I am sick of this week

Ok this has been a long week…Kate started it with vomiting on Sunday, diarrhea on Monday, and Tuesday a fever and severe abdominal pain which took us to the pediatrician and from there to the hospital for an ultrasound and blood work to make sure she did not have appendicitis. Thank goodness she did not. Max joined the fun Wednesday with vomiting and feeling yucky!! I made it to work finally on Thursday and Max and Kate back to their normal routine too. I love to stay home with my kids but not on this circumstance. I have been washing everything trying to get rid of the bad juju so I don't get sick next….

My mom and I took the kids the the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. I was a little apprehensive because we had gone to the Boo Fest with Max one year and it was dumb. This was cute, Max and Kate had so much fun at the rocket launch. I want to have Jake build us one! They played all the games and of course loved the bouncers!

The crisp cold air, crunchy autumn leaves, warm cider, crisp sweet caramel apples, and rice puff balls means only one thing…HALLOWEEN is coming!!

If you know us well you know we love to dress up and think of fun original costumes. This year is going to be hard Max keeps changing his mind to what he wants to be. I think everyday it is something new. Kate is happy if it is Cute!!

Halloween is a fun memory for me I loved these rice puff balls my Grandma Cobbley use to make every year, the Halloween carnival at school when you could still BAKE a CAKE for the cake walk. The sPOok aLLeY that was really scary not fun for everyone. And all of the old Retro decorations we would decorate with!

I wish you good luck in finding that perfect costume and my kids really enjoyed this on Disney.com they have old Halloween cartoons that you can watch. Like old Mickey mouse and Donald duck!

uno..dos...tres

My masked Lucador

Max cracks me up he has this new obsession with speaking Spanish and things related to Mexico. (Maybe that Cinco party at the Bullocks was not a good thing?!)Tonight he was upset with me and says something to me, it was a bunch of mumbo jumbo and I said "What was that?" Max says," You wouldn't understand it was in Spanish! You know Dora is in all Spanish!" I ask " All of Dora is in Spanish are you sure?" Max replies " Yes, oh except for laughing you can't laugh in Spanish Mom DUH!"

OUR FAVORITE MAGIC KINGDOM!!!

Sorry about all the pictures but we took so many. We had so much fun and we always loved coming back to the Magic Kingdom it was so magical! I hope we never forget how much fun we had! We are so LUCKY that Grandma & Grandpa Montgomery came with us...thanks for all the treats and ice cream! Again Daddy Again!!

Kate loved the princesses!

Max and Papa Ned "the wild animals"

Kate loved the teacups and would get off and say again again Jake, Max and Kate rode them 5 times in a row one day!

I can pull that sword out?!

I don't know if she is laughing or crying..Max and Jake were spinning us too fast! My Mom and I were done after one ride!

Jake on the Mad Tea Party! I don't know which time 1 or 20

Cinderella's Castle
The kids on Cinderella's Carousel

Dream along with Mickey show

Cooling off in Toon Town
More tea cups...it was so humid there we were all always sticky & sweaty
Max and Papa Ned on Goofy's roller coaster

This was at downtown Disney but it was Max's favorite he got to build his own custom light saber and go to the Lego store!!

Our Hotel

Reflection of hotel in lake, we took this picture from our balcony

This frog hung out in the elevator

There were critters everywhere lizards, frogs and one morning my Dad saw an armadillo.

EPCOT

We spent Wednesday, Sept 10, 2008 at Epcot...

aka Jake's Birthday!!

It was fun to see the big space ball you always see on TV. Well we got there and made it about 1/2 way around the world showcase the rain began to pour down on us....and never let up! Thanks hurricane IKE!

My CRaZy CaNUks!

(this was in Canada)
The kids really likes The Seas with Nemo and friends after the ride there was an aquarium and we could have stayed there all day.
Kate really like the dolphins
Look a giant SEA TURTLE...IS THAT CRUSH??
Ha! Max we did get a picture of you and Pluto!

Mexico saved us from the rain in the world showcase. The kids really loved the boat tour Gran Fiesta with Donald Duck!
Happy Birthday Babe!! I bet you never thought this is where you would spend you 31st birthday! Soaking wet!

{those tiny people in green are Jake and Max in their rain poncho's}

My dad said his favorite ride the whole time was Soarin! Max really like this too, Kate could not go so we did the parent swap and Max was so excited to take me on this. I was bummed we did not get to see the fireworks here at Epcot. We were going to come back this night but the rain never let up! The kids thought it was fun they had Kid Stops around and they could stop and color something or make these little mask! Kate had to stop at everyone she saw. They knew her at the one by Soarin while we waited she kept going back and they would continue to give her more things to color. We did not get a picture of all of us soaking wet in our poncho's .... this was the only day we had to where them. We really lucked out considering the hurricane situations!