The boys had a wonderful time at their birthday party yesterday! All of their friends came and it went very well. They had a great time playing together.

The playground scene...
The wish...

Getting ready to sing...

The presents...

Poor us and our 80 degrees! From www.weather.com ...

High pressure will build across the southern states today, in the wake of the strong cold front which moved through yesterday. Much colder temperature will be felt across the entire south today.
The only exception will be across central and southern Florida, which will remain south of the cold front. This will mean a continuation of warm temperatures for that area.

We are preparing for Will and Noah's birthday party. We will post pics later. Ethan is also in the NSB parade today. He is really excited about that!

Here they are posing in front of the beach shop and the pirate gear!
Here they were watching the twirlers. They were all impressed with their skills. The finale was fire throwing. The boys promptly screamed, "Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' bout," when that began!

They were all amazed by Santa, the reindeer, and especially the snow!

The third grade chorus performing for the crowds. They did an awesome job!

Today we kicked off the holiday season by going to Light Up Flagler. For those of you that have visited us, that is the street in NSB with all of the shops that ends at the beach. The third graders from out school performed and some of the kids I work with were twirling. The boys had a lot of fun. Mary and Emily came along with us and we met up with Melissa, Bobbie, and the girls. We also ran into Sam and her adorable niece. The kids had a lot of fun running around the street (it was closed down) and visiting with Santa. They were most impressed with the "snow" falling in the 80 degree weather!

I almost forgot... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIDEN AND GREAT AUNT TERRIE!

Will and Noah celebrated their birthday for the 4th time tonight! Emma, Paige, Sophia, and Emily came over to help celebrate. They had pizza from Alberto's and chocolate cream pie. They had asked for pumpkin pie but changed their mind at the grocery store when they saw how tasty the chocolate cream pie looked! They have gotten lots of calls from Great Grandma Owens, Grandma Ann, Aunt Stephanie and the rest of the Delaware crew, and even Geoffrey the Giraffe! Emma was most impressed with the call from Geoffrey. They opened all the cards with generous money falling out at them. They loved the "golden coin" that Great Aunt Roey and Great Uncle John sent them! They were also excited to open a card from their Great Aunt Mary that they had just seen on our trip to Maryland. They are looking forward to their real birthday party on Saturday and their character birthday breakfast the following weekend at Universal! They are having six celebrations for turning 5! I don't know what we'll do when they turn 16. Thanks for all the phone calls and well wishes. I'm sure there are more to come tonight. I know it means a lot to the boys.

My babies are five!!! It's a sad, sad day. Will and Noah are having a little party at school today. They requested pizza and pumpkin pie for tonight. Their real party is on Saturday. We are looking at 20+ kids. Should be fun!! I'll post a picture of the birthday boys tonight.

Will resting in the tree.

Noah hanging out in a tree!

Will and Noah celebrating their birthday early- for the second time!

Aidan doing his part to keep the yard looking nice.

Ethan enjoying the tire swing.

More fun on the tractor.

Although Pop-Pop threatened to dump them from the tractor bucket into the pond, they came back still in the bucket and dry!

Noah especially enjoyed operating heavy machinery!

Pop-Pop and the boys visiting with Duke and Dunny.

Riding the 4-wheeler.

After the Schrader's we went to the mountains. The boys had a blast there riding the 4-wheeler, driving the tractor, feeding the fish and horses, building campfires, setting off fireworks, hiking through the mountains, getting spring water from the mountain, feeding the deer corn, going out to eat, and visiting Cumberland. Lori, Alina, and Aidan came up from Wednesday to Friday to spend some time with us. Alina and Noah hit it off and were inseparable.

Getting ready for a round of Cranium Pop-5. Ethan was quite good at the game!

Noah, Will, Ethan, Leigha, and Aiden hanging out at Grandma and Pop-Pop's house!

We had a fabulous trip to Maryland. We left for MD after school on Friday and arrived at the Schrader's at 3:15 am. It is never a fun drive, especially from about midnight on. The boys woke up bright and early to play with Leigha and Aiden who had spent the night. They played throughout the day until the rest of the Schrader clan arrived. All of the kids had a fun time playing together and Mom and Dad cooked a terrific meal! I will have to post pictures later since Chris had to "convert" them. We also had a little birthday party to celebrate all of the November birthdays. The boys were very excited to get their Nintendo DS Lites as their joint Christmas/birthday gifts! On Sunday we of course had to do lunch at Baja Fresh! After lunch we went to Kate's new house. She set us up to expect the worst, when in reality, her house is absolutely adorable! Once she is finished with her renovations I am quite certain she will fall in love with it. I can't wait to see it when it is finished. Kate has picked out some really cute stuff and I can't wait to see it all come together. Here is a picture of Noah asleep after his Baja lunch on the way to Aunt Kate's house. He fell asleep playing his DS! Then there is the picture of the boys in front of Kate's new house.

MY VAN IS NOT READY!!!!

Well, in an effort to have fun outside, we went to play soccer out front. Soccer lasted for about 10 minutes and then they moved on to scooters and bikes. Within 5 minutes Ethan was on the ground declaring that we need to call 9-1-1 because of his hurt arm. Now, those of you that know Ethan well, know he can be a bit dramatic when it comes to injuries. He has been sitting at the kitchen table for 20 minutes with ice on it and still claims that it hurts "super bad." He even decided not to go to Cub Scouts since it hurts so much. Hopefully it is one of his dramatic moments. There is no sign of swelling or bones sticking out.

Spoiled, spoiled Will!! Tonight at dinner Will announced that he had NO fun this weekend. This is coming from a child that went to the Eagney's to play on the playground, went to Moe's (one of his favorite restaurants) for dinner, went to the video game store, went to Universal Studios, went to McDonald's for lunch and played on the playground there, went to the beach, had Dunkin Donuts for his "second day of the weekend breakfast," had a friend over to play the entire day, AND went to the river beach playground all in ONE weekend! And that is just the stuff that I can remember. I was just excited because Chris finally fixed our leaky toilet! Simple pleasures!

We had a great time at the beach this afternoon. It was nice and warm. Ethan woke up with an ear infection this morning. Luckily, he has a really nice pediatrician and she called a prescription in for him.

Look out, it's Clark Kent!

Run Forrest, run!

Here comes the Eagney family across the rope bridge.

More Seuss Landing fun!

Here they are giving a Sneetch a bath. That is, of course, until the Sneetch gave them one!

You see, you can play tic-tac-toe on Mr. Joe's belly. These guys got the wrong idea and started climbing the poor guy!

We had fun at Universal today. We didn't stay long since it was starting to get crowded. The boys slept the entire ride home. That is always an indicator that some fun was had!

Today is like Friday- no school tomorrow! To top it off it is Grey's Anatomy night. How exciting!!! We are going to go to Universal with Melissa and the girls in the morning. After school today we went to the Eagney's to play outside. They have the playground and trampoline so they are the winter oasis. Tonight we went to Target to get Will and Noah's birthday party invitations. They have chosen a Superman theme for their party. When we got home they started discussing who they were and weren't going to invite to their party. It was quite funny. Will and Noah had very different ideas on who should be coming. One would say, "No, not them," and the other would say, "Yes Mommy, you've got to invite them!" No worries, we are inviting their entire class as not to have anyone feel left out. The boys are getting VERY excited about our Thanksgiving plans. Only one more week! Next week's schedule is overflowing with meetings so it should fly by.

Good news! I just took the van to the body shop and they said they could get it fixed by the time we need it! At least that worked out for us.