Happy Birthday Elizabeth!!!

 I can't believe it!! My baby is 8 years old!! She has gotten so big so fast, where has the time gone?!?! She had a birthday party at a local bowling alley with all of her cousins (minus some babies) and one friend from school. She also had a slumber party! She had her cousins Taylor, Hannah, Morgan and her best friend from school Sam spend the night.  They watched her new movie Barbie and a Fashion Fairytale and drank hot coco with whip cream on top with popcorn. They had a blast!

Her party!

The whole group eating pancakes!

                                                                      Crazy Girls!!

                                                                      Elizabeth and her Mickey Mouse pancakes!

                                                                  You can't forget the birthday balloon!!

                                                     We are such mean parents!! We make Elizabeth wait to open her gift from us until after dinner! She has been asking for a Nintendo DS for about 2 years now and we finally felt like she was able to handle it. She was so shocked!

                                                           A picture is truly worth a thousand words!!!

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Funny things out of a 3 Year Olds mouth!!

Lil John (body slamming big John): "Daddy you got hair there!"

Big John: "Uh, hair where?"

Lil John: Under your arm!

Big John: "OH!!! Yeah I do."

Lil John: "Did you growed it there? You need a hair cut!"

A bunch of stuff

John was the coach of Arlington's Cross Country team again this year. They did very well. The boys team made it to state and they took 1 girl. The boys team ended up getting 8th place which is one place better than last year!! Unfortunately being a coach comes with a price. I woke up one Sunday night at around midnight because Dominic wanted his binki back and when I wake up in the middle of the night I have a habit of looking out our bedroom window. This night was no different, and as I looked out I saw kids running around my yard with toilet paper. So I woke John up and told him someone was toilet papering out house, John shot out of bed and quickly got dressed and went down stairs. His goal was to scare the crap out of these kids. So he opened up the front door and they all darted. He ran barefoot down the block ( I have never seen him run that fast) caught one kid as he was getting in the car. He thought for sure that kid was going to pee his pants! The didn't hear him because he wasn't wearing shoes so they didn't think he followed them. He came back to bed laughing and swearing he was going to get them back. So the next day at practice John wore a boot and told them all that he spranged his ankle because some kids were toilet papering his house and he chased after them. One of the kids felt so bad he almost started crying. John let them think he really hurt himself until after their warm-ups then he took the boot off. He got them good!! With that said I am really glad cross country is over because now I have my husband back!!

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Getting ready for Halloween!! Just like after Thanksgiving at the Christmas walk downtown they also have a Halloween night downtown where the kids get dressed up in their costumes and get to trick-or-treat all the stores and the bank lets the kids come in and see the Haunted Bank. Elizabeth is Belle this year, John is Fireman Sam (if anyone watches Sprout they know who that is), and Dominic is a puppy!

Elizabeth is a very beautiful Belle!!

Cute little puppy!!

Mad little puppy!!!

What a handsome fireman!!

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These pictures are for you mom!! Sitting up and smiling!!

The handsome boys!!

I love this picture!!

My Rock'n Roll boys!!

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This is the only thing I love about Nebraska in the Fall except maybe Husker Football!! Look at those colors!

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Just some random pics.

Family Zoo Trip

My best friend from high school was in town from Baltimore and we planned a trip to the zoo. Unfortunately due to the weather John's Cross Country meet was moved to the Friday we had planned so we didn't get to see everything we wanted to see at the zoo and the kids were crushed. Luckily my grandma was coming into town the next weekend and she was up for a trip to the zoo. She had never been our zoo so it was something she was looking forward to. So my grandma, Nicole and her kids and our kids all went to the zoo. We had one very scary incident where Lil John was separated from us in the aquarium. John thought he was following us as he went up the ramp with the stroller by the penguins and I thought he followed John. I had been doing head counts all day and as we were watching the penguins I did a head count and there were only 3 little heads instead of 4. I panicked. I turned and looked at John and asked if he had him and he said no I thought you had him. We both started searching and he was only around the corner but I had never been so scared in my life. The poor little guy was hanging on to the rail right before the penguins saying he was lost. I grabbed him and gave him a huge hug and he kept saying you guys lost me. My heart was broken. Needless to say he was attached to me for the rest of the trip. I don't think I have fully recovered from it. It was a very long day and the kids were exhausted for a couple days after. I think today is the first day they have been back to "normal".

Isn't she beautiful?!? This is Lil John's favorite part.

This is Elizabeth's favorite part of the zoo. She loves Polar Bears!

I love this! He looks so serious.

This picture is for you mom!

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Just some random pics...



He is getting so big so fast! :(

Look at his little tongue! Too cute!

This is SO Elizabeth!

We had a nice rain the other day. No lightning or thunder which almost never happens so the kids got to play in the rain!

John got to go to the park with me while his sister was at school. He had such a great time!
He kept talking about going there for his birthday with his Uncle Nick. So good job Nick! He really liked being there with you!

Love the hair! This picture doesn't do it justice it was so funny to watch his hair stand up and the second he touched the ground it would go back to normal.