THE POLAR EXPRESS!!!

We had our annual trip (um, second annual) to ride the Polar Express train in New Hope, PA. Our whole family just loves doing it and we anticipate it for weeks. It is just such a fun experience, and since we've almost completely memorized the movie-all of the little finishing touches are not lost on us!

An actual coal train! Love all that smoke. If you're not chokin' then you're not having a good enough time! It gets loud w/ all the clacking and whistles blowing!

The bundled up Barno's

The conductor of the train! Chase forgot to wear his hat-he was not very happy about that!

Waiting to get their tickets punched

Now that Tyler can take a picture we may have more shots of Phil and I together

A cute dad and a cute girl

My 2 favorite boys. Notice the hot chocolate in the background-served w/ cookies!

This shirt makes me laugh every time

These boys are having fun

That smile kills me

My favorite girl

Kids are just hilarious

Here is the conversation I am hearing while doing the dishes. The boys have the neighbor boys over (their Jewish/Catholics) and they are fighting ghosts. I hear Chase tell Alex, the Holy Ghost is a good ghost so he's with us. We have lots of weapons and we're fighting all the bad ghosts. So they're running around yelling, "protect us Holy Ghost!!!" The older neighbor boy just said, "I have no idea what he's talking about." So funny!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING - GEORGE!!!

Some busy girls

Eliza and Lucy hard at work. It's tough being a baby.

FALL FESTIVITIES

Fall is my favorite season b/c of the cool, crisp weather, the oranges and yellows and all those yummy foods! Here's what we've been up to:

Better late than never-Ty's first day of school. He was sooooo excited!me-not so much. i'm doing better...
Chase's first day of preschool. if you know Chase-this pic tells you all about his personality. CRAZY!!!!

We went to a go-kart track for Ty's b-day. This is our niece Hunter watching and having fun!

The boys. Uncle Tim, Travis, Phil adn Chase. Ty and Lexi drove alone

You can see Phil's face, he'd just totally cut me off and it was scary!!! I had him most of the time for the record...

Hunter and Chase rode this train maybe a trillion times

Ty finally braved the rock wall and loved it.

Lucy and Eliza just being cute. It's hard work

For Lexi's b-day party she wanted us to dress up. I'm wearing my dad's leisure suit and it's sad it fits me. you can just laugh at Phil. I know you are right now-enjoy the show!

We re-did our closet for my b-day gift. here's one of our huge drawers. Anyone recognize the line from the Simpsons, "I sleep in a drawer."

Chase bottlefeeding the cutie. He's my helper

My Halloween candy. I want to eat her she's so cute

Since she won't take a binky I put them at her highchair to play with. Look at her-one in each hand! She loves them and sucks on them for fun. Weirdo

2 buddies

Ty at his school Halloween parade. He wanted to be a wizard. We won't tell him that it just ended up looking like a magician. He had so much fun!

My cute little witch trick-or-treating

Doesn't she look like she's cackling here?

The witch, the pirate and wizard.

The whole trick-or-treating bunch

Eliza wanted to just chew off Lucy the goats face. It was hilarious!

Jenn put in her first little pigtails. Doesn't she look like the little girl from the movie Monsters Inc

Fall is upon us. Killing ourselves on the leaf mayhem. This was last Saturday and the next morning it looked like we'd done nothing. Oh, well....

The boys keeping busy killing each other while we worked. Why do boys do that? the killing talk around here is just more than I can handle

Eliza just sat and didn't move. B/c she couldn't move in that snowsuit.

Burying in the leaves

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL!

A few reasons why you are A.O.K. in my book:

You're funny-in a subtle way

You're a great provider

You're an involved dad to our rat pack

You're confident

You're proud of who you are

You're efficient :\

You love your family

You put up with me!!!!

To my family who don't facebook (you should be shunned)

I just randomly remembered a game we did as kids for birthdays and wondered if you did too.

If you were the birthday kid all your friends would get in a line behind you w/ your gift and everyone would chant,

"HEAVY HEAVY HANGOVER THY POOR HEAD. WHAT WOULD YOU WISH WITH A BUMP ON YOUR HEAD"

With the word bump you would get cracked in the head by the gift and smile in pain. Then that kid would make a wish for you and it was usually really weird.

Anyone? Anyone remember this madness? Why are mormons saying this? I learned it in Utah? What is happening? It just seems so wrong and yet so right!!!