Happy Halloween 2009

Madi and Drew had a fun Halloween... Madi was Silvermist, the blue Disney fairy, and Drew was a baseball player. Love having the boy to get 2 years out of 1 costume since they aren't fussy!!! :-) They, of course, loved having Grandma and Grandpa here...

COWS

So I am slightly late with this post. Madi and Drew have this great fascination of feeding farm animals... so in the fall when we go visit the relatives in northern Wisconsin, we see what the neighbors of Marty's aunt has to feed. 2 years ago it was a horse and he ate apples. Last year it was a couple of cows and they fed them corn. This year there were cows again and we tried out the apples on them. We even added in a few pears too. It again was great fun with a lot of good giggles. Here are Madi and Drew petting the baby cow.

Drew actually attempted to hand this one to the cow. He usually threw them (yes.... he did knock one of the cows on the head) or he would drop them as soon as they got close.

Here Madi got to feed the baby cow an apple. Of course everyone wanted to hold out for the baby. :-)

Fall Wedding in Wisconsin

We went to a wedding this past weekend in northern Wisconsin.... Fall in Wisconsin is always beautiful with the leaves all changing colors and all. I, personally, love the opportunity to throw my jeans and a sweatshirt on -- it is most definitely my outfit of choice. What we weren't quite ready to hit yet this October was SNOW. We literally crossed the Minnesota/Wisconsin border into Wisconsin and the ground was covered. They had just gotten a pretty good storm a few hours before we arrived. Madi and Drew were asleep when we got there but were super excited when they looked out the window the next morning!!! They went and stepped in it and threw snowballs into the parking lot. They even made it snow on daddy a little. Madi's biggest excitement was eating the snow.... By the time I actually had the camera out... most of the snow had melted. Here are the kiddos throwing snowballs in October...

... and all ready to go

Warm and snuggly inside. The kiddos all ready for the wedding! Thanks Katie for Drew's look!

Playing in the Rain!

I don't even remember what weekend this was... but the kids were excited to get out and into the rain to play. They raced boats down the rushing water in the street, splashed around in the puddles and just had a blast getting soaked.

Here are my happy, wet kiddos.

Drew's First Day

Getting ready to go. (And showing his love for Wisconsin -- Go Brewers!)

Drew was SO excited for his first day of school this year. He kept on asking me what day he got to stay with Ms. Laura by himself as he had been with me in my room ssetting up quite a bit. He was so excited when the day came. He was all smiles when I would run into him in the hallway this year waving to me and telling me he will see me later... we've come a long way from last year when I had to duck under his door because if he saw me it would be unpleasant when I left. He is off to a great start to the school year and he has grown so much!!!

Getting in his room.

Playing with the playdough. He checked it all all right away!

Kindergarten... Oh My!!!!

Madi outside of school.

The big day has arrived.... Madi is officially a Kindergartener. She was so ready... mommy is sooooo sad to give her up all day every day. She was so excited for today --the kind of excited that makes it hard to sleep at night. She was ready to get to school this morning and we got there quite early. She got her stuff into her room and then sat outside the room to read with her friends. We were so ready to pick her up at the end of the day. She said she had fun and told us about some of it. She was pretty tired so we didn't get too much detail. She was excited to get home and just run and play! Now off to get ready for another day tomorrow!




Madi and Mrs. Gunn

Fiesta Texas

We went to Fiesta Texas with the Rose's the weekend before school started. It was a lot of fun. The kids had a blast. They really had a lot of fun in Wiggles World. Madi rode the Tony Hawk roller coaster... she wasn't so sure about it but said she wants to try it again the next time. I missed her expression for this one as I was trying to keep Drew occupied. Drew LOVED the Wiggles roller coaster and the airplanes. Madi can't wait to go back again.