Spittles

Lauryn and her friend went as a hot dog and fries

Nickolas the bunny and Logan the monster

Emily and Logan

Luke the fireman

Jacksen the power ranger

Mackenzie the fairy

Had a great Halloween again! We all went to April's old neighborhood to spend the evening with her former neighbors (they have the best block parties all year long) We started off with a pot luck with about 15 families or so complete with "brain jello" mummy dogs, plenty of fabulicious chili and more. After dinner we all went out trick-or-treating as a big group. What fun! The kids loved spening time with their cousins and friends while collecting a ridiculous amount of sugary treats. Someone gave Lukas a full size bag of skittles and he came running down the sidewalk and said "look Daddy, I got spittles" He's never called them spittles before so it was great for a laugh. We got a bit of rain towards the end of the evening so it gave us a great excuse to head for home ( I was praying for it, since my feet were in pain after all the walking and I had to nurse the baby) Happy Halloween!

Back to the farm

I spent last Thursday back at Bishop's pumpkin farm for a field trip with Mac and Jack. I have really enjoyed being able to go on School field trips with them. They picked out some great pumpkins (which we never did carve...) The day after Halloween Mackenzie said " hey, we still need to carve our pumpkins Mom" Someday we'll get them carved BEFORE Halloween.

Happy 3rd Birthday Lukas!!

Wowee!! A new Trike

Uncle Chris visiting and of course Puzzling with Lukas

Making a wish

More Cars!!! Yahoo

Can you believe it?? I am 3!!

I am a bit behind on posting recent happenings at the Onstine house. We celebrated Lukas' 3rd Birthday last week and boy did we have fun! He wanted to share the day with a few of his good buddies: Jimmy, Gavin, R.J. and Noah. We had a "Cars" party since he is still not sick of Disney Cars (it's been over a year now that he's been married to all his cars) He got a new trike thanks to the Birthday Money from the Grandparents (Thanks everyone)

At 3 Lukas is:

Smart ( I think it's all those puzzles)

Funny ( we have Randy to thank for this one)

Witty (of course he is, he's 1/2 Witt)

Helpful ( he doesn't have a choice :)

Imaginative (he loves to play and make up funny dialogue)

Strong-willed (we have Amber to thank for this one)

Loves to sing (we sing songs all day and sometimes late in the night)

We love you Lukas Christopher, Happy Birthday Bugga!!

bikes+falling+asphalt=stitches

Checking out his new stitches in the mirror
SEE?!

Nice one Lukas!! Now you and Mommy will have matching scars

Seriously, no really, no seriously, what is the deal with little boys and accidents?! In the last 7 days Lukas has been hit in the head by a rock (lots of bleeding and a butterfly band aid), he then fell on the corner of Nonnie's coffee table and the glass cut and bruised under neath his eye, then today he comes in screaming again with blood dripping from his chin. He had the EXACT same accident I had as a child. He was riding his little bike down the driveway ( you know what's coming next...) he hit the junction where the driveway meets the street and BLAMMO, face first (or shall I say chin first) onto the asphalt. Shoot, I thought while trying to nurse the baby ( I really am an unsympathetic parent some times) While the baby lay screaming on the couch to be fed more, I got up to assess the damage. "It's not that bad" I kept telling myself out loud, but as I cleaned away the blood, dirt and gravel I realized "OHHHH, it IS that bad" No butterfly band aid is going to repair this amount of damage. Lucky for me Randy was almost home. I called our Doctor (who is absolutely wonderful) he said he'd wait at his office for Lukas since the office was closing. They had him in and out in no time and Lukas came home with 4 stitches and 4 lollipops. Randy is amazing and is getting used to taking the kids in for damage repair. Remember, he was the one that had to take Mackenzie in to the ER when she broke her arm (very badly, almost needed surgery) because I was in Atlanta... Thanks Daddy!! WHAT A DAY!!

A bit of nastalgia

Hello Gorgeous!! I've been wanting to post some of these old photos of my Mom since I worked on her Scrapbook but it would have ruined her surprise party so, I'm posting them now. How cute are these??

Surprise!! Nonnie turns 60

Mom and the girls
FABULICIOUS Witt girls
A scrapbook of Nonnie's childhood
we even dressed up Nonnie's dog
Grandpa Wheeler chatting it up with Nickolas

Linda J's fabulous glasses
Some of Mom's life long friends
Logan and his fuzzy red hat
Mac, Jack and Luke
Mom and Mac

Isn't this an awesome cake
Before the party we all tried on Nonnie's many wigs, even Randy
Even Jack looks adorable in Nonnie's wigs
The Queen cutting her cake

On Friday we pulled off the best "Red Hat Lady" surprise party for Nonnie's 60th birthday. It was Awesome!! We'd been working really hard to keep this a serious secret which if any of you know us Witt girls, wasn't easy, especially since we talk to Mom at least once a day and sometimes many times a day. Now her birthday is really on September 26th but since she was in Hawaii for 10 days (snivel, snivel) we had to postpone our party plans.

We chose a red hat lady theme (Thanks to Mom's friend Judy) because Mom has spent her entire life serving everyone else and now it's time for her to have fun, which is what the Red Hat Society is all about. We got her a cake in the form of a big red hat, it was so great and everyone showed up wearing red hats too. We had the house decked out in big fluffy feather boas, flowers and Kazoos on strings adorned our necks.

We had one false alarm and ended up waiting in the dark for a couple minutes until we realized they were not home yet. We called Cal to see where they were and he let us know he was stuck shopping ( of course she would be shopping right?) So we let him know we were more than ready. With an extra 20 minutes on our hands we started pulling out all of Nonnie's many many wigs and reading glasses to try on. We played "dress up like Luana" It was hilarious to see some of Mom's friends trying on her wigs and glasses. We had an entire room full of Luana-look-a-likes until our party was interrupted by Mom walking through the door. Finally they arrived!!

With the lights turned off, Nonnie came walking in the door. She stopped a couple feet in the door, noticed Mackenzie and said "hey what are you doing here?" We flipped on the lights and yelled out "SURPRISE!!" Was she ever! What a memorable night for all of us. The food was tasty, the cake moist and fluffy, and the company fun. We had also put together a DVD/slide show of her life and I made a scrapbook including many of the same pictures. What a joy it was for me to work on. One thing I LOVE about scrapbooking is all the time I get to spend thinking about the people and events I am crafting, it fuels my creativity. Working on my Mom's photos was like using premium gasoline for my creative mind, what quality fuel!

So, Happy Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!!

A day at Bishops Pumpkin Farm

Who doesn't love a fabulicious ice cream cone??
where they farm the GIGANTIC pumpkins

Cheese boys!
Lukas having trouble with his ice cream cone
One tooth coming in on top, one to go...
where we ate, and how we felt (like piggies)
All in the family
Mommy and Lukas
Jumping in the hay
It was our cousin play date

Randy and Peter

Spent some time Saturday at Bishop's Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland, Ca. We love this place and go there every year with the kids. This year we decided to make it the spot for our October cousin play date. We met up with April, Peter and girls for the afternoon. There are no pictures of the kids in the actual pumpkin patch because we are going again in 2 weeks for their school field trip where we'll get pumpkins. Bishop's has hay rides out to the patch and back, a corn maze, train rides, a petting zoo (Mackenzie's favorite part of the day) gold panning for marbles, jumping in the hay (they have this big area of mattresses covered with hay) which the kids loved! (maybe it was all the dust they created, those piggy little kids) They have bakeries on site with every yummy fall creation you can think up including fresh apple cider and of course anything pumpkin. The kids and cousins really enjoyed themselves and so did we.
We'll be back the day before Halloween. Happy Pumpkin Carving everyone!