Scooter at the Movie

Tonight we took Corbie to see Madagascar II. We had taken him to see National Treasure II when he was a small baby, but that time our intention was for him to sleep through the movie.....which he did. So this was really his "first" movie going experience and he did great. He absolutely loved the movie. He sat on either me or Layne's lap the entire time and watched very intently (until the little girl in front of us got up and started flirting with him towards the end of the show and of course....suddenly we weren't good enough for him). We had a great time and he did very good for his first motion picture outing. We haven't stopped singing.....I like to Move It Move It....since!

Pumpkin Patch

Tonight we took Corbin to Cochran's Produce to pick out some pumpkins for Halloween. He didn't really get the jist of what was going on and the pumpkins certainly weren't all that interesting to him, but in his mind there sure was a lot of space to run around. We actually had to either put him in the big metal wagon or trap him down in a middle of a big stack of pumpkins to get him to cooperate with any picture taking.The Hassell family had the same idea in mind and they met up with us there which was a lot of fun. Corb's had fun with the kids and enjoyed climbing up the haystacks. We all had a really good time and I don't think we could have planned it any better if we had tried.
Afterwards, we had a nice dinner at a new restaraunt in town called Zucca's. The waiter was very nice and really had a good time with Corbin. It was a really nice family night out.

Annual Halloween Party

Layne and I got invited again to the Cook's annual Halloween Party. It's just a big excuse for a bunch of grown adults to get together, look and act like idiots, and have a great time.

This year the theme was the '60's. They did a murder mystery again (...luckily I wasn't the murderer this time). I was supposed to be "Aurora Astral," a hippie who believes strongly in the psychic auras and energy of all living things. I apparently practice astrology, tarot and I Ching divination and I seek to cleanse my body of negative karma and impurities. Layne was "Juan Valdez," the Columbian coffee enthusiast who manufactures and sells organic coffee beans.

We had a great time and as you can imagine the costumes were hilarious!!! Everyone really puts a lot of time and energy into making this a very fun party each year. Thanks for keeping the invitations coming....we had a GREAT time and look forward to more Halloween fun in the future.










After the party, we stopped by Shanna and Mark's Halloween bash to get in on a little of their fun as well. Unfortunately, we missed most of the party but we were able to check out their awesome haunted house. It was truly unbelievable!!! There certainly wasn't anything spared in making their party a hit. There really are no words to describe how well there party was done. The decorations were amazing!!! Shanna worked her tail off for several weeks to make it happen and I think she did a fantastic job. Thanks for inviting us as well....Sorry that we were late.

UEA Weekend--Sand Dunes Again???

Well lucky for me we decided to go to the Sand Dunes again. I was able to get off work on Friday so we were able to get down there a little earlier that we had planned. Thankfully the weather was much nicer than it was a few weeks ago and Layne was able to get in a little riding Friday evening.






Scooter finally got used to riding around on "Big Red" and as you can see found it to be a bit relaxing :)


Unfortunately, in the middle of the night Friday Corbin woke us up with a temperature of 105. It scared us half to death. We stripped him down and gave him medicine (surprise....I had some medicine with me) and started getting some cold fluids in him to get the temp down. We could get it down around 101 to 102 but never much lower than that. Needless to say...nobody got much sleep. Corbin seemed to be doing okay other than the fever so we decided to stay and let the boys ride. They had a great time and Kyle was SO excited...he finally went up the face of Sand Mountain. After that there was no stopping him. He must have gone up it a hundred times in the few days we were there.

On Saturday night....I thought things were going to be okay and we were all going to get some much needed rest. Oh how I was wrong! It started with Layne waking up and running outside the motor home to throw up. Then Corbin woke up and I gave him some medicine to get his fever down. The sugar in the medicine made him soooo hyper and he literally bounced around the bed like a little maniac the rest of the night.

Despite being extemely tired and a few of us a little sick. I think everyone had a good time!

Sand Dunes

Well Corbin just experienced his first trip to the Sand Dunes. We went down on Friday night and most of Saturday rained so we didn't do much of anything but sit around play games and eat lots of fattening food. Luckily on Sunday it cleared up and we were able to get out and have some fun. Scooter had a great time cruising around on his little 4-wheeler.





He wasn't really fond of the big one's at first, but after watching all the people he decided that it was safe and finally decided to hop on for a little ride.All the boys were glad that the weather cleared up and that they had a chance to ride their motorcycles up Sand Mountain.

Thanks Dad and Sonja for inviting us to come with you. We had a great time!

Yellowstone

We just got home from a great trip to Yellowstone with Dad, Sonja, Kyle, Grandma & Grandpa Green, LuAnn, Jennifer, Melanie, Kelsey, Brook, Pat and Curt. On the way there we stopped to see the animals at Bear World. We had tons of fun there. We were able to go on the curator tour where we got to feed lots of different animals including the dumb-dumb turkeys, the elk, and all the cute bears. One of the big bears had even learned that if he clapped for the people that he would get more food. Corbin wasn't quite sure that he wanted anything to do with the animals, but after much coercing he feed the baby deer and pet the snorting pig. It was all over with, however, when the two geese came and tried to eat his shoelaces while he wasn't looking. You would have thought that they had come to eat him!

It was a bit rainy and quite cold in the Park but we still had a blast. We stayed at Al's Westward Ho (which we re-named "The Crazy Ho" cuz the lady that ran the place was quite a charm. I guess you can't expect too much with a name like that. We spent two full days driving around the park looking for animals and listening to the elk bugling. We had several picnics in the park thanks to good planning from Sonja and Grandma....and we can't forget all the traditional frosty chocolate malts! I think that Grandpa had all but turned into one by the time we left.

Dad and Sonja brought several two-way radio's so we were able to converse back and forth between each car which made it lots of fun. On occasion, Grandpa Green would tell us a funny story like about how he and the Mammoth Judge had developed such a close friendship when they used stay in the park for weeks at a time.

We also got lucky and on our way out of the park on the final day we got to see a big grizzly bear. They had only spotted two bears in the park in the previous week so we were extra lucky to be able to see one of them. We are so glad that we were able to go and grateful that everyone was able to come as well. We look forward to doing it again next year!

Yellowstone Pics