Pumpkin Patch

Paige had no school on Mon and Tues so we took advantage of some off days with some fun things. Tues we went to Mike's Farm and took a hayride to the pumpkin patch and enjoyed some yummy cookies from the bakery. The girls also checked out the animals that they have as well donkeys, goats, and chickens. Enjoying their yummy desserts. Izzy is having a jackolantern cookie and Paige is eat Moo Pop. It looked really gross and after she ate all of the chocolate off she didn't like it either.
After we found the perfect pumpkin, something light enough for me to carry along with Izzy while trying to keep Paige on task and not with a ton of green worms crawling all over it. That was my perfect pumpkin!

I love this picture! They did so good.Me with the girls on the hayride


Paige's gymnastics class all dressed up to have class. It was kind of funny seeing super heroes and princesses spinning on bars and doing cartwheels. Very cute!

A day at the park and pumpkin decorating

On Monday the girls and I went to Wilmington to do a little shopping afterwards to keep my sanity on the way home we stopped at the park. The girls has a blast running around playing on what ever they could climb on. They both slept on the way home, yay me! Izzy thought that is was much more fun to go down backwards.
Paige climbed up this then would get herself stuck at the top, then down the slide and right back up to do the same thing all over again once she got to the top.

HMM-264 Pumpkin Decorating Party

The girls had a lot of fun. Paige colored her pumpkin and put stickers on it. She was standing there for probably an hour before I made her stop to eat and drink something. Izzy was just having fun running all around. She stayed out of trouble for the most part and was easy to keep track of even with all of the kids that were there. I was able to talk with some friends and catch up on what they are all up to, so that was nice for me.

Izzy eating some pizza, she was actually quite clean afterward to my amazement. I thought that I would have to take her outside and hose her down.

Here's Paige with her pumpkin that she soo desperately wanted to carve. If Izzy wasn't there I would of had no problem with it but that was just too much for me to handle. She did enjoy it, she colored pretty much the whole thing and stabbed it a couple of times with one of those poker things. We are going to carve our pumpkin on Halloween when my Mom is here so I have someone to wrangle Izzy while we are knee deep in pumpkin guts. It will be fun so be looking out for another blog on our good time.

I did it!

I ran/walked my first half marathon on Sun. Let me tell you it was tough. All was going fairly good until I had 3 miles to go. I didn't think that I could make it those last few miles but I did.
Yesterday I wasn't sure if I would be able to get out of bed but when I woke up I felt great. I really wasn't all that sore, except for my toes. Weird! I don't know if I want to do one again or not but maybe Mike will talk me into doing one with him we'll see. I think I am more of the 5k/10k distance but not very good at those either. I am glad I did it and I am super proud of myself that I completed it. Thank you secret sister(if you read this) for the power bar gel and the sport beans those helped out at the hour and 2 hr mark.
Enough about how cool I am. The girls and Mike are all doing great. I will have more updates on all of them soon. We have lots of things planned for the next couple of weeks. Take care and until next time....

Fire Station

On Friday Paige's preschool class had a field trip to the Jacksonville Fire Station. She had a lot of fun, Izzy and I were able to go to and enjoy the morning with Paige. They started off with a climb through the fire truck which they all enjoyed. Then one of the firemen gave a demonstration of putting on all of their gear and for kids not to be afraid of them, smart! After that we went up stairs to watch a video about fire safety. The video was really corney but I know that the kids really enjoyed it and I think that was the only time that all 3 classes were completely quiet. One kid did stand up in the middle of the video when the video mentioned something about fire detectors and proudly announced that he has 3 in his house. It was really funny because he was so serious while saying it, to bad his parents weren't there to witness. To end the field trip, the firemen got a call and took off with their sirens going. The kids were very impressed and confused to why the firemen where leaving without saying goodbye. They did wave to them as they were driving away. Paige kept asking me where are they going? It was fun to go with Paige's class, I am sure that Izzy and I will be crashing more of her field trips in the future. I am just glad that they allow parents to bring their other children along.

4 of a kind

This is by far my favorite. Mike just sent this to me and I haven't stopped laughing. These are his roommates. Paige picked these glasses out to sent to him and I think that Bonnie (Mike's Mom) sent the staches. As you all can tell they hate them. I am glad that they are having fun with them. Izzy tried the glasses on before we mailed them and she looked just like Mike does minus the stache, scary. Sorry no pics of the girls playing with the glasses. Enjoy my goofy husband and his friends!

Band of Mustaches

Right now he is at port. He doesn't think much of where they are at. He bought both of the girls rugs and is mailing them home to them. It is really nice when they are at port because he calls everyday. It worked out really well this morning he called before the girls got up so I put him on speaker so he could wake them up. Paige was really funny because she was talking to him as if he was sitting right there. Izzy woke up in a really happy mood. She did talk a little bit, with a huge smile on her face the whole time he was talking to her. It was a great way to start out our day. Enjoy the pics. Until next time...

I wish that he was looking up!

Flowers

My sweet husband sent me flowers today! It couldn't of come at a better time too. The girls were getting crazy because it was right before nap and the doorbell rings, and now I have beautiful flowers from Mike. It is always a shock to get flowers from him because he doesn't like them because they just die. So I know that he is truely doing something for me and knows how much I like them when he does it. Thank you Mike, I love you very much!

Where have we been?!

We sure have been busy since the last time I posted. Well first the reason why I haven't been posting, the monitor broke. I wasn't sure that it really was broke so I turned it off for a week, then we had visitors, you get the picture 2+ weeks later and I finally got a new one today. I think I was in denial because I really didn't want to buy a new monitor. We also picked up an external hard drive and now I feel so much better about our family photos. (Yes, Pam you need to get one!)

So in the last few weeks Paige has been busy with soccer, gymnastics and school, Izzy has been busy getting 4 new molars and learning how to climb onto the table, and I have been busy with Stampin Up. Mixed in there I had that nasty stomach flu that was going around and missed my first half marathon. Paige had a 24hr stomach bug that she shared with the backseat. Somehow Izzy has avoided all of it thank God. We also had some visitors Pam and Noah. It was a surprise visit for everyone but me, which is good because I may have had a heartattack if she surprised me. It was a lot of fun having her and Noah out here for a week. We saw a lot of friends and ate out a lot. It definitely reminded me that I don't call my friends enough or plan time for us to hang out as much as I would like to. We loved having them here and were very sad to see them go. On the good side I will be ditching the girls to go visit after Christmas, don't worry the girls will be partying it up at my parents' house with their cousins.

Well that is it for now. I will hopefully have some pretty cool pics from Paige's upcoming field trip to the Fire House. So until then...