Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

The boys had Columbus Day off, and it was a beautiful day. We decided to go to Goebbert's Pumpkin Farm.

The kids were very excited and I could barely keep up with them as they were running from place to place. Do you know how hard it is to get 5 kids to not only look at the camera, but smile (and not scream CHEESE every 2 seconds)? In case you don't know, it's HARD!!! LOL





The farm also has a traveling zoo - not only did we get to see lots of animals, but the giraffe tried to eat Tyler's shirt, and licked Andrew's face!! No one else wanted to feed the giraffe after that!







They also had a mechanical dinosaur that smashed pumpkins and PIG RACES (the pigs race for an oreo cookie!) We loved picking through all the different kinds of gourds.

And just look at how tall we are now!

I'm back!!! (did you miss me?)

Well, after months of not taking care of my little blog, I thought it was high time I got back in action!

It's now fall again and we are heading into Halloween.

Tyler is in 1st grade. Noah is in Pre-K and we are anxiously awaiting the start of preschool for Andrew, Jason and Tessie.

Our fire station recently had an open house and of course we had to go.



Everyone got to slide down the fire pole (Tyler didn't want to).

We even got to go for a ride IN a fire truck (new this year) and Tyler and Jason rode up front and got to blow the horns!!

We also visited Dan's family in Rochester, NY this summer:



Andrew, Jason and Tessa have discoverd how to play Reader Rabbit on the computer:



Tyler and Noah have celebrated birthdays:




Dancing with Belle and the Beast:



Hanging around outside:


Memories of the good old days when they would stay in one place (LOL):

Snow, snow, and more snow

Snow - it just keeps on coming this year. I never thought that three little two year olds would love to be out in the snow so much, but boy do they have fun. This latest storm dumped about 15-16 inches on us today and we probably had 3-4 left from the last storm even after all the rain we got a few days ago. They did not want to come in even though we were out there for over an hour!!! They were having so much fun and it puts a big smile on my face to watch them!!!

This is the hill from all the shoveled snow at the end of our driveway (you can't even see the mailbox can you???)



Here's Tyler and Noah on the bottom to give you some perspective



Here's Dan standing next to that same pile



The kids made a "slide" down the snowbank (look right in the center of the picture and you'll see it)



Just a few random shots (as you can see, it was still snowing when we were out there)







Here you can see our poor little choo choo mailbox (sort of)

5 little monkeys plus several cold days= INDOOR FUN!

It's been very cold here in Chicago - VERY COLD. Temperatures were in the single digits for highs and below zero for lows! So, we've had to become a little creative in how we burn some energy out of the kids so they're not constantly bickering and fighting with one another (and us!!).

Click on the picture above to view the entire slideshow of Indoor Fun!!

All the dang toys under the sun

And they choose to play with my storage totes! Ugh!!!