Happy Birthday Grandpa Steve!!!!!!

Today is Grandpa Steve's Birthday.........he is a picture taken almost 4 years ago. Abbey was not even a year old yet. There is a story behind this picture. The lovely outfit my dad is wearing is probley as old as I am. Whenever I had friends over my Dad couldn't wait to put this lovely outfit on and embarrass me. The shirt is a classic is says :Don't worry be Humpy" the blue corduroy are an engineering miracle, by miracle I mean I can't believe they have not started disintegrating they are so old and not to mention short. He could do a commercial for Nair. To top off the ensemble he would wear these white tube socks pulled all the way up to his knees. My Dad is a tall guy, those are some pretty long socks. I socks actually matched my dad coloring in his legs "snow white". My dad does not like to trow things out, you can't tell in the picture but he owns these shoes, that once were white and new, now they are stained green due to the fact he would mow the lawn in them. When I had friends over here he would come in "HIS OUTFIT", I would often tell my friends that he was the gardener. Moral to the story it is OK to buy a new outfit and trow out old clothes....they have fulfilled there purpose.
I guess a cool fact is that Jimmy Hendrix, Bruce Lee and Bill Nye "the Science Guy" have the same birthday as my Dad. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA STEVE!!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving 2007

This year Adam and had Thanksgiving at our new house. We typically have it at Adam's Aunt Sherri and Uncle Punk's house. This was a great motivator to get all those projects around the house completed. While completing the list of projects, which was about a mile long, I have come to the conclusion I will never again paint my house with my children or my husband around. I love them all very much....mommy has enough excitement in her life already. We worked every night till 11, 12 sometimes 1 a.m. the house was perfect by Thanksgiving. We had between 24-28 people for dinner. My brother Jeremy came down from Bellingham along with his girlfriend, Nancy & Gary, Kit & Susie, Sherrie & Punk, Alan & Christie and there kids and many more to many to list. We had a 22lb turkey along with a Barron of beef (cooked by Gary) it was really good. In fact it was so good Connor snuck a piece and started eating it, he couldn't take it anymore. the proof is in the picture. Nancy made just a SMALL PORTION OF GRAVY(enough to feed about 50 people)
What was really crazy is Punk, Gary and Alan ate more gravy at there table than the 12+ people at the other table.
Gary, Nancy and Gary's sister Susie
Oh the 22lb Turkey

Swinging

We like to get outside as much as possible, today was your typical fall day, clear, beautiful, sunny but a bit chilly outside. We went to the "little park" today. Our neighborhood has 3 parks, but the little park has a swing for Connor. Connor found a leaf on the way to the park and held on to it until we got home. The color in the trees is amazing this time of year. Fall is my favorite time of year. Connor and Abbey on the swing
Connor hanging on to the swing and his leaf...pretty tricky
I love the colors in this picture, some of these leafs came home with us for a fun project.

Connor's First black eye

Connor got his first black eye today. Dad was watching Connor for a bit that night. I guess Connor was in Abbey's room playing and he fell and hit a toy causing him to get a bit of a black eye. Poor baby. I am sure this is the first of many.

We love our neighborhood, they are so kid oriented as you can tell Cousin Boyde was NEMO for Halloween, Abbey and Boyde saw each other of all places in the middle of the road. Uncle Ryan and Aunt Jenny live in the same neighborhood as we do....... Even thought it was Connor's 2nd Halloween (he was only 2 months old last year) he quickly picked up on the getting treats, Abbey the master helped guide his way to the candy bowl. See from the back he looks like a LION.. I love my kids so much. You will all be happy to know this year Abbey only knocked and went into 3 or 4 houses. She had a problem last year with entering houses and looking for treats.

Connor and his chariot for the evening, he loves his race car. This is the best house in our neighborhood, they really go all out. Abbey figured out they give big candy bars away. We went 2 times....shhhh don't tell.

Halloween 2007

I was actually a bit shocked that I caught this picture, Abbey had pajama day at school for Halloween and she posed for a split second and as you can tell she is quite the little model Connor went this year as a LION......not a LIGER 1/2 tiger 1/2 lion, not a chipmunk, not a rat.....but as a LION....we often we asked what is your son tonight.......again a LION
Abbey went as Sleeping Beauty, with long john and sweats on underneath....it was a bit cold out and her baby "butter" was not feeling good that night.