie the Pooh Ride. He was looking all around almost like he knew what was going on. He really liked all of the neon colors on that ride. I finally talked Hailey into riding Space Mountain even though Krissy objected. We rode it twice she loved it so much. Before this trip we couldn't get her off of Big Thunder Mountain and now we won't be able to get her off of Space Mountain. She says it is now her favorite ride.

This was such a good trip that I am already ready to go again. I think we are going to plan another short trip before the end of the year just me, Barrett & the kids. I think we would have a good time going just us. I guess I am just as big a Disney fan as the kids are.