I'm so Lame

I don't have anything to blog about. I'm taking so many pictures of other people I haven't been picking up my camera at home. Between that, fighting off colds and coughs, and just going about our business, we're pretty boring. But with family coming to town next week I should be back soon.
One cute thing: Addilyn adds "all day" to something she feels passionate about. It's always in a very dramatic tone, too. Some examples:
"I hungwy ALL DAY!"
"I want to coal (color) ALL DAY!"
"Play Ice Game (Don't Break the Ice) ALL DAY!"
I love it and I completely know it's not NEARLY as cute to those of you who aren't my childrens grandparents/great grandparents. But lets face it. My kids are cuter than yours. So take that! :)

Happy Halloween!

We hope everyone had an eventful, candy-filled Halloween! We sure did!
Love, The "Andstronaut", Snow White, and the little Pink Bunny

This is what Addi was when she was a baby. I love it. It's so soft and, while way too big for P, beyond adorable on her.

This was the ONLY helmet we could find. I think he looks like Homer Simpson in space. Not real sure why the maker-people made it so tall but whatever. He LOVED it!!

"Carter, give me your toughest astronaut face."

I have known since Addilyn was a baby that I wanted her to be Snow White. She has the pale skin, blue eyes, and dark hair. I also knew it was my last year to pick. That being said, we haven't been able to peel this "pitess" costume off her. A big thank you to her sweet cousin Abby for letting her have it.

Every Halloween we get together with all the people on our street and have a pot luck (sans dessert of course) before filling the kids with candy. They love it because they all get to see each other dressed up and burn off some steam.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Snow White. She wanted to wear one of the neighbor kids' masks. I love that you can see her eyeball.

The Pumpkin Patch

For Family Home Evening before Halloween we headed to the pumpkin patch to get a pumpkin and play with all the fun things they had there. The kids enjoyed themselves to pieces with all the cousins. We were even lucky enough to have Daddy along for the ride. We love spending time with him.
Blake, Tyler, Carter, Olivia, and Addilyn. No one was big enough to hold Preslee so we just let her sleep in her stroller.

I THINK Carter was excited for the little train ride they had.... but I could be wrong.

Addilyn LOVES the swings... any swing, anywhere, any time... it gets old. :) Blowing kisses.

Another amazing sunset.

Schnepf Farms

Last week I went to Schnepf Farms with the kids, Bryan's mom and Natalie and Nicole and their kids. It was so much fun. I wish we had had more time to spend there. The kids got their faces painted, we went on a train ride, some other fun rides, petted some super smelly animals, and went on a roller coaster that looked much funner to my kids than it actually was. They were NOT entertained with it and we went around THREE times before the kid stopped it. Fun times.

Happy little guy. :)

Grammie and Carter going on the train.

Needless to say, Carter was really excited to ride the airplane. It was fun watching my kids go on a ride alone. They're getting so big!

And... we're done. (That's Addi's hand.)

Medusa

Those of you who frequent my blog (Grandma) know that we often refer to Addilyn as Medusa. And if you have EVER seen her hair before I get my hands on it in morning or right after she gets up from her nap, you know why. She has the most killer bed head ever. The best part is that you never know what your going to get when that bedroom door opens. It's always different. I swear she's in there just rubbing her hair against her pillow or sticking her finger in a socket. I am always telling Bryan that I need to take some pictures of it. So, I finally did... on two occasions. (I should have taken pictures this morning... it was AWESOME!)

You can tell in this one she's still waking up.

Quick side note: she will turn and look at you when you say Medusa.... it's true.

Disneyland!!

Ok, last CA post. Really. How could we NOT blog about Disneyland. It was awesome. The older the kids get the more fun it is. We left Pres at home with a sitter and took my dad with us. The kids went ALL DAY! NO BREAKS! They outlasted us. We went on every ride they wanted to hit. Pirates of the Caribbean was not as enjoyable as last time they went. Neither liked it. In fact, on the way home, Addi woke up out of a dead sleep yelling, "Off boat! No Pire!" (Pirate) She has since gotten over it but even still, she'll ask me to go to "Bickey Mouse Land" and then say, "But no pire, Mommy. No Pire." (Complete with furrowed brow and concerned look.) All in all, it was a great end to our vacation.

Rockets. Always a highlight.

All she wanted was a "pittess cwoun." And she knew the EXACT one she wanted.

Raise the roof, sister!

Papa and Carter strategizing their plan of attack for the bumper cars.

Addi loved the cars until they all started running into each other. Then, not so much.

C is for CARTER! All of Disneyland and CA Adventure were decorated for Halloween. It was amazing. Disney always goes all the way.

S'more Fun

(Don't worry, only one more San Diego post coming and then I'm done... until Christmas.) At first we were feeling really ambitious and were going to head to the beach for the sunset and BBQing... then, after a long day of adventures, we decided we were too tired so we ate at home and did s'mores in the backyard. It was a BLAST!
Addilyn made short work of the marshmallows. (She gets it from Granddad.)

YUM!

Everyone was interested in watching Ryan and Bryan start the fire.

Swords? This picture just completely cracks me up. They look like such goofs.