School Halloween Party

Today was Sam and Parker's Halloween Party @ School. I was able to stay to help out for the party. It was quite comical. The kids were so funny and adorable in their costumes. There was one little girl named Veronica that came in an Iron Man costume. I loved her. She was so proud of it, while all the other girls were in their girlie princess costumes she was pretending to shoot everyone with laser beams. What a doll! We played some games, had some snacks and the kids got to bash in a pumpkin. What more could you possibly ask for. S &P are so excited about halloween this year, they both picked out their own costumes this year. This was the first year that they were dead set on what they wanted to be. Parker is Optimus Prime (Transformer) and Sam is Master Dan from the Bakugons.

Ben, Diane and TJ

Saturday we went down to Kalamazoo. Ben, Diane and TJ were in town to visit Baby Taylor. They live near Novi so we don't get to see them as often as we would like. It was SUCH a fun day. The boys had a blast hanging out with TJ. I was so proud of them because they were incredibly patient and nice to TJ. He is going to be 2 in December and let me tell ya this little guy can hold his own. Him and Parker were instant pals.

Sam took this picture of TJ, Diane and Taylor

Diane and Taylor

Sam and his Funny Aunt!

Nate really had TJ Flying

Nate and I

TJ and Parks

Buddies

I don't know why but this makes me laugh!

TJ

Tackle!!

Funny Faces!

Kim got to hang outside while Jeff was watching

Taylor inside for a bit. Sam was thrilled to spend some time

playing with one of his favorite people!

Finally....A NEW PHON!!!

About 4 months ago our cell phone contract expired and my husband being so "fantastically frugal" just cancelled the phones without getting us new ones. He had visions of saving all this $$ by not having a phone. Then things got interesting.....We went on vacation, with NO phone, so we had to borrowed my Moms. He started traveling....WITH NO PHONE. Couldn't get a hold of him at all. This was just NOT working out. I thought I never used my phone but turns out that I really did I just took advantage of it. So after begging, pleading and pretty much throwing down an ultimatum I finally got Nate to the Verizon store last weekend. We got Droid phones. I guess they are quite fancy and have lots of options. Verizon guy was trying to explain everything to me and I was lost. I advised Nate to learn everything about the phone and then tell me later. I do love that I can now Text, email and browse the internet on my phone. Surprisingly I don't think I have been abusing it. I'm very conscious to put the phone down when I'm out and about with the kids. I found myself at the library being THAT Mom, typing away on my microscopic key pad while the kids played and I shut it down. Although both boys love the phone and all the games they can play on it. I'm hoping it will keep them quite busy on our trip to Florida. Nate is already addicted to his, he keeps telling me how cool it is and how you can do "This" and "That".....I'll take his word for it.

Need an interior decorator please!

A few months ago we moved the boys upstairs and we moved downstairs. They wanted to share a room ever since we got home from Florida. They do REALLY well in the same room surprisingly. The good thing is all the toys are up there. We moved into our old bedroom and the other bedroom on the main floor is Nate's office HOWEVER it is still decorated with cars & trucks. I secretly think Nate likes it that way! Ha! Anyways, everytime I go upstairs I feel overwhelmed with this feeling of needing to redecorate. I want to do something really cool for them with that space. The bedroom is quite large and has tons of space for them to play. They love it up there. I'm just so bad at decorating that I just give up and don't do anything. They still have our window coverings up there which don't exactly scream 4 year old boy! Ha! Any help would be appreciated:) Thanks!

When I took the pictures Kylie was over and they were really hamming

it up for the camera.

The kids coming up the stairs

There is a big closet in their room that they call

The Club house. They love it in there.

The entrance to the club house which is

on one side of the landing.

In between the club house and the entrance to their

bedroom. They love to lay on the stairs....WEIRD!

Playing

Their beds. I'm going to have to move them

into bigger beds soon as they are growing very fast!!

Three crazies!!!

Parker playing

On the right hand side is all closet space for

extra toys and clothes

Art Prize

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So I realize that I'm NOT keeping up with the blog. Things have been so busy, Nate has been traveling every week, the boys have been busy with school and I've been busy just trying to keep up with everyone. I will try to do better!!!

This week we took the boys downtown to check out Artprize. If you aren't familiar with Artprize its basically a huge art contest in downtown GR that anyone can enter. The whole city has been talking about it and the entire downtown has been taken over by different exhibits. We went last year and the boys still remembered it. We headed down at around 6pm in the evening on Thursday and walked around for about 2 hours. I could not believe how far the boys walked. They were so interested in all the different pieces and have been talking about it ever since. I think we will try to head back down again before it ends.

If you go just be prepared to be around A LOT of people. It was packed and that was on a Thursday evening. GREAT people watching though! I'm hoping that it brings all those small businesses in downtown GR lots of $$. Nate and I really enjoy going downtown with the kids. They love being down there and checking out all the people and big buildings. And our favorite sushi restaurant is located down there which is always a bonus!!!

This was Sam's Favorite. They call it "Rocket Pig"

Stuff made out of trees.

I love this picture of Sam. He was lovin the bridge

Cutie

My boys!

Sam took this picture of a tower made from Cereal boxes. The base as all different plastic caps. He loved that HE got to take the pictures.

Parker took this picture of his favorite tower made out of blocks.

January!!!!

We are heading BACK to Florida!!! I got the OK from my boss to take the time off and we are going down again. Same house!!! The boys are so excited but not NEAR as excited as I am:) We will be gone for about 4 weeks. Hopefully we will get some warm weather and miss out on some of the nasty snow that Michigan has to offer in January!!!

Sam and Parker Start Pre-school

Monday, Sept 13th was a big day at our house. Sam and Park's started SCHOOL!!! They are going 2 days a week, Mondays and Wednesdays from 9-11:30. WOO HOO!! Thats 5 whole hours of free-time for this Mom!!!! They LOVED their first week. Seem to be a little bit better behaved this year than last. Hopefully they will have fun, meet some new friends and not cause the teachers to have a nervous breakdown!!! Ha!