Gilberts on Main

Have any of you been to Gilberts on Main in Bellevue? Brian and I went there last weekend because he had a gift certificate for a free breakfast. I ordered french toast and eggs, and Brian ordered Pankcakes and eggs. We were thinking this would be enough to fill 1 plate. But then it showed up and we both had 2 full plates of food. It was SOOO good, but even at that I still couldn't finish more than half of what they gave me. We definately give Gilbert's an A+.

Bat-O-Lantern

Will is going to be Batman this year for Halloween. So naturally, we needed to make him a Bat-O-Lantern. :) I think it'll look pretty cool once it's lit up.

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

This last Saturday Brian and I took Will and Mickayla to a pumpkin patch outside of Monroe. Stephanie, Trevor and John (Stephanie's little brother) also came. We had lots of fun doing all sorts of things.

Hay ride, pulled behind a big tractor

Shooting little pumpkins with a pumpkin launcher

Playing on a pirate ship

Will thought the sun was too bright. So he put Brian's beanie over his eyes and Brian led him around.

Will picked out his pumpkin and then drug it over to the wheel barrow.

I made them take this picture - hence the forced smiles. :)

We had lots of fun at the pumpkin patch. But little did I know that they charged a crazy amount for the pumpkins. I think time we'll do all the activities at the pumpkin patch, but then stop at Safeway on the way home to pick up our pumpkins. :)

William is 3!

Will turned 3 this last Saturday, the 27th. He was with his dad on his actual birthday, so we celebrated with Will on Sunday. When he first got home I asked him how old he is now. He said "I'm gonna be 3." And I said, "No, you are 3 now." His eyes got huge and then he said, "I'm 3!?!" and when I confirmed he got so excited and said, "I'm 3, I'm 3!"

Brian got him a set of little action figures for his birthday, which we gave to him early so that he could help us decorate his cake. He decided that he wanted them all very close together, and practically touching. Not exactly what I was planning on doing, but hey, it's his cake.

When we sang him Happy Birthday and he blew out his candles we all said "OHHH!!!" in unison as he drooled all over one corner of his cake. lol. It instantly made me think of Keith. I know how he thinks it's gross that even adults blow out the candles and then serve the spit on cake to their friends. So this was just too perfect. I cut off the drooled on corner of the cake, put it in a tupperware and FedEx'ed it to Keith. :) We ate the clean side of the cake. :)

I can't believe my baby is 3 years old! He's getting so big. But one good thing about that is the he gives the best hugs!

Brian earning his stay

With both of the boys gone mom and dad need someone to help with the man stuff around the house and yard. Lucky for them Brian spends more time at there place than at his own home. So he does things like cutting down branches for them to earn his stay. :) What a good helper.

Leavenworth

This last weekend Brian and I decided to get away for a day. We left Friday afternoon and headed up to Leavenworth. When we were checking into our hotel we made the front desk guy laugh. He gave us a coupon for 10% off their restaurant. We didn't really react to that. But then he gave us a coupon for buy one get one free mini-golf. At the same time Brian and I turned to each other and said "yes!" Ha, we're dorks.

We enjoyed our mini golf. I especially enjoyed it because I beat Brian by one point! :)

Rather than the traditional leavenworth meal of weiner schnitzel and beer we went and had dinner at a tiny little place with really good pink lemonade and ate salmon and shrimp crepes.

A very nice man in a leiderhozen took this picture for us. :)

Ellensburg Rodeo

A few weekends ago Brian and I took Will out to the Ellensburg Rodeo. We had a great time. When we got in to Ellensburg we decided to have a healthy lunch off MickeyD's. To our surprise, Ronald McDonald was there. Will said "I wanna picture with that guy." So Brian took the below picture. :)

The Rodeo was a lot of fun and we saw some interesting events. One of which was very exciting and I had never seen it before. It was wild cow milking. One guy roped the cow and the other jumped off his horse and tried to wrestle the cow to a stop. Then the guy who roped the cow got of his horse and tried to milk the cow into a little bottle. It was hilarious, and I think only one team finished successfully. Will's favorite event was the calf roping. He enjoyed telling everyone about it later and it went something like this, "cowboy... with hat.... on horse... and a rope... baby cow... rope him."