The Elf...Just Hanging Around...And Then!!

Frisbee has been pretty good this year.  Just hanging around and hiding here and there...

He did fool Jayke by hiding in the door of the fridge one day...

Jayke asked me the other day if I remembered all of the messes Frisbee made last year.  I told him I remembered and maybe he would end up doing some of that stuff this year too.  So far the elf has been rather dull.  I think he has gotten lazy...or maybe he has another full time job somewhere that causes him to not be as creative as he was last year.  I seem to recall him telling me that he was unemployed last Christmas so he had plenty of time on his hands to make mischief all night.  I'm sure he has heard that he hasn't been near as fun as he was last year.

Well, I think he must have decided to step it up a notch...

This year he has taken naughty to a whole new level!!  Poor unsuspecting Bobby sound asleep and that rotten little elf shaved a stripe right across his head!  I sent Jayke in to wake Bobby up and the look of horror on his face was priceless.  He was hesitant to wake him.  He probably thought Bobby was going to dismember his sweet little elf.  He shook him gently and said, "Wake up, my elf shaved your head."  Then he took a step back and just looked at him.  Bobby was in disbelief at first.  He felt the top of his head and there was still hair there so he didn't believe him.  Jayke assured him that there was in fact a stripe shaved on his head.  Bobby finally looked in the mirror and absolutely couldn't believe how rotten that elf had been.  Jayke laughed hysterically!

Rotten elf...just look at that face!

There May Be Something Wrong With Us...

Just a thought...

Perfect Timing

After Basketball the other night we decided to head to Noblesville to eat at Red Robin.  One of the few restaurants Jayke will eat at and one Bobby had never been to.  We ended up getting there and finding they were having a festival in the streets.  The weather was really warm so it was kind of weird to be walking around in warm weather clothes amongst Christmas decorations.  It was nice to be able to enjoy the outside and Christmas decorations without freezing to death.

The onion ring tower is a big hit with Jayke.  Maybe that is the key to getting him to eat.  I just need to create a tower out of all of his food!

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Jayke has figured out that Bobby is a sucker for things like the crane game.  I won't waste money on it but as soon as those two get out of my sight they are cramming money in the machine, while worriedly looking over their shoulders to see if MOM is coming to crush their fun.

Hard to believe it's almost Christmas and warm enough to be dressed like this!

This picture speaks volumes.  Jayke finally has something he never has had before.  And, Bobby does too...we all do.

This is What Happens...

 

 

....when we run into a store for dog food.  

Zombie Killer!!

 

Another Halloween...another costume.  I will say that I think we did an outstanding job this year.  I had help from my former martial arts expert, Bobby.  He took many years of martial arts when he was younger so he knew how to add some finishing touches that I wouldn't have thought of.

 

 

 

The thing that cracks me up about this is the snow boots!  They actually worked really well though.  They looked pretty good and they kept his feet warm and dry on what turned out to be a cold Halloween night!

 

 

Sneaky Ninja!!

 

 

Here the Ninja is getting ready to off a zombie who is on the loose!

 

Trick-or-treating with Mason again this year.  I think it is now a tradition, although I don't know about this next character...

 

 

WHO IS THAT HUMAN BANANA??? 

 

LOL~  None other than Bobby wearing Matthew's Morph suit.  I don't know how Angi and Ryan talked him into it but they did.  Matt had basketball practice and wouldn't be able to go trick-or-treating so they thought it would be an outstanding idea for Bobby to wear Matt's costume and go as if he were Matt, collecting candy for him.  I didn't think he was going to do it.  I had taken the boys on ahead to hit some houses while they tried to unsuccesfully convince him.  Next thing I know Jayke, Mason, and I are on a road all by ourselves when a man in a yellow suit and some guy made up like a zombie come running around the corner.  They talked him into it...and Bob joined him in Zombie makeup.  I almost peed myself when I saw them!  Of course there were many jokes such as Bob calling him Bobby, the Human Condom.

 

It didn't last very long because apparently you sweat a lot in a morph suit.  I think he hit about 5 houses.  He was very proud of the fact that he got candy at those 5 houses though!  I think this made my night!

StoneyCreek

 We have been busy!  We have gotten Jayke's Halloween costume, we have gone to see two different Halloween movies.  ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania (with friends from soccer) and now we have made a trip to the pumpkin patch.  This may have been the coolest pumpkin patch ever too.  It is in Noblesville near my Dad's house and I can't believe I've didn't know about it before now!  It is called  Stoney Creek Farm.

I only discovered it because I was looking for one near one of our soccer games.  I'm glad I did...I think we may have to go back to this one every year.

The pumpkin vines grow in through the Christmas trees and even up around them in places.  It was really almost eerie in places.

You had to take a hayride out to the pumpkin patch...here is Jayke with his blue slushie.  A little cold for slushies but he HAD to have one.  Bobby and I opted for the warm apple cider instead.  We really wanted an apple slushie but decided to go for warmth instead of yummy.  The cider was good too.  They had all kinds of food there, tenderloins, elephant ears, and all the wonderful artery clogging food you would normally find at a fair.  We passed on the eats.

You will notice a pattern in these pics.  This is only a select few but it you pay attention you will notice that almost every pic has Jayke with his slushie straw in his mouth...OR...showing his blue teeth from the slushie.

I had to make him take the straw out of his mouth for this picture.  He found his pumpkin and is guarding it well.

Straw in mouth...

Tons of activities for kids.  There was a corn cob cannon, which Jayke tried.  A hay stack maze, pony rides, pedal carts you could rid around a track.  A hay stack to climb, blow up, mazes, and even a zip line.

This was a big pipe built into the side of a hill that you could go down.  He was a little worried about this. Kept asking how fast it would go.  On the way down there were a couple of bumps.  He was very quiet but then I heard...ouch....ouch....before he came out the other end.  LOL...

There was a mini petting zoo with rabbits, donkeys, goats, ducks, and chickens.  Jayke was enjoying the animals until THIS goad sneezed in his face.  He was not impressed...at all.  I was thoroughly amused.

I can check this off my Halloween bucket list.  Only a couple more things left before the big day!  Pumpkin carving pics coming soon as well as Jayke's costume pictures.  I've already taken them but I'm not posting them until Halloween.  The graveyard is back up out front and we added some things this year.  Pics of that to come as well.  I'm also going to attempt to MAKE Zoey a Halloween costume.  THAT could be interesting!

Bye Bye Buddy

It's like Animal Planet around here!  I receive pictures of spiders and bugs every day while at work.  Bobby loves his new phone and the camera that it has.  He has become friends with an Orb Weaver spider who has taken up residence in the front flower bed.  He takes pictures of her all the time.  As you can see...

Unfortunately, the other day tragedy struck...

THIS...came along and ate the poor little orb weaver.  Here she is eating a bee that was stuck in the spiders web...after she ate Miss Spider.  I think Bobby is really bummed about his little buddy being Mantis Munch. No more pics of his little spider.  We have ALL seen the pictures and heard the story so I thought I'd share it here too.  LOL  

My Gardener...Avoiding the Germs

I have been sick!  My souvenir from Gatlinburg.  Lucky for me, I have someone who made it his goal in life to make me comfortable and feel as good as possible considering my illness.  It was entertaining watching him run back and forth to the store trying to come up with something that would miraculously cure me.  Many bowls of chicken noodle soup were served, many cough drops were consumed, and many tissues were used and I'm finally getting over whatever nastiness had invaded my body.

He was entertaining too...

Walking through the living room without pause, 

"I sure would like to find the son-of-a-bitch who threw that grenade in our closet."

Guess that is a hint that I need to clean my half of the closet.

Cade's Cove

On our last day in Gatlinburg we decided we should hop in the car and go see some of the surrounding area. We didn't really know where we were going...just started driving.  We ended up in Cade's Cove.  This is where Jayke went over the summer with his dad.  They went horseback riding while there.  We did not.  We didn't have time since we got there close to dusk and the park closes at dusk.  

We made it in before it closed and got lucky.  Dusk is a really good time to go for wild life viewing.  

Waterfall on the way to Cade's Cove

This little grey fox ran right up to our car.  We saw a bunch of deer playing and wild turkeys too.  No bears though.  We ended up being stuck in the woods in the park for a long time.  The traffic was not moving and it got dark while we were there.  Kind of creepy and it didn't help that Bobby wanted to discuss zombies, vampires, and werewolves while we were stuck in there.  The wind picked up and rain was moving in as well.  We finally made it out and narrowly missed having a very large dead tree branch crash down on the car while driving back.  Seemed like we had been in there forever and we were all starving by the time we got out.  That little jaunt probably should have been better planned but we enjoyed it regardless.

My budding photographers

Us

Our first picture together.  

More of our Trip

The final Ripley's exhibit we went to was the Mirror Maze which just happened to be inside the Ripley's Candy Store.  How convenient.  While in the maze there was a really little boy who kept running through the halls filled with mirrors.  His parent were following him but not keeping up.  I knew what was about to happen.  Sure enough, pretty soon we heard a VERY loud thonck!  That kid hit that mirror wall with his head so hard I thought for sure he would be unconscious.  There was a lot of screaming to follow.  Then a few minutes later...he did it again!  I'm sure there has to be a couple of huge knots on his head.  My kid was warned and managed NOT to knock himself silly in that thing.

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And here is the ONE thing he wanted to do that we did not.  First of all, too expensive.  Second, chance of rain and I was not about to get stuck on that thing in a downpour half-way up the mountain.  And last but not least, my over whelming fear of heights...which has apparently gotten a lot worse with age.  Our hotel balcony terrified me.  If I got close to the rail my legs would start to ache, from the height.  It was ridiculous.

Below is one of my favorite pics from the trip...Bobby (and Jayke) at the Penguin Playhouse.  I love how Bobby is posing and Jayke is like WTH back there in the little cave.  I'm sure he was irritated with us about something that wasn't going his way.  

He did agree to stand next to the penguin so I could take his picture having a GREAT time too!  lol