Happy Birthday, Myles!

Happy Birthday

to my wonderful husband!

You have a gentle spirit,
and a fun sense of humor.

We are all blessed from your wonderful and caring nature.

Again, Happy Birthday!!

Mom, I voted!

Addison's teacher used last Tuesday for a math/current events lesson. She brainstormed the question: What does our president do? Then, she had the kids vote, and lastly, they did some math based on their class numbers for each candidate. It was an exciting day for Addison: he got to vote (privately), do math and come home with an "I voted" sticker. He was quite pleased to stay up and find out which candidate got to 270 first. (Luckily, it was a bit of a landslide, so he didn't stay up too late:)

So here is a list about what our president does:

He says, if someone is under arrest, if they're guilty or not.
He tells people good stuff.
He helps kids and schools.
He tells people to eat good stuff. (ie: brainfood)
He does work.
He takes turns talking with his vice president.

He says some stuff, then gives the microphone to the other guy.

A great day at the pumpkin patch!

We headed towards the Twin Peaks to the Mt. Si Nursery this year to get our pumpkins.

Addi found his first, of many, pumpkins.

Then, it was Alivia's turn.

Sucess!

A fun day in Twin Peaks!

Oh, to be a kid, again!

Addison Explains Santa so you don't have to!

We've been getting into the Halloween spirit and, somehow, Addison linked Santa to Halloween. While we were driving to Renton to get Halloween decorations, Addison decided that he had to figure this Santa thing out. I’ll paraphrase:


Mom, Santa has to buy money on Halloween.

Why?

So that he can buy toys for the ones that he can’t make.

Where does he go to buy the money?

He must go to the bank. On Halloween. He needs enough time to get on the Internet and buy the toys. And just go on the Internet. He uses his computer at the North Pole.

His elves help make presents. They also check the Internet to make sure all the toys are there at the Internet store.

He needs to call the person who has the toys at their house: the store grocers who get things that people need: and they will bring the toys to Santa at Christmas Eve. He just delivers presents on Christmas from his bag that just grows real big. And just at Christmas he needs to stay up all night. He always tells Rudolph he needs to stop going crazy and get to work. Rudolph likes to go crazy.

So how does Roudolph know how to fly?

Santa gets on a boat and sails across the water to where the reindeers live. He found them and named them and sprinkled magic dust on them.

How did he get the magic dust?

He and the elves made it.

How does he know which kids get presents?

Be good and not mean. I was good, and I letted you put my eyedrops in today. He can’t see the kids but he always thinks before Halloween and he just knows who is good. He doesn’t talk to God, he just knows.



So, kids, there it is. Y’all better be really good before Santa goes to the bank this Halloween!

Our family in Orlando

We went with my brother and dad to Orlando. I wanted to post some fun pictures my dad and I took of each other.

Day 1

The kids wake up at 5:30 and are too excited to sleep on the plane. While we were waiting for our rental van, Addi took the opportunity to get some Zsss.

Day 2

We went to Sea World on Wednesday as we didn't want to spoil the Magic Kingdom before the Halloween Party.

Alivia decided that she was a bird.

While she tweet tweet tweeted,

Myles had to feed her french fries!

Who is having the most fun?! Addi lost his second tooth during this trip, so he decided he had to smile big to show off his holes...

Uncle Rob got in at 10:ish, and boy was he tired, but not too tired for hugs.

Day 3

The big day is upon us. Before the Magic Kingdom, we decided to have a swim. The Marriott had a waterslide and beach toys!

Farmer tan!!

We all had a blast then, we dressed up the kids and headed into Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party at 4:30.

Addison had a few bumps along the way before he got down the turns.

AlAivia just loves the teacups! She was too busy spinning it to lean over for the picture.

Day 4

Off to the races at Daytona 500. We took the tour and, lo and behold, there were cars practicing that day. Addi just about fell over with excitement. Even Rob was drooling over the 200,00+ cars they had. Then, we hit the beach for some boogie boarding and sand castle building.

Day 5

After getting SOAKED (Rob was wringing out his underwear!) at the Kali Rapids, we spent the rest of the day teaching our favorite characters how to pick their noses. Alivia volunteered.

She was quite the willing teacher.

Days 6 & 7

We did nothing! We were too tired.

We spent our remaining days both at Sea World and Aquatica. Needless to say, it was a blast, and feeding the dolphins was a highlight of our trip. Someday we'll go back to Discovery Cove, but in the meantime, we've got some awesome memories.

Bye!