A small adventure

What's a girl to do when her house is finally clean and she doesn't want the children to mess it up. She has to leave the house of course. It is half term here in the UK which means that Taylor and Carter are both off for the week. It was gorgeous yesterday and we had to take advantage, so off to Framlingham Castle we went. It was great to just walk around, there weren't too many people there and the kids had a great time.

My favorite part of any castle is the front gate, I love the doors. It's a small obsession. :)

This was an attempt at a picture of the four of us. You can see that didn't work out.

The leaves are vivid colours(you can not see that in this picture that well) and the sky was sunny. I would say it was about 70 degrees. All in all the perfect day out.

Brennan loved that he had freedom while exploring at last. He was just walking around at his own pace and crawling in every space possible. He especially loved the stones on the paths.

There were buckets in place through out the castle with little Halloween trivia questions on them. Let me enquire after you about the one that stumped us and Mike's office. Yes, I used the mobile to try and cheat for the answer. "A nasty creature, also a word for something very big."

It is 7 letters. That is all I had and my mind could not get it. I do know what it is now because we asked on our way out. I will let you all have a go before giving it away. Don't make fun of me if you find it easy...I was trying to keep track of 3 children by myself.

What's a castle without a lot of climbing. Although we did have a 9 year old English boy tell us that in his country that is illegal. :) I wanted to laugh out loud.

Halloween

Our Halloween night was fabulous...well okay it was a Trunk or Treat at the ward, but that might be as good as it gets here. :) It was fun and the kids were super excited. Our ward is small and fabulous and we love it. All essentials of Halloween were covered, we got dressed up and we got sweeties, is there anything more?
A few highlights:
*Mason LOVES Halloween, what's not to like, you get candy for doing nothing. Mason finds this quite motivating to get his bag around the car park quickly. Then he sits in one spot and eats just about everything. One of the guys in our ward was helping Mason with opening the candy and Mason started to tease him about sharing his loot. Mason finally did share a few Reeses Pieces.
*I loved that Taylor was told to get her shoes on and grabbed her 'Wellies' or rainboots for the people that read this who have no idea what Wellies are. When I saw her walking through the building I thought of "Ever After" when she says her shoes are too big and her friend Gustof says, "No one will be looking at your shoes."
*Also, who names a candy "Banana Skids" doesn't sound like the end result would be worth it. :) Sorry, had too.

Super Heroes

Princess with her Prince

Pirate lovers..okay, just Pirates, but that sounded boring.

Car Troubles...still

When you get that call from your husband saying the drive shaft fell out of his car you know it is going to be a problem. I don't exactly know what that is, but I figured with the word drive invovled it wasn't a good thing. After replacing that and a few other tid bits, the battery dies, you find your alternator is bad, you fix that and still the car won't stay charged, you get a new battery as well, but alas it still won't work. What's a person to do? You run an extension cord every night to charge what has now become an electric car until the problem is fixed. Good thing we always having willing helpers to stand there and laugh at Dad while he tries something new to solve this mystery.

Funny Faces

Brennan

I just realized the other day that Brennan is 16 months old. Wow! Time really does fly by. Brennan and I were waiting for our ride to get to our house and it was nice outside so we enjoyed some fresh air. Brennan walked right up to a dandelion and started to blow on it. It was so cute, I didn't realize he had caught on to that concept. I ran to grab the camera and got a few shots of our boy that is growing so quickly.

Brennan LOVES birds. I don't know if I have mentioned this, so if I have I'm sorry. Brennan can sign bird, say bird, and loves every morning seeing the birds on the roof of the house across the street. This is him pointing them out to me. Whenever we get out of the car his head immediately looks up. Always excited to see those fabulous birds of his.

I am just really in love with this little guy. He just loves being happy, loves to give love and he also has a little bite if things aren't going his way. He growls or yells at you and then smiles again so quickly he forgets why he was upset.

New Vacuum

So we decided after using the shop vac for a couple weeks that we had to get a new vacuum ASAP. By ,"we" I mean me. :) Like we have said before, Brennan loves when the tools are brought out. This time mommy got to share in the fun of putting something together with him. Our new toy is fabulous. Nothing fancy, but it does a great job of picking up the food storage worth of crumbs on our floors.

Random

I just don't even know what to say about these fabulous child of mine. He is so sweet and funny!

Inside the mini tent that we got when Brennan was a tiny baby. This was our Sunday afternoon fun. Brennan was coming and laying on top of us at first. Then Brennan continued to go to the outside and stick his face against the netting.

You can't see it, but we did some more tooth pulling for Sunday. Mason is a fight, but Mike got it out. :)

This was amazing! Okay, I am being a little over the top because Mason has been willing to share on many occasions. This was the first with Brennan. He was rewarded with fruit snacks for letting us get his tooth. Brennan was hounding him and was then quite pleased that Mason did share!

Mike's Helpers

Brennan got right to work when he saw Mike was working with one of his projects. Brennan has a passion for wood working already. Carter came down and set to work as well. They love helping Dad!

Balloons

Fun had by all.