thanksgiving weekend

weee, the brave one going down the slide

giddy-up

washed out attempt at family portrait! too bad, it was fun!

handsome....

mommy & daddy!

weeeee....down the slide at Montgomery park

THE family , 2009

some random recents...

just having a little fun- jumping the season a bit, but the bubble faces just begged for Santa hats...

unlike most small people- Mia and Diego would rather scream and fuss on car rides- SO....we were ecstatic to have almost 1 whole hour of BOTH kids sleeping on our trip back from TN.


Pappaw was blowing a nice stream of bubbles early one morning..

FIRST FAMILY VACATION....GATLINBURG , TN.

Our first trip all together! The car ride wasn't too bad- though, I surely wish that the kids were the type that fall asleep in the car, alas, it was not to be....MAYBE, on the way home, exhausted from the fun of a trip, they will zonk for a few hours! Won't it be strange to travel without listening to The Carebear Movie, Barney (yes, Barney'!), and the Little Einsteins...or possibly singing along to songs that aren't about bed jumping monkeys and 10 wiggle worms....we shall see. We could not have scripted better weather- and there's even a fair amount of colorful trees decorating our view.

WOW, this place is gorgeous! nicely done and way up in the mountains...

check out the view- pictures just don't do it justice- at least not from our humble camera...

some fall fun...

wee! actually, this slide had a brutal stop at the end...ouch!

pumpkin hair! face was designed entirely by Mia!

pumpkin!

balloon corsage!

Halloween Preview

we had our playgroup Harvest Party tonight, lots of fun, hard to get all the kids to pose- surprise! surprise! just in case the camera disappears on the 31st....here's a preview of our two little bears!

bubbley, bubbley bathtime!

ha ha ha, we had fun!

an early visit to the Pumpkin Farm...

Mia did great on the zip line, we were there early enough that there was no line, so she go to do it over and over again! Mommy even did the 'giant' zip line, though only 30 feet in the air- it was thrilling enough- the platform was a bit shaky at that height but it sure was FUN! sorry- no pics!!


what a great idea! so much neater than sand, maybe next year we'll be filing our sandbox with corn!

what on earth is THIS???

the 'banana train' ! this little train was pulled by a tractor, it had about 8 cars and took the kids on a little trail ride around a lake. it was super cute!

LEEDS PUMPKIN FARM

We decided to take an early visit to the pumpkin farm....what a fun day with beautiful weather! We are lucky to have several farms right around the corner from us, we'll be coming back to this one- it was great! Pumpkin picking will wait til a later date at an upcoming Pumpkin Pickin' Birthday Party- maybe we'll get some good pumpkiny pics like we had last year...until then...

PlayLAND update!

just an update as we move on with the ANGULO playland. Rod began framing in the playhouse, today he started on the roof- but, unfortunately, didn't get a picture before it got dark. SO....maybe later. GREAT JOB ROD!!!

pics pics pics....

a rare moment- they are HOLDING HANDS!



a great find at Goodwill- a CAREBEAR KITE!


lets go fly a kite! what fun we had at the park for our first kite flying experience. mia had a blast- and the rest of us LOVED watching her fun.

OH-IO ; go BUCKEYES!

decorating daddy! a rare moment of mia quiet concentration...

crazy hats! (and if you were wondering. thats apple in the dudes mouth!)

Just a few randoms from the last few weeks...

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a bit on the blurry side- but such a cute smiley guy!

around and around at the zoo....

an attempt at a posed- 'aren't the mums pretty' Fall shot..

okay, so this is how it ended....


Aren't they adorable!



Apple PICKING! Apple core necklace a treasure from Grandma B.

Mia loves her CAREBEARS!

Lincoln Logs...what fun for big AND little kids

my sweetie sweetie little dudie-bug!

catching raindrops on her tongue...or getting warmed up for the first big snow storm....

wow, is that Mia letting Diego drive??

Diego has no fear when it comes to slides, he just dives right in and slides down on his belly~! how funny coming from a kid who is scared to death by small fluffy animals like cats....ooh!

zoo. the kids took a trip to the zoo with mammaw and Papaw