Cherished Blessings: 2009

Monday, November 02, 2009

Halloween 2009

Douglas as Anakin Skywalker, Phillip as Rolie Polie Olie, Evan as a pumpkin and Brayden as a bumblebee. (He got to stay home and help daddy hand out candy)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Earlier this fall we decided to get our deck done. There were no sides on it and the stairs we poor, one was broken and they were not safely spaced (there were two stairs going down when there should have been three) So we decided we were going to put sides on and a decent set of stairs. We are happy with the finished project.

Before

Making progress

almost done

FINISHED!

Yummy Pear!

Brayden pretending to eat a pear...he did eventually take an actual bite.

Fall family fun

Okay so last week we started to make plans to go to the Amaze in' farm on Saturday but listening to the weather on the news during the week, it didn't sound like that was going to happen...too cold. So I decided to plan fun fall activities that we could do as a family at home. I planned pumpkin carving, roasting the seeds, making caramel apples, decorating the window (the only halloween decorations we have) and making a scarecrow using leaves for stuffing. We were able to do all of it except for the scarecrow, Crazy enough we woke up to a snow covered lawn that morning. WAY too early in the season for snow!!! I felt like we should be putting up the christmas tree not halloween decorations. So needless to say the leaves we were going to use for stuffing were snow covered and wet. But our day ended up being very full with the other activities planned. We had a fun day! The kids enjoyed it all.

Douglas

Phillip

Evan

Douglas and Phillip getting dirty

(ooh, it feels gross mom!)

Evan (no complaints :) )

James w/ the boys

They did the cleaning, I did the carving

Brayden got up from his nap and was

added to the mix.

Bray watching nicely

Phillip helping dry the seeds quicker

(he loves to help in the kitchen)

Our pumpkins

Sleepy hollow...a bat....Mr. Meowkins

Caramel apples, we enjoyed them for

Dessert on Sunday

Our roasted seeds

normal- butter and salt

halloweeny- butter, cinnamon, ginger, allspice

savory- butter, garlic salt, and worceshire sauce

(they are yummy)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Douglas James...2nd Grade 2009-2010

Phillip Isaac...Kindergarten 2009-2010

1st days of school

Douglas' first day of school was 2 days ago. He is VERY happy to be back in school. Phillip's first day was today. I can hardly believe we have two in school. Phillip was excited to start school, I hope he does well. He has a little bit harder time with structured activity.

Douglas

Phillip getting his shoes on

Phillip

Phillip and his friend Bethany (our next door neighbor)

It was so cute how she grabbed his hand for the picture.

waiting for the bus

here it comes

my baby walking up to the bus

walking up the bus stairs

He looks so excited!...Bye mom!

(he did make sure he gave me a hug..."because I'm gonna miss you mom"..so sweet.

Friday, September 04, 2009

Douglas turns 8

It is so hard to believe that he is eight already. It feels like yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital. Crazy! So we decided to throw him a party with his friends with a Pokemon theme. The boys all had a blast! We started the party out with the kids having some free play time before starting anything structured...plus I wanted to wait for James to get home from work before I started some of those things too. Then we did pin-the-tail on Pikachu. Had some cake, ice cream and lemonade. Douglas opened some presents then we did a Pikachu pinata. Fun was had by all!

The pikachu pinata I made