Happy Birthday Winston!

So Winston had a fun birthday. I took my castle bunt cake pan that my Aunt Wendy gave me for Christmas and made Winston's cake. I thought it would make a great haunted house that the kids could help decorate.Everything was pretty random. I just wanted to make sure Winston got a birthday cake, otherwise I think it would have been a better looking cake. So the kids are adding lots of candy to the cake.The more the better, right!I think he liked it!

I think Shaelyn enjoyed it too. Of course she wanted to pose for a picture.
Here is the finished cake, well sort of. There are two towers missing. It almost looks like the cake has lava coming out, that wasn't my intent, but it is kind of funny!


Here is a lovely video that has footage of me decorating the cake. I am not in love with this video at all, because I am in it. Enough of my whining. I hope you enjoy it more than I do. :)

This video is us singing Happy Birthday. Nice and simple! Enjoy!!

PBS Mania

So here are some more photos from the fair. I had to put this in a different post because we took so many pictures in one spot. The kids just flipped when we stopped in on the PBS kids area. The ran to each cut out of all the characters and were not shy to do a little posing. This picture is Shaelyn and Winston with The Man in the Yellow hat and Curious George. Here is Clifford, Shaelyn is convinced that when we get a dog, its name is going to be Clifford. We will see.

Here is Shaelyn and Princess Pea. One of her favorites!

Here she is again with Wonder Red.

This is inside the PBS tent. Winston wanted to drive . . . .

And so did Shaelyn.

Here is Winston and Super Why. This is probably the kids favorite show.

I am not really sure who this cat is but Shaelyn was convinced it was Marie from Aristocats. Shaelyn has also named our cat if we ever get one, can you guess what she came up with? Yep, it is Marie. In the picture she is so excited. I think we should have got it on video.

This is Winston and Reader Roo.

Here is Winston with Alpha Pig, the last of the Super Why crew.

This last one is of Shaelyn and Cassie from Dragon Tales.

I can't believe I knew who most of these characters were. I guess it comes with the territory when you have kids, or maybe my kids are obsessed, or I am just crazy. Or maybe it is a little bit of all of them :)

Fair Fun!

So we arrived at the North Carolina State fair at 8:30 am, bright, early and cold, to celebrate Winston's 3rd Birthday, Yeah! As you can see William is frozen solid. We were having the kids try on hats and mitten at home to make sure they fit, and Will would constantly be pulling his hat off. Let me just say that when we got there he was more than happy to keep it on. He is thrilled the be at the fair, obviously, lol.

So we have a tradition of buying kettle corn when we go to the fair.

1- It is a huge bag that can be shared with the whole family.

2- The cost is fairly reasonable for Fair food.

3- It is super yummy, especially the pieces that have a lot of the sugar on them.Here is Shaelyn showing off how big the bag is. I think William wants some. Another tradition we have added to the Schenck Fair Event is the pony rides! The kids absolutely love the ponies and it is so much cooler than the carousel. Shaelyn rode the largest pony and his name is Ike.

Here is Winston riding his pony, Mickey. His pony kind of went a little crazy and Winston Loved it! Here are my little pumpkins sitting in front of the State Fair winning pumpkin. It was over 600 pounds! Wow! You can also see the straw that Shaelyn is holding, these are called honey sticks. 5 for a $1. The kids loved them too. Surprise surprise! Give them sugar and they are happy. So is mommy :)
We also hung out by a music group, that has some noise toys for the kids to play with, while Walter went and got a deep fried milky way, Yumm! I was good and only took one bite, yeah for me. Anyway, the kids and I rocked out! Enjoy!

Pickle Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

This was mostly Shaelyn's creation. She wanted to have a pickle and cheese sandwich, because it is good to try new things. I asked her if she was sure, and she was. I thought that it might be too dry if it was just pickles and cheese, so I thought about grilling it. She was so excited to have it grilled too! So this is a picture of the cheese and pickle sandwich on our griddle. I hope I don't disgust too many people.Here it the completed creation. I have to say that it wasn't half bad. I think I would probably try it again. If I was pregnant I would probably crave something strange like this so I will have to keep this idea stashed away for the next one. Speaking of pregnancy, my sister Ashley just had her baby on October 22! Yeah! I would post pictures but my nephew is too cute to be posted with a sandwich, he deserves his own post!

Pumpkin Fun!

We just went to our neighborhood pumpkin patch. The kids were so excited to pick out their own pumpkins, though the picture may say differently. Winston wasn't excited to take a picture but he and Shaelyn were sure happy to get 2 pumpkins each! Whoa! A little one and a littler one. They were so excited to get some my-size pumpkins. Walter did catch a good picture of both kids smiling, William was plugged so who knows if he was! If we get around to carving out pumpkins (good FHE activity) I will post the results! Happy Fall Ya'll from good old North Carolina!