Trick or Treat '08

Sully's pumpkin

Nathan's pumpkin

Trick-or-treat at Uncle Chris and Cori's (a Halloween tradition)

Are they really going to eat all this???

Happy Halloween 2008

Nathan's Scout Pumpkin

Based on the book My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett...

My Favorite Theme Park

Even though we love Disney, Bush Gardens is tops in my book. Maybe it's due to great childhood memories or the lovely setting or even the awesome rides. No matter, to me it's the best.


This is the newest roller coaster... The Griffon. It's a lot of fun!! Check out that 90degree drop!

And because it was Hallo-Scream, they were all decked out with pumpkins, coffins, werewolves and such.

And we ALL had to get a picture taken while standing in the coffin.

Who Says There's Nothing to do in the Country?

Fun with the backhoe.




But it does take some concentration!

What a Lovely Family

Instead of downloading the Colonial Williamsburg photos, we've been entertaining ourselves with this site. I might be the one who is most entertained- I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!! (oh, the weird horns on Kevin are actually a stick that got in the way of the photo but the effect is funny)

Home Again

We just returned from our bi-annual trip up north. This is my favorite time of year to go and we were rewarded with awesome fall weather and one day that felt more like an Indian Summer. As soon as the pictures make it on the computer, I'll post again. The highlight of our trip this time was visiting Colonial Williamsburg. Fun and educational!!

Book Hop

Last month we participated in a 50's theme "Book Hop" with our homeschool group to celebrate a summer of reading. We did edible book reports. Sully's was "Choke Cherry Crumble" from Hatchet by Gary Paulsen- it tasted better than it looked so no picture. Nathan's report was on Where is Green Sheep? by Mem Fox. This one was cute!

Here are some photos of my 50's style kids- one cool and one not.

The cool kid is thinking of his next dance move.

Nathan is just dancing.

Seaworld

If you hadn't guessed by the last two posts, we spent a day at Seaworld. What fun!!! We were fortunate to be able to meet Uncle Chris and Cori there AND the boys got to trick-or-treat!!!
Since no Seaworld post would be complete without a picture of Shamu, I won't disappoint. And yes, we WERE this close... this trip we had ponchos all around! (Last time, I was the only one with a poncho and everyone else got wet!)

Lunch?

These were as smelly as they looked!




Good thing that top fish wasn't drippy- that would have been a nasty surprise!

Nathan to Kevin when offered a really squishy fish: Give that one to Sully. Apparently he knows that his brother isn't as squeemish as he is. On a side note, I didn't touch them at all!!!

These were the guys we were trying to feed. Cute, huh?

These were the guys we were trying to avoid feeding. Not so cute.

And possibly even dangerous??!!??

After which we made a beeline for to the hand-washing station.

Journey to Atlantis

A ride in pictures: