Mimi Day ~ Halloween 2012

   Before Gavin was born and before Mimi Days' every Wednesday I helped Tom and ran errands and caught up on housework. Now that Gavin is in school I'm starting to get my Wednesdays back.
   This morning Tom and I worked in his office and ran errands all morning long just like in the old days.  We went to the Senior Citizens Ctr where we voted early and met some new friends and felt very young. In the afternoon we went to Gavin's Halloween party at school where we felt very old.
   I made chili like I have every Halloween for years and we went to Powell's street like we always do. We walked home from there because it was so warm and we needed exercise and we got behind some rowdy teen age boys. They were throwing firecrackers & trash & swearing and being kids. Tom told them there was a trash can close by they could use and then one of them starting singing a song about an old man. Yes, I guess we're old now. But we have to be old to have our grandbabies and we wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. And on a side note; Tom said he could still kick those kids ass if he had to.

Final day in Disneyland

We got up at 6AM to take advantage of our early entry tickets in Disneyland. Gavin was the first awake, jumped in bed with us and said "This is so fun Mimi!"  Made the whole trip worth it.

Boo loved the Autotopia Car Rides. The little oriental guy in the car in front of them was clapping and laughing. One of the employees told Chels he is there everyday!



Mickey Mouse pretzels



So sad we're leaving.

Disneyland~Day 3

We started our day off at California Adventureland at 8am. Thanks to my homework, I jumped in the fastpass line to get a ticket for the new cars ride. Disney has added 12 acres for  it. I was in line for almost a hour and our time to return wasn't until 8 pm. But it was worth the wait. We loved it.



Emery & Avery are in Disneyland too!!!





Boo finally got to swim in the hotel pool as we took a break mid day for  a swim and some rest.

Pretty Lights.

Day 2~Universal Studios

All the fun characters at Universal Studio's.

Boo's favorite store.

The first ride of the day was Jurrasic Park Rapids. So proud of himself that he rode it. The final plunge was 85 feet.  

We got woke up by a little boys jumping in bed with us all energized and saying "Let's go back to Disneyland!" But we told him today was Universal Studio's Day. The worse thing about Universal was driving in traffic to and from with a GPS that was taking us all sorts of weird ways because we had it set for "avoid traffic" and didn't know it..

Disneyland Trip~Day One

On the way to the airport for our flight. I changed our airplane tickets 3 times, then we missed our early morning flight. That is a first for us. Luckily there was another one that put us in only 1 hour later.  I also changed our hotel and our rental car twice and I read a book on Disneyland cover to cover on what order to do each ride in the parks. Yep, I did my homework..... which doesn't matter if you miss your flight.  

Laguna Beach Looking for seashells.

We hadn't planned on going to Disneyland Wed afternoon, but our tickets were for 3 days so we decided to go ck it out. We got several of the major rides in as it wasn't very busy.

Boo's favorite for today was Buzz Lightyear. We rode it three times.

Haunted Mansion.

We couldn't talk Boo into going on the log ride.

When we got to our hotel that night we decided to get in the hot tub. Gavin was laying in bed, set up and said he wanted to go, then layed back down and said "I can't do it!" and he was out.

I asked Boo if there was anything else we needed to get before Disneyland. He said "Just Killian!"

K getting to push his daddy around at therapy.

Mimi Day 101012 and Chels & Boo up the canyon.

We went to the new Scheels on Mimi afternoon. It has beautiful bronze statues, a ferris wheel, an aquarium and shooting games. Clay & Tara have one in MT and we always like to go there so we're excited we now have one in UT.

Chels & Boo up the canyon on 10-11-12

Boo Bits and Killian Quips

Nana Carole to Killian: "Killian do you have school tomorrow?"
Killian: "We'll see"   ha ha  

Boo was telling us about the janerator. I said "Who is the janerator?"
Boo: "You know the guy that cleans the toilets at my school."
He also calls racoons; RATACOONS. and samples at Costco STAMPLES.
He has for over a year. It's so cute I can't correct him. When he says it I can just smile.

And Killian started school and the first week already got kissed by a girl. I was telling Tom and Gavin was listening
and said Very seriously
"He's way to young Mimi!"

It's 3-1 and I'm losing the battle.

So many pictures, so little time.....and they're on cell phones, and moms camera, and my camera and Tom's camera. But eventually I'll get some cute ones on here of our wonderful time in MT

Even Papa got a turn babysitting.

Mom, Dad and their new great granddaughter.  They fell in love with her just like the rest of us did.

Big stretches from Miss Kinzi