Silver Dollar City

Since we didn't get to go to Silver Dollar City last weekend, we all packed up and headed there this weekend. Believe it or not, but we got 3 car seats in the "grandma" car and all rode together!


We started with a stop for lunch


Will in his awesome polar bear hat waiting to get into SDC


Nora in her awesome owl hat





Will and Miles missed out on the Christmas lights

Train Ride (take 2)!

Last weekend we were supposed to go to Silver Dollar City, but the weather had other plans. It ended up being a cold rainy weekend, so we spent it here in town. Grandma came over though and we rode another train! It was a holiday train so Santa came to visit!

Riding the train


Enjoying a cup of hot chocolate


Miles was there in his Christmas jammies


This is how we spent the second half of the train - playing games on the iphones


Mom trying to get a picture together

Little Troublemakers

Mom and Dad always call us troublemakers because we are ALWAYS in to something. We got left alone outside for a minute and look what happens:





Sometimes though we can be helpful. See here I am helping Mimi at Thanksgiving. I helped make the potato casserole and the turkey cookies!






Here we are having fun at Mimi and Poppi's house. The look on Will's face says it all:


Will visiting with Pawpaw Bill:


Speaking of troublemakers, here are a couple more! Aunt Sara and her dog Mozart! Sara is due with her first baby in April. She looks super cute with her little tummy!


And finally, a family shot from the Lights of the Ozarks.

Train Ride!

For Miles's birthday, we went to Branson to ride the train! It was lots of fun for me and Miles!


Standing in front of our train!


I loved having Miles and Grandma there



Enjoying the ride


We got to ride in one of the "bubble cars"

Happy Halloween!

I have been excited for Halloween for weeks! I'm so excited to wear my costume and eat candy! Sunday, our school had a fall carnival. Will and I had a good time.





















And tonight of course we went trick or treating! Miles came over and got to go with us. William and I loved it!

Pumpkin Carving

Today we invited our Korean friends over for dinner and pumpkin carving. They don't celebrate Halloween in Korea, so they were excited about the pumpkins! I asked Mommy all day to carve the pumpkins so I was also very excited when it was finally time.


Nora and Will ready to begin!


Our Korean friends working hard on their first pumpkins





The finished products

Its been a while...again

So our computer crashed not too long ago, so I haven't been able to use it for a while. Thankfully one of Walt's computer savvy friends was able to save all our data and make the computer work again. Its not working great, but its working. We don't have windows anymore so its taken a while for me to figure out how to get pictures on here.

We've also been pretty busy around here with school and work so I don't have many pictures to share. I promise I'll try to do better.

Will (like Nora) loves the iphone. Scary how well they can already use it!



We are also participating in the Friendship Family Program through the University. We have two international students from Korea, that we are supposed to meet with and show what American family life is like. We've met them twice now and they are both very nice. I just hope we are interesting enough for them!

Last weekend we took them to the botanical gardens and to the trail at Lake Fayetteville. It was a nice (almost hot even) day and I think they enjoyed it.


Cheesy face Nora :)


cool caterpillar - Nora was the one to actually spot it


Daddy and Will in the Children's Garden


Nora and our international students

Pictures!!

Okay since its been so long - here are a bunch of pictures from the past several weeks. These are all phone pictures so they probably aren't that great. Mommy got her new memory card so the next set should be better.

William and Great-granddaddy

Helping Grandma make rolls

Eating ice cream at the "cow house" (or Maggie Moos)

Dress up time