Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Our Fall trip up to the cottage....


We ventured up north to our cottage one last time for the season in mid-October. We celebrated Joel's 35th birthday at the Empire Bar....thanks to my mom, he HAD to wear the Golden Oldie birthday hat. You know he will NOT be happy when he sees this blog.....which makes it all the more fun. ;)

We had fantastic weather while we were up there. The colors were so beautiful and Old Settlers Park was covered in red, yellow and orange crunchy leaves. We had to spend alot of time playing there since the smell of the leaves and the sound of their crunching was so great.


Awwww...big sister and her little brother.


Here is Anna with Brett's dog, Kingsley. She totally loves this dog.


More cottage fall pictures coming.....

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Happy Belated Halloween!!

Fall has been too busy around our household. I am way behind on pictures and will catch up our blog soon but I thought I good way to get back on track was to start with Halloween. Here we are carving pumpkins....we all missed Aunt Jesi who is very creative with carving but now lives in Denver. Claire is doing who knows what in this picture, as usual. I guess she's excited to carve!




This year, Ethan was a pirate, Anna was a vet and Claire was a bunny. It just goes with the territory this year that I never got a good picture of the three of them in their costumes. Here is what I did manage to capture....

This is Ethan at his class party enjoying some lovely sweet treats....





This is our lovely, cupcake eating, vet - also at school.



Here is Claire trick-or-treating. She was so sweet this year. She ran up to each house and yelled out "Trick or Treat!!" at the top of her lungs. People thought she was adorable, which of course, she was. :) Her friend, Katie, is in the background as Ariel. They went around together and were quite a cute pair.

Pirate Ethan and his friend Carson as Harry Potter


And last but not least, the glamorous vet with her sick dog Kingsley. :)

Claire has more teeth than Anna and Ethan combined. They have each lost 7 teeth. Ethan lost 2 in one day this past Tuesday to reach the level Anna has been at. Now neither kid has full top front teeth and partially in front bottom teeth. They are very happy that they can w/out any loose teeth for the moment.

A new post will hopefully happen soon so keep checking back. I'm hoping to get back to posting every other week or so. :)