Bubble Baths

I always thought that bubble baths were for girls, but my boys have proven me wrong. Jacob won a bottle of Transformer bubble bath at my nephew Cameron's birthday party and that was all it took. Jacob and Ethan loved taking bubble baths, so much so that the bubble bath is already all gone.


Bubble on boys, bubble on!!

Halloween Party

Jacob's class had a Halloween party and Ethan and I were invited to participate. It was such a fun time. The kids dressed up in there costumes and then rotated around the room to different stations. I worked at the food station where the kids enjoyed crackers with cheese, finger jello, cookies and juice. The station that Jacob and Ethan are at was the craft station. Ms. Biddix and Mrs. Martin (another mom) helped out the kids there. Mrs Brail ran the game station. It was a lot of fun.

The kids made bats using there hands as the template for the wings. Ethan was very excited to do all the things Jacob was doing. He felt like such a big boy.

This is Ethan gluing down his bats bow tie. Every bat has to have a purple bow tie.

After the fun inside the whole school went outside for a costume parade. This is Jacob's whole class (including Ethan).

The Great Boo Zoo

Every year in October Ralph (my dad) and Kevin (by brother-in-law) take a hunting trip out to South Dakota. During the week that Ralph is away, my Mom comes and spends a night with us. This year we decided to take her out for a fun evening so we went to the Boo Zoo at Binder Park Zoo.

We dressed the boys up in their costumes on a misty friday evening and headed out for some treating. It was one of those nights where you figure that at any moment the downpour is going to happen, but it never did.

We enjoyed a "magic" show that was definately for the kids, did a little treating with the pirates, rode the carousel, and played games at the kids carnival.

This is my Mom (Nana) and the boys.

The hayride was my favorite part. They pulled a big hay covered wagon with a tractor all the way back to the African safari part of the zoo where they had a bunch of light decorations set up. It was very pretty. We all had a good time, especially the boys.

The Country Mill

The last several years we have gone to the Country Mill in Charlotte to get our pumpkins and to sample the cider and donuts. It seems that whenever we plan to go the weather turns cold. I don't mean chilly, I mean freezing. The last three years that we've gone we chose the coldest day of the month and would have to run to the patch, grab our pumpkins and then run inside to warm up. We were really hoping that this year it wouldn't be so cold and we could enjoy the outside.

Well, we picked a great day. It was windy and that added to the chill factor, but it was manageable. We had a lot of fun, but Ethan did not enjoy the Headless Horseman that they had riding around. He talked about that for days afterward.

Once we got inside the store we had to go to the antique music maker. The boys love this thing. You put in a quarter and then it starts playing music. Not like a record, but actual music makers. Inside this wooden case is a xylophone, tambourine, drum, cymbals, triangle, and other instruments and you can see them all working. The boys love it and would stand there forever (if the donuts weren't calling to them from across the store).

Of course we sampled the cider and donuts before we left. The donuts here are wonderful. They make them fresh every day and go through so many that you often get them warm. I love it.

Soccer Saturday's

Many of you know that Jacob is not fond of change, ANY change. He likes the idea of doing something new, but once the day is here (or in the case of kindergarten, 3 weeks away) he decides he doesn't want to do it and starts worrying and fretting about it. Anyway, we decided that the only way to get him to get over this problem would be to "encourage" him to do more new things. What better time than right when he starts kindergarten?? With this in mind, we signed him up for soccer. Now, Curt and I know nothing about soccer, but it sounded good for Jacob. Well, we found out that Rod, Curt's cousin is partly in charge of the AYSO soccer league that we signed Jacob up with. He ever-so-gently asked Curt if he would coach. How do you say no?? Curt said yes and I am his back-up. Did I mention we know NOTHING about soccer. Anyway, we are now spending saturday's on the soccer field and Jacob is loving it.

This is Jacob getting ready to practice kicking the ball into the net. I love the look on his face. It is hysterical watching him. Sometimes he just stands there with his fingers in his mouth and sometimes he is just running around in circles.


This is during Jacob's first game. I was pleasantly surprised that he was actually participating in the game and trying to kick the ball. Go Jacob!!

First Day of Kindergarten!!

Sept. 5, 2007

Today was the day that Jacob has been waiting for all summer, the first day of kindergarten!!

Labor Day Weekend

Curt, the boys and I went up to Deaner Lake in Vestaburg with the rest of the Ford Family. This is something that we try to do every holiday weekend during the summer months, but this year we were only able to make it over Labor Day. It was good to see everybody. We went up on friday night and stayed until sunday afternoon. We had to leave early because there was a race on sunday night and we had to be home to watch it!! It's a good thing we did because Jimmie got his 5th win of the season. Yeah!!


This is Deaner Lake as it looks from our dock. It's not a very big lake so most of the time it's pretty quiet. We had fun playing with the boys in the water. They have both turned into little fish over the summer.

Curt and Gary took the boys fishing and turtle hunting on saturday. They had such a good time even though they only caught one fish that was too small to keep.

On Monday Curt and I took the boys to Binder Park Zoo for the afternoon. It was our last hoo-rah with the boys befores school starts. We started this tradition last year and will keep doing it until the boys outgrow the zoo and then we'll find something else to do.