Adventures in Travels

I am on the road in Louisville Kentucky. I had high hopes for this trip to be uneventful. Too bad I was wrong on that. I had to gate check my laptop bag. So in order to keep my job and my laptop intact, I removed my laptop from the bag. When I got to the hotel, my wireless card was not in it's case in my bag. I think one of the baggage people took it! I can't believe it! I am glad that I took my laptop out of the bag to be safe, or I would be at the airport filing a claim right now!

Yikes, note to self, keep valuables on your person always..... and extra clothes and a toothbrush and cell charger and deodorant. gosh this has been an expensive year for traveling.

I am sure that tomorrow will be great, I am looking forward to getting some rest tonight. Back in Spokane on Saturday!

Halloween Finnegan Style!

Well, it was finally time to upload my halloween pics. Caden was a pirate and we are hoping that he can wear this costume until he is 8, just like the package says... well at least 1 more time!

We painted his face and he had a blast as a pirate. We went to his kindercare party on Friday night and then on Halloween morning, we went to a friend's halloween party. By the time it was trick or treating time, Caden didn't want to be a pirate any more. He wanted to be a pumpkin. Well, we didn't have a pumpkin costume, so he settled on a dragon. What do you expect, he is 2! So here the pictures are, enjoy! I am headed to Louisville tomorrow, so unless I figure out how to e-mail the pictures from my phone to the blog, don't expect any posts for 2 weeks. :) Back on Saturday!

Yes, the pirate has dracula teeth!

Layla & Cole playing pin the face on the pumpkin!

Caden & Layla eating their pizza and cookies. Yum!

Not the clearest picture, but this is Keegan and Caden - Keegan is 10 months old in this picture and he is a monkey. Caden is a dragon. yes his hair and face are green. He didn't want to wear the dragon hood and we had the facepaint & hair paint, so we went nuts!

Yep, I can still rock the flag team uni! This was our halloween family pic, caden was already cleaned off and changed.

This is the 3 kiddos after trick or treating. It was so fun to go out as a group because the little guys were so comical. Us parents might have had the most fun though.

Halloween preview

Bad picture quality on this... But this is what the little guy will be wearing for halloween

We are back

We are back from Mexico, and are back in the grind! uploaded my pics to facebook last night, so hope to upload some pics to the blog this weekend. When we got bacck from the cruise, I got the flu - probably the swine flu but didn't go to the doctor.

Caden did some funny things in mexico. One of the things he did was when we walked by a guy on the ship with a mohawk, he said - "mommy, that guy looks like a chicken!"

So funny, and the guy heard him too. Gotta love the filter free world that Caden lives in!

Happy Halloween!

We are ready to cruise!

That's right, we are packed and ready to head out for our cruise to Mexico. Caden & I are ready to say Bon Voyage. While I know there will be some tears at the airport from both of us while we say bye to Justin for a week. We are ready to have some fun. Getting ready for the cruise is a 2 week process. Even though I have been preparing and planning for months, there were still a lot of last minute items to get. We needed more sunscreen, kid headphones, a little suit for Caden, and enough summer clothes to not boil for a week. I think we have done it and we are ready. This is Caden in his suit - trying it on for the cruise. It's a winner all right!

This is a picture of Caden with his purple trumpet he got at the fair this year. Most annoying toy, but made him so happy!

See you in a week or so!

Staying busy - that's what we are doing

For Labor day weekend, we headed to Bellingham and Orcas to relax after all of my travels and to spend some family time. We started out with a wedding and ended on the island. My mom has a friend that has sheep, so she asked if we could come over and see them. Caden loved to feed the sheep. He thought that was pretty cool!

For an added bit of excitement, my parent's neighbor's cows got loose and we looked out the window, to see 3 cows in their driveway. They headed over to another neighbors, but it was pretty wild when they started running. The owner just said "I guess I should have fed them more yesterday"

This is Caden with his cousins. As you can see, Annie is learning to love books as much as Charlie.

We also had a giant nest under our deck - Pretty frightening!

My friend Jessica got married, so we got to go to the wedding which was fun. She is beautiful!

Caden can give a thumbs up, and here it is!

Another highlight for us was the fair. We went to the fair 2 times, and Caden really liked the rides. This is him on the bouncing cars. He really liked the motorcycles the best, but I didn't get a picture of that. The funny thing is that was Justin's favorite ride when he was little too.

This last picture is to show how daring this guy is. He can climb the rock wall at our church playground with no help. I was pretty proud of him for this, and then worried what else he might climb at our house. 2 1/2 years old - a little daredevil!

Family weekend in Pasco

So this is what good old fashioned fun looks like. We planned a family get together at my brother's house in Pasco. It was so fun for all of us to get together, and really made my mom happy to have all the kids and grandkids in the same place at the same time... she took the picture. We had a great time hanging out and were really entertained by Caden. He went down the waterslide more times than I care to count. He climbed up the ladder all by himself, and then went down on his own. I don't have any pictures of it because I forgot to bring the camera....

I am now headed to Chicago for another work trip, and then hopefully no travelling for a while.