Another update

It seems as though we are just "doing life" lately. We've had a couple fun family things the last couple weeks so I thought I'd share some of those pictures as well as some around the house pictures.

"All aboard!" Every one's taking a ride on Conductor Ethan's train.

We have a little stripper on our hands. I had Morgan in a little turtleneck the other day, and when I went to get her up from her nap she had pulled it off. Later that evening she kept taking it off, I think she has her mother's dislike of a strangling turtleneck.

My Grandma Bulthuis turned 90 this year! We had an Open House for her where a lot of friends and family dropped by to wish her a happy birthday. There were a few of my cousin's that also came in from out of town. We spent sometime together at the Open House and then the next night we all went over to my Grandma's house for dinner. She came as well, it was nice to see her in her house again.

All my mom's siblings were able to be in town for Grandma's birthday. It was great to see all my uncles and aunts again too. It doesn't happen very often that they are all together since they are living all over the US.

Here is a fun picture of Miss Personality. Never a dull moment when she is awake!

Kevin's parents were here last weekend. It was great to see them again and way too short of a visit. Ethan and Morgan LOVED being spoiled by Opa and Oma and I enjoyed the extra time to run errands ALONE! This is one of the only pictures I have of the weekend, the boys playing poker. I think Ethan was the big winner that night! I'll have to take more pictures next time.

Here and There

Here is a little bit of what we've been up to.

Our town's police department has an ultralight that they fly around in to help scope out what is going on in the town. Ethan (like most 3 year old boys) is obsessed with airplanes, helicopters and the "parachute" that flies around town. Our neighbor is a part of the volunteer police so he called us one morning when the ultralight was taking off and Ethan got to sit in it and even wear the helmet. We packed a lunch and watched the police officer take off. It was pretty exciting!


There he goes!

For whatever reason we seem to get a lot of preying mantis' in our back yard. One morning when Ethan was playing in the back yard he got this guy to climb on top of his chalk. It was pretty "amazing" as Ethan would say.

"Helping" daddy rake the leaves!

Before Halloween we went and visited my Grandma in the nursing home. Ethan and Morgan are always the center of attention when we go there. All the nurses and the old people love to see them. They were especially entertaining in their Halloween costumes.

Happy Halloween

Here's our Bob the Builder and Cow. We headed out to a couple houses to trick-or-treat and then we went to our church for more treats. Ethan was quite overwelmed by everyone dressed up in bizzare outfits. After being at church for only 10 minutes he was ready to go home. Needless to say we didn't have much candy to hide. But they sure are cute:)

Our little Moo cow.

Ethan borrowed his Bob the Builder costume from one of his friends, and he sent along two more just in case Ethan wanted to be something else. So Ethan had a great time the few days before Halloween dressing up in his different costumes. He took Morgan on a train ride and put out lots of fires for us.

He has a DVD that is a collection of different movies. He wisely picked that movie to watch one night and he had to wear all 3 costumes to correspond with whatever movie was on. He watched Bob the Builder, in his B. the B. costume, Thomas in his train conductor costume and Fireman Sam in his fireman costume. It was pretty cute.