::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?

::"anuhzeh bihsday"::

Sunday, we all (well almost all-missed you J & Sae) got together for Grandma "Snowman's" birthday. She said she just wanted us all to come over for ice cream for her birthday, but we had to have a little party too...

Krystal made this awesome cake...

Portie helped with the "candoes"...

All the little cousins helped with the presents...

It's always fun to get together. The little cousins love playing together, and they like to talk and play with the older ones too-I remember that from when I was little. Leah and Bobby were SO fun! I remember being SO excited to go to my Gramma's house to play with them. I remember Jenny-n-Sarah and Bobby too (they were older and SO cool!).

It's funny to see how history repeats itself.

then:"Are Leah & Bobby gonna be there"

now: "Is Addy coming up?"

...and the Cowboys won,

so it was a good day all the way :)

::my bihsday::

I turned 27 (!!!) yesterday, and oh my gosh what a great day!!

The kids woke us up at 7:3o with some little presents. Chloe brought in some flowers (which she had already given me on Friday night, but she gave them to me again on Saturday morning)

And Portie carried in a gift bag with some little presents-some "chappy" (chapstick-which he picked out) and some new scentsy waxes. He handed me each present out of the bag one by one "here, Mamma. Happy bihsday."

Chloe brought in her little white board with a little note...

"Happy birthday, Mom from Chloe. I hope you have a happy birthday from Chloe" along with a picture of she and I. Then Port said "wheyeh's me??" So she drew him and bunch more "pictchahs."

They took me to lunch at Cheesecake Factory (my fave!!)

...we had great food and GREAT cheesecake.

They decorated our plate for me and lit a little pink candle for me. It was cute.

We went to a little corn maze...

Portie says: "look at all da co-ihns"

Chloe says: "is this like real corn we eat"

Da-Da says: "lets try it take a bite"

"moe co-ihns!!"

...the corn maze was okay-I have to be honest, it wasn't the best. It was a corn maze, and that was it. There was just not much to it. Nothing fun or cute-no trivia clues to get us through the maze, no slides, no animals, no hay stacks, no pumpkin patches, no nothin' like that! We've been to better ones in years past, and we probably won't visit this one again-sorry Nelsons.

We're glad we went, and we're glad Dadduh has such a good sense of direction!!

Matt and I caught a movie and a little cuddle together-just us ;)

What a great day! I felt so special all day! The kids seemed to enjoy feeling so included in my birthday. I had lots of people ask if we were taking the kids with us today, and I always thought "of course, it's a family day." I kept hearing all day "happy birthday, Mamma," and it melted my heart every time I heard it. I love my sweet little family. They made me feel so loved on my birthday.