The Pumpkin Patch

This pumpkin had a prickly stem and Kimball didn't like it much

No, we didn't show up in these hats.  It was for a photo-op.

There were A LOT of pumpkins at this pumpkin patch.  This picture is probably less than 1/8th of the size of patch.  It was HUGE!

Yeah, these are my kids...

They had a hay maze and a corn maze.  

The nice thing about the hay maze is that there was no way to get lost.  If you just kept going you would get out.  

Brady's Wedding

 

This is our family in Seattle with the most Seattle-y thing we could think of.  

THE SPACE NEEDLE

It was much smaller than I had anticipated.

And, yes that is a blue sky in Seattle.  What can I say, we just lucked out.

This is Shane and Bleu and Miley at the Pacific Science Center.  We tried to find something to do that was fun for all ages and would be a Seattle like thing to do.  We even saw and IMAX movie while we were there.

Here are some of the cousins playing in the bubbles at the PSC.  They had all sorts of stuff there.  A water play area, a tidepool with starfish and anemones, a lightflash room, dress up, bugs to look at, a giant chess set and chair and table, dinosaurs....LOTS OF STUFF!

This is Brady, being Brady

This is Kirtlan, being Kirtlan

(actually I think he's being a police officer)

They had a buterfly atrium and Michelle caught a butterfly with her camera

And Chad caught one with his shoulder.

And Maddie caught one with some help from Michelle

Maddie was really careful not to touch the butterfly, just to let the butterfly touch her.

This is Kimball showing me the butterfly he just saw.

We went to the beach at Alki and it was fun.

Olympic Weightlifters have nothing on him!

Nor this guy (who is Cannon for the twin-inept)

Chad is thinking fashion forward

We had a surprise party for Grandma and Grandpa's 35 wedding anniversary.

With balloons and squealing kids and everything.

Nellie made a movie for them and if you look really carefully at the screen of the flatscreen in the bottom right corner you can see a picture of little Craig.

This is the happy couple just moments before Melissa's newly inherited 14 or so nieces and nephews attacked the couple.

Aren't they cute?  Don't they look so fancy?

A bunch of nieces doing what they do best

I don't know what Chad told them to say but it was something that would require you to open your mouth really wide.

Maddie was much too smart for such trickery.

Funny pic

Cute pic

Oregon '08

It was fun to take the kids to Multnomah Falls.  I totally remember coming here as a kid and the kids thought it was pretty cool.

We hiked up to the bridge which really isn't too far and the kids ran like the whole way.  It was a Saturday and really quite busy so the kids were running under people and a bit outta control but they were having the time of their lives.  Plus those latte drinking mini-hikers could probably use a little bit of "kid" in their lives.

Yeah, I'm raising a bunch of posers.

We then went to Greg and Stacy's house and this is what my kids did to it.  I wish I was joking but I'm not.  Dallas Butler (Briana's 3 year old), Maddie, and the twins took all of the games out of the game cupboard and dumped them all over the basement.  Greg, in typical Greg fashion, mostly just laughed.  Stacy got right to work and got the kids to work beside her (Thanks Stacy!)  I was mortified but the Brown's made me feel better by not being upset.  

We had a ton of fun at Greg and Stacy's.  The kids played with Trenton, Dallas, and Brooklyn.  We got to go to church with them and see Greg in all of his glory as the bishop and Stacy serving in the RS presidency.  I even saw an old friend from Kaysville in their ward.

 

Once we got home Maddie asked, "What's the name of that nice lady who fixed us breakfast and had her grandkids at her house?"

"Stacy?"  

"Yeah Stacy!  She's nice.  Can we go back and visit again?"

Hello anyone out there?

This is Shelly and I'm about to change the name of this blog to the Morris Family and Sometimes Kimmie blog.

We want to hear from everyone.  We know that now that we introduced you to the joy of blogging you have gone off and made your own that doesn't excuse you from contributing at least once and a while to this one.

We miss you.

Why we love Christian

These are just some silly pics I took with our computer.  It was funny because the computer did a little countdown and that concerned Christian so all of his pics have a worried face...lol.

Happy 4th of July

We decided this year to go to the Centerville Parade and it was glorious.  Mostly because it started at 9 am and so it wasn't blistering hot like all the parades we usually go to.  Plus for no particular reason it was slightly overcast and even sprinkled a bit.  We had a good spot on the route and the kids got lots of candy.

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Morris' house for some Dutch Oven and Slip and Slide.  Grandma and Grandpa Brown were there too and Brady as well.

Then when it began to get dark we lit off our own fireworks on the street and played with glowsticks.  Cannon stepped on a hot sparkler stick and that was our only injury after all of those pyrotechnics.

Then we lit a fire and roasted some S'Mores and then we watched 3 firework shows from Grandma and Grandpa's backyard. (notice our matching shirts that Grandma Brown got for us- Thanks Grandma)

We went home very tired but had a GREAT 4th of July.  Hope yours was fun as well!

Aug 2 2005

Here goes nothing...

This is Kirtlan and Maddie about 2 and a half months after the twins were born.  Man were they little!

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A Nightmare...

This is Chad...

One day last week, Kirtlan was up with me before I went to work. He told me about a dream he had. It went something like this, "Dad I had a dream last night that was kind of like a nightmare, but not really. There was this monster who was trying to eat me. Then he chased me and chased me, and then he caught up and ate me."
"That sounds scary bud."
"Not really, because he didn't have any teeth."
"Oh. [not willing to discuss digestive juices at this time] so what did you do?"
"I found a door and got out. But then the monster chased me again and I ran away really fast because I didn't want to get eaten again."
"but then you could have just left out the door again."
"yeah. But that's a lot of trouble."

Disney Day

First you need to have a Disney Day ticket 

(and Disney PJ's)

Then you get a special present!

Disney Day 2

THE UNIFORMS

Kirtlan is Dash Incredible (or Mr. Incredible, it changed throughout the day), Maddie is Rosetta the Fairy from the new movie Tink, Kimball is Buzz and Cannon is Woody.

Story Time

We did a lot of other things but for some reason we don't have pictures of them...actually we probably have video but I haven't checked yet.  We got Disney puzzles, coloring books, sticker, played Disney games, ate Disney food, got Disney remote control cars, and in the very end we went to Grandma and Grandpa Browns were they had the Disney channel and Mom and Dad went out to unwind from such an eventful day.