This weekend was our annual apple picking excursion. The whole family looks forward to this ever year. It is the one tradition that we have made here that has stuck.

Andy and Tricia were able to take a pit stop in Wisconsin on their way too long road trip back west. It was so much fun being able to hang out with them this past week. Here are a few pics from the week.

Deep Thoughts

Here's a list of random thoughts by Bayley Isaac and Noah: Let me make a disclaimer before you read the following. At the time all of these quotes were pretty darn funny but I do realize that the majority of them should end with 'you had to be there'.

Bayley:
"Mom, you're beautiful, ON THE INSIDE."
(pretty soon she will be telling me I'm a sweet spirit!)

At the end of the first week of school I sat down with Bayley to talk about her day, which I had done the previous 4 days. I started to ask her what she did at school and how her day was when she stopped me abruptly and said, "I think we should make some rules, how about you can only ask me if anything new happened at school, because I think it's getting pretty boring telling you the same things over and over." I told her that was a good idea but I wanted to add that she could also tell me something good that happened and something bad. Then she said "Well there was something really bad that happened (of course as a mother my mind started going crazy anticipating what she was going to say), a boy in my class threw up."

"Mom, you're pretty, for a 29 year old."

"I wish our hands were glued together so we could go everywhere together."

"If you're good to me then I'll be good to you."



Isaac:

Bayley was excited for dinner so when she walked into the kitchen she said she thought this was the yummiest dinner ever. Isaac of course wanted to say the opposite so he said, "this is the YUCKEST dinner ever."

Isaac and Bayley took all the blankets and pillows from the entire house and put them in my closet. They then preceded to ask Glenn is they could have a sleepover in there. Glenn said yes, but only if the promised to go right to sleep. 45 minutes later I was about to fling open the closet doors and send them right to their rooms for not trying to go to sleep, but luckily I decided to stop and listen first. Isaac was sitting on his knees saying a prayer with Bayley. Isaac doesn't really like to pray out loud that much so I was shocked when he went on and on. He said a pretty lengthy prayer, but the best part was when he said, "Thank you so much for the privilege to be able to sleep in mommy's closet. Please help us to be able to go to sleep really fast." Needless to say I just walked away and gave them a second chance to fall asleep.

Isaac dancing around the house singing part of a Hannah Montana song over and over again, "Nobody's perfect, I gotta work it." Very funny.

Noah:

Noah walks around the house with the wii remotes yelling "Galaxy" (I think we play Mario Galaxy a little bit too much.

The many faces of Noah

Noah is quite a charactor. He takes after Glenn so much. He will be walking along and out of nowhere will look up at you with the silliest look. If only he could talk better, I'm sure there would be some witty one liner to follow the look.

Bayley started Kindergarten this week. She is such a funny little girl, she was so excited but tried to stay completely composed. I did pretty good and managed to hold back my tears as I said good bye to her. The first day went by slowly and by the time school was over we were all so excited to see her. When Isaac first saw her he ran up and buried his head in her chest and gave her a huge bear hug. I finally had to make him let go after a few minutes. Even though it will be an adjustment to have her gone all day I'm glad to see that she is really liking it.