Build a Bear

A while ago we decided that we were going to take the kids to build a bear before geoff left for Afganistan so they could have something from daddy while he was gone. Geoff also recorded them a little message to put in the bear. This is the bear that Mercedes decided that she wanted

Here she is stuffing her bear. She thought that it was cool that when she pushed the button the fluff went into the bear.

Little Geoff thought that it was more fun to push all of the hearts as they lit up.

Here he is with his bear.

Here is mercedes with her bear.

ICE

Last Saturday we went to Nashville for the day. We have been wanting to go to the Ice down at Opryland Hotel. This year we finnaly got to it. It was so cool. They gave us all coats and then we went through a door and it was FREEZING COLD. This year was the How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We were told that they start making the ice sculpters back in Oct and they are there until Jan. They did a really good job I could not believe that everything was ice. Here is Mercedes in front of Cindy Lou Who. We called her that when she always had pigtails when she was younger.

This was in who-ville. It was so detailed

This was at the very end. I thought that it was really cool how they made it look like icecicles

They had slides that you could go down. They even had them for the adults. The first time mercedes went down she did not get enough momentum and went so slow. I thought that she did not like it. As soon as she got off she was like "do it a again" and that is what she said for about 5 more times. She loved it.

They are waiting for mercedes to go down the slide. Little geoff looked so funny all bundled up. He could not move his arms.

All in all we had a really good time.

Mercedes Cooking

While we were in Canada visiting my family Mercedes decided that it was fun to help grandma cook. Grandma was making meatballs. Mercedes helped all the way through. The only bad thing is now that whenever I'm cooking she wants to help. Here she is rolling the crackers.

Putting the crackers in the measuring cup. "You have to make sure you have enough"

Rolling a meatball. I really thought once they got to this part that she would not like it. But I was wrong. She loved it.

Putting the meatballs into the frying pan.

The meatballs cooking. Don't they look yummy?

This is the finished project. YUMMY!

Geoffrey's First Haircut

Well it finally came to that time where we needed to cute the hair. It was getting way to long and was always in his eyes. Well I first trimmed his bangs and then it just looked funny so I decided that we would just buzz it. This is the Before pic.

This is so easy

This is what it looked like after we were done. We decided that we like it short but not this short. Next time we will leave it a little longer. It has almost been a week and it looks alot better.

Potty training

Well Mercedes is really not interested in potty training. She will say she has to go but that is because she has already gone or she wants to read a book. When she does sit on the potty this is what she does.

Geoff's 1st Birthday

Sorry the pics are out of order but this was his first birthday that was on Oct. 5th. I know that I am a little late. He loved eating his cake and for once I think he was full. Hope you enjoy.

Family Pics

We went and got family pics taken a couple of days ago. They went alright. We had an apt at 2:00 and did not get seen until about 3:00 by this time Little geoff had fallen off of a chair and got a big goose egg on his head and we were all tired of listening and we really had to work to get the kids to cooperate here. But some of them did turn out ok.

This is our favorite one.

Posin Ivy

So we have been doing alot of cutting down trees, Building fence and stuff like that in our yard. Well Geoff and I had got into some posin ivy somewhere but was not sure where it was. Well I guess Mercedes found out where it was. This was the first day when she woke up. I thought what did she get into that she has a rash all over her face. So I called the doctor but they did not have anything for that day so I made an apt for the next day. Well when she went to bed it looked pretty good. I thought if she looks like this in the morning then I will cancel the apt. Well when she woke up she looked like this.
She is such a tropper. She never complained about it one bit. She just always rubbed it. She is so good with things
This is what it looked like by the time that we got to the doctor in the afternoon. Luckily as soon as we got her on the medicine she did so well and it healed up really nicely with no scars.
We still have no idea where it is because all of the plants look the same but they really don't look like posin ivy. Hopefully she does not get into it again.

Holiday World

These are a few pics that we took when we went to holiday world This was close to the end of the day and she kept saying "No more pics Mom"
My sisters thought that it was fun to give him a mohawk.

Mercedes loved all of the little rides that they had for her.


She really liked the bumper boats. She would say "look mommy I driving I driving"