Destination Disneyland Halloween 2009

Ian, Ethan, Emma and Grant ready for the Trick or Treat party!

The pirate family! argh....

Ian checking out the Toy Story soldier, they were cool!

Emma as Ariel...love the RED hair.

Our first night at Disneyland was Halloween 2009. What would it be like there? Lots of fun, rides, candy, fruit, veggies, cool stuff. We met our friends - Ann (Salem) Rob, Gayle, Emma and Ethan (Indiana). We were able to stay next door in the same hotel! Our only regret was that Halloween was the first night and the Spencers had travelled all day, lost 3 hours on the flight, had the big Halloween party, then Ethan was sick in the night and had to be rushed 911 to two different hospitals for a couple of days. He was able to recover and we were sure thankful we had week long (6 day) passes to Disneyland.

The kids loved to come back after lunch and take a swim. The weather was incredible over 90 degrees two of the days and the rest in the 80's. This was the first week of November!!!!

Checking out their loot....Gary thought there was over 30 pounds of candy! and YES we hauled it home on the plane. :)

This is how we found Ian on Halloween night..... the pirate was a bit tuckered out...

3,2,1.... Blast off -- Destination Southern California

We are so lucky that the boys love to fly in airplanes. (However, their mother does not fly well.) We had a good flight down to Orange County with a very empty plane. The flight attendant's were so nice and even offered to let the boys check out the pilots and cockpit. They were very excited and thought they could fly a plane~no problem. Of course, the boys were offering them candy every chance they could so that helped butter up the crew.

Coopers are down and out...

This was the look for about 2 weeks at our house. We were all 4 sick with the flu. I started out the sickest of all~not good being the mom. We were almost over it by Lindsay's wedding and our vacation. Just a nagging cough--our guess the swine flu. :)

Margarita Sunday

Gary and I like to go out and have dinner without our kiddos pulling on our sleeves. We realized the last couple of months we had always gone on Sundays and had Mexican food with margaritas. We starting labeling it ~ Margarita Sunday. Gary decided one week to invite some of his nieces and nephews ~ 3rd street McMinnville. It was fun to catch up. It happened to be Kathie Byers and Tucker Van Dykes birthdays!!! Ole'!!!

Grant's 1st Grade Progress

Notice the missing tooth!

Grant loves his first grade class at school. We are so happy because he does not have very many friends from his PreK and Kinder days. The district reorganized and joined 2 grade schools together for the first time this year. He really likes his teacher and I believe that is so important at this age. They have a punchcard system and this was his first award for getting 30 punches. It is a cool picture frame. He wanted to stand by the color that he wants to paint his room. We are still deciding if we are sticking with that color. It takes us time to make the change. :)

Our parent/teacher conference went well. We are loving this age as he begins to read and figure books out. Reading has been our main homework assignment so far.

Good job Grant!