Weekend Getaway

For my Christmas and Birthday present my Mother-n-law took me to Bed & Breakfast on Whidbey Island for weekend without my kid or my husband to scrapbook,relax and have weekend to ourselves. We drove past the B&B a couple of times...thinking where can it be?.... Are at the right place we thought? We driving down the road again, looking for the address on the houses. Still not finding it. We finally going to give up when a handyman working on house pointed across the street. Could this be it? Surely it can't be... All we could think of how nice it looked from the photos on the Internet. It amazing to me how good you can make things look when your using a computer. A woman was now approaching us on right...so Sherrie put down her window, "Do you know where the Bush Point B&B is located? "..." Hi, I'm Bonnie the caretaker. It is across the street. The blue and white building." So, we did finally get to the right place and it was not as bad as the pictures above... but pretty close. Bonnie asked after we looked at the place if we still take it for the price that she said on the phone.(what a funny question to ask, we thought...we said yes, of course) She must have people complain after seeing it.

We had a lot of fun , we finished a lot of unfinished projects from the Scrapbook Convention, rested, played domino's (I lost both games...which if you know me; I would played until I won, I hate losing, but I was too tired.) and enjoy our time without the kids. The room was clean and views were spectacular... we we on the shipping line so we got to see a lot of large boats. It was right on the water so we could hear the water. Being in the managing condos business, we get a lot of complaints about pigeons... I never knew how loud they could be. Now I can see why people complain about them. We had them show up every morning on the dock/deck we had front of our window. We were given muffins for breakfast...one was moldy. It must of been in fridge for a very long time. Lucky we thought of food to take with us, we didn't want to go anywhere and wanted to stay in our house coats all weekend. All and all we had a great weekend and it wasn't too bad. We are thinking to take our kids up there for Grandma's Camp this year.

"It Was The Squash"

Erik was sick last week...I think he had the flu, but according to Erik, a spaghetti squash at Grandma's House made him sick. He said that he smelled it and that's what started his watery eyes and his stuffed up nose. It was funny that when a kids doesn't like the look or smell of something they can come automatically allergic to it. Erik was convinced that Grandma needed to throw the squash away and that he would be better the next day.

Erik has come into to our bed the last couple of days becuase he says that he was sick and needs to sleep with us to feel better. We told him that he needed to sleep in his own bed tonight no exceptions. Tonight after his bath and it was time to go to bed, he became really sick again(he was so faking it)...he work so hard to throw up, that he finally did throw up (just a little). " Mom, I'm so sick...Can I sleep in your bed tonight?"..."I guess that I can't go to school tommrow either". When I told him no, it was not going to work, that he still needed to sleep in his bed. He said"Darn, I was hoping that would of worked".

Da-Dad Hats

Kjell loves putting on Matthew's welding caps. Matthew was sitting on the couch yesterday and Kjell notice that Da-Dad was not wearing one of his hats , so he went and got one for him. He makes sure that Da-Dad is always wearing one and that Grampa is wearing his hat all the time.

The other day I took a phone message for Alice, a lady at the office I work with. I asked Kjell to take the message to Alice, there is two people in each office, he went straight into her office and handed her the phone message that I written. Every morning when each person comes into the office he opens their door for them.

He makes sure that Grandma is wearing her slippers. That he needs tooth paste on tooth brush so he can brush his teeth. How to get things out of the microwave. Knowing that we are close to Grandpa's House. That when he is hungry, he get up in his high chair.

I had brought one of Lily's pacifier to church to give to Sara from last week and he pulled out and said Lily and tried to go look for her.

He amazes me all the time for all the little things he does.

Erik's Birthday Party

The flu has been going through the Moore household this week and of course I was the one that would get it the day before Erik's Birthday Party. For all that know me, Birthday Party are really important to me. I always have a theme, balloons, games (pinata) cake (decorated in the same theme and goodie bags with items that fit the theme...I know, they probably won't remember it later in there life.

Not feeling good, I was worried how I was going to do Erik's Party. Thanks to the hard work from my n-laws, (Auntie Sara) made a beautiful cake, got and filled 400 pieces of candy in a soccer ball pinata, and (Grandma Moore) made up some goodie bags. Erik's Birthday party turn out to be a blast. Thank you, Thank you! I couldn't of done it without you guys.

Here are the pictures from Erik's Birthday Party.

Anyone Out There

Kjell loves to look out our front door through the mail slot. I never been able to get a picture of until today. He normally shut the door before I can a take picture. He loves seeing and talking to the people outside.

Erik's Golden Birthday

Today is Erik's Golden Birthday. It is 7th of January and he is turning 7 years old.

It is amazing to me to look through my pictures and see how he has changed through the years.

I am so lucky to have him. His sweet personality, the way he makes me laugh, the joy he has put in our lives and the love he shares with us all.

Erik, I love you so much! Have a great birthday!

Christmas Day

It been really different this year with having to fight with the bad weather. We didn't do the usual things we do for Christmas.. no pictures with Santa, no driving around to look at all the Christmas lights, not being able to get all of our Christmas shopping done and a lot other things that I can think of for some reason...I guess they aren't has important as I thought they were. I still waiting for the clothes from Old Navy. I ordered clothes around the 12th of December for Christmas pictures that have been re-routed so many times from UPS. I think I will be lucky to get by the first of the year. So here is the picture for this Christmas 2008...in their new pajamas.

The boys were excited about want they got for Christmas. That is all that matters. Karl got is "Whimsy" Dragon, that he really wanted for long time. Erik got the Wii games he wanted. Kjell loves the toys he got ...I'm hoping some of batteries run out soon. :)

Santa Claus brings them a orange in their stocking...I think Kjell claimed all of boys for himself. I had a hard time getting it from him to peel it.

We had a quite dinner here on Christmas Day, which was real nice. We started with veggie and dip...Kjell had more dip then veggie, he wanted to dip everything from crackers to veggie, he ate over half the dip. A ham for the boys, a roast for Matthew and I, rolls and sprinkling cider... not glamours but tasted wonderful. My Mom brought us cookie dough for the boys to make. They are chocolate cookie that they roll the dough into ball then roll them again in powder sugar. They had blast making them and they tasted so good. It turned out so be great day after all. I hope that you had a wonderful holiday too. Have a happy New Year!