Here are some random pictures...

I would like to introduce you to Henry! I love him!! He is the greatest vacuum I have ever had! It's a German made product they give us along with a few other things to set up house...I will hate to leave him behind.



This is Liam-he isn't as fond of Henry as I am. He usually cries and "runs" away as fast as he can when Henry comes out. I can imagine being scared of a thing that makes a loud noise, has a face with a long nose and cashes after your mom while she walks around. So being in the high chair is a great place for Liam.

Sightseeing with Mom & Dick 9-16 thru 22nd

Mom and Dick came over for a visit and to sight see so we went to many different places. Some places I took them too we have been and have blogged for example Knaresborough, some places in York, etc.

Here is a slide show of some places that we took them too.

Clifford's Tower-York
York Museum-York
Papa helping Liam walk through an old church that is now an art gallery.
York Minister-York Which is so huge that pictures can't even describe how big it is! It was so pretty and ornate it was unreal...
The landscape is near Darley Mill (which I took them to the old Mill and we looked around, it's not a shop and they serve tea there as well)
The kids are at The World of James Herriot author of All Things Great and Small. We toured his house, barn, clinic (he was a vet) and TV studio were they filmed the shows based on his books. It was a really great stops for the entire family.
St. Mary's Church where James Herriot was married.
Newby Hall and Gardens.
Liam being silly
Then we had lunch here at our house with Diana & Malcolm Parsons. Diana and my late Aunt Marcy were pen pals for over 40 years. They never met the entire time they wrote letters, so it was a real treat to meet her.
Then we went to Bolton Abbey. It was beautiful day and people were everywhere, in the grass, the river, all over.

I have to get you caught up...

Well, September has been extremely busy here! The 8th and 9th we went to the Lake District to visit some friends...Bob & JoAnn Buchanan. Before we met them we spent the day at The World of Beatrix Potter. It was so fun. The kids were beside themselves when they saw Peter! It was so cute. The museum had the characters from all the stories recreated and placed in scenes of the stories. It was amazing. We walked around Windermere for a while and looked at the shops. This is where Beatrix Potter spent many of her summers. She also bought a lot of land and donated it to the National Trust preservation so there's a lot of undeveloped land there.

http://www.hop-skip-jump.com/ you can check out the website for more information about Beatrix Potter. Oh, you should also rent Miss Potter. It's a good movie about Beatrix and I believe they filmed it here.








Then we spent the night in Cockermouth (that's a real town...) got up and went to Keswick and spent the day with Bob & JoAnn, it was a great time.

Audrey and Logan before school 9-3-08

Liam waiting for his turn to go to school....poor guy. He came home and took a nap after we dropped the others off at their schools. What a life!!

Logan's 1st day of Nursery School 9-3-08

Logan in front of his class

Playing outside on playground

Logan in his classroom

His friend Sam

Logan's school
Today Logan started his first day of Nursery (Pre-K) at the Hampsthwaite Church of England Primary School (what a mouth full). He was so excited to be going to school. We walked him down to the school (after taking Audrey to her school, which she had a great time yesterday and wants to keep going!). Logan didn't even care that we were leaving him with teachers. He started playing right away and found that our neighbors children were in his class, he was very happy to see Bella and Sam.

Audrey's 1st day of Kindergarten 9-2-08

Audrey started her first day of Kindergarten today!! She is in Mrs. New's Kindergarten/1st Grade Class. It's a very small school and they combine the two classes and have the children help each other with the class work. It's a nice classroom and a very nice teacher.
Audrey was very excited to start school today and Logan was very upset that he didn't get to go with her! He starts his school tomorrow!!
Audrey only has a half day today and then tomorrow she will start classes 8:30am to 3:00pm every day of the week and Logan will go Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:30am to 11:15am.

We are back!

Hey there folks!
Well we have not updated anything for a while since BT phone services messed up our services! UGH!!! We didn't have phone and internet for almost a month...felt like the dark ages here. Even though we weren't online we were out doing things and having fun.

So I will update you all right now.



Liam, yes the little Steelers Fan! Turned 10 months old, he also has four top teeth, he is standing and creeping around the house and babbling all the time. He also had his first dentist appointment! He did so well and the dentist just loved him. Audrey and Logan did really well at this dentist too no crying, no screaming, and Logan went back in the room two or three times to try and have his teeth cleaned.



Logan became a tatoo artist and decided to experiment on himself first and use many colors. He was stained with markers for a few days. At least he didn't color on the walls or the carpets!




A DREAM COME TRUE!!!
We went to Bolton Abbey Station and saw Thomas the Tank Engine!! The kids loved it!!

We saw Thomas, Bertie (the bus), Daisy, Trevor, and Percy. They had so much fun and loved the train ride with Daisy, the bus ride on Bertie (a double decker bus that had no roof). On Bertie we kept having near hits with tree branches but it was fun. They met Sir Topamhat and went on a moon bounce, and more. It was a very special day to see all their TV characters right there. When they watched Thomas on TV the other day they kept saying things like "we rode on you!" "We saw you Percy!" It was fun.