National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), this year is the 25th anniversary of NBCAM.  We have a very special survivor in our family, Brian's mother Dana.  Take the opportunity to support breast cancer research and help fight cancer by saving your Yoplait lids now until December 31st.  For every lid, Yoplait will donate 10 cents to Komen for the Cure® up to $1.5 million.  We are going to start saving our lids to send in this year.  Yoplait products are common in our household so I chose them as our way to support cancer research.  There are many other ways you can show your support, please visit the following websites for ideas and information.
Yoplait.com
NBCAM.org
Komen for the Cure®

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The Fair

It is that time of year again...the state fair is here!  We love the fair.  We go every year and have a great time.  We eat all the junk food, look at all the ridiculous items for sale at the booths, visit the animals, the petting zoo, and this year we rode some of the rides.  The fair serves as a reminder of what a big ol' melting pot this world is.  It seems people of all sorts come out to the visit the fair.

The boys got balloon animals.

Brice rode the swings

Rogan must have been worried about how high Brice was in those swings!  He looks terrified.

The kids' building had a huge sandbox, legos, building blocks and a driving course.  Our boys only wanted to play with the cars.

Rogan rode a bucking bronco of a rocking horse.  Whoa horsey!

The kids were exhausted after four hours of fun and Brice had to be carried to the car asleep on his daddy's shoulder.  It was a lot of fun and is always our official kickoff to Fall.

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Children's Museum

We have a children's museum here in Tulsa, it's not too impressive.  We have been once before and it was okay and I thought it could only get better...wrong.  The museum did not have a lot of exhibits/areas to begin with and most of the stations look like someone just went to a garage sale, bought some stuff, and set it up.  Brice still has fun and the best parts are the playground and rock walls.  I am quite certain they are going to put themselves out of business.  The museum is a fantastic idea and would probably do well in the area.  Unfortunately, I think they started with no funds and are trying to generate the funding through the admissions and it's not worth what you pay at the door.  A membership works like a gym membership and you pay monthly dues,  no way Jose'.

We went on Saturday because it was $5.00 admission and I think the boys get at least $5.00 of fun out of it.  

In other news, Rogan has finally mastered his fine motor skills and is feeding  himself!  Yay!  My life just got a little bit easier.

Finally, Brice received a Play-Doh kit from his Grandma and Grandpa Mitchell for his birthday.  He's pretty certain it could be the greatest thing since Jello Pudding Snak Paks. 

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Another Day At The Zoo

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Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday my parents celebrated their 38th anniversary.  Happy Anniversary to them!  Unfortunately, the last several years my dad seems to be traveling on their anniversary and it has become a joke in our family, who is mom spending your anniversary with this year?  She has good friends and neighbors and she spent her day shopping with them yesterday.  Not many people can say their parents are still married...Brian and I both can. 

Happy 38th Anniversary! 

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Birthday Time...Finally Over

It seems we have celebrated Brice's birthday the whole month of September.  The poor kid whose birthday was actually September 6th did not have his party until this past weekend.  His birthday fell on Labor Day weekend so we had planned to have his party the following weekend.  Unfortunately, the Oklahoma monsoon season set in and we were rained out.  We were supposed to get rain this past weekend too, but we decided to have his party rain or shine.  Luckily the weather cooperated, Brice finally had his party, and everyone had a great time.

We rented a bounce house and it arrived way ahead of schedule and was picked up many hours after the party had ended.  Needless to say, we had a bounce house in our backyard for about 10 hours.  Brice was in it most of that time.  He had worn himself out by the time his friends arrived playing inside with his grandparents and cousins, but got his second wind and played with his friends too.  He was still in the bounce house when the crew arrived to take it down and had to be removed so they could do their job.

I think we got our monies worth. 

Even Rogan and Grandma got in on the bounce house fun.

We had birthday donuts instead of cake, because Brice prefers donuts.  Daylight Donuts makes special donuts for the kids on their birthday.  They make the donuts in the shape of the letters spelling out Happy Birthday Brice.  It was really neat and they tasted great!

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Brothers

Isn't it funny how time repeats itself?  It was inadvertent that I took this picture of both the boys when they were about the same age.  Brice's picture was taken in October 2006 when he was 13 months old and Rogan's was taken this month at 14 months old.   

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