EnterTRAINment Junction

Will is completely obsessed with trains lately so he was in heaven when we took him to a friends birthday party at a local train store. This place was pretty cool even for me. There were an incredible amount of trains winding all over huge mountains and bridges. As part of the party, we were given a behind the scenes tour and I don't think Will blinked the entire tour. He just kept pointing and saying "Mommy, train....Mommy, look at all the cho cho's" It was pretty cute.

Fun with Friends

Now that we have kids what we consider a night out is extremely different from what I refer to as "the old days." In this particular case, I took the kids over to a friends house so I could play euchre and hang out with my girlfriends. Luckily they all have kids as well so Will and Morgan had a great time with playing with their buddies.


Towards the end of the night the kids were getting a little antsy so we popped in The Lion King and they all sat mesmorized.

Thanksgiving 2009

We spent the week of Thanksgiving in Oklahoma visiting the whole Carson family. The first picture is from our drive there. We stopped at a Burger King and the kids saw the crowns and wanted to wear them the rest of the day!


Despite both kids getting sick while we were there we had a great time. Will and Morgan got lots of snuggle and play time from Nanny and Papa.




They hadn't seen any of their cousins for awhile so it took them awhile to warm up to them but once they did they were hilarious. Will loved playing with the boys and thought it was so much fun to pin his big cousin Garrett!


All the grandkids...what a crazy crew!


**There are a few more pictures in the family albums!**

iPod's already?

I went into our office one night and found this....

I have no idea how they figured out how to use it but at least they were sharing and getting along for once!

Leaves

A few weeks before Thanksgiving, we decided to rake up some leaves with the kids. They had a great time throwing them up in the air, diving in them, doing all the things little kids should do!



Once they realized that Mitch and I were bagging some of them they decided to help us. They were both very good little helpers!

Halloween at it's best!

These pictures probably sum up the kids personalities the best I've seen yet. Morgan of course wanted to dig right in and get dirty.

Will on the other hand was and will probably always be my cautious one. He didn't want to put his hands in the pumpkin and wouldn't touch the seeds until he saw his sister doing it and then didn't want to be left out.

They both still had fun though and thought the finished pumpkins were pretty cool.

On Halloween, Debbie's family came over for a quick meal and some pictures before we went our separate ways to trick or treat. Believe or not, we did not plan this but the boys both ended up being Spiderman.

Kailyn was Super Woman and Morgan was Wonder Woman.....have you noticed a theme yet?

Nathan was the unique one of the bunch and went with a Storm Trooper costume! He loves everything Star Wars!

Not at all afraid to dig in for the candy!

Costume Party and the Pumpkin Patch

This past weekend was full of fun fall activities. Friday night Mitch and I went to an adult costume party at our neighbor's house. The theme was the good, the bad, and the ugly...so of course Mitch wanted to be a cowboy so I decided to be an Indian. My parents watched the kids for us so it was nice to have a night out!

On Sunday we packed up the kids and my parents and met my sister's family at Iron's Fruit Farm. We went last year as well and they have a really nice setup. The main event in the fall is huge hay wagon ride out to a massive pumpkin patch where you can pick your own pumpkin. They also have apple picking and corn mazes every year. This year they added a cute little train ride and donkey rides.

We didn't trust Morgan to sit down during the whole train ride since they weren't strapped in so Will got to ride with his cousin instead!

For some reason Will didn't want to ride the donkey but Morgan loved it. When it first started she was giggling and screeching, it was hilarious!

Ready for Halloween!

Showing off some of their Halloween attire...


Last weekend, the Lupinetti's hosted a Halloween party for the kids. It was absolutely the cutest thing ever. The kids had so much fun so thank you to "Aunt Laurie and Uncle Tom" for a fantastic night!

There were a variety of events for the kids to do, the first being the traditional bobbing for apples. With only a little help Morgan dug right in! She apparently loves apples now so she would not let go of her apple the rest of the night.

The next event was eating donuts without your hands. Each kid had a donut tied to a string that was hanging from the tree and they had to try and eat it without their hands. Will really got into this one and ate at least half of it without his hands. The other kids all gave up and just ripped it off and then ate while they played :)

Mandatory group shot of all the crazy kids. Giovanni was a little scared of the big green dinosaur so he wouldn't look at the camera for us, poor guy.
You can't have a party without roasting some wieny's....with a lot of adult supervision of course.

Morgan's reaction to finding out there were worms in her jello!

Finally, we ended the night with a big gooey chocolate cupcake. The perfect ending to the perfect party!

***Enjoy tons of more pictures in the family albums***