Monday, October 25, 2010

Halloween Party

Francis Halloween Party 2010...

Sock hop princess preparing the food.


Fresh finger cookies for the munching and crunching.

Princess Ariel attended the party!

                                    
                              1950's throw backs...

                                                  

                            Must have been something funny.

Let the games begin...

Candy corn drop.  

Flashlight scavenger Hunt.

 The kiddos: Seattle Mariner (Caden), Princess Ariel (Gracie), Buzz Lightyear (Gabe), Farmer (Kylan), Witch (Camille) and not pictured: Tiger (Connor).

Sadly, Ariel was bitten. Her fangs grew in fast!
The party was a ton of fun. Good food, great costumes and our favorite people...
can't wait till our Christmas party!

Pumpkin family

Family trip to the pumpkin patch...


Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to the patch we go!


Hey there muscles!


In a sea of orange with my little punkin.



Ooey gooey fun!


Ta - daaaa!!!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Someday

SOMEDAY...
I will share my heart with another little one.

Feeling sorry for myself today... you may not want to read. I found out this morning that yet another one of my friends is pregnant - that makes three this week. I'm happy for each one of them - I do mean it. But with their happy news comes a reminder that I am not so lucky. I know, I shouldn't be so negative. I almost sound ungrateful, afterall we were blessed with a beautiful little girl - a blessing that some people never recieve... but there's a hollow feeling in my heart that aches to be filled with the joy that only another child can bring. Someday. That seems to be our family motto right now. At least things are looking better for us, we're finally getting the help we've been seeking from our new doctor. It's going to take between 3-4 months to notice any changes but we'll keep our fingers crossed, like they always are, and say our prayers, like we always do that things will work out. Please, please, please work. Okay, Gracie's tugging on my arm - time to go play. Pity party over.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

cat nap + speeding = no ferry

So, this Saturday we were supposed to go to the San Juan Islands to hike Mt. Constitution, but that never happened...
We woke early in the morning to go running and when we got home I was so stinken tired that I decided to take a quick cat nap instead of hopping in the shower like I should have. The plan was to meet Mark's parents at 9:15am but we didn't get there till 9:30. To make up for my tardiness, Mark's dad (Lynn) gunned it all the way there and would have made record time had he known that a sherriff was parked along side the road waiting for him. He got stopped going 70 in a 55mph zone. Mark apologized to one of his "buddies" and Lynn carefully drove away without the $175 ticket he should have recieved. That little fiasco ended up erasing the good time Lynn was making to get us to the ferry terminal and long story short we waited 25 minutes in the stand-by line only to fall 3 cars short of making it onboard. The next boat was at 3:30pm, which would have been too late. No soup for us. Luckily, we had a back-up plan: The pumpkin farm! We didn't get pumpkins this time (we'll get them on one of the 4 other pumpkin days we have scheduled this season ;) but we did enjoy the festivities!

Gracie had a great time riding the train, playing on the "mole Mountain", going on a hay ride, enjoying a piece of corn and petting the goats.

Grandma and Pop seemed to be enjoying themselves as well...


So the day didn't turn out as we had planned but that's okay... better luck next time.