Friday, November 6, 2009

::Papa Guitar::

Papa Guitar came for a visit this last weekend. It was just a quick little visit, but we're glad he came. He stayed at our house for a night, which the kids LOVED...


...we had dinner, watched lots of football on Sunday (along with Billy's family), he came with us to take Chloe to school on Monday morning. She showed him her classroom, her pictures on the wall, her teacher, and was so excited that Papa was here.
They played trains, read stories, wrestled...Portie loved having him here too (as we can see :) ) He was mad when Papa had to leave to go stay at Liam and Tristan's. "I'll go wiss him," he said, and when we told him he can't, he was mad and yelled, "Papa didn't stay at our house for a long time!!"
Coops just kept lookin' at Papa. He wasn't nervous around him or anything-never cried when he picked him up, he just kept staring at him-trying to figure him out, I guess. He loves Papa too :)

But we saw Papa again the next day when he took us all out to dinner at...

...and it was PRETTY good! Nothin' beats good BBQ!

...except for maybe this guy...
...naah he wasn't that awesome, but it was fun to watch 'em play, and the kids loved it! They danced out in front of the stage-I think we oughtta take a tip bucket for them next time :)

We're all so glad you came, Dad.
We love ya & miss ya!
We're excited to see you (and Gayle if you're nice to her-haha) at Christmas :)

::Halloween '09::

(Finally a Halloween post)
We had a great Halloween this year!
We had a...
Buzz,

a Snow White,

and a Super Cooper,

Friday night was the Halloween Carnival with Chloe's school. It was really fun. I have fond memories of going to mine when I was in school (face painting, carnival games, candy, costumes, friends), and the kids were SO excited. We were walking in to a crowded gym to buy some tickets to play some games and I told Matt "welcome to parenthood" cause I know this will be our future for the next several Halloweens, Christmasses and any other little fun thing going on at the kids' school. And he said "It's fun, I love it." :)
There were lots of fun games.
They won lots of fun treats and prizes.
Portie won a coke in the "ghost walk"
holding bubbles in the mad scientist lab

a volcano

And, of couse, some trick-or-treating on Halloween...

We always like to trick-or-treat to friends and family (its a little less about the candy this way-at least for now), and our last stop is always Grandma and Papa Snowman's house where we stay for the rest of the night. A couple of cousins came over too...
Buzz, Super Cooper, Snow White, Ariel, and Lil' Stinker-the skunk aren't they cute?