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

Wow, its been a while!

We have been busy since I started back to work (a month ago!!). The kids are both doing great at school. They seem to love it there and their teachers always comment on how happy they are, so it going great. My job is going good too. Its the busy time of year at the financial aid office, so I keep busy during the day! My co-workers are great and so far I'm liking it there.

Walt has been in Yuma helping out at his old job for the past two weeks. Luckily Mimi and Poppi were able to help out. Mimi was up here the entire first week to keep the kids and then she took Nora back home with her for the second week.

I also just want to throw a big CONGRATS out to Emily, Patrick, and Miles who just announced they are expecting baby #2! I might also be pretty jealous because they just got back from a trip to the Caribbean and are now headed to Italy for 3 weeks. I'm expecting European chocolate :)

And of course my camera card is full so I haven't been taking any pictures, but I'll try to remedy that soon.

Changes

Things are going to be very different around our house next week. Tuesday, Mom starts a new job at the University and Will and I will be going to Montessori School. Mom has been trying to make the past couple of weeks fun. We've been to silver dollar city, a bouncy house place, the botanical gardens, the park, to eat ice cream, and to eat sno cones.

Mommy is going to miss being home with us everyday but we'll have to make it up by having fun on the weekends! I'm excited about starting school and look forward to it. Will on the other hand, has no idea what's coming - hopefully he enjoys it too!