Twins Turn 3!

The twins turned 3 in November!

Their birthday present from us was a SURPRISE trip to Great Wolf Lodge!  None of the kids had been there before, so it was so fun!  We had the sickies earlier in the week, so we thought we might have to postpone our trip.  Buddy actually did get sick in the hotel room overnight, but he felt fine right afterwards.  Story time in the evening was great, and they all loved the water park.  I was surprised that even the little ones could go on most of the slides, as long as a parent was with them.

We went with a Mickey and Minnie theme this year.  Our daycare provider made us these awesome cakes.  Man, she really is talented with everything she does, right?!

We had the grandparents and great grandparents over for cake and ice cream.  Little bro really wanted green candles (for some reason), so he was excited to blow them out!

Halloween 2014

So, let's backtrack a bit here...  Halloween came and went so quickly.  I think all of the hype with the Royals was a distraction from the fact that it was October and almost Halloween.

We carved one of our pumpkins in support of the Royals.  Although they didn't win the World Series, it was great that they were actually in it this year!  If someone would have told me the Royals were going to be in the World Series back in June, I would have told them they were N-U-T-S, nuts!

Daddy went on his usual pheasant hunting trip, and this was the first year I felt like I could manage to take the kids somewhere by myself.  Grandma is always a big help when Daddy is gone, but we decided to try Gary's Berries on our own.  It was fun, and we had never been before.  The pig races were so much fun to watch, and Buddy even got to be a squeal leader for one race.  He had to chase and yell at his pig to try to get him to win!

Our daycare provider has holiday parties every year because she is AWESOME!  We went to the Halloween party, and she had lots of fun activities like pumpkin painting, a bounce house, and a barrel train ride.  At the end of the evening, we took a hayride.  I love the photo bombers in this picture.  Later this week, we will go to the daycare Christmas party!  We are lucky to have such a great daycare for the kids.

Since Halloween was on a Friday, we ventured to Uncle Matt and Aunt Coco's new house for trick or treating.  Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and Peter Pan came home with tons of candy!  Uncle Matt dressed up as a scary clown and had fun tormenting teenagers all night!  We will forgive him for giving kids nightmares.  After all, it was his 40th birthday...

Almost Christmas

It's almost Christmas!  I have not been blogging as much as I would like to!  We have been busy just doing normal stuff.  It is hard for me to keep up with work, 3 kids, laundry, etc, so the blog has been waaay last on the list.  I will see if I can get better at this!

Daddy's work had it's annual Christmas party at the movie theater last weekend.  The kids got to see Santa, get balloon animals, get sparkle tattoos, and see the new Penguins of Madagascar movie.  The twins were a little antsy during the movie, but we managed!