halloween

Taking a little rest during the Halloween parade at Annie's school.


Annie was going to be a princess and Jonah was going to be Darth Vader until they got their matching pajamas. It's definitely more fun to trick-or-treat when you can glow in the dark!


Getting ready to hit the neighborhood.


Scary skeleton counting his candy.


Trying to decide what candy to keep and what candy to leave out for the Sugar Sprite.

zeke judah

28 October 2008
9:55 AM
9 pounds 7 ounces
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at the wurst fest

Which, incidentally, is the best name for a festival. Ever.

Jonah and the ever fabulous looking Soren.

Annie scooting up the rock wall.

and now for some random pictures...

Because it takes me months to upload pictures off my camera.

At the zoo with Dylan.

First day of 1st grade. It was a bad morning. Something about her shoelaces not looking pretty enough after being tied.

A week later. You can see we've switched to non-lacing shoes.

Blackberry picking.

and the winner is...

Barack Obama. According to the kids at least. Evidently, those kids are usually pretty accurate.

Scholastic released the results of their kids election poll and Obama received 57% to McCain's 39%. Of course, you can't leave out those write-in votes for Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers! The interesting thing about the poll is that it has been correct in every election since 1964.

Can you hear the cheers emanating from the IslandFourSoonToBeFive household? Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama!

Annie has been learning about the election in school this week and she's excited to go to the polls with us when we vote. We found a Electoral College map that we're going to print out so she can color the states red or blue as the results come in. We'll even work on those math skills as we add up to 270. It could be a late night.

i can't wait!

I am SO going to make this for Thanksgiving this year! I mean, honestly, turkey and bacon. What could be better? And while I'm at it, I think I'll make this for Joel. Annie and I will probably eat an entire pumpkin pie by ourselves. That's assuming I have any room left after stuffing myself full of that turkey, my grandma's wild rice dressing (I might have to add some bacon or sausage to that this year) and garlic mashed potatoes. Oh, I really can't wait.

In the meantime, Jonah and I need to go make banana bread.

my surprise weekend away

Michelle.
Andrea.
Dairy Queen.
Sequim.
No kids.
Sleeping in to 10:00.
Oak Table (French toast and bacon!).
Big leather recliner.
Watching the Michigan game.
Shopping.
Sitting around reading magazines in the big leather recliner.
Candy.
Going to a movie.
No kids.
More shopping.
More magazines.
Watching Tina Fey on SNL (while sitting in the big leather recliner).
Sleeping in to 9:00.
No kids.

moment of panic

Jonah is our computer hacker. Or, a cracker as Joel calls him. It's seriously scary. When he was 6 months old we caught him pulling letters off of Joel's work laptop. Joel had to type without the "m" key for two weeks. Then there was the time he managed to push a random serious of buttons on the Mac which turned the monitor into a high contrast negative (imagine your screen looking like an old photo negative - remember those?). It took Joel two days to figure out what he did and how to fix it. The worst damage was to my fairly new MacBook which took a blow to the screen with a sippy cup and has never been the same (we now have to look at everything through a sort of purpley-greenish haze). He has broken two keyboards and somehow managed to break the recharging port for a laptop so it can no longer charge (or therefore work). You'd think we would have learned our lesson by now.

I just left the computer for less than a minute and came back to see that he was about to sign up me and ALL my Facebook friends for some sort of game called World Domination. It seems I have rallied 500 infantry soldiers to my side and am now posed to start my conquest. Luckily, we caught him right before he hit the "conquer world" button. We hope.