Happy Halloween!

and for Halloween Bella is: A CROC DRESSED UP AS MICHAEL JACKSON

Can you guess? If anyone guesses I will send you a stuffed Koala Bear!
ps - she is on the far right, in the green.
UPDATE! yes she is a crocodile but Not JUST a crocodile - any other guesses?

Thanks Annie & Madeleine!

We got the candy and socks - Thanks! As you can see by the photos everyone was happy about that (okay until the fighting began :)

He wears a lot of hats.

Matt had to be the umpire at the Stealers Game on Friday night. It is funny to see him playing as the ump in addition to being the coach and Jonah's dad. He had to wear a lot of hats at that baseball game (and they won! no thanks to Matt :)
(When I showed Matt the photo he said to mention on the blog that he called that a strike HA! and yes, it is Jonah hitting/jumping out of the way)

back from the Blue Mountains

We are trying to get in all the trips we can before we return to the US in July. The kids are on their Spring Break right now and so we took up the offer from the Pastors of our church to stay at their place in the Blue Mountains about 1.5 hours from our home in Sydney. (Tia said we could go to the Blue Mountains - she wanted to go to the PINK mountains!) We arrived on Monday. It was freezing cold. We visited Jenolan Caves on Tuesday. We rode on the Zig Zag Railway and then visited the Toy Museum on Wednesday. We couldn't stand the 5 degree daytime weather (about 40 degrees) - especially at night when we only had one little heater. There was no way we could do all the bush walks we wanted in that weather. We left a day early on Thursday. It was so great to get home and feel the warmth of central heating!

The kids favorite part of the trip?? The candy store of course (we went there 3 times!) :) how funny is this picture?