We're ready for our close-up!

Marc had school pictures taken yesterday. I thought both kids looked super cute, so of course I had to take their pictures. :)

This is Marc looking super handsome!
These are my two super-cute kiddos!!Samantha really looks up to her big brother! ;)

Fun Saturday!!

We started our Family Fun Saturday out by going to Klackle's Orchard. We have taken Marc there every year since he has been old enough and this was Samantha's first time to Klackle's. It was her first time to an apple orchard and to a pumpkin patch.

She was very curious about the apples on the trees. Sam enjoyed grabbing at all of the leaves, she was actually more fascinated by the leaves then the apples.

She loved licking the apples though. We actually had to take them away from her, she liked them so much!

It is a yearly tradition to go to Klackle's and take this picture of Marc.....

And we began the tradition for Samantha too.

After we got done playing at Klackle's we took Marc to go trick-or-treating in Downtown Rockford. We bought his this costume to take to Disneyland's Halloween party, not realizing how big it was. We will not be able to fit it in our suitcase to take it with us, so I am glad he got to wear it once.

All in all, we had a very fun, and tiring day. :)

Sitting Pretty

Yea!!!! Samantha is finally starting to sit up on her own. She will sit for about 20-30 seconds on her own. If she moves a little bit, she falls over, but hey, it's a start! :)

Red Flannel 2008

We went to Cedar Springs' annual Red Flannel Festival today. This was Samantha's first Red Flannel Festival.

There were a bunch of Star Wars people there as part of the festival.
They offered Jedi Training for $5. We had Marc do it. It was very cute. they went step by step on how to use the light saver.

After the training was over, Marc got a certificate of completion. He is now a padwon (Jedi in training).

Jewelry Party

Ok.......I have a confession to make......I am a jewelry addict. :) I like having a bunch of really pretty jewelry, but I am not willing to spend all the money that is necessary, so I have a jewelry party once a year. I have lia sophia jewelry parties. They have awesome hostess benefits! I had a party in the end of September. I got about $1,000 in jewelry for about $200, needless to say, it is worth having people in my house for 3 hours to get all the free jewelry! Mom, below is a picture of all the stuff I got. If anyone is intested in having a party, let me know and i will contact my representative.

Nature walk field trip with school

Marc's preschool class had a nature walk and picnic field trip this morning. It was fun. We walked down the White Pine Trail looking for nature things to put on his "sticky bracelet"(masking tape with the sticky side facing out). We found leaves, flowers, and twigs. We took a picture of all of the 5's kids and their teachers. (Marc is way in the back on the right).

We walked with Clara and her Mom, Tracy most of the time. Whenever I got too far ahead or too far behind them, Marc told me to hurry or or slow down. One time we got separated and when he found Clara, he said "There's my buddy!" When we ate lunch we had to put on blanket down right next to hers. I had to struggle with him to pay attention to Daddy, who made a special trip down for lunch with us. I think we might have out first crush in action. ;) If it is, we couldn't have hoped for a nicer girl and family for his first crush. :)

Raggs! Dance Party Live on Stage

Marc got free tickets to go see Raggs! on stage. Raggs is a tv show on PBS and has colorful dancing and singing dogs.

We figured, it's free, what the heck, so we went. We took Samantha and Marc.

Samantha was mesmerized by all of the colorful movement on stage. It was fun, they sang catchy tunes that got us all bee-boppin'. Daddy even got to go an stage and be part of the show. The dance-o-meter needed new shoes to work, so the Raggs crew gave Daddy's shoes to the dance-o-meter to use. While daddy shoe's were off, he got to wear bright yellow bunny slippers on stage! :).

When the stage hand came to ask us if Marc would do it, I immedicately said yes!, I'm not sure if Daddy was pleased with me....oops! I think he had fun anyway. :)

We went to the circus!!

We decided that Marc was finally old enough to enjoy, and not be scared by, the circus. We also had a coupon for a free ticket for his first visit to the circus. We went on Sunday after church while Grandma Terri watched Samantha. We had a blast! When we got there we got to go down and "be part of the circus". We got to go down to the floor and watch some of the cats perform close up. We watched a lady on her flying silk, a clown juggling, some acrobats, and saw an elephant up close!

We then went and found our seats. We were in row 'K' right in front of the middle ring. We had great seats! We could see everything that was going on. Marc didn't know where he should look first!

As we were walking out Marc looked up at Daddy and I and said, with the biggest grin on his face, "That was soo much fun!". As we were driving back to pick up Samantha, he asked if we could go back to that circus again sometime. I guess it was a successful trip! :)

Funny Marc-isms

Having an almost 5 year old makes me laugh sometimes. He comes up with some of the cutest things to say. Here are a couple of them......

He was decorating a project for preschool and he asked if he could use some of those "consequences" things. I told him I wasn't sure what he was talking about. He said, you know, the shiny things I used to decorate my bug for the library? What he meant to ask to use was sequins. :)

One day we were out driving around. Daddy passed the building we wanted to go to, so Marc told him "It's ok Daddy, just do a louie to turn around." :)

As he says more I will try to post them so you guys can have a good laugh too.

Yummy Bananas!

Well......Samantha tried bananas for the first time the other night.....

and she liked them! :)