Happy Late Birthday to STEVE

YES, I am still catching up all my posts...new ones will come I just need to get these up first!

When Daddy got home the kids had fun playing with dad and dressing up with their doctor glasses while I tried to get everything ready for our little family PAR-TAY!

Our little Chef (he loves to make desserts...he in fact is in charge of the treat we're having for FHE--Fruit Pizza) put all the candles on the cake for me! What a dear!

The blazing inferno...28 candles can create quite a bit of heat...watch out dear!

I took my man out to dinner for our date to celebrate the BIG 28...Ellie came too...it was one of the first weekends in our new ward and I didn't want to scare off the little girl who came over to watch Gordon and Oscar!
WE LOVE YOU BABE!!
We truly appreciate all that you do to keep our family healthy happy and safe!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

Our favorite things about Dad:
Gordon: "My favorite thing about Daddy is that he loves me"
Oscar: "Uh, Daddy"
Ellie: "ahhh Daaa daa"

I LOVE YOU DARLING, Happy Belated Birthday!

Sweeetie Pie Ellie 11.2007

This Video is from a bath-time where my plan was to bathe Eleanor after the boys so she was patiently waiting her turn!
Seriously--HOW can one girl be so DANG PERFECT!!
Please bear with me...this is a makeshift journal and I am catching up slowly and steadily!

A very Late Happy Halloween!

So here are our very late but cute pictures of our first Halloween in OHIO!!

After finally unloading our U-Haul we hauled back the hotel to get ready for our "Halloween fun night"!

We were living at the Holiday Inn and so we have some pictures of us leaving the hotel in costume and then we drove to a street that looked cute and well decorated and dove in...we only did about 6 houses but it was so great!

Special thanks to Sarah Anderson for the Darling Bad Knight costume! It was a huge hit! (and PS you'll be getting that back very soon--I haven't forgotten) and to Grandma Munns for the matching Bee Costumes!!! I LOVED THEM...we had a knight costume for Oscar but once I tried on that Bee costume and he spent the next 15 minutes buzzing around--I knew he was going to be a bumble-bee!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

The UNLOADING crew...10.30.07

The first unload...

taking a little rester in between jobs

The unloading crew awaiting their assignments!Ready....Break!

The lock keeper holding his padlock!

The supervisor...it was so COLD!!

So after we got to town we called some people from the new ward we were moving into to try and get some help unloading but apparently it was a busy week for people--even the missionaries were booked up with double dinners on the two nights we needed to unpack! I am finally over it but at the time my good husband was the only patient person with our new ward family....I really am over it but I about called those missionaries and told them I thought they were losers for not helping AT ALL!! So once again Steve and I unloaded all our stuff from the U-HAUL into our storage unit awaiting a house to put it in...what was supposed to be less than a month's time is now going on 3 as we are still trying to find a house with a perfect fit!

WE are really LOVING it here if we don't think about the weather! We have made some good friends and are really excited about being on this new adventure!

Our little boys were so excited to be the moving crew--they really did help unpacking some of the small stuff...it was just a challenge finding where they had set the stuff they unloaded! They also had so much fun riding their scooters and little toys around the parking lot of the storage unit!

A Giant Slide

This slide was HUGE....it looked okay from teh bottom but was really intimidating from the top

A Handsome boy...and the rest of us...in TENN...

We found a great little scenic pull off at just the right time...we needed diaper changes and to stretch our legs! From what we saw of Tennessee we loved it!

A pit stop at Aunt Margies!

We stopped Sunday afternoon in Marietta GA to visit with Steve's Aunt Margie...

Gordon LOVES his little sissy!
Oh what a cutie girl....Eleanor!

We let the boys knock some steam off playing baseball! It was a beautiful day on a gorgeous lawn--it was very fun!

Aunt Margie and Uncle Jim took care of us...they had pizza for us when we got there and sent us off with drinks and snacks...we even got to see Billy when he stopped by...we love the DeMartini Family!

Pictures from the MOVE

The #1 Best thing we did for the drive (besides have Candy & Merl drive the moving van) was to buy these headphones for the boys and THANK HEAVENS for a built in DVD player!
Our sweet little Otter Bots!Both boys had their drinks and "traveling baskets" filled with their favorite things...that they got to choose and pack for the long trip!

Ellie was such a little angel--like always!
Our faithful Pilot!