Bowling Anyone?

Well, we had another "first" for the twins. We celebrated their b-day dinner early and took them to a favorite place of theirs....Brunswick Bowling Zone. We planned on just taking them there to eat dinner and play arcade games, but we got a wild hair and decided to have them try and bowl. I forgot the camera and drove the 2 min. back to our house and I am so glad I did. I also grabbed the video camera and was happy I grabbed that too.

They enjoyed it so much! Greg did the honors of taking them each time it was their turn to bowl while I took pictures, etc. Evan ended up getting a strike (we had bumpers up ;) )

He also managed to get his ball stuck towards the end of his lane. It actually rolled sideways and sat there!!!!!!

Leah was our girl who stepped over the foul (or whatever) line quite often. Lots of fun and looking forward to taking them again.

Our Jack-O-Lantern

This year, we decided to carve our pumpkin into a Bugaboo (that's what the carving booklet called it). We ended up getting our pumpkin from a local produce stand (so overpriced at the Pumpkin Patch).

Evan still doesn't care for the "gooey stuff." Leah loved playing with it. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Pumpkin Fun 2010

Over the weekend, we met up with some of our friends for our Annual Pumpkin Patch Extravaganza at Rombach's Farm in Chesterfield. We have been the last three years with the Laramies' and Thies'. This year, the Thies' had two additional kiddos to the mix. Everyone seemed to have had a great time. Seemed a little weird to wear shorts and t-shirts to a pumpkin patch in OCTOBER, but ya know.
The kids rode ponies, rode a little train, played on a slide, climbed and crawled all over pumpkins and as always-they had to endure the pain of me taking pictures like a crazy woman. I really love some of these pictures!

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Hate You With a Passion!

Some of you know that I am DEATHLY afraid of snakes. I don't care WHAT kind it is; I DO NOT LIKE THEM! Well, today I got a treat.... (ready to strike my dad)
The kids and I were just getting home from grocery shopping and as I open the garage door, I notice I can't pull in because there is a HUGE toad in the middle of my garage, but close to the garage door. I couldn't pull in, so I got the kids out and took them inside. I tried for 5-10 minutes to get that big nasty thing out of my garage with a piece of wood (scooting it towards the grass). However; it just kept jumping back inside the garage. Finally, I got a plastic bag, put my hand inside of it and picked up the toad and placed it to the side of our house in the grass. I put a couple of bags of groceries inside and went around the side to see if it was possibly hopping back towards our garage, but it wasn't. The poor (yet nasty) thing I had JUST let go was being EATEN BY A SNAKE! It had to have been at least 4 feet long. That snake had to have sensed that toad before I even put it to the side of our garage and had to have been there when I put the toad in the grass. AAAHHHHHH!
I felt awful for the toad! After I screamed and then gave my condolences, I came inside to grab the camera to take a picture and find out what kind of snake this was. I found out it was just a garter snake. I didn't not know that even if you are bit, you could risk infection. So, I knew I wanted this thing removed from my yard. I called my dad (who was on his way over to work on my basement) and he said he would toss it over the fence when he got here. The other guy working on our basement also hates snakes as much as I and wanted to kill it. Needless to say, the snake had a taste of his last meal. I don't think the snake would have EVER fit that big ol' toad down him. My dad took a shovel to the snake; which made the snake really angry, so it coiled up to strike. My dad ended up cutting him up with a shovel. Now, the remains are behind our fence in the backyard. I am petrified to have the kids walking around outside now!

Fire trucks Galore

This past weekend in the Kohl's parking lot, there were fire trucks from different stations set up for display. There was an ambulance, helicopter and rescue boat available to sit on as well. The kids didn't really want to climb on the trucks or helicopter (they said they were afraid they were going to move/take off). They did enjoy watching a car catch on fire and then put out by some fireman.