Picnic on the Mountains

What a nice relaxing Sunday. Today all of us decided to take the Land Rover and 4 wheel drive it to the top of the mountains where we could have a picnic. We stopped and got a bucket of KFC chicken and headed up to the mountains. It was such a nice day for it too! The girls had a blast with the off roading on the bumpy dirt roads, as we bounced our way to the very top of the mountain! They were giggling in the back and going, "whoooooooaaaa" over every bounce! It was cute! When we got to the top, we stopped and took some pictures and then laid out some blankets and had our picnic overlooking an awesome view. Soon enough some other guys came up to go hang-gliding! (Is that one or two words by the way?) :)

We decided we would hang around to watch them take off the mountain! It was really cool watching them set up and get ready for the take off. We got some neat pictures of it too. After watching them take off, we headed back down the mountain and I took some video of us bouncing around on the ride back down. Then we went home and Michael stayed with the girls while I got some much needed Christmas shopping out of the way. :o) I swear NOBODY beats ROSS prices! I love that store! Anyway, here are the pictures of our little outing! It was fun :)

OMG!! Kori's First Poem! Age 8

Oh my goodness! Kori just brought me in this piece of paper and said, "Hey Mom, I wrote a poem, you want to see it?"

OH MY GOODNESS! Her FIRST poem and I LOVE IT and had to share. Here it goes:


By Kori Graham Age: 8 Date: 11-15-08

NIGHT TIME
The moon is out, the stars are bright.
I wonder what will happen tonight.
The sun's not up, the clouds are down.
No one knows when to howl.
I wish I may, I wish I might
See a shooting star that's bright.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't depend
How this night is going to end.

Halloween, Lobster, Birthdays and more.....

Well, I have been neglecting the blogging thing, so this may be a long one. :) It has been busy here lately. So here goes....
Halloween was fun! I will post some pictures. :) Kori was Hannah Montana (of course) and Gwen was (who else?) Dora! They were so cute. :) They went to two halloween carnivals this year!...

As for Halloween night, Mom, Dad, Wendy, Mat, Jaedon and Camryn all came over to our neighborhood for trick or treating. It was great. Jaedon and Kori even went in the haunted house this year. (there is a house in our neighborhood that turns their garage into a haunted house maze every year. It is pretty cool). All the kids got tons of candy. Little Camryn was so cute with her little Dorothy outfit and her tiny voice saying "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you". She looked adorable! Jaedon was Darth Vader, but he kind of gave up on the mask early on. :) He was so brave about going into the haunted house!

Then Wendy and the kids spent the night and the kids stayed up and watched the new Tinkerbell movie and ate popcorn and candy. It was fun. Here are some pictures:

Anyway, that was our halloween!!

Then, a few nights later Michael went lobstering and caught a bunch of lobster!! YUMM!!! So we went over to my Mom and Dad's house and had a lobster cookout. It was delicious. Those lobsters were so huge! He brought 7 home!! Check out these pictures!





















































Wow. Pretty crazy! Who would have thought those creepy looking things would taste so good? LOL. Anyway, we hung out with Mom and Dad for awhile and when we left we also took with us a new television set and Playstation 2! They got a new TV and a Playstation 3, so they let us take their old ones! Wooo hooo! Thanks Mom and Dad! :)

Then a few days after that it was my Grandpa's 87th birthday and my sister also turned 36, so we all went out and celebrated at Knott's Berry Farm's Chicken Dinner restaurant! :) It was great having so much of the family together and just talking and laughing it up. :)


























What a good time!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA AND WENDY!!

Last but not least, this last weekend we went and visited with a bunch of Michael's family who were in town staying with Aunt Linda's sister, Wendy. Michael's Aunt, Uncle and cousins (and many more) were all there and the kids had such a blast playing together. It was a huge party and we all just had such a great time. I am hoping to get some of the pictures emailed to me because I didn't bring my camera, but there were so many great pictures taken!

Anyway, it has definitely been a busy couple of weeks and I have finally gotten some time to update my blog. There is even so much more I could write about, but I will save it for my next blog, as I am ready to end my novel. Talk to you soon! :)

Man I am lucky :)