Harrison makes a bird house

Harrison sat down at his tool bench the other day to put together the bird house. He justs loves working with tools and was actually very good at it. He made sure to wear his saftey goggles and everything. He was very patient with putting each piece together. Then Madeline jumped in the fun and put on the googles. Later on she was caught sleeping in her room with the same goggles on. Saftey First!

Madeline and Daddy with his beard!

Madeline sleeping with goggles on!

The Zoo

One day Harrison woke up and said he wanted to go see the animals, so I said ok and the three of us hopped in the car and took a trip to the zoo. They had lots of fun and it was a nice day.

Halloween!

For Halloween Madeline was Snow White and Harrison was going to be a monkey, but half way through that broke so he was a cowboy on a horse. We started our day dressing up for school. The kids tried to trick or treat next door, but no one was home. So off to school we went where the kids had a great time just hanging out with all their friends. In the afternoon we stopped by the senior center and let the kids trick or treat there. Then we went to my friend's Christina house where she fed the kids dinner and we went out again. Daddy was coming home from his week long business trip so directly after trick or treating we went to the airport to pick him up.




Madeline in the morning

Harrison and Madeline trying to trick or treat early.

The kids at school reading a book.

Snow White and the Cowboy horse

Riley

Riley, Baylee, Joshua and Harrison getting ready to go out.

My crazy friends Christina and Kim.

Carving Pumkins

Tim went out of town for a week, so we went over to our friend, Christina's house and carved pumkins. The kids were all excited until they saw the goop inside. I never did complete carving all the pumkins. But we had fun.

Our friend Baylee


Madeline and Austin work together to open a pumkin

Madeline carving her pumkin with two knives

Harrison opening his pumkin

Pumkin Farm

They have a train and Harrison loves to ride in the cattle car, so he convinced all his friends to ride with him, here they are screaming as they are going through the tunnel.


Madeline and Harrison enjoy a cookie that they made.




Aunt Sandy and Harrison checked out the goats.

Uncle David and Austin

Mommy and Harrison in the cattle car.

Mommy and Madeline

Harrison, Joshua and Ms. Kim

Austin jumping on the tires.

Pumkin Farm

We went to the pumkin farm many times this year. I love it there. Most of the area is free so we went several times so the kids could enjoy new things for awhile. Here are several photos of our many trips. We went with Uncle David & Austin, we went with Aunt Sandy, we went with our friends and we went just by ourselves.

Somethings never change

Harrison and Daddy love marshmallow treats. So here is a picture from the past and one I took from the other day of them enjoying their pumkin marshmallows. It looks like Daddy also has Barkey and Tweety on his lap enjoying the treats.

Creative Kids

My Darling Madeline was just a little to quiet one morning. She finally came and found Daddy and told him she was messy. He turned around to find this. She had gotten into some costume lipstick in the bathroom and managed to get it everywhere.

So we finally got Harrison to sleep one time in his own room. He

wanted to sleep with his dog Barkey and all the other animals in the house inside his giraffe tent. Now if we could just get it to happen more often we would be in luck, but no avail and several of his animals have moved into our bed including, Barkey, Bark, Tweety, Brownie, Sousa, Pony(who is a horse) Lucky, Lucky again and several others. He is really actually very good at naming his animals and comes up with the names all by himself. But bedspace is getting smaller....

Ohio fun!

Madeline and her favorite horse Jake!


Grandma helping Madeline sit on Jake!


Harrison and Madeline scooping poop!!


Harrison and Grandpa working!


Mommy, Harrison and Madeline go for a ride.

Although we were there for a short time the kids warmed up right away and had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa had some farming to do, so Harrison went with him wherever he went. Then he helped a neighbor and Harrison eagerly wanted to help with the front loader thing. Madeline was all about the horses. She would walk straight out to them and call to them. They would come to her, especially her favortie Jake. I was watching her and she just nuzzled with him. She actually gave him a kiss. They did not know I was there. That little girl generally never leaves her mom, but when we are on the farm she doesn't care if anyone is with her she just goes to the barn and talks with all the horses. Harrison loves the horses, but he doesn't like to get to close. He was with Grandma when she was cleaning them out and he said"If you had another rake I could help you" much to his delight, Grandma had several poop scoopers and they got to help clean up several times! (I was worried they were trying to demonstrate they could take care of a horse if we got them one, but thankfully they didn't ask)

Great Grandma Roy's 90th Birthday!

Great Grandma and all the great grandkids.

Grandma Roy with the whole family.

Grandpa Roy and Harrison

Great Grandma and Harrison


We were lucky enough to be able to dart back to Ohio on our way home from Florida to be with Grandma Roy when she celebrated her 90th birthday.

More Disney

Here's a cute picture of Grandma and Grandpa walking together at Disneyworld! Harrison watches the parade with Grandpa. I would like to think Madeline will have great fond memories of our trip to Disneyworld, but I have a feeling all she will ever remember is that she made sure the buckles on the strollers were always buckled. If she was in the stroller they had to buckeled and if she got of the stroller the buckles needed to be buckeled. We quickly learned that letting her do this was much faster then the screaming fit she would throw if they were not buckled. Then trying to get anyone to pose is difficult so here is the non cooperative Tim, Sandy and Harrison in front of the castle. And lastly Madeline and Grandma being silly.

Here is a video of the kids! When you ask Madeline how old she is she always says 3! We tell her 2 and she says no 2 she's 3! So here is the kids discussing it!!! And lets hope my daughter doesn't always want to age by 2 years each birthday because she is already growing way to fast.