Funny Story!!!

This morning when I was getting Grace's costume on she said "I wanted to be a butterfly". Then she said "Daddy picked out these." It was kind of funny.... because when we bought the costumes she didn't say anything but now all the sudden she remembers that she wanted to be a butterfly. Kids are so funny!!!!

Meijer and Boo at Zoo

Today we went to Meijer for their Trick or Treat thing. It was very busy!!! The kids still had fun though. I also wanted to go to Old Navy but it's on the other side of town and Trent and I would of had to drive separate since he is on call. Then we went to Boo at the Zoo (Potter Park). The kids had a lot of fun there. They got to make a finger print id, do some crafts, get their faces painted, go thru the Boo Tunnel, go on a hayride, hear a storyteller, and trick or treat at all the little tent areas. We didn't get any pictures at Meijer but we got we got a few at the zoo. There are a lot of activities going on here this weekend. I don't know if we will do anymore but I will post pictures if we do. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Flashback Friday!

I have a friend who use to do a Flashback Friday on her webpage. I thought it would be something cool for everyone to see. This is my little Jonathan when he was in the NICU after he was born. He was there for 12 days!!! Now he is a healthy, very energetic, happy 4 year old little boy!!!! The first picture is of him right before we took him home. He is wearing a premiee outfit and it is still too big. He was 5lbs 10oz when we brought him home. The second picture is of him pretty much right after he was born.

It makes me want to cry looking at this picture though! Enjoy!!

Pumpkin Patch

Well, Jonathan has his first field trip today at school... but did I bring my camera??? NO!!!! They went to Rowe Pumpkin Patch in Mason. We probably got there around 9:30 and were done with everything... eating a donut and drinking cider, going on a hayride, petting the animals and picking out our pumpkins by 10:30. So needless to say he had very short day today. Jonathan got to ride the school bus to and from the pumpkin patch and mommy and sister followed behind in the car. We all got to enjoy every part of it with him and mommy and sister even got our own pumpkins!!! The first picture is of all our pumpkins. We got the first four from a farmers type market down by my sisters house. They were a really good deal the big ones were like 2 for $5 and the little ones were 2 for $1. As you can see the kids painted theirs... don't they look beautiful??? The second picture is of the pumpkins we got today. The big one is mine (Kristen), the next biggest one is Grace's. The littlest one is Jonathan's pumpkin. The funny thing though is last night he told Trent he was going to get a huge pumpkin today and it looks like he picked out one of the smallest ones they had there. Kids are so funny!!! I will be posting more pictures this weekend or beginning of next week of all the things that we will be doing this weekend.

Holland/Grand Haven

Trent and I went away this past weekend for our 8th anniversary which was back in August. Between the move and me going to Washington DC with my family we just didn't get a chance to get away together until now. We had a wonderful time and stayed at a nice Bed and Breakfast in West Olive (between Holland and Grand Haven). It was tucked back in the woods and the house was very nice. There were only 3 rooms the honeymoon, birthday and anniversary. We ended up in the honeymoon. We meet 2 other couples who we ate breakfast with every morning. Except I can't remember any of their names. One couple was from Owosso and the other couple was from Chicago. We don't have very many pictures but we visited a light house in Grand Haven that we got some pictures of.

The kids stayed at my (Kristen) mom and dad's house. They had fun going various places. Friday they went to Sam's Club... it's strange but Jonathan likes to go there to get all the free samples!!! But who doesn't like FREE??? Saturday Jonathan got to help Grandma get the fish out of the pond for the winter then later that night they went for a potluck/hayride with Grandma's church choir group at someones house!! All in all it was a good weekend but a lot of driving since the kids were an house past our house in the wrong direction!!!

Finally event for the weekend- Boat Lift

Finally this weekend we went to Trent's sister and brother in law house on Sunday and took out the boat lift. Well, actually just the guys took out the boat lift. The kids went on a boat ride and in one of the pictures Trent tried to go water skiing but the boat didn't work. Another picture is of Grace with makeup on but her face is also red because she got bitten by a lot mosqitoes Saturday night. Right now her eye is partly swollen shut!!!!! The last picture of Grace is right after she got done eating a bat cupcake.

3rd Annual Bedell Cookout

Here are some pictures of the family at the cookout. This was at Trent's parent's house. It was our third annual cookout. It was great weather for it but the mosquitoes were horrible. As you see in the first blog they really got Grace.

Girls Shopping Trip

This weekend my sister, mom and sister in law and our kids went shopping at Birch Run for our annual shopping trip and then we spent the night at Bavarian Inn. The kids were all ready to go swimming in the pictures. The little baby is my neice Leela.

They had a great time!!!

Apple Fest the Parade

The parade was a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed collecting all the candy that was thrown. Here is a few pictures of the kids watching the parade. Once the parade was done and we started walking and strolling the kids around Grace fell asleep. The last picture is of her right before we left.

Apple Fest

This weekend we went to my sisters for Apple Fest. The kids had a lot of fun. We went apple picking first then went to the festival. The first pictures are of the kids and my family apple picking. Jonathan and Grace really enjoyed it and liked eating the apples as well!!!

Just a good deal!!!

Since my husband probably doesn't read this blog anyways. I thought I would tell you of my good buy today!!! He thinks I am crazy sometimes when it comes to my bargain shopping... but just think of how much money I have saved him right???

Today I went to Kroger. I had been reading online from various other blogs about if you buy the Glade Flameless Candle Starter kits (8.99 each) you get a coupon (catalina) for $4.00 off to spend on your next shopping trip. I had a $5.00 off coupon from recent coupon out of the paper and printed a buy one get one free coupon off line. So I got 2 Glade Flameless Candle Starter kits for $5.07 and 2 coupons (catalinas) for $4.00 ($8.00 total) to spend on my next shopping trip.

So then I went and got my haircut and then came back to Kroger. I bought the following 3 bags of the Quaker snack cakes (on sale $1.00 each), 3 cans of Chef Boyrdee (on sale for $1.00 each) , 1 Aquafresh kids toothpast(on sale $1.00 each), 2-pack of Dove Bar soup($2.00), and finally a sample of Dove body wash which I thought was 88 cent but didn't ring up that way(2.39). Used the two $4.00 coupon (catalinas) from before, a $1 off coupon for the soap, and a $1.50 coupon off the bodywash. Spent $1.21 OOP (out of pocket). So for $6.28 I got all that is pictured above.

Grace

Since I posted about Jonathan I thought I better write something about Grace. She is our little and VERY independent Princess!!! She makes me laugh everyday with all the new words and things she comes up with. She knows her alphabet and knows her letters by the words they go with. Example: if she looks at Z she will say "For Zoe" or if she looks at I she will say "For Ice Cream" and finally if she looks at E she will say "For Evan".

The first picture is of her at my mom's house before we moved. The second one is of her at the zoo. The final picture is of her at the zoo again petting the goats.

Jonathan's First Day of Preschool

Here are a couple of pictures of Jonathan's first day of Preschool which was on September 2. I had to drive his back and forth for the first week from Flint. I am so glad to be in our house now!!! The picture of him holding a picture he colored is the one that goes in the front of the folder that goes home every Friday. He is really enjoying his new preschool and is meeting new friends already. This preschool seems a lot more structured then the one he was in last year. He even has HOMEWORK!!!!! He seems a lot more excited about learning this year which I am very excited about!