To Narnia

A perfect HALLOWEEN sunrise!
















Time for Lucy and The Ghoul to go to school.

Our own Caspian, Lucy, King Peter;The Magnificent (don't forget), and Aslan!

Luke asked Bridget if she was going to ride on Aslan's back; maybe Aslan could ride on her!

Who wants to snuggle me?

Here I am!!

This is cozy!

Peter: "For Narnia, and for Aslan!!!"

Will: "Foe Nawnia, and foe Aswan!!"

Here comes Lucy to save the wounded with her special juice!

What a great day. I did not get a picture of Adam who was dressed as a cowboy...complete with a belt buckle. All he needed were some Wranglers and I'd have myself a real genuine cowboy. Though I'm happy with the one I got.

A little gore

Tonight I had a nasty run-in with my sewing machine. I was only a few inches from finishing Bridget's dress (seriously) and before I new it that machine chewed up my thumb nail and spit it out--leaving me with a smashed nail and half a needle.
Anywho, the doctor ended up removing the whole darn thing and now I have a huge, red, bandaged up, throbbing thumb. Will said to me this afternoon, "Mom, I think I'll ask Dad to get the pumpkins down for trick or treating cause you have a "bwoken fum!""

Happy Birthday Adam!

Today Adam turned 35!! The kids painted a great big "Happy Birthday Dad! We love you!" sign and hung it up in the boys bedroom window over the garage so that he'd see it when he came and went during the day. It just so happened to be one of those days when he didn't even so much as set a foot out of his office, leaving only the neighbor's to enjoy the sign. So just before the sun went down Bridget took the sign down and walked outside and over to his office window, taping it up so that Adam could see it inside. It was kind of like, "Hey Dad, it's your birthday and we are waiting to celebrate with you! Come on!!" I made his favorite pizza for dinner along with root beer floats and then carrot cake for dessert. We love you Adam. You are such a great Dad and Husband!

Diagolly

Today Will and I played a game that I'll call dots. I can't remember what it's called which is surprising because I've played it since I was little. (perfect quiet game for church). Anyway, it was in the Star Wars coloring book that we were doing mazes in. Will was showing me his "skills."
"Mom, you want to check out my skills at mazes?"
"Yes, Will. Show me!"
"Dat one was weally easy fo me. Dat's why I've got skills."
Anyway the page was covered in dots and each turn you get to connect any two dots with a line. As soon as you get a box you write your initial in it and it's yours. In this particular book the winner would advance from an apprentice to a real life jedi! So the incentive was high!!! We were playing along and he drew a diagonal line. I said, "Oh, just straight lines bud;" (although I guess we could have switched to making parallelograms rather than squares) Then he said, "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do diagolly lines for da whole fing?" I love to hear that word out of his mouth. Next time I'll stop being so square and do the diagolly thing!!!

P.S. Will is now a jedi (67/173)

Crater Lake National Park

Monsters in our storage room!!

It was during the morning of Labor Day 2008. Our family was busy emptying out the storage room, preparing to paint it and go through everything. Suddenly out of the darkness comes a mean green monster with a growl like nothing you've ever heard. We didn't know what to do...until we discovered that he was a nice monster. And why shouldn't he be? Being friends with a shy ladybug should have been our first clue!

Jonah pulls faces

Cute.
























Thrilled.

(He looks a ton like my brother Andy in this one)






















SO Happy.
























Something smells.





















Silly.























Distraught.




















Smug.





















Undecided.

(Rice cereal or Oatmeal?)





















Huh?






















Matter of fact.

This all started when I found him sucking on the couch!!

"There you are...I was looking for something to eat!"