Fun Times

Two post in one day!!!


Here are some recent pictures I found of the kiddos and the kids in the neighborhood.




They really do love each other (atleast sometimes, LOL)


And now they are done being loving to each other!!!



All the kids in the neighborhood on the trampoline at once!! Yikes!!!



They all had to pose for this one. Since we know they are all normally crazy!!!

Ok so since our lives have been kind of boring lately here are pictures that I finally uploaded from out Halloween pumpkins.
They all turned out very cool. But then only lasted about three days.



Daniel Jr.'s scary pumpkin


Alison's witch pumpkin



My pirate Pumpkin

Yesterday we enjoyed a much needed Family Day. Daniel finally had a day off, the first for him in over three weeks. We took the kids to breakfast and then went to get pumpkins. We carved the pumpkins and then attempted to get them to take a nap so that they would not be tired for trick or treating. Our plan failed but they were not as cranky as we anticipated them to be. Alison went to Bryn and Ainslea MacDonald's house for a girls sleep over and we took DJ and headed to the Mcneel's house where we had chili and apple cake (yummy!!! ) and went trick or treating with Ryan, Shane, David, Jackson and Kayla. Daniel kind of pooped out after about a hour of walking and wanted to go home. Here are some pictures of our day. Notice the last one is when DJ finally gave up and went to sleep for the night. All in all we had a great day with great weather. Now we will just wait for Daniel's next day off !!!



DJ watching Daddy carve a pumpkin



DJ, Daddy and Ali carving pumpkins




DJ with his SCARY Pumpkin!!!



DJ- Darth Vader and Alison- The Good Witch




When I went to bed this is what I found. DJ got in our bed and crashed out with his Daddy!! I guess he truly is a JR. They even sleep the same way.

Sickness

Sorry I have not posted anything in a while. Things have been crazy at our house this week. Daniel Jr. has been sick off and on for over 3 weeks so on Tuesday I finally took him to the doctor for them to tell me he had STREP THROAT!!! UGH!!! I hate that illness because if one kid has it in my house they both get it and then I get it. So I made a lab appointment for Alison that afternoon and sure enough she had it also. So they both were home with me on Wednesday and we did some major disinfecting of the toys and rooms. My house smelled like a hospital.
On Thursday morning I woke up feeling like Crud!! So I called the Doctor to see if I could get in and I guess I was meant to go to the Doctor that day because I got an appointment with my Doctor that morning. They did a Strep test but it was neg. She went ahead and gave me an antibiotic for my sinuses. And it was nice to chat with her about everything since I had not seen her since January. She told me that according to their records I had lost 50lbs since January. So I guess slowly but surely it is coming off.
Ok so now it is Sunday and I am still feeling like crap. I felt the worst yesterday with a massive headache all day long. We had my neice Emma's 4th b-day party to go to at Grandma and Grandpa's house which was nice to spend time with them and let the kids play. Daniel Jr. had fun playing football and swinging on the swing set with Grandpa. Of course I did not have my camera to take any photos of them. He Loved having Male time with him since he has not gotten much of that lately with Daniel working 72 hours a week. Atleast we are all looking forward to Halloween since he took the WHOLE DAY OFF!!! Yeah!!! The kids are counting down the days.

Bike Riding 101

OK so on Wednesday afternoon Alison decided that she wanted to learn to ride her bike with out training wheels. UGH!!! As many of you know Alison is quite the drama queen and tends to gripe about any new adventures. So needless to say I was not quite thrilled to try to teach her to ride her bike. But she actually did very well. Jamie started off teaching her and then when she left I continued to help her. Here are a few photos of all the kids trying it out. They are quite comical.


Alison trying to ride with out falling. She did pretty well.



Alison riding her bike with Kayla following her.



Mommy pushing Alison to make her ride.



Little Danieltrying to ride Ryan's Bike.

First Blog

Ok we are going to try this out. It seems to be the thing to do for everyone to be able to know what goes on in our daily lives.

Today Jamie and I decided to take the boys to the zoo. We had talked about it for a couple of weeks and today was the day. The boys were very hyper this morning so we were not sure that it would turn out to be a good day but, I think that they were both excited to get to the zoo.

Jaime, Ryan, Daniel Jr. and I at the KC zoo.

Daniel hugging "Spiderman" at the zoo

Daniel and me riding the Carousel ride at the zoo

The praying Mantis that we saw as we were leaving Africa. (He was kind of scary!!)

Daniel Riding the Carousel ride ( I wonder what he was thinking with that grin.)

Ryan and Daniel standing in the mouth of Frankenstein

Okay that is all the pics of the zoo for now.

This next picture is of the outside of our house. Daniel Jr. and I got out the Halloween decorations this week and went to town decorating the front of the house.

Picture of the outside of our house decorated for halloween