Live From Hong Kong...

Busy boys....

2012-02-11T06:11:00.004-05:00

My three boys have been very busy lately.

Between horse back riding.....

Watching the hoosiers play basketball

And painting......

(Grandpa Leonard sent a paintable toy horse in the mail.

Sam LOVED it!)

Finished product.

Oh, and trying to get in a work out here and there....

(Luke thinks he can lift things heavier than he is....)

Success!!!!

Whew...busy weekend.

Barely time to blog.

Impossible

2012-02-08T22:28:00.004-05:00

First...thanks Grandma L. for goodie package and the new cars!!!!!

I have noticed that it's not terribly hard to take cute pictures of my kids individually....

But it's IMPOSSIBLE to get them to look at the camera and smile at the same time.....

"I've had ENOUGH of the picture taking!"

Settling in

2012-02-07T07:35:00.008-05:00

OK, another move down.

We are now in our "permanent" residence and getting settled!

Furniture, lights, etc being delivered daily.

Pics of the new place to come.

Sam & Luke are up to their usual behavior....

I found this online and thought it was kinda cute....

Anyway, here's what the boys have been up to.....

Luke exhausted by the move, fell asleep in the cab.

Story time with Daddy in Sam's new queen size bed!!!!

Sam has been really into reading books lately.

Luke is interested in whatever Sam does, which bothers Sam to no end.

Sam is officially a skater dude.

See the video below.

I have no idea why these scooters aren't all over the place in the states.

They are awesome....

On the way home from shopping for new garbage cans (oh-la-la), I discovered the worst cab driver ever.

You know you have a bad cab driver when he pulls over and gets out a map....

We have had lots of workers in and out of our place.

We had to hire contractors to hang things on the walls because the walls here are concrete.

A close family friend made us this awesome growth chart, which we promptly mounted and measured ourselves on.

Just over 3 Feet!!!!

Sam, still obsessed with horses has taken to eating hay (pretzels) like a horse....

He also likes to eat cereal at his new Ikea table.

Unless it's otherwise occupied......

Sam has dropped his afternoon naps.

I was trying to fight it until I walked in his room to check on him and discovered him in his bathroom doing this.....

The boys amazed by the lighting guy....

Luke is officially a walker.

(see video below)

Sam thinks its fun to hold his hand when he is walking.

He also thinks it's fun to intentionally walk faster than him so Luke falls over.

Here is a video of Sam Scooting and Luke walking (he's much better now than he was in the video)....

Conversations with Sam

2012-01-25T03:44:00.005-05:00

First, I can't believe I can now converse with Sam.

Wasn't he a newborn like 5 seconds ago?

Second, I can't believe I'm having the conversations that I'm having with a 3 foot tall kid dressed head to toe like a cowboy.

Odd as it is, Here are 3 recent conversations:

Lately I am convinced that I should be taking Sam to specialist as I have self diagnosed him with a learning disability because, try as I may, I can not teach him to count to three. All he will say, despite the fact that I bribe him with candy, is 2-3-2.

So, while putting laundry away and not paying much attention to Sam...he walks up and says....

"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9"

I obviously freak out to which he responds....

"Candy???"

Sam: (Screaming at the top of his lungs) Mom, Luke pooped!

Me: OK, thanks Sam.

Sam: Check Mom.

Me: (Checking) No, he's OK.

Sam: Oh, just a fart.

Sam: "Mom, is my butt on?"

Me: "Yes" (I was trying to give this question as little attention as possible hoping he would never ask it again)

Sam, undeterred: "Is Luke's butt on? Is Daddy's butt on?" and he continued down the list.....

I'm looking forward to more intellectual conversations in the future.....

Here are a few recent pics from his father/son outing with Phil to Ocean Park

And for equality purposes a pic pf Luke....

Ocean Park

2012-01-21T22:38:00.006-05:00

This morning we took the boys to Ocean Park.

Ocean Park is a huge amusement park here.

We spent the whole time there in the kids area.

I would best describe it as an amusement park + an aquarium + a panda exhibit.

Phil & Luke wrestled an alligator.....

We saw some cool animals

Went on a slow train ride....

Rode a horse

And Luke had his first taste of being too small for something....

They had an awesome playground with a fun rock wall...

Phil & Sam did a kids drop zone thing...

There is a ton of stuff we didn't to do...

swimming with dolphins, a cable car ride, a train ride, and much much more.....

Needless to say,

we'll be returning to Ocean Park very soon!

It's the journey, not the destination

2012-01-21T07:18:00.004-05:00

Saturday AM in Hong Kong.

A little hazy.

The Plan:

Take the ferry across the water to Kow Loon, Hong Kong. (It's just on the other side of the harbour, directly across from Hong Kong Island where we live.)

Walk around

Return to HK Island

Go to open air markets

Return home for nap time.

A picture from the Ferry.

Amazing views.

Sam & Daddy on the Ferry to Kow Loon.

And it's a good thing that life's about the journey NOT the destination because about 45 seconds after we arrived in Kow Loon Luke had the largest diaper blowout I have ever seen.

His victims included:

His onesie, pants, socks, shoes.

My Pants.

Phil's Pants and shirt.

The Kow Loon Port Bench we changed him on.

Anyone that was on the dock at the same time we were.

SO...

Back on the ferry to Hong Kong Island!

We decided NOT to cut our losses and try out the open air market despite that fact that one member of the family was down a set of clothes.

(Perhaps not our finest parenting decision, but what the heck, We knew we wouldn't bump into anyone we know!)

The Wan Chai open air market. (Or a small part of it)

YUM!

At this shop you can pick your own chicken and they chop its head off right in front of you.

Makes you hungry, right??

Oh, and here is a fresh vegetable shop.

Maybe I missed something, but the appeal of fresh fruits & veggies is lost when you buy it from a place dirtier than a public restroom.

It's kind of like going to fancy restaurant, ordering a nice meal, and finding a hair it.

We survived the market, returned home, took long naps and had a family movie night.

We need to work on seating.

And in unrelated news,

Luke's hair is now long and curly.

Just another day at the beach

2012-01-16T05:34:00.009-05:00

First- This is going to be a long post. So, unless you are a grandparent, you'll prob get bored and lose interest.

Sorry.

Sam wakes up early. Between 5 & 6am.

Everyday.

So this morning when it was 8 and he wasn't up yet, I went into his room to check on him.

This is what I found in his bed.

Nothing.

My first thought - Madeline McCain.

My second thought, take a deep breath and look again.

That's when I saw this.....

Sam, peacefully resting in his suitcase......

(it's full of clothes still as we are in temporary living and don't have drawers to unpack it into.....)

So, I may try to put him to sleep in there again tonight. If he sleeps in again I guess we won't have to buy him a bed at our new house.

Today we walked to the east side of the Repulse Bay Beach (the beach directly in front of our hotel) and found an huge outdoor Chinese Temple.

It was really cool.

( I didn't get very good pictures because the kids weren't cooperating. Once they saw sand and water they had no interest in sight seeing. Hopefully I will add better pics soon.)

There are large statues of the Hindu goddess of Mercy and the goddess of Sea. Its very kid friendly. There is a wishing well and a pier like structure called the bridge of longevity. It is said to add three days to your life if you walk across its tiles.

There is a big playground with stuff for kids of all ages.

Normal or not normal??

When we started to play on the beach today people started to take pictures of us.

I figure it has to be one of the following things:

1. The boys are really cute,

2. They don't get a whole lot blond headed kids around here OR

3. They mistook us for celebrities.....

Apparently Sam loves other people taking his picture. Just not me.

Either way....

it was a beautiful afternoon and we had a blast.

Brotherly fun on the beach....

He couldn't find a real horse so he had to improvise....

Sweetness....

Luke discovered that Sand tastes bad.....

yuck!!!!

Sam discovered he loves to play with WATER!!!!

Say "CHEESE!!!"

Here are my failed attempts to get the boys to look at the camera at the same time.......

We started to walk home and found daddy by the playground....with a fresh change of clothes!!!!

Here's Phil teaching Sam how to climb.

Good Idea or bad idea?

To be determined....

Fun on the sea-saw

Sam's latest attempt to kill Luke....

To end... a cute pic of Luke standing and drinking at the same time.....

He's quite the multitasker.....

I couldn't make this up if I tried.

2012-01-10T05:12:00.004-05:00

Sam fell down and hurt his knee on the way to the playground today.

It was a pretty bad tumble and I had to carry him the rest of the way there.

Upon arriving Sam just couldn't bring himself to play due to the pain.

So for over an hour this is what he did.

Bandaged the wound....

Elevated the leg

The pain continued to get worse

And worse.

Poor Guy.

Here's a picture of the injury.

If blood makes you queasy you may want to look away.

Like I said....I couldn't make this up if I tried.

Of all the Sand...

2012-01-09T06:20:00.003-05:00

Of all the sand, on all the beaches in the world these two have to dig in the same spot.

I think a hot toddler was walking by.....

Sam, being brave and coming within 100 yards of the water.

(Not that I'm complaining he's overly cautious for a change)

Later mom.....

And a cute pic of Phil & Sam on the boardwalk in Stanley on Sunday night.

Proper Security While Abroad

2012-01-07T05:43:00.005-05:00

It's important to take the proper security measures while abroad.

All the usual things...

Keep your passport in a secure place and....

NEVER EVER

Leave home without a cowboy....

Sam, shooting bad guys on our 3 minute walk to the grocery.

It should be said, the sole purpose of this grocery run was to buy rope to make a hackamore for Lucky.

Daddy & Sam working on the Hackamore...

I'm not sure the Lone Ranger would approve of this Hackamore but it's not bad for a first try.

What would I do without you?

2012-01-06T04:16:00.002-05:00

Dear Luke,

I don't remember my first 17 months without you, but I can't imagine they were much fun.

After all, I've never met anyone to eat my hot dog for me but let me keep the bun.....

(Seems like a good deal to me!!!!)

I never had anyone to play on the playground with.....

Or get all dirty with.....

Or be my test dummy for things that I'm too nervous to try...

And even though I'm not always nice to you and sometimes I try to kill you....

I'm glad you're my little brother.

I don't know what I'd do without you!

Love,

Sam

We're Alive!!!!!!

2012-01-04T20:10:00.009-05:00

Hello!

We are alive and our computer is up and running!

We have been here a little over a week, and are finally on Hong Kong time.

We have had quite a few hiccups...ear infections, eye infections, things not working but we are adjusting slowly.

One of our neighbors described HK as the place where nothing makes sense....

There's not a one stop shop for anything such as a target, and its not an overly stroller friendly place (See video below), and the drivers here make me look like Ms. Daisey.

BUT, I have yet to meet anyone here to hates it so I'm sure once we get used to the new norm we will laugh at how odd everything seemed at first.

Here is what we have been up to.....

Sam started Preschool today.

This was his attitude when I told him it was time to go.....

Here we are walking to class.....

Drop-Off!!!

(One of us cried like a baby. It wasn't the one wearing cowboy boot

AND.......

Someone had a birthday!!!!

Our little boy!!!!

Luke is officially walking (See video below)

For his birthday we went to Pizza Hut on the beach and he fell asleep at 6:45

So, in loose chronological order here is how our first week went....

The first morning we arrived we were up around 2am with the time change.

Not much was going on at that time so as soon as the sun came up we headed to the beach....

The next day we took the kids to an area called Stanley.

Stanley is kind of like a Harbor Town in Hilton Head only more Asian and much weirder.

They have good outdoor markets, a boardwalk, a kids area, shopping and STARBUCKS!!!!!!!

While walking the boardwalk we found this shrine.

There was nothing to tell us what it was but based on close review Sam figured out that it was "Baby Jesus' Barn".

So that answers that.

The four of us on the Stanley Pier.

Back at the Barn.

This picture is our of order, but here is Phil watching the IU victory over Ohio State at the Repulse Bay courtyard.

(This is also where the grocery, coffee shop, and Sam's preschool are. It's about a 3 minute walk from our apartment)

We made our way down to the beach on again for a little fun in the sun....

At first Sam was scared to death of the water but after a few minutes he was jumping in the water.

By the end of it he was in a diaper only and 4 random Asian ladies were taking his picture.

Note to self: Check into modeling for Sam.

A pic of us on the beach at our hotel.

The Repulse Bay Beach.

Random....

This I found completely odd.

Blackbeard, Houdini & Jesus action figures.

These scooters are ALL over the place here.

So, clearly, we had to get Sam one....Plus he's cute and he asked for one.

Here he is at the playground testing it out.

Luke is adjusting just fine, and thinks the snacks here are just as good as any he's tasted anywhere else in the world.

Sam still acts like a 2 year old.

Wednesday, half of our air shipment arrived. The other half is missing. But the toys made it just fine.....

As far as the rest of it....

I'm sure I will be repurchasing it from an open air market in a couple weeks.

Here is a video of Luke walking.

This happened on Phil's watch so he is taking 100% credit for teaching Luke to walk.

Here is how we get to the beach.

Warning- this is a LONG video.

http://youtu.be/UovUinIeKc4

All in all, we miss our family & friends.......

but we are really excited to be starting this adventure together.

The Last Sunny Acres Blog

2011-12-19T13:57:00.005-05:00

Today is our last day at Sunny Acres.

We are moving in with Grandpa Leonard for 1 week before we officially become expats...

So I'm taking some time out to post some pics from our last weekend.

We will really miss it here

Playing with the last few unpacked toys....

I'm not sure if Lucky is built for two......

Especially these two

Three boys rough housing...

Downtime with Elmo

Story time with Grandma Thompson

Early Christmas with Grandma Leonard

Grandma passing out presents.

Which was silly because according to Sam they were all his anyway.

Life Size presents are the best!

The new matchbox car hauler!

Exhausted after all that gift receiving.

For my loyal blog followers, no worries....

Our blog will have the same web address.

Hong Kong here we come!!!!

Luckiest. Girl. Ever.

2011-12-15T07:53:00.004-05:00

Happy 4 year Anniversary Phil!

I love you.

First Dance.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Our Ceremony was about 20 minutes.

(I didn't want to give him a chance to change his mind.)

Mr. & Mrs!!!!

Leaving the Church.

Just Married!!

Who doesn't ride a bull after they get married?

Also, Happy Birthday Eustace!!!!

Thanks Aunt Anne!

2011-12-12T14:31:00.002-05:00

Aunt Anne's refrigerator went out about a week ago. And is still out.

She has 4 children and is pregnant.

Rather than being upset turned it into an opportunity to be grateful.

So Saturday when we broke our brand new expensive digital camera, I decided to be grateful for the insurance.

(I was also grateful I wasn't the one who dropped it)

Then, on Sunday when we returned home from our 4 day trip to Indiana and our new furnace wasn't working, I decided to be grateful for my home, my warm clothes, and the fact that I'm not Amish.

This morning rolled around...Not discouraged, we went off to Target for a nativity set.

It was a BIG HIT.

Note- The matchbox was a present from Sam to Baby Jesus, and if you are in search of the above Fisher Price Nativity set, it may or may not include a matchbox car.

We returned home, the Furnace man came & fixed the furnace.

Now I am grateful for heat and Aunt Anne whose grace and wisdom helped me all weekend.

And that I'm not Amish.

Everyone should move across the world once.

2011-12-12T13:53:00.005-05:00

First allow me to say...

GO HOOSIERS.

Thompson men watching the game.

(IU defeats Kentucky 73-72)

Now on to the point of my blog today...

As our move rapidly approaches, I can't help but think how lucky we are for so many reasons.... but today I'm particularly grateful that this move has resulted in spending time with our family and realizing how truly important they are to us.

I wish everyone could be lucky enough to spend a great weekend with their families and just appreciate each other like we have had the opportunity to do with ours.

Here are few pics of our weekend in Indiana....

Saturday Morning in Geneva with the Arnold's & Santa.

I'm not naming names but two of the three men in our family didn't want anything to do with Santa.

Here is my Braveheart.

A little coercion

A little more....

We spent Friday night with Phil's parents and sisters & their families.

Here are a few of the things we'll miss....

Music lessons.

(And Lainey)

Best. Toys. Ever.

Cousins.

My fellow smut lovers.

(Apparently Eustace disapproved of Emily's text)

More cousins.

(All 8. Not a bad picture considering that Getting this crew in a picture together is like herding cats. )

Thankfully will get to see Phil's parents one more time before we shove off....

but these little faces will be a lot different next time we see them, especially if the flight goes poorly because then we won't be returning. ever.

Moving Update

2011-12-01T08:38:00.003-05:00

Lately when Sam, our little cowboy (read renegade), is about to do something wrong he will tell us to "go away"

That way we won't be around to tell him to stop said bad behavior.

Or put him in time out.

And then he can always just say...."Luke did it"

As a result Phil decided to have a conversation with him about integrity.

I'm sure our 2 year old absorbed all this information and will now act more mature and responsible going forward.

That's why I can blog without having any concern that he might be drawing all over his brother with a sharpie.

For those of you following us on our adventure to Hong Kong....

December has arrived.

We are 26 days away from our move.

20 Days away from vacating our house.

AND

As of this week we are no longer...

Home Owners

Dog Owners

or Gym members.

If the boys don't want out we might accidentally give them up too.

Thanksgiving 2011

2011-11-30T13:06:00.007-05:00

We kicked off Thanksgiving 2011 in our house Thursday night with Grandma, Grandpa, Great Aunt Katie & Uncle Jason.

Luke wasn't a fan of the fare.

And Sam would only Carrot Cake.

But the company was good!

Friday morning we headed to Decatur.

My boys playing under the Christmas Tree.

Sam & James playing the piano.

The kids table.

Luke opted for a healthier meal.

I guess all those comments about his chunky cheeks went to his head.

Felicity & Julia

After the lunchtime feast, we all relaxed for some guilty pleasures.....

Emily & Eustace reading People Magazine. Sexiest Man Alive edition.

I'm not sure what was going on here, but I don't think it was good.....

Same goes for this picture.

Who broke the train!?!?!"

Saturday Morning we did the Geneva Turkey Trott.

Sam & Phil were the cheering section for Grandma, Emily & I.

Grandma, in her true multi-tasking glory crosses the finish line while carrying Luke & talking on the phone!

And Sunday before we headed back to Cincinnati, we went to church.

And by church I mean, Pada attended mass while Grandma, Phil & I played with the boys in the lobby because they weren't into the service and I was too leery of germs to put them into daycare.

In my defense, they have had both had Croup & Hand-Foot-Mouth in the past 60 days.

As our move approached we are extra appreciative of the time we get to spend with our family.

The Butter Challenge

2011-11-24T21:45:00.001-05:00

3 things I'm thankful for this thanksgiving....

2011-11-24T08:10:00.002-05:00

In no particular order:

Catching Up

2011-11-20T14:45:00.005-05:00

Last Saturday when I set out to do a practice round of Christmas cookies my kitchen looked like this.

About an hour later.....

And because these were "practice" and because it isn't even Thanksgiving we made them heart shaped and I let Sam pick the color he wanted to dye the icing...

Tuesday we went to Union Terminal for the Train exhibit & the Children's Museum.

Even though we have a train table in our basement, this one was a big hit....

"I just can't reach the trains!!!"

Sam's took the "Finders Keepers" approach to playing with the trains.

And the "Get away" approach to me with the camera....

Phil & Sam taking it all in.

Friday night we had good friends over and made come cupcakes disappear.

Sam stayed up till 10:30 playing with Lizzie & Pierce.

Slumber parties here we come!!!!

Saturday Grandma gave Luke his first real haircut, which also happens to be his first bad haircut.

Meet Lloyd Christmas.....

He's still pretty cute though.

This should be ok on a 15 hour plane ride

2011-11-11T09:15:00.004-05:00

Airplanes

2011-11-09T07:48:00.002-05:00

Last night we went to Lunken Airport to check out the planes

In honor of our adventure, Luke styled his hair like he had been flying with his head out the window of an airplane.

2011-11-08T13:26:00.002-05:00

Nothing like hanging with grandpa, two horses and a goat.

A new trick!

Naughty or Nice?

2011-11-06T05:38:00.002-05:00

You be the judge...

Naughty or Nice?

Clearly, someone woke up on the wrong side of the toddler bed yesterday.

And in Honor of Lainey,

who we used to be obsessed with

but who now gets no attention

And who will only be our dog for 19 more days....

Halloween & Vacation

2011-11-04T18:33:00.007-04:00

This year Halloween was on a Monday. So when Daddy got home from work...off we went!

Sam had no problem accepting candy....

As you can see our neighborhood takes Halloween VERY seriously.

So it's a good thing our cowboys were up for the occasion.

Immediately after Trick or Treating we headed off to Gatlinburg for a little Thompson Family Vacation.

Victor (peace advocate), Lucy, Phil & Luke

Lucy & Luke

Wednesday we went on a family Helicopter ride!!!

(I'm not sure a $10 Helicopter ride was the safest of activities)

Then we went horse back riding......

ahh...happiness.

More horsing around......

We celebrated Aunt Emily's Thirty-something at the Olive Garden....

James & Luke

The Birthday girl and her Daddy

Group Pic...Grandpa got cut out of the right side :(

One Water park picture.....

Taken immediately before a huge bucket of water dumped on my head and onto our camera.

whoops.

Thanks everyone for a wonderful vacation.

We miss you already.

Family Pictures and Child Development

2011-10-25T11:20:00.004-04:00

Sam's only smile of the day

Our family

Brothers

Luke

Sam the pill

(in his defense he had croup and we didn't know it yet)

We had these pictures taken in Eden Park which has sentimental value because we used to live there, we got engaged there and we had our engagement pictures there...

In developmental News

Luke's New Development:

He sleeps about 4 hours a day. Cumulatively.

No matter what.

We have tried Benadryl

We have tried crying it out

We have tried feeding, rocking, singing.

Today I called my good friend Lynn for assistance.

Lynn- be warned, he may end up on your doorstep.

Sam's New Developments

As a result of my speaking to Sam in baby gibberish the first two years of his life he doesn't enunciate well. But if you hang out with him for more than two hours you will be fluent in "Sam"

Apparently I have been trying to get Sam to enunciate a little too hard because he has started mimicking me rather than enunciating. For example...

"It's nice out.t.t.t.t.t"

"Mommy, read book.k.k.k.k.k"

"Luke down.n.n.n.n.n.n"

You get the idea.

(If you listen very closely you can hear it in the video below)

Also Thanks has replaced "Here you go" and "Your Welcome".

So When he hands me something the conversation goes like this:

Sam handing me a toy, "Thanks Mom"

Me, "Thanks Sam"

Sam,"Thanks"

Lastly, I asked his pediatrician yesterday if he thought Sam had a learning disability because he doesn't know his colors yet and he didn't laugh in my face. He did however, chuckle in my face and politely suggested I just let him be a little boy and not worry so much.

In the past I have self diagnosed Sam with:

1. Brain Tumor (Goose Egg)

2. Leukemia (Bruise)

3. Vertigo (He was learning to walk)

again...you get the idea

So I guess The doctor had the idea that I may be a bit of a worrier.

Video of Sam's enunciation....

it's very quiet because it was taken on my phone

Croup x2

2011-10-24T13:32:00.002-04:00

When you have 2 kids the spreading of germs is inevitable.

Both our boys have been fighting a cold for almost 2 weeks. Just when we thought we were almost all better...... Croup.

Ugh.

Phil reading to the sick boys.

In news unrelated to contagious & infectious diseases....

Saturday afternoon was beautiful so we used it as an opportunity to go to the cemetery one last time before we move and visit Sam & Luke's great grandparents.

(This was Luke's first trip there. He was named after his great Grandfather)

Daddy & Sam on a walk

Luke J. next to Floyd J.'s gravestone.

It was so good to go out there to visit.

We wish the boys would have had a chance to know "Poppy & Goggy"

First Date

2011-10-21T13:35:00.003-04:00

In an attempt to impress Lizzie Sam took her on a date to our front window sill where they shared goldfish & discussed what a beautiful fall day it is.

Not to worry, Pierce chaperoned.

Rub-a-dub-dub

2011-10-21T13:23:00.002-04:00

Somebody likes bath time!

Luke: "Wooo-hoooo!!!!"

Sam: (Busy washing his cows) ..."Splash me and it's over for you Luke"

Cheese!!!!

Is it too soon to outsource bath time to Sam???

Fall fun

2011-10-17T10:41:00.003-04:00

This morning two Panda Bears wandered into out yard!!!

(Odd for the Cincinnati area, I know!)

This one was the smaller and friendlier of the 2

This one was less approachable and showed his teeth when I got too close.

Luke is developing a passion for things with wheels....

"Wanna Race?"

A pair of stinkers....

Here are a few pics of Sundays Bengals Colts Game!!!

WHO DEY!!

Phil & his dad

Bryan, Phil & Pada

Bryan, Phil, Pada & Grandpa

Happy Birthday Lucy!

2011-10-13T11:57:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday to the sweetest 10 year old ever!!!

We love you Lucy!

Pumpkin Evolution

2011-10-12T16:36:00.004-04:00

2006

First Pumpkin Carvings as a couple

2007

No kids. No pumpkins.

2008

No kids. No pumpkins.

2009

Shaw Farms.

2010

Berger Farms

2011

Berger Farm

Hope Hong Kong has pumpkin patches

Whats so funny?

2011-10-10T15:28:00.004-04:00

This weekend we went to Decatur & Ft. Wayne to visit Grandma & Pada and for our nephews first communion.

(Being the shameful aunt that I am I don't have any pictures of the event, but I'd be happy to post if anyone would send me some....Anne are you reading this???)

Luke in the wagon at Grandma & Pada's house

Sam on his daddy's old tractor

Nothing better than a spring horse.....

We lost Sam for a while, but the lone ranger stopped by.....

(these pics were actually taken at our house in before we left for the weekend...

sorry my blogs out of order)

And Sunday before we headed home daddy gave the boys a trumpet lesson.....

Thanks to the Fernandi for hosting such a wonderful event Saturday.

Ignace- we are very proud of you & we love you!

This segment I would like to call.....

"What's so funny!?!?!"

Say Cheese!

2011-10-04T09:51:00.002-04:00

Sam to Luke....

"Don't make eye contact and maybe she'll go away.

And whatever you do....DON'T SMILE"

Catching up

2011-10-03T11:14:00.004-04:00

Saturday our neighbors got us tickets to Sponge Bob at Coney Island.

It was COLD!!!!

but the cookies were good!

and so was the company!

Grandma came over to play....

and the boys got her to do WHATEVER THEY WANTED HER TO.....

Then the weather got a little better so outside we went...

BEST IDEA EVER...

attach balloons to your kids so you don't lose them

Sam on his new bike...

Luke

Luke's new..."I'm about to get in trouble" face

Sam

"It's my bike now!!!!"

"Don't mess with me!"