Finally that boy is THREE!

Finally, Codes' birthday has arrived! Cody kept saying to me this morning, "When can I have my birthday??" He was getting upset about it when I told him all day was his birthday. Then I figured out he meant the cake and presents. =) Cody seemed really PROUD of being three today. He told everyone that called us!

Brian decided to take the party to S a f a r i Sam's (SS from here on down) because it does allow us to all have fun together and it wears these two out!


Here's a pic of them trying to go through the Black Diamond course. The sign says that in order to be able to try this course, you have to be able to get yourself on top of this blue cube. It's HARD! I always have to get a running start! Cody decided he didn't want to do it (after standing on the rope ladder) so I had to haul him up and out. Caitlin and Daddo were able to make it through though.

We did go through some of the jungle gym and went down the windy slide.

Cody tried to go down headfirst on his back. This is how he came out of the tube.

This is Caitlin's favorite game ever! She loves to try to win candy out of these "try 'til you win" types of arcade games. We did get a lot of loot from it though.

There's also a bouncy area that we've never tried before. The theme in the bouncy area was F i n d i n g Nemo. So this particular bouncy area had some great parts to play on.

See what I mean?

Here's Cody. This is his usual when we first get into SS. He always climbs on this ride (right in his initial line of sight) and pretends to RIDE. It's still a little too big for him, but it sure doesn't stop him.

There's also this SpongeBob driving game. Cody doesn't do too well when you put money in, because he can't remember to keep his foot on the gas. So, we tend to let him think he's playing when it just plays through the game trailer.

Unlike his Dad, Cody seems to like any type of pop. But, he does call them all "Pepsi."

Cody blowing out his three lone candles. Brian doesn't yet know the Andrusiak tradition of always adding "one to grow on."

Bri had to relight these candles because as soon as we starting singing, Cody started to blow them out!

Caitlin and I headed over to Albertson's to pick out a cake for Codes. We decided on cupcakes since there are only a few of us and we didn't want to be eating leftover cake all week long. Caity decided on these Halloween and Birthday ones!

These are the 4-wheelers that Caitlin decided to give him for his birthday. She knows how much he LOVES them and picked them out first.

Here is Codes unwrapping his Medical cart toy. I thought it might help to have him NOT just think about 4 wheelers and motorcycles. I wanted to help promote the idea that someday he might just not want to be an extreme sports athlete, but to consider becoming a doctor. heh, heh

It was a fun day. We hope for many more happy birthdays for all of us!

Pumpkin Patch!!!!!!

We usually go to this family owned pumpkin patch to buy our pumpkins. We had a beautiful sunny day and decided to go play and take a little tractor ride.

They have these wonderful hay bales that the kids love to play on! (They also usually have a hay bale maze for kids, but this year they were just stacked into rectangles.)

Here's Cody having some fun on the hay.

My beautiful little Caito trying to jump up onto the bales. They were a bit high, but she managed to pull herself up!

We were the only ones on the tractor ride, so we got to sit up front by the driver (who had his dog with him). We were also sharing this yummy nectarine!

Caitlin and Codes just chillin'.

Look at all those pumpkins. We couldn't bring ourselves to buy some because it was the very first week of October and we felt we would have mushy, gross pumpkins by Halloween.

They had these crazy fat, but flat pumpkins out front that did look like they could be worn as hats. Not quite though. Hopefully, we will get back there sometime soon (though now it's all busy) and get some pumpkins!!!!

Seattle

{I'm just warning you that these posts are out of order, but alas, you get to see all the latest pics.}

So, we went up to Seattle to visit our friends, James and Tisha. I KEPT forgetting my camera, which was so frustrating! But, I did manage to shoot a few pics of this wonderful TROLL under the Fremont Bridge! I can't remember who the artists were, but it was made out of cement with a shiny metal eye!

Brian, Caitlin and Cody climbing all over the troll. It's really amazing how big this thing is, especially the nose! That's a Volkswagon Beetle under the Troll's hand!

Here is Cody climbing up on the knuckles.

Up close of Caitlin and Codes!

Here's James trying to feed Cody to the Troll! For his efforts, he got all dirty from Cody's constant state of Pigpenishness.

We had a great time and only wish we had taken photos of the fountain, the Children's Museum, the Arcade, Pike's Market, etc. But, maybe next time!

My 100th post!!!!!

Wow! I actually made it to 100! That's pretty amazing to me. Finding time to blog seems difficult, though it's mostly because having time to myself just to relax is SO MUCH MORE desired at the end of my days than doing ONE MORE TASK. Sadly, blogging does often seem like a task, especially when blogger puts the pictures at the top and you have to try to move them and move them and move them. Sheesh.

But, now I'm back for a little bloggin'.

{By the way, still not quite finished with that paint job. Sure is hard to do with two little ones underfoot. BUT, might get finished this weekend!}