Supergirl Saves The Day!!!

More Halloween Fun!

Tonight we went to a Halloween Carnival at Tahoma High School. The kids had SO much fun playing all the carnival games! They had putt putt golf, bowling, fishing, duck fishing, lots of basketball, lasso the bull, cake walk, all kinds of fun stuff!

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This also gave us a great chance to take their Halloween Costume pictures before we left as we had a little extra time. I'm really happy with how they turned out, the kids being so darn cute sure helps ;-D And yes, I will most definitely be doing something with that "flying" picture...more to come!
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Crazy Hair Night!!!

You have NO IDEA how excited I am to post this blog!!! It's "Crazy Hair Night" at Awana...I'll just leave it at that, and let the pictures tell you the rest! :-D

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Dec The Halls!

I know I spelled that wrong, it's a play on words, give me a break! ;-D Today Jacob and I "decorated the halls" with Halloween drawings (get it, "dec the halls"? I know...if only everyone were as witty as I!!!). I remembered that I had some Halloween/Thanksgiving types of decorations up in the rafters, so I got them down today and set some up before Jacob came home from school. Needless to say, he was so excited when he walked in the door and saw them! So after the girls went down today, Jacob and I went to work on creating drawings to hang on the walls. SO FUN! I enjoy craft time :-) (especially when it's just simply coloring and cutting...no paint or glue or gooey messy stuff to clean up!)

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Also tonight at Awana is "Crazy Hair Night", so I painted Juliana's nails to give her a little more "spunk" to go with her hair tonight. I can't tell you how excited I am to do their hair tonight!!! I am POSITIVE you will see more pictures posted tonight!!!!! :-D Anywho, Juliana loves her dark blue nails with red and green glitter. Fun stuff, man!

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Juliana LOVIN" her cool blue nails!
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She can be so sweet...when she wants to be ;-)
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"Can she be trusted, Mom???"

Dance, Jokes and Whoopin's!

Jen was rather sly this morning and got the dance instructor to leave the door open. Way to go, Jen! :-D So I got to take a few pictures and some video, so funny! The girls were in rare form today (well, with exception of Emma, who is always right on track!). Two girls were constantly running around, giggling, and doing everything they weren't supposed to do. Juliana stuck with the teacher for the most part, however she is entranced with the mirror! Below you will find a link to a video I posted on YouTube. Funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvjqdSVVvM

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Jacob has suddenly begun being fascinated by telling jokes, and tonight's really depicted Jacob to a T! Here it goes:

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Why did the rabbit cross the road?

To go potty, drink water, and do some brainstorming!

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HA HA HA HA!!! Does that not truly depict Jacob or what?!?!? Our little brainiac :-)

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And last but certainly not least, Mommy has had it with Daddy breaking her precious dishes, so he has been banned...

The Last of Many

Well today was a crazy day and I'm glad the bulk of it is over :-) We had Juliana's dance class this morning, raced home to get Jacob off the bus, do potties, redress Juliana non-ballerina style, ate lunch, fed Jenna, piled back in the car (with not a moment to spare), and went to Jacob's last eye appointment for a while! Went in for about a 5-minute appointment, hopped back in the car and headed home (with various baby naps and bottles mixed in here and there...boy am I glad she can hold her own bottle nowadays!). Kinda grates on you when you GO-GO-GO and drive 40 minutes each way for a measly little 5 minute appointment...BUT I'm of course glad we weren't in the doctor's office for a lengthy amount of time either!

The doctor is happy with Jacob's eyes, says he is seeing great without his glasses and they are aligning really well. We are to bring him back in for a follow-up appointment in 4 months. He says there's basically a 50/50 chance that his eye will go in (the brain trains itself to use the other eye more, and after surgery it can slowly start going back because the brain continues to use the other eye). If that's the case, he'll have to continue wearing the patch again, and quite possibly have to endure another surgery. Only time will tell. Please continue praying, we'd of course love to not have him go through all that again!

More to come, in FEBRUARY! No more appointments for a while, I'm soooo happy! :-D

A Mini Vacation!

We missed out on a lot of the Summer because of a certain little baby we bore in April, so now we're desparately holding on to any remnants of good weather before it goes away! We did the beach a couple weeks ago, and today we went on a ferry ride! And oh my goodness, what a great day!!! The kids were ELATED to go on a big boat, I can't begin to tell you how many times they said "WE'RE ON A BOAT!" as I was taking their pictures :-)

After finally finding a free parking spot, we walked...and walked...and walked until we reached the Washington State Ferries pier where we boarded a ferry headed to Bainbridge Island. The kids were ecstatic! And immediately - "I have to go potty" "I have to go potty too" "So do I" (yes, one of those was of course Matt). So once everyone went potty, we gave Jenna a bottle, the boat departed and the kids loved watching us move away from land. My favorite part was watching the birds flying along side us! They just stayed right next to our window, it was so cool to watch! We went out front on the boat, Juliana did NOT like the massive wind, Jacob LOVED IT! I could hardly get him back inside.

We arrived at Bainbridge Island, packed us up and ventured onto the island. We walked into town in search of an ice cream treat! We found Mora Ice Creamery, super tasty ice cream, but man was it pricey... :o) We headed back towards the ferry, played in a park area for a bit, and boarded the next ferry back to Seattle. The kids went on the top deck for a while, Juliana did much better up there, it wasn't quite as windy on the way back. We piled back in the van, and Mommy & Daddy had a very peaceful ride home as ALL THREE children were fast asleep :-) Apparently all you have to do is make them walk about 3 miles throughout a day, after having fun at church :-) As soon as we pulled away, Jacob said he wanted to go back on the boat, and of course Juliana followed with a "EE TOO!"

As we were walking through the town, Matt and I both noticed at the same time how it felt like we were away on vacation. What a wonderful feeling! And so nice that it was at such a small price and so easy to do. We'll definitely do that again in the Spring, we're already looking forward to it!

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What a great day, and perfect weather!!!

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Party On!

Jacob got invited to a classmate's Halloween Party and he had SO much fun! It turns out this classmate, Jordan, is a GIRL! (it starts) ;-) (we always think of those named "Jordan" as being a boy as our nephew's name is Jordan) Matt actually realized this when he called to RSVP, and said "Our son got an invitation to your son's Halloween party, and..." "...actually, Jordan is a girl..." He wanted to crawl in a hole at that point... ANYWHO, moving forward :-) Jordan was VERY excited to see Jacob when he arrived at the party today, she grabbed his hand and drug him into the party! They got to make various crafts, jump on the trampoline, chase their dogs around the yard, and eat MANY snacks and candy. The rooms were decorated with tons of balloons and Halloween decorations. The only thing that Jacob was bummed about was that Juliana and Mommy couldn't come (only Matt and Jacob went). It's neat watching Jacob grow, adapt and make friends. He sure is growing up!

On a different note, we had ordered a Little Mermaid costume for Juliana on Ebay a couple weeks back, and that JUST fell through on Friday (now that most the good costumes are gone!). So Mommy went back out last night to find her something else, and found a super cute Supergirl costume. I called Matt and had him look it up online, show Juliana, and she loved it, so in my cart it went :-) She looks SO cute in it! (you'll notice Jordan has the same costume in the above picture) I must say, Halloween sure is a fun holiday when you have little kids!!! :-) I can't wait for Trick-Or-Treating next week!!!

A Momentus Occasion!

Yes, it was truly a momentus occasion today, Grandma handed off her final Earnhardt grandchild Christmas stocking! And the neat thing is that it was a stocking I had started years back and never completed, which means that we both had a hand in making Jenna's stocking. This year we'll have all five completed stockings for our completed family - how exciting! My mom made mine when I was a child, I made Matt's when we were married, my mom made Jacob and Juliana's, and now we have both completed Jenna's. I can't wait to put them all up! (and as many of you know, I have a hard time waiting to start decorating for Christmas, so I'm sure it won't be long!!!) ;-D

Jenna with her Christmas stocking from Grandma Hirst!

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Jenna comfy during nap time at Grandma's house.

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A super silly Jujubean

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Mommy and daughter having some fun with the camera