Fun at the Discovery Museum

Years ago we took Bryce to the San Jose Childrens museum a couple of times and Alan had been wanting to take the twins forever.  We had planned a few times and it would turn out they were closed that day or something else would come up.  So Friday we were getting the van serviced and figured it would be a perfect day to go.  The twins loved their time there, and I think Alan had almost as much fun as they did.  I loved watching them explore and learn.

Here they are driving the fire engine     

This was making music with strings

Emma was so excited to make the ball float in the air

 This was the kids playing in a stagecoach

 Alan and Gavin had fun using a rope pulley to pull up a couple of bowling balls

 Gavin being a patient in the ambulance.  He likes to remember that he was able to ride in one when he was born.

 Driving the ambulance

The kids loved the water area the best, I think they spent an hour playing with all the different kinds of tunnels and things they had there. 

Making art that would stand up

It was such a nice day, I am glad we were able to share the day with them.  It is amazing how fast these little ones have grown into big kids.  We turned in their kindergarten papers last week, I don't think I am ready to have them grow up so quickly.

Poor Emma

It's kind of ironic that after having Bryce who is kind of a tornado and an accident waiting to happen, that our two accidents that involved medical care were for Emma.   Emma has energy but nothing like her brothers so I was surprised that she has got two injuries both after doctors hours that required trips to urgent care.  The frist was when she and Bryce were playing up on his bed and she got bumped off and somehow hit the bed on the corer of her eye and needed some glue to close it up.

This time Emma was running up the stairs and Bryce was running down bringing the iron to do a craft project and they had a run in.(I am noticing a patttern that Bryce is always a part of her injuries)   I am guessing it had to be the pointy part of the iron that hit just right.  We are so grateful that it was lower because that is way too close to the eye.  So off I ran, with the boys tagging along to get it checked.  I was told we may have to go in the emergency room because it went so deep.  Luckily the doctor decided that he could glue it and it would be ok.  She had glue for almost a week and now we are just waiting for the injury to finally heal.  It looks so much better but its always a worry with scars and faces.  They say they don't think it will leave a permanant scar so we are keeping our fingers crossed.

 You can see all the glue on this, because it went deep the glue was really build up.

 Christmas photos, definately not the best time for an injury.

 The doctor warned us about a possible black eye, she had some nice shades of purple for a while.

I am so glad she is getting better.  I decided I better document this as I am realizing from my mom and mother in law that as major as these things seem at the time, eventually you forget about it.  I am so grateful to have this blog to document these crazy years of our lives.  Now lets hope for more positive things to blog.

Santa time

We had the oppurtunity to take the kids to the church to see Santa.  I am so grateful that the same Santa has been there as long as I can remember.  So no waiting in lines and they always have great treats for the kids so its always a win win.   Well besides having trouble getting the kids  to look the right direction and smile, but that is a problem that may never be solved. 

The kids also got to see a different Santa last night outside the big Christmas light display we went to.  I sometimes wonder if it confuses them to meet so many Santas but they seem to not be too concerened about it all, so I guess I should not be either.  2 weeks until Christmas, it always feels like its coming fast, but then not fast enough either when there is so much to plan.  I love Christmas time. 

Just for fun, where has the time gone? 

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

We had a small group for Thanksgiving this year, but still had a really nice time.  These three munchkins are always what I am most thankful for. 

These are some pictures my mom took of the twins one day while she watched them for me.

November went by fast, and now we are looking forward to all the fun that Christmas will bring. 

Happy Halloween

 I think this has been the longest I have gone without blogging ever.  Life has been great.  We have kept busy with lots of fun things like the cruise, which I think I will eventually blog about but I am waiting to get copies of pictures from everyone who went so I can post the best pictures.  So hopefully that will be soon.  After the cruise my main focus was planning for a Halloween dinner party.  I love Halloween and was excited to try and find some creepy but elegant food items to prepare for friends.  We ended up throwing a party for 12 and had a great night enjoying all kinds of food.

This is the table all set up before we ate

Dinner was roasted crow, brain souffle and vampire mash.  We started with a mushroom soup that had puff pastry on top to look like a spider.  I did not get a picture of the soup but it tasted yummy.

 For dessert we had mummy pears, they were so yummy.  I am going to make these for the kids on Halloween, they tasted great and were pretty easy to make.

These next pictures were heading to Bryce's school for the Trick a door event. 

Then for Saturday we took the kids to the pumpkin patch for a few shots on our way to the church party.

Cute pirate Kyle

This shot was so sweet to me, I turned back and the kids were all walking together holding hands so of course I had to get a picture of a sweet moment.  

Halloween has been pretty busy, we have a school party at Bryce's school and then trick or treating on our street tomorrow night.  I think the kids are going to be on a week long sugar high, but I guess that is what Halloween is all about.