Halloween 2010

Tonight was trick or treat. The twins' cousin Phillip came over with Aunt Melissa and Uncle Timmy. All three came home with some serious loot! All three kids will definitely sleep tonight after all that running around!

We've Come a Long Way

I thought this was fun to look at.....two years later!

They definitely don't need me to hold them anymore! What happened to my babies?!

A Trip to the Patch

Today the twins, Phillip, Aunt Melissa, and I went to a pumkin patch. It was the same patch we took the twins to two years ago right before poor Ethan came down with croup.

Everyone had a blast especially on the hayride through the forest. The kids also enjoyed checking out the goat.

An Overnight Visitor

Tonight the twins had their cousin Phillip sleep over. Patrick and I braved the unkown by taking all three to the store. Everyone had a good time and Elaine was very excited to ride in the car with Phillip.

HallZOOween

The kids needed to get some practice for this weekend, so we took them to HallZOOween at the Cincinnati Zoo. The kids wanted to get into their costumes and get some CANDY! They are meerkats this year, even though if you asked them they are lions.

Here are the kids getting ready at home. The loved having tails for some reason and had to hold onto them. .

The kids ride at the zoo.

Elaine getting to pick out a little pumpkin

Not so happy when one of the treat stations gave out toothbrushes...

They have no fear when it comes to animals. I would not come close to the snake.

Ethan decided that he wanted to help pull the wagon, we all know how this goes.

The kids on the carousel. Ethan picked out the Giraffe and Elaine wanted the Wolf.

 

Aunt Jamies Birthday

We all went out to dinner to Olive Garden for Jamies Birthday. It is one of her favorite places to eat. I think the kids were more excited then Jamie about the cake!

A Day with Aunt Jamies

Aunt Jamies, as the kids call her, took the kids to Youngs Dairy for the fall festival. They got to see lots of goats, pigs and cows. After the petting zoo, they found the bouncy house and the hay stack.

Elaine loved the slide at the councy house.

Ethan, liked riding the tractor.

Fun on the haystack playground:

 

 

Uncle Michael stops by for the afternoon

Uncle Michael came over to watch the kids while we were at our final wedding of the year. They wanted to get married on 10/10/10. Congrats Kerry and John!

Weekend packed full of fun! (Part 2)

After a long day of the kids playing and repairing Timmy's roof we had a good rib dinner.

  

The kids ended the night with a bath.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for a fun weekend!

Weekend packed full of fun! (Part 1)

Grandma and Grandpa came down for the weekend to visit. While the boys repaird part of Timmy's roof,. the girls took the kids to a Fall Festival. They made hats;

and played some games!

 

Even Aunt Melissa joined in on the jump rope.  

Pre-Bedtime fun

After we met Grandma and Grandpa for dinner and to watch a little bit of the Reds Division Playoffs, it was bed time. We headed back to Timmy and Melissa's house to get the kids ready for bed. Phillip and Ethan we not ready to go to bed just yet.

Potty Time

The kids have started to take an interest in potty training. They are getting smart though. We started a M&M reward system for each sucessful visit to the potty. Well, they have figured out that they can sit 3-4 times in a half hour with a semi-successful visit and still get a M&M for each visit.

Lazy Fall Sundays

We have had such a busy summer that it was about time to sit around and do nothing for a Sunday. The night before was our 4th wedding of the year and still had one more to go. Ethan and I almost fell asleep watching the Bengals game.

Sunday Morning cartoons

Homecoming Parade rolls though

The High School had a Homecoming Parade that came though the neighborhood. Ethan loved yelling HONK, HONK at the trucks and boats as they passed by.

Elaine was more worried about getting the candy that was being thrown from the floats.

Behind the Wheel....

While Jenny and Jamie went to a Breast Cancer Awareness event downtown, I took the kids to the block party. The kids had fun and made new friends, until they found the power wheel. Once the found it, they did not care about anything else. They did let each other take turns driving. This was very scary watching them drive and I was able to get a small movie of them when I was not preventing them from running kids over, driving though the gardens or running into trees. I figured out how to put it in low gear and pretty much make it go in circles.