Fire Station

Noah is in a little preschool and they went on a field trip to the Fire Station in Stansbury Park where we live. The 2 fireman that helped us were awesome. They were so patient with the kids. Noah was fine until they wanted them to learn stop, drop and roll and started to cry. They then tried to get him to wear a fire hat and he refused and started crying more. I can't tell if it was because I was there or what. Here are a few pictures.

Standing inside the Fire Truck
Once we were home he agreed to wear the hat.

This is how he has been smiling lately.

Noah and the Fire Man

They had turned on the siren and this was Noah's response.

Right when we were done with the field trip they got an emergency call and had to leave with their ambulance truck with the sirens going. It was good timing because we were all done with the field trip but had an exciting ending.

Pumpkin Walk

They have a little Halloween Pumpkin walk in the area I live in. We took the kids over and Noah was a little bit confused by the whole thing. They have local vendors set up and they have candy for the kids to go trick or treating to each one. Noah liked that part but refused to do anything else. They let the kids decorate cookies and he refused. Kate liked the candy and kept opening each piece and then putting the sticky piece back in her bag. Here are a couple of pictures.

Kate and Jack

Kate and Jack

Jack and Justin

Kate + Unattentive Mom = A Lovely Mess

This is what happens when Mom isn't paying attention and left her make-up in a place her curious daughter could reach it. I went to go in and check on her because she was watching a movie and she was sitting on my bed and obviously thought she needed something to make herself more beautiful. This was what I found.

Pretty eye catching, right? Am I a great mother or what? At least it wasn't lipstick. My eye makeup remover pretty much took care of this. Lipstick is another story.

My Smart Husband

I have to brag just a little bit. My husband is in the top 5% of his class. He now is part of The Golden Key International Honor Society. He goes to school full time and A's in all his classes right now. I think that his GPA is a 3.9 due to a B in a class due to a misunderstanding on a final time. I actually missed a final because I can't read, he just had half the time to finish. He also ended up with a B and not a D unlike my misfortune of missing a final. Oh well, physics was never going to be my forte, final or no final. The only reason I made it through was because the TA had a crush on me. But I digress.
I am so proud of my husband and all the hard work he does. He does well in school and still finds time to do things like produce a garden with enough vegetables to feed us for at least 10 years, maybe not that long but I am up to 150 qts of various vegetables and still have more to go. He may be graduated before I finish canning.
Congratulations Dan!

Katy's Birthday

My beautiful little girl turned 2 yesterday. It sometimes seems longer than the 2 years that she has been with us. She is such a funny little thing and very independent. She picks out her clothes and they never match but if you try and get her to change she is not happy. I am afraid that I am teaching her to be vain because she gets dressed and then goes around telling everybody, I pretty or I beautiful. No not vain, just really healthy self esteem. Here are some pictures from her birthday.

Noah with Katy's new stroller. I had to include this because Noah was more impressed than Katy was with this.

Katy and Noah feeding the baby

Katy and her little people set. She loves little people!

After she opened this she was done. She only had eyes for this.

With her presents.

Trying to get that cake.

Kate with her Dora the Explorer Cake

Singing happy birthday, which she sang as well.

Happy Birthday Katy!