Pumpkin Decorating

We had some fun decorating some pumpkins. Ella was a good helper. We have more to do but it does not go too fast. We have some princess stuff to put on them. Good time to spend with kids.

Daddy's Weekend

Jeri spent some time with her friend from college and so Ella and I got to spend some time together. We went to the "Scarecrow Pumpkin Patch" here and had a lot of fun. Ella really liked the bunnies. We also went out to get some pumpkins to decorate. Pictures and story to follow on that. If you ever want to spend some time in NE, fall is a good time to see all the good pumpkins. This place has all sorts of things for kids of all ages to do. Ella got to play in some corn, like daddy used to, and water games, see farm animals and slide down some different slides. We were going to partake in the pumpkin ice cream but the pumpkins we picked took all the money in dad's pocket so we had to miss.

Coloring

Now I know this might look a bit wierd but Ella loves to color and will sit there for hours and color. After all of the fun of the dancing and singing she decided to color to her favorite DVD. Celtic Women (playing in the background). This is for her grandmothers who teach and notice things like pencil holding and such. Just a relaxing little video of Ella coloring and being a good girl like she most always is.

Singing

Here are a few clips just for fun. Ella has been camera shy for quite a while. As soon as you get the video camera out she stops doing everything and starts to act shy. Well now she is becoming the little star. Here are some talents that she has that we can finally show off to those of you who cannot be with her every day when she does these.

Dancing

Here are some clips that Ella's aunts will get a kick out of. All of a sudden the other day she decided to to start swinging her leg. she holds onto her bed or the chair or anything she can get a hold of and starts "dancing like Barbie". It might be time to get her into some dance classes or something, huh.

She could also tap or do the Riverdance.

Harvest of Harmony Parade

NUMBER 1!

I am sure as most of the family knows that Osmond has a pretty kick-butt band and this year at the 67th anual Harvest of Harmony parade was no different. The took best in class D, and best overall band in the parade! They were rocking. Follow the link and go to class D and watch Osmond. Amanda is the flute that is center screen for quite some time. http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/Link.asp?L=267619


Daddy and Ella were even in the parade! Charter had a group marching and Ella road along with and helped daddy hand out some candy and stuff. However, when we got to the big crowd of people and all the kids came around us to get candy and stuff from Ella she got a little scared. Word to parents, keep your kids on the curb.


Ella before the parade!

Blue IceCream!

Ella wanted to make some blue ice-cream with daddy the other night, so I figured we could do that.

She waited patiently and was a good helper and low and behold after a while....

Blue ice-cream! She was excited and ate a whole bowl full.

Fishing in MN!

Went fishing with the "guys" a couple of weekends ago and it was fun. Spent 3 days on the Great Alma Fishing Float! http://www.almafishingfloat.com
It was a lot of fun and will enjoy going back next year for more luck at fishing. Below are some pictures of the fun. You will notice I am not in any of the pictures because I was not lucky enough to land any of the big fish that I hooked. Need to work on landing the big ones. I hooked them but they turned into big fish story's.

Kevin and Josh trying to snag a big one.

Jon showing them how it is done.

Proof is right there in his hand! But don't cry wolf too much Jon!

Barge moved by the day we were leaving. quite impressive.

City of Alma, WI runs along the shore and the big hills.

Some of the locals getting off of the boat to take you to the dock.

There is an actual floating cafe! Great food, in fact the "mess" was featured on the Food Network. I tried it and it was good. The first morning they cleaned our fish and cooked it for us.

The back side of our floating cabin. Notice the wonderful floating facilities in the background.