Fall Break, part 4

Monday we headed to Heather's Gramma's house for the day and night. Thankfully it was just 2.5 hours in the car and we didn't have to stop at all.

Meghan loves Great-Gramma's doggies, Molly and Muffin. Meghan also liked playing with Heather's cousin Logan (I think he's going for a Beatle's look).


Before our trip Jase said that he wanted to paint with Gramma, so she had everything all ready for Jase to paint a dinosaur. Boy did he have fun!

Now Jase's dinosaur is hanging in the his bedroom.

Jase, Gramma, and Jase's second-cousin Lucy.

Jase and Meghan riding the "pretty pony"

Heather's Gramma relaxing (and not liking me for taking her picture)...

I'm an Esme...

I just saw this on a friend's blog and since I liked the books, wondered which Cullen character I am like. I guess it really isn't too hard to imagine that I am an Esme (although I really don't like the actress picked to play her role in the movie, but that is another post).


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PS - There is also a quiz for the male characters as well - maybe we should do it for our husbands (since I don't think they'll do it...)

Fall Break, part 3

On Sunday we had muffins for breakfast. Meghan just loved hers - see all the smiles:






We played outside and played with the Wii. We really had fun with the bowling, tennis, and boxing. Heather beat Joe 2x boxing. Jase even beat Pete.

Fall Break, part 2

On Saturday we went to a local cider and pumpkin farm/festival. The kids loved all the play things, including lots of bouncy houses and slides, a labrynith, a corn maze, a hayride, pedal tractors, sand area, and farm animals to pet. Meghan also loved the adopt a greyhound dog area.

Here is Meghan in one of the bouncy houses - this was her first time and she loved!

Jase going down one of the slides...

Meghan taking a walk with daddy - the stones look like something fun to play with...

All the kids loved the pedal tractors, but Meghan grew especially attached to them. I can already see that next summer we won't be able to get her off of the tricycle...

Jase loved feeding the goats (he really is fearless when it comes to animals). the goats even ate the ice cream cone!

Jase going down the big slide (he loved this one, but he got really exhausted climbing up to go back down).

Meghan having some fun with Bridgette in the play area...

Pete and Meghan playing in the sand...

Meghan and Mariah in a small bouncy house

Bridgette and Mariah

The whole gang (minus Heather) outside the corn maze. Meghan decided to zonk out while walking to the corn maze. In her defense, we had just eaten our picnic lunch and it was her usual naptime.

Bridgette, Mariah, and Jase on the hayride; Meghan was still asleep...


I was also able to go to an IKEA for the first time and loved it! Jase got a 5ft dragon, Meghan a hippo pillow, a matching dragon rug for Christmas, some kids plastic utensils, and some kitchen things I've been meaning to get for a while. And the best part is that it was only a couple minutes from their house! I think IKEA will be part of each visit now...

Fall Break, part 1

It is taking me forever to actually blog about our wonderful trip to Michigan over Purdue's Fall Break. We headed out early Friday afternoon to Westland, MI to stay with Heather's best friend from high school, Bridgette, and her husband, Pete. We love spending time with them and wish that we didn't live so far away. We got there around 8p, after Meghan fussing for 4 of the 5 hours on the road (the one hour she wasn't, was because we were feeding her food and snacks.) She had 3 poopy diapers (2 blow-outs) in the first 2 hours. We have come to the conclusion that she gets motion sickness, because when we stopped driving and got out of the car, the diarrhea and fussiness stopped). So, Jase and Meghan had a buddy to play with, Mariah, Bridgette's niece.

We started out with the kids eating dinner:

Meghan can really down the hotdogs - maybe she'll win an eating contest someday...

And being silly...

Here it looks like Meghan is telling Mariah something.

The kids loved the gorilla mask.

Pete with story time with the play food; the kids were really drawn in...



This night was when Meghan discovered her love of beads. Her life will never be the same again :)

Boo at the Zoo

We weren't able to attend the Madsen's 4th Annual Donut party as Meghan was sick again (sinus infection). Joe got a couple free tickets to Boo at the Zoo from his one class, so Jase and daddy headed off to the zoo.

There was a man that had a pet opossum. It even gave him kisses - yuck!

Jase held a cockroach in his hand...


Jase loved the ice carving and spent a long time watching.



Here's our little dragon walking around the cemetary

I love this last picture: the red eye of the donkey really adds to the eeriness of Halloween at the Zoo!

Meghan's first hair cut

Meghan had her first hair cut last week. Her hair was looking a little shaggy along the back where the middle was shorter than the sides (by about 1.5 inches). So, now she looks so different, almost like a page-boy cut...