Fall Festivities

I have compiled the last month's pictures filled with all of our fall activities!

When we first arrived in Boise, my parents came up and we went to this place called The Farmstead. We had so much fun watching pig races, eating a dutch oven dinner, homemade doughnuts, and cotton candy. We went through the corn maze and rode the cow train! All in all it was lots of fun!

Later on in October, we got together with our friends, Jordan and Jessica. We ate dinner and carved pumpkins! We always have so much fun with the Harris family. Thanks guys!

Because we didn't have enough pumpkins for all of us, I bought more and carved pumpkins for Coleman and Teegan too. So Yes, I got to clean up that disastrous mess twice!

For Halloween, Coleman was a pumpkin and Teegan was a spider (Coleman's costume 2 years ago). The pumpkin costume I frantically sewed after getting back from Hawaii and recovering from a terrible cold. It definitely isn't the best thing I've ever sewn, but I'm grateful to my sister for helping me figure it out. And I'm grateful to Phil who helped me design the pumpkin. We are starting to think that maybe he should have been a costume designer instead of a Nurse Anesthetist! (I'm sure we would have made more money the other way around!) Anyway, on Halloween, we got together with Jordan and Jess again. They made us a delicious dinner filled with spaghetti and ribs! Yum! They made it look incredibly edible too (not)! :) We went Trick-or-Treating and watched movies, and laughed at Coleman and Blake frantically RACING to the door to help pass out candy to the other Trick-or-Treaters! It was a blast and hope yours was too!

Hawaii

Aloha!! We just got back from a week long vacation on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Here are few highlights of our trip:
*Waking up to the very loud rooster every morning at 5 am
*Going to Sacrament meeting in Hanalei.
*Going Boogie Boarding, lots and lots of Boogie boarding!
*Building Sand Castles, lots and lots of Sand Castles!
*Going to the Luau.
*Hiking the Kailua Ridge Trail along the Na Pali Coastline.
*Watching a Monk Seal
*Sitting on the Beach in Hanalei.
*Going to the Farmer's Market and getting delicious tropical fruits and flowers!
*Phil and I going tubing down the mountain. So fun!
*Snorkeling at Lydgate Park.
*Getting EXTREMELY sunburned.
*Snorkeling at Tunnels.
*More Boogie Boarding in Hanalei.
*Geocaching in Princeville
*Watching the sunset from the St. Regis hotel
*Receiving a BEAUTIFUL pearl necklace from Phil (Love you so much!)
*Touring Oahu
*Shopping at the Flea Market
*Seeing Pearl Harbor
*Eating a Shaved Ice from Matsuimoto's
*Walking around the grounds of the Lai'e Hawaii Temple.
*Enjoying the Food Festival at BYU-Hawaii

I know that was a long list, but it was such a fun week. Teegan got sick towards the end, and I severely burned my legs on the second to last day, but other than that, it was perfect! Here is a slideshow of a few of our pictures. We took about 300!

I'll try to blog pictures of our house in the near future. It's too dirty to take pictures of right now, though!
Mahalo!

~Megan

Bad Decisions

I just feel like SCREAMING!!! I just spent the last 8 1/2 hours in the car with my three year old, my one year old, and Phil. It has been a very long day. It has been a very long WEEK. It is moving week. Right now we are in Rapid City, South Dakota on our way to Boise. We left Sioux Falls at 10 am, and just barely made it our hotel. I drove for a little bit today, which was big mistake #1. This mad Phil go crazy. Then Phil thought it would be fun to visit the Badlands, which it was interesting to see, but this became big mistake #2. Coleman PUKED all over the place. He got totally car sick winding through all the crazy "big rock mountains". Then after seeing 500 signs about "Wall Drug" we decided to check it out and this became big mistake #3. What a dump! I think we were the only ones there under 75! Anyway, I just needed to vent while waiting for the pizza to be delivered and Phil to come back from doing the vomit laundry. I guess that is all for now. Soon we are headed to the water park that is part of our hotel. Hopefully it won't turn into bad decision #4.

Need More Time

I know I'm supposed to post about Coleman's birthday, BUT . . . right now we are in the middle of trying to potty train Coleman. I feel like I only get short 5 minute spans on the internet to do anything, which means, definitely not enough time to upload the Gazillion pictures I have. With a whole lot of hoping and a huge amount of luck, Coleman will get the whole idea of the potty down soon, and I'll be able to spend a bit more time to blog. Until then, please feel free to give me any tips or advice, so I don't stick this kid back in diapers and call it good! :)

Happy Happy Birthday!!

I have spent the night (well since Coleman went to bed) preparing this:

Tomorrow is Coleman's Birthday and this is what he is waking up to. I can't believe he is already turning three. It amazes me how time flies! Anyway, I just want Coleman to know how much I love him, and I hope he has a wonderful birthday!

Oh and I'll try to be a bit more on the ball and post the activities of the big day!

Graduation Weekend

I realize I am soooooo behind on blogging. Graduation weekend actually happened about two weeks ago, but you can read about it now anyways! It started with Phil's family joining us on Wednesday where we showed them some of our favorite parts of Grand Forks, like the river walk and the parks. My parents joined us the next night and it was lots of fun and playing from then on. I didn't get very many pictures of everyone and I appologize for that. We are so grateful for everyone who joined us in celebrating Phil's great accomplishment!

Coleman playing on the monkey bars with Grandpa Roylance.

I LOVE this picture! I didn't realize how crazy his hair was! :)

All the boys on the slide. Looks to me like one of those boys is a little large to be up there!

Teegan swinging with Uncle Andrew

Phil doing "under-dogs" to Coleman

Phil doing "under-dogs" to his 28-year-old younger brother, Andrew! Nice!

I thought this was hilarious! We were just hanging out playing the wii, and we decided that Phil's parents should learn how to play Guitar Hero. Here's to you Kyle and Cindy!

So both Grandpas decided that even though it was like 50*, the boys should still play at the splash park. Oh well, they had lots of fun, and besides that is what Grandpas do best!


Phil and I enjoying LOVED having all the family in town! We got so much help with the boys! I almost forgot I was a mom! :) (Just Kidding!)

Phil's graduation ceremony actually wasn't too bad. I had lots of help from the grandparents and Andrew's phone, and the whole thing only lasted about 1 1/2 hours. Just an FYI, the next few pictures are a bit fuzzy, because apparently, there were finger smudges on the lens. Of course, we didn't figure this out until afterwards. Oh well! If anyone got clear pictures, please send some my way. Thanks!

Walking across the stage to receive his fake diploma!

As Phil was doing his little processional march out of the auditorium, he passed right by us, and Teegan decided he was going with Dad. Too cute!

Grammy made all of us a lei to celebrate Phil's graduation. They were filled with money and candy! SWEET! :)

We decided to have a pre-birthday party for Coleman while family was in town. We drove out to Turtle River . . . in the pouring rain, and found a shelter to celebrate. Grammy decided Coleman should have a "Lightning McQueen" party, and he loved it! Here he is getting ready to blow out the candles!

Coleman working on the principle of sharing. Frosting, yum!

Riding his new tricycle from Grandma and Grandpa Roylance

Coleman opening up presents from Grammy & Grumpy's (Leapster Leap Frog, Animal Book, Outfit, "Cars", and Magnadoodle)

After the little party, we decided to use Grumpy's GPS and go geo-caching. We started out on our adventure, that was later nicknamed "The Death March". The hike wasn't so bad, besides the mud, but the mosquitos were HORRIBLE!!! Every time you stopped walking, they would swarm you. We all put on bug spray, but it had no effect on those darn bugs.

It was so pretty on our little hike. This is where the GPS told us the geo-cache would be, but we couldn't find it. Maybe next time (when the mosquitos aren't out in full force)!


Hopefully I'll be more on the ball, seeing how I still have tons to post, but this is all of our Graduation celebrating, so I'm heading out now!

A Little of This . . . A Little of That

I just had this conversation with my two (okay three in a couple weeks) year old son. I look over and see Coleman and Teegan playing under the kitchen table, and Coleman is holding his hands together kind of funny.
Me: Coleman, what are you doing?
C: I'n holdin' the baaalloons.
M: Oh, you have balloons?
C: Sure, at the zooo.
M: You are at the zoo?
C: Yeah, Teegan the monkeys.
M: Teegan is a monkey.
C: Yeah Mom. Uh oh, the baaalloons all gone.
M: Where did the balloons go?
C: I let go in sky.
M: You let them go up in the sky?
C: Sure Mom.

I can't believe his imagination! It just makes me smile! This whole scene sounds like it is from his book "Curious George". Anyway too funny . . . I had to share!

On to more updates, we have been meeting up at the park with friends lately and having lots of fun.
Todd was nice enough to bring water balloons and his launcher to keep the big boys entertained!
He was also nice enough to share with the little boy-who was told by the big boys to "go get your mom". Nice.
I found Teegan sneaking into the picnic basket while waiting for our dinner to finish grilling.Don't worry, he scored! He found the warm biscuits and started digging in . . . literally!
And to finish off . . . I moved over to the dark side . . . as in I'm now a brunette. For those who don't believe me-and for those who haven't seen me-here are a couple pictures to prove it. (This is for you Jennifer M.!) I am still having a hard time getting used to it, but I'll live with it for now. I haven't said anything to my mom, yet, and would kind of like to keep it that way until she sees me in a couple days. She has warned me not to do it, so it will be interesting to see her reaction in person. Anyway, here you go:

Oh, I almost forgot, Phil is graduating on Friday with his Masters in Nurse Anesthesia!
I sent out some announcements to some family . . . sorry other family and all friends . . . I ran out of time and money. Anyway, everyone is welcome to come join us at the Chester Fritz in Grand Forks on Friday at 3 pm. We will also be having a small open house for him on Saturday night at our house. Bring a dessert to share if you would like to join us!