Grandma Sunday (on Monday)

I had the best of intentions to post my grandma blog yesterday, but we had an enormous windstorm (leftovers from the hurricane) and everyone's power is out. We have it back now, but most people are going on 2-3 days without power and may have more days left of this. We are VERY lucky to have our lives back and not be camping in our house anymore.

The storm was CRAZY and did some serious damage. Our cul-de-sac got hit pretty hard. We drove around on Sunday night because we were bored and we also wanted to see all of the damage. I tooks some pics along the way. Here are some of them...



The boys watched Star Wars and we listened to the radio during the drive. The video is of them singing the theme song while they watched. They are so funny :)

Go Bucks!

We were just doing our part to try to help the Buckeyes beat USC (or at least not get creamed again) on Saturday. Apparently we didn't do enough...

Cereal Face

I finally started Emma on cereal. Ugh. It really isn't my favorite thing to do as a mom. I was so excited with my first kid, but the excitement has drastically dwindled with each kid. It is just me? Does this seem like a chore to anyone else? Anyways, ate that rice cereal like a champ and did suprisingly well for her first time around...

Grandma Sunday

I am going to start a new thing that I am calling "Grandma Sunday". It is a post mostly for the grandmas because I don't know if anyone else really cares to see random videos and pictures of my kids and what we are doing today. The grandmas never get to see these cute little kids so here are some videos and pictures to keep them up to speed. I will try to do this every Sunday...we'll see if I can keep it up...

Emma Sandwich
He always makes this face when I get the camera out...weirdo.
"going fast"
Playing!
Emma got a pedicure this morning :)
She ALWAYS has the tongue out these days.
Could she be any cuter?
Practicing reverence :)

Such a lady :) Please excuse her...

Parker's First Day of Kindergarten!!

He has been so excited and not a bit nervous about starting kindergarten this year. I have been quite impressed with his bravery. I think he is just so excited to ride the bus with the rest of the kids in the neighborhood :)

Lookin' handsome

At the bus stop
Cole being Cole

Cleveland Rocks!

We went to Cleveland as a little family vacation and to go to a Mariners/Indians game. You would think I was going to the Bahamas for how excited I was for this little trip. I have not been on any kind of a trip since June 2007 and this was a much needed break even though it was only for the weekend. It was a great weekend to be there because the air show was in town and for two whole days there were all types of planes flying right outside of the hotel. We were on the 10th floor and could see everything. Pardon the long post...we just had so much fun and I didn't want to leave anything out!

The drive up. Cole crashed.

The boys watching the air show. They sat there for hours. When I say the boys, I mean all three of them :)

They took a great nap that day.


The ballgame. Believe it or not, the Mariners won in extra innings and the kids stayed all 10 of them! The Mariners swept the series. I know...shocking.

Emma has a pink Mariners outfit on also, but you can't tell. We didn't have a pink Mariners hat so we had to settle with this one.

Mom and the boys
Brett and I during our "date". We ordered dinner, ate it in the room and watched college footballl all night. It was actually really fun!

Mom and the girl...

Downtown Cleveland outside of the Science Center. It was a great place to watch the air show.
Lunch at Hard Rock Cafe...
We stopped by Kirtland on our way home to have dinner and hang out for a few hours with our favorite great aunt and uncle Herm and Geraldine Caviness serving a mission there. It is SOOO great to visit someone we are related to. They are the closest we have and we love them so much!