Happy Halloween!

The kids had a great time on Halloween dressed as a cupcake
and the grime reaper. We went up to Charlotte to trick or treat
with Grace and Joe Their neighborhood has a little Halloween
parade and then pizza. The weather was perfect for the whole event,
not too cold and not too hot, so the kids really filled up their bags. Both
of them broke the handles on their treat bags with so much
candy! Thanks to the Tully's for another great Halloween!

Here's our cupcake, groovy girl, Harry Potter and the Grime Reaper
































Parade














Death pointing the way.....


















....and creeping up on you.

Happy Fall Ya'll!

I know I haven't posted anything in forever so this one is long,
and covers most of what we have been up to since school started.
With Elizabeth in Middle School now the pick up and drop offs are
different so we have a longer day now and there just doesn't seem
to be enough hours to get it all done. Both kids are doing great in
school although everyday they say can't we just stay home:( but off
they go and they are both happy when they get home so I don't
think too much suffering happens. We of course headed up to
Tweetsie for what we thought would be our last visit of the year, to
see the Fall foliage and of course the Ghost Train, but a las we were
a little late in the afternoon getting there and missed riding regular
Tweetsie in the day light hours, so since the kids had a Friday off later
in the month we headed back up and took our nieces. We all had fun
and the weather was picture perfect. In between we have celebrated
My Moms B-day, Davids B-day, Whitneys B-day and now the newest
addition-Ila Jade Fisher, congratulations to Lindsey and Jason. We still
have another B-day to go for my best friends son Joe this Friday. We also
had a choral performance Elizabeth was part of and a few festivals that I
don't have any pics from, and we have enjoyed the cooler weather although
today is crazy hot, but we know its coming to stay soon! Hope all are well
and I will try to keep up with things better as the holidays get started!



















We took this family picture just for Aunt Darlene!














Day!














Night!














On the Ghost Train, do we look scared or crazy?


































Its hard to believe that this is the Tweetsie train all decorated,
its quite impressive!

































Mimi's B-day!



















Elizabeths chorus performance



















David's B-day!














Back to Tweetsie plus two more!

































They all got there faces painted!






























We have a full train!


















































Matthew and Tweestie's Engineer Casey Jones!

First Day of School!

On August the 18th Matthew started 3rd grade and Elizabeth started the 6th grade. The night before was a little anxiety ridden, but after that it got a little easier with each day. I took a couple of pictures of Matthew since he was available, she now gets ready and shows up to go out the door, so I only got the one of her. We took Matthew and walked him to his classroom, but Elizabeth opted for the drop off at the door, as I am sure all 6th graders do. I was sad to see them get another year older and start another school year, but happy at the end of the day to pick them up and hear they had had a great day!!














Our 3rd grader!






































Our 6th grader!

Elizabeths Birthday and the rest of Vacation Week!

Well we celebrated Elizabeth's 11th B-day while we were in Chicago, and I think it was a great day! We started with breakfast out and then headed to the Field Museum with Sue the T-Rex. It was a huge place and again more than we could really handle in one morning. We did the best we could and then headed back to get cleaned up for dinner at American Girl and a little AG shopping. We ended that day with a water taxi ride back to the end with our hotel and called it a very successful day!

Matthew did this lovely artwork for Elizabeth that morning at the Yolk restaurant!

The Field Museum and Sue the T-Rex!

This was a huge and impressive building even if you didn't look at all the stuff in it!

We had to cross the tracks to get to everything we went to and that day we finally saw a train going under!














We stopped at Hersheys on the way to American Girl so Elizabeth could make herself a personalized souviner, and she did. This was not it, because that bar costs $40.00!!!!!!




























Here we are at dinner in American Girl, she had a special drink called the Cherry Blossum!

Matthew had a little hot chocolate!














Elizabeth at dinner with her Hershey's Bar!














Happy birthday, we sang and had the cutest little desserts!
















































Back to the Navy Pier to catch the water taxi!














Great views from the water!
























































Soldiers Fountain, the opening of Married with Children!

Tired and done with walking around the City, he was ready for some country living!

Goodbye City Life......














We left the City the fourth day around noon and headed out to Indiana Dunes! The water was a balmy 71 degrees and the kids enjoyed cooling off.










































Once we got to Aunt Darlene and Uncle Terry's we relaxed and enjoyed a family meal, which I should have taken pictures of but didn't:( so our first pics are at the Zoo in South Bend. We had been to this Zoo a couple years earlier and the kids had enjoyed it, Matthew especially likes the train.

We also enjoyed a trip to the South Bend Chocolate Factory, we took a tour of the Factory and enjoyed their small museum that is all about their history there with chocolate. Of course we got some samples too!

Don't you love the hair nets?










































This is a zuchinni!!!!!














Matthew rode everything with wheels that they would let him ride and they both enjoyed a horseback ride, thanks cousin Kyle!!!!!











































We got there just in time for sweet corn coming in and we ate it everday and even took some home and ate it until it was gone. Thanks Uncle Terry!




























Thanks to Aunt Darlene, Uncle Terry and Cousin Kyle for housing, feeding and tolerating us for four days, we love you all and hope to see you again soon! A extra huge for Aunt Darlene for all the cooking she did for us!!!!!