Help Me Cal

I love how hard Cal is working to help his brother!

Magic Mountain

We took a short trip out to California this fall and decided to hit up Magic Mountain and the zoo for a change!  We had never been to Magic Mountian and had a blast.  I only wish it would have been open longer so Adrian could have road more of the big roller coasters.  He felt bad leaving me and the kids, so he hung out with us most of the time riding the smaller rides.  ( I personally  am not a fan of roller coaster anymore, in my old age, they make me sick!)

Batman told Cal to stand with his arms folded and act tough!  They were pretty excited to get a picture with him, I don't think they really wanted wonder woman in the picture though.

I think this roller coaster was the boys favorite!  They rode it probably 10 times! (They are in the front and Adrian is behind them)

Bella hanging out as the boys ride.

They are so grown up riding all these "big kid" rides all by themselves!

I know lame I don't know how to turn this picture around.

So these last two pictures is what happens when I am left with all 3 kids by myself.  I told Adrian to go and ride some of the big rides by himself while we went and got something to eat.  I was reading the menu with by back towards the boys.  Cal gets into my bags and starts taking pictures.  Too funny that these happen to be 2 of the pictures he takes.

Cade climbing on the tables while taking off his shirt.  What a great mom I am!  At least Bella was behaving!

Pumpkin Party

Every year my sister, Kristie and her family have a pumpkin party.  Her husband grows all the pumpkins in their garden, then in October they have a big party and lets everyone pick their own pumpkins, hang out have a photo shoot, and eat yummy chili!

We also got some other goods from their garden, Kylee and Caders carrying them to the car

My dad and 4 of us girls (we missed you Andrea and Wayne)

Grandpa and the grand kids

Kristie and all the wonderful food she made.  (she is so cute and clever!)

Apple Picking

OK so I decided I am going to play catch-up with some of the fun times we have had last fall that I never posted about.  I REALLY am going to try to blog more this year.   

This is from a trip we took up north to see family and decided to go pick some apples!  Here is our gang before we went on the hey ride

My handsome nephew with his apples!

Of course, Cade is eating his apples as he picks them!

Cute little Kylee kept Bella warm.

After we picked the apples, we had a little tour of how they make their apple cider.  I don't remember exactly what he was doing with Cal, but I think Cal is suppose to be the apples being loaded and dropped through the bag, one of the beginning process.

We had a fun time, but the way I look at it is, It's always a good time with spending time with family!  Thanks Behunin's for planning this activity!

Halloween 2010

Cal-vampire, Cade-skeleton, and Bella a 
cute little ballerina!

(Thanks Nana for the scary costumes the boys loved them!)

The Evil Grasshopper

I love Cal's description of the cricket.

"There is an evil grasshopper in our house"

Will Tomorrow Ever Come?

Cal will ask me a couple times a day, questions like this:

"Mom can I have a sucker?"

"Mom can we go to the park?"

"Mom can I have a friend over?"

Although, we do go to the park a couple times a week and he has been lucky to play with a lot of friends lately, I find myself saying to him

"Maybe tomorrow."

I don't want to be mean and just say no, although I don't really plan on fulfilling his question "tomorrow".  The answer makes him happy and we move on.

Well today he asked me

"Mom, is today tomorrow?"

 

3 Little Baby Girls

Bella*********Milly*********Peyton

All 3 of the baby girls are here!  (well they have been here since July, but I am a little slow on posting)  This 1st picture was taken in the hospital the day after Milly was born!

The baby girls and their moms (2 of my sisters, Casandra and Tanya)

Grandpa and his newest Grand-babies! #15, #16, and #17 

My oldest sister Aunt Kikki with her new little nieces!

The girls all sharing Milly's pack-n-play!  

 

These girls are going to Best Friends!!!

Grand Canyon

We headed over to the Grand Canyon with Nanna and Poppy Collin for a day and hiked around.  We thought this is a good place to take visitors not from the U.S.  We took Adrian's dad here last time he visited.

Bella and me at the top!

Cade can be pretty crazy, and made me nervous being so high, so Poppy Collin carried him a lot of  the way.  Cade loved it, he became pretty attached to Collin, and loved to fly on his shoulders!

After the hike Nanna treated us to ice cream cones!  We had a great time!

Snack Time

Cal wanted to have a snack and wanted to do it by himself.  He picked out cucumbers!  (love that my kids like veggies!)  He peeled them, and them cut them with a table knife!  He was so proud of himself!  What a big boy he is!

Bowling-Cal's Birthday

Cal really wanted to go bowling for his birthday. Cal and Cade did awesome!  The two of them were on the same team, and between the two of them they got either a strike or a spare on almost every turn!  They loved bowling with Poppy Collin and having Nanna watching them!

The boys loved to show us how strong they are when they would carry their bowling ball all by themselves!  

 

 

Daddy and the birthday boy, watching Cal's ball!

 

 

Cute little Bella enjoying herself!

Some Bella photos that are long overdue!