October Highlights

Soooo here is a little blurb about October to bring everyone up to date. October was soooo much fun with so many fun things to do and see. Oh how I love the fall. Apple cider, pumpkin pie, incredible leaves, crisp cold air and Halloween are just a few things that I love. These first few pics were taken at Port Farms one of the best places to visit during the fall season. With hayrides, slides, pumpkin slingshot, corn and hay mazes as well as a corn box. We went once with playgroup and then again as family. The boys had a blast both times! From there Jess came to Erie only to drive back to New York with us. (see earlier blog about this). And two weeks later the boys and I drove down to Lancaster PA to visit Casey where he is currently on rotation. Only one week to go! Hip Hip Hooray! What a ball we had there. We arrived Friday, went to dinner and to the Reading train station. Saturday we drove to Gettysberg where we got poured on. So much so we were only able to get one picture to prove we were there. OH WELL, we had a great time anyway. Sunday on our way home we took a pit stop at the Hershey Chocolate Factory where incidentally we ran in to our next door neighbors, Niki and Aaron who were kind enough to help me with the boys on our way home. (They saw me on one of my pit stops on the side of the road with the hazards on and stopped to help with the boys!) They are soooo awesome:) After another lonely week Casey made his way home for Halloween. What a great holiday the boys had with Trunk or Treat on Wednesday, Zoo Boo on Thursday, and Halloween Soup Night on Friday. Aren't they the cutest little monkey's? Saturday Casey spent the day with the boys while I was at the Super Saturday enrichment activity and Sunday after church Casey was off again to Lancaster to finish out two more weeks of his rotation. This week has been fabulous both weather and kids! Keep the sun and warm 60 degree weather coming!
What a great welcome to November! Looking forward to Thanksgiving as I have so much to be grateful for! Family first and foremost.
Happy Turkey Days to all!

You're Hired!

Here is a short video of Jackson at "working" in the factory at Chocolate World in Hershey PA. We went to visit Casey in Lancaster where he is doing his rotation this month. Before we left we stopped off at Chocolate World where we learned how chocolate is made and joined in a bit of the fun, We had a ball in the short time that we were there.

New York New York

Just wanted to thank Jess and Mel for another great trip to the Big Apple. We had a ball. So Jess has the worlds shortest trip to Erie...This is how it went. Fri Night (10:40pm) fly into Buffalo, Drive almost 2 hours to Erie, wake up pack, get on the road to drive with boys to New York. So fun! We then stayed in the at Auntie Jess's for a night and head to Long Island to have a crazy and wildly fun time with Melanie, Zanna and James! Kids have a ball, kids get sick, kids go home with me and Mel gets more company!
Call me Brave or Call me Crazy...probably both. I get to drive the boys home for what was supposed to be an eight hour trip! :) I think it took us over ten...YIKES. The road trip home in a nutshell and then I am off to bed :) Leave Long Island at 2:30, boys fall asleep yea! get to Washington Bridge, Jackson wakes up, leave NY traffic and get into New Jersey traffic, "Mommy I have to go to the bathroom." OOPS forgot to put on the diaper! Pull off on the side of the road, apply diaper, load back into the car and into traffic...drive a few miles, car is close to empty, take next exit along with a 7 mile detour get gas for $2.93! get back into traffic, Grady's hungry, pull off on next rest stop, creepy truckers and men all over no restrooms, Grady is too distracted to eat. Leave creepy rest stop, Grady is still crying for food. I pump and drive, go through toll, pump and drive. Pull of on the side of the road to give Grady a bottle. Get him started, get back on the road, Grady drops bottle! Wah! Back in traffic so I pull off again, hold bottle, read books, and get back on the road. Grady falls asleep, Jackson watches Peter Pan. Finally back on the road again and making good mileage. This took 4 hours to get to this point...Drive drive drive, need gas and food it's now 10:00pm. Food for all and gas for the car and only 3.5 hours to go. Finally 12:30ish am arrives and we pull into home sweet home!
Soooooo Brave or Crazy???? you decide :)

I love love love the Fall!

Okay so before I actually begin, I want to say this is my second attempt at this posting! Arrrgh! I wrote a whole post andwent to publish it only to have the blogger out of service!
Having said that, I truly do love the Fall! I love the pumpkins, I love the changing leaves especially here in Pensylvania!, I love Halloween, haunted houses, the brisk air and all that the season has to offer.
Here are some recent pictures of Jackson and Grady. Here you can see Jackson's Haunted Gingerbread house creation! What fun! We had a ball. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Aguirre for sending it. Down below you can see our trip to Port Farms in Waterford, PA. What a fun day! We took a hay ride, played in the corn box, ran through the corn maze and the hay maze, and rode the slides. As we rode the slides it was so cute, there were a couple of school girls that took to Jackson. They took his hand and took him up and down the slides! They were so funny, I could see them arguing as to whether or not Jackson was a boy or a girl. When it was time for the girls to leave, I went over and told them thanks for sliding with him and one of the girls told me she asked him if he was a boy or a girl and he said, "I am a boy!" I responded, that's right he is a boy and she then snickered to her friend,"I asked his mom and she said that he is a boy!" Really it was pretty funny. Don't be fooled by his hair or eyes, Jackson is ALL boy! He currently loves, trains, balls, baseball, golf, basketball, coloring, painting, and books. He loves to play in the dirt with his dumptrucks and has a great love for life. He now can recognize all letters of the alphabet and has learned many of their sounds too!
Grady too is all boy. He is a mover and a climber!!! He loves to stand up and cruise, he climbs the stairs, crawls anywhere he wants to go and fast. He loves to play quite independently but loves to be in on ALL of the action. He his so observant and will fight sleep, food, whatever if he thinks he is missing out on something. He loves life and is such a happy baby. He says Dada and sometimes Mama. The boys have a great love for each other. Grady constantly watches Jackson and is learning from him all the time. Jackson likes to sing to and peek a boo with Grady. If he is sad he happily shouts BACON at him. Yes I said bacon. For whatever reason Grady loves the word bacon and you can get a smile out of him with that word almost anytime! Anyhow we love the fall, we love life and have much to be grateful for!
Happy Haunting!

Miles Halloween Birthday Party

The boys had a great time at Miles' 2nd birthday party. As you can see the kids got to dress up in their costumes. Good times were had by all...they got to play in the leaves, search for ghosts, decorate cupcakes, eat mummies, (pigs in a blanket) and much more! Happy Birthday Miles!

Here are my three favorite boys in the whole world! Gotta love em! We went on a pontoon boat tour down on Presque Isle. We had a great time and learned a lot about he nature and history of the area! Great times were had by all!

Grady's first meal

For those of you who faithfully check my blog even though I am so slow to update here's to you! I am trying out a new photo program that will hopefully upload my pics faster and encourage me to blog more often! Wish me luck:)
Here is sweet Baby Grady at about 5 and half months eating one of his first meals or should I say wearing it! Such a sweet boy he is! Grady is nearing 7 months and is crawling and standing on everything. He never wants to miss one moment of anything and prefers to be moving say 99% of the time. He is having lots of fun keeping me busy!