Andrew wanted an Orange Julius. The kids were down playing so I made one for him and one for me. As soon as I sat down to enjoy mine I had two kids on my lap. They drank the entire thing in minutes. So Andrew and I ended up sharing the other one. Benson thought it was great!
Wouldn't you like to receive this package???
Tanner was in this box for about 20 minutes. I kept asking him if he could breathe or if we wanted out. He wanted to stay in. Finally I made him get out.
My sister Camille with husband Jonathan and kids Carlaya and Noah drove all the way from Las Vegas to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family. We were so grateful to have them with us.
Our appetizer and dessert table (The chocolate pie wasn't finished yet.)
Thanksgiving night we went downtown to watch the lighting of all the trees. It was fun until Andrew had the idea to find a nice spot in the park to watch. Good spot.... FULL of dog poop. Yep... most of us stepped in some and had it on shoes, clothes, stroller, and mouth. Yes, I said mouth. MY MOUTH!! Carlaya had stood up in the stroller so I hurry and grabbed out Benson's binky (which he shouldn't have had anyway). I didn't know if she had stepped on it so I was going to suck it just to make sure it was clean. That's when I realized something WAS on it. I spit almost as soon as it touched my mouth then smelt the awful smell. It's at that time we realized POOP was EVERYWHERE. Using our cellphone lights we started trying to clean up. If only I had packed mouthwash with me. Luckily NONE stayed in my mouth, no potty mouth here! ;)
Thanks so much for coming and visiting us. Get planning your next trip, we can't wait to have you back!!!!
A friend came to the door with this invitation and red apple. The party was a ton of fun and got me excited for the soon to open movie. I am not a hard core fan that attended the movie opening night but I did go Saturday with a group of about 20 girls. 
What is it going to be?....
LEGO's!!!!
"Look Dad"
Then we headed over the the Children's Museum with a few friends.
Don't ask me who the boy is on the right. Almost every picture I took he would pop up in it and pose. He even asked me to take some of just him alone. Really? I was kind of annoying to me at first and then funny. Where on earth were his parents?
We didn't throw a party for him this year but did invite a few families over to enjoy some cake and ice cream with us to help celebrate.
Happy Birthday Tanner!
I went into Tanner's room one night to make sure he was covered up and could see something dark on his face. I didn't want to turn on the light so I went and got a flashlight. His nose had started to bleed then dried to his face. It looked so scary. (Yes I checked to see if he was breathing.) But wasn't to scared because he had been getting tons of bloody noses lately because of the weather change. When me and my brother were little it used to happen to us all the time too. But having it be something you don't see everyday I ran and got the camera!
For a few weeks in November Coco Keys (an indoor water park here in Omaha) was having a promotional period of if you arrived between 3-5 on a weekday you could get in free- as long as it didn't go over max capacity). So we went on a Thursday and had been telling Tanner for the whole week. He was so excited to go. We arrive and it happened to be a Black Out day and if we wanted to go we would have to pay. Andrew said, "I knew it wouldn't be that easy!" I wasn't giving up... but wasn't going to pay either. I made sure that Monday we would be able to get in and the man said we should have no problem. As we turned to leave the exciting park you could see through the glass doors; Tanner went running for them. It was hard for him to understand we wouldn't be able to go that day. Luckily we had high hopes for the following Monday and got in for FREE! We ended up staying for just under 2 hours but it was plenty of time for all of us. We had a great, fun, exciting, and WET FHE!
Benson was a little unsure of all the people. Then it didn't help that him and me got about 200 gallons of water dumped onto our heads and into his face as I leaned down to run and avoid the heavy water coming at us.
Get it Hulk
The BIG blue bucket at the top of the structure is what came crashing down on us.
Tanner spent most of his time on this slide.
HOORAY for a fun water day in the winter!
The weather was pretty good in November and the kids played just right outside our house a lot soaking up all they could before the snow and freezing weather hit.
Because my parents wouldn't be here for Tanner's birthday they gave him a little party and present while they were here.
My parents brought me some DELICIOUS pine nuts. I love pine nut picking and wish I could be in the west to get some. The little bag they brought was not enough for Andrew and I to fight over. This was about a 1/4 of what they brought.
Tanner helped my dad a little carve a pumpkin. He was not so sure about getting down and dirty in the gooey seed mess.
Benson wasn't either.
Headed the the Gardens
Benson loves the trains. If you look closely you can see is big puckered lips "CHOO CHOOING"
My Grandma also came out to visit but stayed with my uncle Russell who lives out here. My parents, my family, my grandma, Russell and some of his family all went to the zoo together one fine day.
Four generations
"Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil"
Happy Halloween!
Let the fight BEGIN!
My friend made us the most YUMMY dessert pizza made on an enormous sugar cookie!
My AMAZING neighbors dress up every year. This year they did the Labyrinth theme. They also has twin two year old girls they dressed up as goblins from the movie. I missed their picture!
Taking a stroll across the Missouri river
Kanesville
"I am going to MISS you GRANDPA"
To brighten the mood of family leaving Andrew and Tanner sat down for their favorite Oreos and milk bedtime snack. Totally an ANDREW thing! :)
