Fire Station Tour

The Middletown fire department had an open house today and of course we went! It was one of the best fire station tours we have ever been to! The boys loved and had a great time. Evelyn had a graet time climbing all over the firetrucks! I am so glad we went! Here are some of the best pictures from it!

Columbus Day Parade

Tyler is now a cub scout. He loves it! Today was his frist event with the scouts. They marched in the parade with his troop. He loved it!

Here they come!

 Carrying the den flag

 carrying the troop banner



Pumpkin Patch

There are a lot of pumpkin patches around here. I picked on for us to go to that you can create your own scarecrow! We had a lot of fun, I am so happy that we went!



MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Ok, so I know it is a little funny that I would blog about my own birthday, but I had a really good one this year! Earlier in September I got a margarita machine that I can use as a blender too, so I though that was all I was getting! Boy was I wrong! I got a HUGE popcorn bowl with a HUGE Matching cup, 2 Newport glasses, a food processor and the best gift was from Tyler, flowers and a balloon. Ok, so there is more to that story! 2 of my friends here took me to lunch for my birthday and gave me flowers and a balloon. I had the flowers sitting on the floor while we were trying to find a vase for them. Tyler told me on the way home from the bus stop that he did not get me anything for my birthday. I told him that daddy had something for him to give me. We finished opening gifts and were about to move onto cake when Tyler said WAIT, there was one more present. He went and got the flowers and came in with a HUGE smile and said that he wanted to give me flowers and he was so happy that they came while he was at school so I would have the best birthday ever!

Look at the super cute cakes that Henry picked out!

 all of my gifts

 I love his smile, it was priceless!



Breaking Boards

Last night in Tae Kwon Do Henry (and his classmates) got to break boards with their feet. Henry was so excited and was able to break 2 of them. Here are the best pics I got, some are a little blurry, but you get the point!

organization wall

We are really trying to get the house organized! I saw the really neat wall organizer at pottery barn, however it was WAY expnesive! So we took off to Target to see if we coulod do something simial for cheap! Here is how it turned out! I a, very happy wtih it! It has everything we need all in one spot and it really oragnized! And I got to finally hang the letter that my friedn Tia did for us before we moved.

Here is what we liked at pottery barn:

And here is how ours turned out! I LOVE IT!!

our menu will go here

monthly calendar

weekly reminders and note board2w

2 corkboards for notes

and my letters!

Mystic-day 2!

Since we did not go to the aquarium the first day as planned, we went back as a family the next day. What a great aquarium! They have a beluga whale who was amazing! He is a young one and loves to "play" with kids! We got there when it opened, so there were not a lot of people there yet and it was amazing! The whale comes right up to the glass and presses his face against it. He opens his mouth like he is talking to the kids and he tries to squirt them with water out of his blowhole! The boys spent so much time with him! It was so worth the drive back just for that! After the aquarium we walked around the town a bit and decided to take a sight seeing boat ride up the river. The boys loved it. I was ready to get off by the end and E hatred it! She screamed the entire way! Thankfully we were the only ones on the boat, so we did not ruin it for others.

touching the stink rays

we got ice cream, Tyler for a lobster sucker

H eating chocolate ice cream

getting ready to go!

Out in the water

They loved it!