Family Fun

family picture at Oktoberfest

Matthew and I had our 5 year wedding anniversary on September 30th. The cake above was my gift to him. There's a little story behind it. Five years ago at our wedding, Matt was so excited to eat a piece of his groom's cake. He had especially picked it out and couldn't wait for the wedding meal to be over so we could cut the cake. It was a round chocolate cake, drizzled in melted fudge and topped with chocolate covered strawberries. Well, the photographer came to our table and asked us to come cut the wedding cake (not the groom's cake). While we were having our pictures taken doing the traditional feeding each other a bite, the servers started serving the other cake. When we were done with pictures, Matt turned to get a piece of the highly anticipated groom's cake....and it was gone! The poor groom didn't even get to eat a piece of his own groom's cake at his wedding. He is still upset about it and brings up this story every time that we talk about our wedding. I thought that this might bring him some closure!

We took the kids to see The Lion King. They loved it!

They are really excited! Tysen slept through most of the movie.

September

Getting ready to go to school

My little helper

We took Tysen on his first bike ride!

This is after the bike ride. The kids were having fun looking for pine cones while Daddy loaded up all the bikes.

Then we went out to eat and the kids had an ice cream sundae.

My little artists

I've decided that it is much easier to let the kids paint outside and then just hose down the easel when they are finished!

Such concentration....

Pre-K

Alexa has officially graduated from preschool and has the diploma to prove it! She started pre-K this September and she is loving her new classroom and Ms. Carly, of course!

Noodle Baby

Tysen's first noodle experience!

Gavin realized that I was laughing at Tysen so he decided that he should put noodles on his head, too!

He loves them but he's having a hard time keeping them in his mouth!

August

The following pictures are odds and ends from Grandpa and Grandma's visit in August. We've been so busy recently that I haven't been doing a very good job of updating the blog on a regular basis.

I love this picture of the kids with Grandpa and Grandma.

Ice cream break at Dairy Queen

Practicing casting off the front porch before our fishing trip

Watching the movie "Up" and eating popcorn

Grandpa and Grandma stayed in Alexa's room during their visit so Alexa "camped out" in our bedroom. She thought it was great fun sleeping in a tent with her own flashlight. Grandma and Grandpa even took turns reading her bedtime stories in the tent.

Gavin was exhausted after our busy day!

Thanks for coming to visit! We love you! Come back soon!

08/15/2011 COSI

While Grandpa and Grandma McGrew were in Columbus, we thought it would be a fun time to go check out the dinosaur exhibit at COSI.

Alexa was curious, but a little nervous at first. Gavin was quite scared and wanted to be held as we walked into the exhibit where the animatronic dinosaurs were. They were moving around and making sounds.

Grandpa and I are helping Alexa and Gavin make dinosaur footprints in the foam.

This is Gavin when he was terrified of the dinosaurs (we had just watched a very life-like 3D movie about t-rex!).

Now he's doing better, but he still didn't want to get too close to them!

At the I-Max movie "Waking T-Rex."

The kids love playing in the water area in the kids space. COSI even provides the cute raincoats, although they still got wet enough that we had to change their clothes.