School Days...

So today when I walked in the door from school I was given this gorgeous necklace made by Cullen today. He was so proud and told Nick, "You can take our picture."

The weather has gotten really cold, really fast. Tonight the boys went outside with Nick to pick the last of the carrots. After they were done they came inside to warm up with a movie and carrots.

It has been crazy busy around here during the week and it doesn't look to be settling down until the end of the month.

Room Situation

I just wanted to post a few pictures of the dorm room/college apartment situation in the Mississippi Valley Region for all my nosey extended family members.

I will start with my sister Colleen's pad. She lives in a quaint, upper level apartment with two other roommates at the Harvard of the Midwest.

For your viewing pleasure here is the living room...

Followed by her bedroom.

Next we have Kennedy's 10x20 foot room she calls her "home away from home". As you can see from the evidence on her desk, she likes a clean window in her room.

Callan's room is a bit smaller/cozier then Kennedy's. He was originally sharing with two other roommates but one has since moved out leaving a little more breathing room.
Doesn't he look at home?

Kid-less

I left town yesterday to head across the state to the Harvard of the Midwest, UW-Stout. It was such a pretty drive with all the leaves changing. I went out for a treat with my sister Colleen and checked out her cute apartment before punching out for the night. I spent the today working on dividing up research for a study that my students took part in before heading to my parents house for the weekend. On the way I stopped by Winona to pick up my cousin Callan. Colleen had picked up Kennedy earlier on her way through. My children are at home for the weekend and since it's homecoming at Nick's school they are busy with the parade and football activities tonight.

I've got pictures I'll blog tomorrow because my camera is sitting in the car and it's so cold I'm not going outside now.

It's Monday Night...

Around here we love each other... and we love our Packers!

The boys are prepping for the game as we speak.

We also love Favre, but tonight we are hoping Mr. Rogers goes into Favre's neighborhood and comes home with a WIN:)

The Little Farmer

We made a family trip to the Little Farmer this weekend, this is one of my favorite places to go in the fall. The weather was a little chilly, which the boys never seemed to notice. The weather helped to keep the crowd away. I'll let the pictures help me tell about the day...

On the hayride to pick apples.

Cullen wasn't as into picking this year as he was into running through the trees and hiding.

Geremu was a good picker, every time he grabbed an apple off the tree he tried taking a bite of it before putting it into the bag. When he picked the high apples from my shoulders he would pull really hard so when the apple finally broke away from the tree he would hit me on top of the head.

From apple picking we headed into the fields to pick our pumpkins.

Cullen spent a lot of time finding the "perfect" pumpkin.

Seriously these two are 3 and 4, I don't need attitude when I ask them to look at me and smile.

Take note of Geremu's smile with his eyes closed. I'm sure you can imagine just how entertaining I thought this was when I took the boys to get their pictures taken last week.

Cullen thought it was fun to feed and pet the animals.

The playground...

Here is a picture of the caramel apples that we ate, the apple is in there somewhere. It tasted as amazing as it looks!

A little more play time before heading home for well deserved naps.

Roses and Thorns

So every night at the dinner table Nick likes to play this game he calls Roses and Thorns. We go around and describe one or two good things about our day (roses) then one or two bad things about our day (thorns). Tonight Cullen was telling us that his thorn was that he got hurt at school. I asked how he got hurt and he said that he tried to kiss one of his friends and got hurt. Upon further prompting it turns out that Cullen tried to kiss the shoe of a girl in his class (don't ask me why) but she didn't want him to so she kicked him in the lip. I'm still laughing about it as I type this because I can totally picture this happening. I hope he learned his lesson:)

Geremu never has any thorns and he has the same rose everyday. It doesn't matter if the sitter takes him to the Children's Museum or Library his rose is always his nap. I only wish I could enjoy a nap everyday too...

I've got nothing...

This has been a busy week without any blog-able material. The sitter took the kids to a place full of inflatable fun stuff one recent afternoon. It appears from the pictures that it is not very busy in the afternoon. Tonight we took the kids to get their pictures taken and when/if I get an e-mail with some of the pictures I'll post the link. Hopefully this weekend brings a bit of excitement.