Dancing, Potty Training and Stomach Flu

Our household has been a little busy the last month or so, trying to get everything ready for a family trip coming up in December. Silly me, I did not ask the question before booking it on whether children are allowed in the swim areas unless they are "FULLY POTTY TRAINED". Most pools allow swim diapers or swim diapers with a plastic covering so smaller children could be allowed in...but nope. They have to be fully potty trained to be allowed anywhere near the pool areas. Bummer for us if I can't get the boys up to speed in the next couple of weeks. We've got the #1 down because boys stand, but the #2 (which is the most important for their rule) is a little hard with them not sitting down at all for #1. Urgh! I have been on patrol to try to catch it and get them to the toilet on time but have only had a little success with it.

We've taken up a ballroom dance class this last month. Which we've had a blast at and yes...Randy can dance! Much to his surprise. (But I knew he had rhythm the whole time).

We've been learning the samba and swing and having lots of fun getting ready for our dancing debut!

This last week, our family has been hit with some kind of stomach flu. Kyler threw up thursday and then seemed fine on friday. Friday both Randy and Connor got it. I think they are about over it but then last night Kyler was throwing up again.

As if that wasn't bad enough...saturday morning I got a call for a house showing and had to hurry to carpet clean the BRIGHT ORANGE throwup in Connor's room the night before. If you didn't already know this tidbit of info. Don't give doritos to ANYONE if sickness is passing through the family. It can be really hard to get out of the carpet!!!

Good thing it happened this week and not over the thanksgiving holidays. I'm the only one that hasn't been hit with it so I am crossing my fingers that my immune system does it's job to keep it away!

Firetrucks and Monster Trucks

Our boys are all about trucks these days!! His favorite dvd to watch is all about monster trucks. Connor got home from school yesterday and noticed the firemen practicing with their water hose in the church parking lot across from the house. He came in all excited and hurried to put on his fireman costume from halloween. He wanted to go out and play with the firemen. By the time we got outside to walk over, they had already left. Luckily, the firestation is a street over from where we lived. Connor knew exactly where they went and wanted to see the fire trucks.

You should of seen the smiles on those firemen's faces when they saw us coming their way! They loved that Connor was dressed up to see them! They walked him around and showed off all of the firetrucks. They even let him spray the waterhose. He loved it! Too bad I didn't get a picture of it. I really need to set up an appointment for a full on tour.

Family Pictures

We finally got our family pictures in! We took them in October but due to the busy schedule of our photographer we just barely got the prints from it. Our scanner is on its way out so the scan job is not very good.

We tried to get a colorful leaves picture but missed the color change by about a week...it is so hard to catch it right on. The yellow tree pictures we took was with the only tree in the park that had some color in it!!!

The boys fell asleep on the way to the park where we took the pictures. So they were not in the mood for pictures at all! They would not cooperate for single pictures so we ended up getting a few couple pictures of Randy and I.

We Love When UPS Comes!

Halloween 2008

Happy Halloween!!

This year Connor was a Fireman and Kyler was Spiderman for Halloween. Both costumes were very fitting to them. Connor is obsessed with firetrucks and police cars and Kyler loves any type of superhero or scary monsters. We started the day with the Elementary School's Costume Parade.
Then we headed out to a trunk or treat at a local car dealership.

This unfortunately was the only picture I got of Kyler. He feel asleep in the car and missed most of the trick or treating fun.
On the way, we noticed firemen and a firetruck on the side of the road handing out candy. We just had to stop and ask them for pictures. Connor was so excited!


By the time we got home most of the neighborhood trick or treating was over. So by default, we have lots and lots of chocolate in our freezer!