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Monday, November 29, 2010

Fun Family Pix--and some BIG news!



The day after Thanksgiving we went to take some family pictures for our Christmas Card. Aside from sending all our friends and family our well wishes for the Christmas Season, we wanted to announce that we are expecting Baby #5! The boys are really hoping for a sister but the odds tell us to play favorites for something blue. We should find out right before Christmas. A perfect Christmas Surprise!


Blake--5 1/2


Brock--almost 3


Bradley--11


Bryson--8 1/2


The real feelings behind the pictures!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Fallin' for Mickey--in the Fall--Again!


Just when you thought it was safe to go to Disneyland and not run into us, there we are again! This time it was work related. The dance studio took our Company dancers (cute niece Katelyn's class included for the first time this year!) to dance at California Adventure. So our family, Chris/Cassi's fam, Kaley minus Chase, Mom, Dad and even Grandma-ma headed for the Happiest Place on Earth for a fast, fun weekend.


It appears we're all looking at something we've never seen ever before in our lives. How can that even be?


Brock and I sit for a spot of tea . . . cups.


Bradley on the carousel. All the boys had red shirts on that read: "Caution. May require supervision." That was about right!


Bryson clearly happy to get out of town and have some fun!


Blake, Katelyn and Megan wait for lunch with Grandma-ma in the back. We love to eat at the Tomorrowland Terrace and watch the Star Wars Jedi Training Academy show. No jedi's volunteered for the show from our group this trip. They were too hungry! A Jedi's got to keep up his/her strength you know.


Scott and I in Toon Town. I think we've decided to take up a permanent residence here! We fit in a little too well.


Brock's favorite ride of the whole trip was the Teacups so Scott braved it with Bryson and Brock late Friday night. (He--Scott--is not really a spinning type guy.)


Cute fam foto from Saturday in California Adventure. Leave it to Disney to put gigantic Christmas ornaments in A Bug's Land. Lots (but not all) of Christmas decorations were around here and there which was fun to see.


While the older boys were on the bumper cars Brock found a place to run around in A Bug's Land. Here he is on a giant popcicle stick bench. The only 10 seconds he sat still!


Dad aka Grandpa found the games on the Boardwalk with Bradley and the two came away with armfuls of fun. Of course that led to a few repeat performances with Grandpa and other grandkids. Everyone came home with lots of fun "souven--ears!" HA!


Tired boys crash after two days of non-stop fun!


One is really never "ready" to go home but at some point the car does have to head that direction. Our dance show was really great--Katelyn's class was fantastic and another amazing Disneyland trip will go down in the Grover Family History!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween of Heroes!

As I have posted before, I take most of the fun out of Halloween by picking a theme for my kids to dress up. This year was Super Heroes. We had Captain America, Iron Man, Batman and Superman who were joined by 2 Wonder Women (aka cousins Katelyn and Megan), and another slightly smaller in stature Superman (aka K&M's brother Adam). Scott and I even went a little crazy and dressed up this year too.


Bradley as Captain America


Bryson as Iron Man


Blake as Batman


Brock as Superman. (He flew away just after this picture was taken!)


Scott and I were pseudo Heroes as the Budget Ninja and Vampire. (I was on a Twilight kick and found this t-shirt that read "Only Vampires will love you forever!") We crashed Mom and Dad's block party, headed to our own neighborhood party for more candy than you could imagine, then made our final stop and Grandma-ma's to let the kids show off their costumes and consume a few pieces of their loot. A fun--and somewhat exhausting--but still fun Halloween!