Halloween

We went to three halloween parties and one night of trick or treating. Fun Halloween in England.

Easter

Oh Easter, what fun. We got to do a Easter hunt on Kirkland AF Base on Saturday. And compared to Pope's hunt last year this one was Grand! Audric saw his friend from school there too.

On Easter we got to sleep in until 7am which was great. Then they had to look for their Easter baskets. It was so hard for Audric not to grab eggs as they looked for them. So many eggs, so much candy. The Easter bunny decided to fill the 51 emptied eggs that they got from base plus the 24 he came with. 75 eggs isn't too much is it? All the egg hunting was followed by ham, deviled eggs, quiche, real mashed potatoes and rainbow jello, yum yum.

Happy Valentine's Day

Interesting valentine's day morning. While getting Audric ready for school and baking muffins for his snack I hear a yell. Audric is now 5 and has decided that he no longer needs to announce when he's going to the bathroom and when he's done. Needless to say the yell was from the bathroom. But not "I'm done" or "come wipe my butt" I heard "come look at my red poop". Yes, red poop! the red velvet cake the night before came right on out and kept its color. This was the first time I saw Audric excited to wipe his butt.

The odd thing was that same day Julie's poop was bright green from the green frosting she ate two nights before. Audric, as you can tell is more regular.

Utah

Julianna with cousin Levi. Yes that is "coffee" they are drinking.

Norah and Audric playing with a new toy.

Some would say that Audric needs a dog.



Christmas morning. Audric woke up and cuddled with Gus(a dog) for a half an hour before realizing that it was Christmas and that there were toys in his stocking. He ran down stairs, woke up Julie and came in our room yelling that Santa got him a Harrier Jet plane. Once we all got up stairs it took him climbing over his bike to get another present and for Julie to say "hey Audric look at your bike" before he noticed the bike. I guess you could say he was a little out of it that morning. They had so much fun opening gifts.

Before we left Audric brought home a nasty bug and gave it to Tim and Julie. Everyone was better by the time we left for Utah except for me who got it on the ride up. Having a fever and a cough while spending two days driving sucks. It took five days of feeling miserable before I felt like I could do anything. Of course that was the last day we were there. We spent it playing in the snow and roasting marshmallows. The kids felt better than me during the trip but as you can see some days wiped them out.

Halloween

Every year I make the kids Halloween costumes. This year I only made one but no one wore it. Julie wanted to be a witch so a made this really cool dress that I sized down a formal from the thrift shop. She hated it. So she was a ballerina, a princess, a butterfly and a monster. Oh wait, Julie's always my little monster. Audric was a fighter Jet pilot and a burnt-up pilot. It's amazing what Elmer's glue and some make-up can do. We went trick-or-treating three times but not on Halloween. I did make to coolest Halloween pancakes in the morning. My trick is to turn the burner up high and use a medicine syringe for the details.

4th of July

We had a good fourth of July. We went to Fort Bragg's thing to watch the para-jumpers do their show. It was hot, crowded, and expensive. We went back home to have our corned beef and cabbage dinner (so American of us). We did a little bit of fireworks in the backyard because we aren't aloud to do them on base. Julie burned herself while using two sparklers at once. She's fine, nothing big. Once it got late enough we went to the soccer fields to watch Fort Bragg's fireworks. I think this is the first time the kids have both been up to watch them on the fourth. Oh yeah, the dress I'm wearing is one that I make earlier that morning. It's made out of old fourth of July T-shirts.

Easter

Easter is self explanatory, really. However, we did have a disappointing Air Force Easter egg hunt. We got to the park and the hunt was over. Okay I thought we would just play games like last year. No games and everyone was standing in line. They didn't fill the eggs and people had to exchange their eggs for candy. Then they did a second hunt for the older kids. I saw them throwing the eggs on the grass in front of the kids. Everyone said the hunt lasted a half a second and much kids didn't get anything. Lame! Last year was much better.I'm glad we went to Audric's school party because it was a blast and all the eggs were filled with small toys not candy. As you can see from the pictures they got enough candy from all the eggs they found. We did realize every time we did an egg hunt we kept the eggs from last year so we had 160 I think. It was funny Julie would not pick up the hard boil eggs because they were wet. Julie also fit into the same dress she wore last year, bonus!