I know it seems odd that i have already posted pictures from trick or treating. go figure, we live in ohio now. that's all i have to say!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
pictures from our busy weekends
Mike turned 21 again, but we put 10 more trick candles to make it right!
The girls with Grandmas and their prize pumpkins.
Grandpa pushing Asia on the rope swing.
Anya and Asia digging in their giant hole.
Anya showing off her dirt!
I made a caterpillar cake for Juliet, previous experience helped!
Anya and Asia wore their tye dyed pumpkin shirts, Juliet was a ballerina.
Asia really liked the pizza, notice Anya's eating technique. =)
Ian wasn't shy about his pizza either, he must have been watching how Anya ate.
weekend of oct 25-26
this weekend was our least busy so far this month.
saturday we drove to the dayton mall too see how it was... it sucked! there were no toy stores, only clothes stores. and it wasnt that easy to get around in either. there was a 20 minutes (each way) drive wasted. although, on the was back home we stopped for gas and paid $2.289/gal. i thought this was a great price until i saw it for $2.249 on the way to the library.
sunday was our pumpkin day. first we went to meijer. no pumpkins but we got carving kits, and an umbrella for anya. next stop, walmart. no pumpkins, that was a quick "in-out" operation. next stop office depot to get a new calculator for mike. while anya and i checked out, mike and asia checked lowe's for pumpkin. no such luck. we were on our way to kroger to see if they had any pumpkins when we paseed by frank's fruit stand. they had pumpkins! unfortunately they only took cash and since pumpkins were $.30/lb my pumpkin ended up being a little smaller than i had planned. they all came out very nice once they were carved. anya designed her face and asia talked us through hers. we tried to light candles in them to see how they turned out but last night we had lots of wind gusts and our candles wouldnt stay lit. later that night the wind got worse and i chased our recycling down the street twice. somebody skull came rolling over to our house too. if it warms up, asia and i are going to find out where it came from.
i will post pumpkin pics later!
saturday we drove to the dayton mall too see how it was... it sucked! there were no toy stores, only clothes stores. and it wasnt that easy to get around in either. there was a 20 minutes (each way) drive wasted. although, on the was back home we stopped for gas and paid $2.289/gal. i thought this was a great price until i saw it for $2.249 on the way to the library.
sunday was our pumpkin day. first we went to meijer. no pumpkins but we got carving kits, and an umbrella for anya. next stop, walmart. no pumpkins, that was a quick "in-out" operation. next stop office depot to get a new calculator for mike. while anya and i checked out, mike and asia checked lowe's for pumpkin. no such luck. we were on our way to kroger to see if they had any pumpkins when we paseed by frank's fruit stand. they had pumpkins! unfortunately they only took cash and since pumpkins were $.30/lb my pumpkin ended up being a little smaller than i had planned. they all came out very nice once they were carved. anya designed her face and asia talked us through hers. we tried to light candles in them to see how they turned out but last night we had lots of wind gusts and our candles wouldnt stay lit. later that night the wind got worse and i chased our recycling down the street twice. somebody skull came rolling over to our house too. if it warms up, asia and i are going to find out where it came from.
i will post pumpkin pics later!
weekend of oct 18-19
saturday we went to a haunted house. they had a "lights-on matinee" especially for kids to see what goes on. there were no monsters in costumes when we went through and the "actors" from each scary room described what would typically go on there. one of the cooler things there was a spinning tunnel with tiny blue LEDs that you walked through on a cat walk. there was wind blowing against you so it made it very disorientating. anya and i both felt the effects for a couple minutes afterward. later that evening i went back a ran a 5K finishing with a new PR 26:23. yay, go me! my knees felt like crap later though.
sunday was juliet's birthday party at the cincinnati zoo. like many other zoos we have been too, this one wasnt in the nicest part of town and was a pain to get into. they were have trick-or-treating at the zoo this weekend so it was packed with little kids in costumes. the party was good, you know, pizza, cake and ice cream... but we got to see a 4-D movie. the fourth D is water being spit on you and things poking the back of your seat. there was even some snow. pretty cool. pictures to come later.
sunday was juliet's birthday party at the cincinnati zoo. like many other zoos we have been too, this one wasnt in the nicest part of town and was a pain to get into. they were have trick-or-treating at the zoo this weekend so it was packed with little kids in costumes. the party was good, you know, pizza, cake and ice cream... but we got to see a 4-D movie. the fourth D is water being spit on you and things poking the back of your seat. there was even some snow. pretty cool. pictures to come later.
weekend of oct 11-12
this weekend we went to my parents house and the girls went to the co-op farm with the for a harvest party. they did a pumpkin hunt and played in a big sand pile. they each came home with a very nice pumpkin and also pretty dirty. sunday, we did a corn maze and had some apple cider and doughnuts. i will post pictures later (yes i know that it is already late). grandma took pictures at the corn maze, so i will have to get them from her. =)
Friday, October 10, 2008
Happy Birthday Daddy!
happy birthday Hunny! we all love you very much!
here are more pictures from the fun run the girls did on sept. 27.
here are more pictures from the fun run the girls did on sept. 27.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
our little cactus
Last time we were at aunt chris’s house we dug up a cactus to take home. He was looking pretty bedraggled at the time (since uncle howard had just mowed over him), but we nursed him back to health in a 2-liter green house. That little bugger grew and grew. We recently repotted him and here is a picture. Unfortunately asia got one of its little red prickers in her finger. =)
Monday, October 6, 2008
saturday, another busy day
saturday was another busy day! we all got up early and i ran a 5K. i finished with a PR of 26:41. its about 2 minutes faster than any other run ive done. i was quite happy with the results. this race had some fun stuff for the kids too. there was a giant sand pile, a little hay maze, craft projects and more. the girls also did a fun run. anya went straight from the race to a birthday party at Libby Lu's in the mall. we call it the "sparkle store". the girls all had their hair, makeup and nails done and then got dressed up and did a dance in front of the store. anya was the only girl that had her hair done, the others got wigs. anya still has sparkles in her hair from it. when she came home, she wasnt feeling well so she ended up going to be around 4. she is almost 100% again. just a bit of residual tiredness i think. here are some pics from our busy day...
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