October

October is usually one of my favorite months but, this year I was so excited to see it end. After 3 weeks of injury and illness we welcome November with open arms. We did take a couple pictures but mostly we just passed out on the various couches in our house.

The boys mostly had a repeat of costumes this year. (There choice not mine) Tyler was batman 4 years running. Why mess up a good thing right? Alex wanted to wear the vampire teed again, so of course had to be Dracula again. Jared did try a new thing this year as a skeleton. Elizabeth had her Pre-Halloween suit and then was an adorable ladybug.


The pumpkins the boys grew themselves. They also carved the pumpkins themselves because mom was to sick to get around to it and dad had a crazy week at work so the night before Halloween they were out on the front porch taking things into there own hands. They did a great job!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

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What's up with blogger? It wont let me post my pictures

Whidbey Soccer

Fall soccer is the best. And once a year we have a fantastic game in the rain. 4 inches of standing water. Puddles, Mud and 60 degrees what more could a boy want.

This is Tyler's field after the game.


Jared played goal for his team! He did a fantastic job and they won there first game. GO BLUE DRAGONS!

The team Alex was suppose to play only had two players so they just scrimmaged and played around.
Somehow all the boys managed to be #2.

THE LIFE OF EASE!

It was parent teacher conferences on Thursday and Friday this week. Parent/teacher conferences are basically a ritualistic 20 minutes session with the teacher to discuss the boys' various social, disciplinary and educational issues. The intent is to provide that critical feedback on your child's education.

Being the highly intelligent people that we are we have seen through that propaganda. Parent teacher conferences have nothing to do with kids at all. Parent teacher conferences are a chance for highly trained public education professionals telling mothers they are terrible parents and if they truly wanted their children to succeed they would do nothing but read to each of them for 90 minutes a day. Go figure.

After surviving the water boarding session we had basically a 4-day weekend that ranged from the a day at the beach, a day in the mountains, a day at soccer, a night at the emergency room (again), a quarantine situation with half the ward and and peaceful 100 decibel Sunday afternoon.

pics to follow

Life on the Beach (0 ft)

Elizabeth loves Bob!

Can anyone say Orthodontist

"But mom I promise I won't get wet!"

"Toothless Joe, hangin out."

Life in the mountains (5,500 ft)

Early Winters Spires

Ann Lake

Cutthroat Peak on the left

Life on the Soccer Pitch

Jared is in blue in the middle (they haven't won a game this year)

The green bullets are undefeated thanks to their world class coach.

Life in the ER!!!! :)


No worries it was a nice clean break of both bones in his forearm. He was able to con the floor nurse out of 10 otter pops. He had her worked up to 27 but she was able to request a renegotiation and got it back down to 10. How many 5 year old kids do you think would convince the ER nurse give him that many popsicles while waiting for a doctor and sitting there with a broken arm?

Sorry no pictures of the sunday afternoon meditation...

Yes this all happened this weekend.

Blessing

Elizabeth was blessed on September 27th. (I know I am very slow posting the pictures) We were very thankful to have both grandparents here, Eric's sister Sarah and her family and many friends.

Meet BOB

Children amaze me. We think they understand one thing to find out they understand something totally different.

We bought a new stroller when Elizabeth was born. That said, Tyler was looking at a picture of a mom pushing a stroller and says.... "Ours stroller's BOB, what's his name?" Now to clarify for those who aren't familiar with all the different strollers out there, BOB is the brand of our stroller not what we named our stroller.

I love kids!

Which way is up.

At the risk of being declared absolutely insane, we took the boys out for their first rock climbing adventure. Jared said he had a great time but next time wants to climb a flat mountain. Tyler was fascinated with the gear (life is all about the accessories). Alex was his usual mellow self.

The route is a 5.5 at Mt. Erie on the New Millienium Wall.