Happy Halloween !!

Happy Halloween to Everyone ! It is like us to do things last minute so last night ,we finally got around to carving our pumpkins. It was great this year because Lily is old enough where she knows what to do and gets excited to do it. She wanted a smiley face and she told us that she wanted a " Nolan" mouth. Nolan has one tooth on the bottom of his mouth (that is his only tooth) so her pumpkin looks like a nolan mouth with one tooth on the bottom. Cute!! She was having fun digging for pumpkin seeds and scooping out the goop inside !!

Yesterday we also had Alex and the boys come over to play. We sure did have fun and we made mummy hotdogs for lunch. Yum!! It was great to mommy chat too :)

Halloween is tonight..Yeah!! We went for breakfast this am with Chris's aunts and his grandma, and my MIL Kim. We had fun. Then we ran some errands with Mom Kim and back at home now to get ready for trick or treating and then Mom Kims party.She has it every year and we always have fun. We are going to go trick or treating here, and then going out to visit relatives for a bit before heading to Mom Kim's house. Fun Halloween treats are on the menu here tonight at our house. I love Halloween.......

Anyways..Here are some pictures of the kids doing pumpkins and a picture of Lily's class at their Halloween party.

Our busy weekend...

We all have been sick with the flu here for the past week so it was nice to be back to our old self this past weekend. We had no play dates this past week, no school for Lily, no dance for Lily, no going anywhere . We were all house bound because all four of us were sick.
Saturday Auntie Coco came up to visit us with her b-friend Bubba. Lily loves Bubba (and Auntie Coco of course). He is such a great guy and the kids have so much fun with them. They visited for a little while then the kids and I went to the mall for the afternoon to shop for a gift for Great Grandma Janes's birthday party. Saturday we relaxed in the evening and Lily and I cooked some yummy fall time treats. Sunday we all went trick or treating at the zoo. It was a blast and we all had so much fun. It was cold though.... Typical for Halloween. Today we went to Great Grandma's birthday party. It was fun. We got to visit with everyone which is wonderful. Lots of talking and card playing :) My favorites.
Tomorrow is great Grandma's birthday and we are going Gambling...Just the girls. I am super excited. Out to breakfast then gambling..Let's hope I win big :)
Tuesday I am heading out with some lady friends then Weds is Lily's halloween party at school. Thursday Alex and her boys are coming over to play and then Friday is the big H-day!!! We love Halloween here at our house. Time for us to be a kid. The kids and I have things going on during the daytime and then when Chris comes home, we are taking them trick or treating and then off to a party later in the evening. YAH!!!! This weekend is also Elmo Live so Chris and I are taking Lily there. We got the tickets when they first announced the show so they are pretty good seats and up close. Hopefully she enjoys it :)
These are the kids costumes.... A puppy who just melts your heart and a fun loving Jo Jo from Jo Jo's Circus on the Disney Channel. (Thanks for the help with Lily's costume great grandma Jane)

Have a good week everyone and have a spooktacular halloween !!!

Sick Sick Sick !!

So.. The Erfurth household is sick with the flu. Yuck!! I have been lucky and haven't gotten it yet but I know that my turn is coming. We had the flu shots too, a couple of weeks ago so figure that. It started with Chris on Saturday and he has been sick since then. The kids started early this evening. It is going to be a long night for me :( This is Nolan's first time having the flu...poor little guy, and Lily's second time in 3.5 years...poor thing!!

Here are some pictures of the kids playing in our backyard yesterday and the ones on them in their jammies, are from a bit ago. They are sick but still have wonderful smiles on their faces. And yes... That is Nolan wearing a pink hat yesterday in the yard. It is Lily's old hat and it kept him warm. We wont tell him that he wore pink when he gets older :)

Oh..Almost forgot...We got our counter tops in and it looks great!! Pictures to follow when the kids are feeling better and the kitchen is not full of crackers and bottles of sprite.

Our weekend

We had a wonderful weekend. The weather was beautiful and warm. Saturday Chris had to work so the kids and I went to Dad and Mom Vander Velde's house. Papa raked leaves and the kids played and jumped in them for ever. Lily then wanted to bury Papa. Mom, Nolan, and I went shopping for a couple of hours and Lily got to spend the afternoon with Papa. She loved it. He takes her to the dump to dump off their trash and for some reason, that is her favorite thing to do. Papa has been helping us out at the house and gave us their left over rock that they used for landscaping around their addition. So he shoveled that with Lily and then took her to her favorite place, McDonalds.
Sunday, Chris was off so we all took our annual fall color drive up to Spring Green to Peck's pumpkin patch. Last year was the first year that we haven't gone since we were out of state, in all of the 10 years that Chris and I have been together. This has become our tradition and we enjoy the ride up there and the ride back eating all the fall treats we buy up there. It is a great place. Free horse and buggy rides, free train ride, free petting zoo, free inflatable houses, corn maze, playground, free haunted houses. It is great and FREE, except for the pumpkins of course!!!! It was about 76 degrees there yesterday so it was a beautiful day to take a ride and enjoy the Wisconsin fall colors. Now with fall here, I can't wait until winter and we can continue our winter tradition of taking the train ride all the way to downtown Chicago and spending a few days there. This was my favorite thing to do every year when we lived here and I can't wait to do it again.

Nolan will be one in a couple of weeks so we are planning for that.

595 Cherry Wood

Well...We have a camera now so the pictures have begun again. Here is what has been keeping us so so busy.

Our house..Excuse the mess please :)

We finally got a new camera...So now I can show you what has been keeping us busy for the past few months.

Here are some pictures of our new house. We are still in the process, as you can see, of redoing the rooms. The kitchen counters come next week and we have someone painting stripes on the Green dining room next week as well. Nolan needs some stuff in his room still and lots of our things are still in the garage. It is coming along, but here is a peek at some of the rooms. Excuse the mess. If you have kids, you know that your house will never be clean if kids are around or if your house is in the middle of remodeling. I didn't take a picture of the kids bathroom.It is still a work in progress.

October 2008

Fall is approaching us fast and we went to the apple orchard to pick apples with the kids. They had a blast. Here are some pictures from our day.