Senior Picture

Brody is just practicing his poses for his senior pictures.

Dukes of Hazzard

Hunter is obsessed with the Dukes of Hazzard right now.  We have a DVD with a couple of episodes on it and if you give him a choice of what to watch, chances are he'll pick the Dukes.  And he's thinking he should have a Dukes of Hazzard birthday party too.  Because you know, it is now less than 6 months away and we need to plan early. ;)  While we were in TN, we picked up some Dukes of Hazzard cars at Cooter's.  That was the one thing that Hunter had requested.  He loves them and plays with them almost daily.  I was going through the camera, because I have two little boys who like to take random pictures and came across these.  They are too funny not to share.  Just shows how Hunter's mind works.

The Sheriff captured the General Lee.

And my personal favorite, the Dukes jumping over the Sheriff in order to get away.  The best part is that he had to hold the car in place while holding the camera to get this money shot.  Talk about some skills and creativity!

Hunter the hunter

It was a big weekend in our house this weekend for our little Hunter.  He got to go and sit with his daddy at sunset!  He had no clue that we were planning this and when we asked him that afternoon if he wanted to his response was, "But I'm not 9 yet".  Since deer opener, Hunter had been waking up at the crack of dawn, putting on his "blazing" orange, setting up stuffed animals around the living room and sitting on the kitchen stool  his deer stand.  It is so fun waking up to "Bang, bang, bang!"

Craig said he did well for the most part.  He shuffled around a lot which made some noise and when they did see a deer Hunter was a little excited and talked above a whisper to point out the deer to his dad.  However, it was too far away to try to get.

Craig was unable to get a deer this weekend.  Maybe next year we can add another deer to our basement (fingers crossed that we don't-no offense Craig).  But, he did see a black bear within a 100 feet.  At least he has a good story to tell, right? 

 Hunting is serious business.

Craig and Hunter ready to head out for sunset.

Mario Bros.

Happy Halloween from the Zappe Bros. Mario Bros.  They had a great time dressing up, trick or treating, and eating some candy.  Hunter came up with the idea for this years costumes.  They were pretty cute!

 Doing the signature Mario move/jump.

 We made multiple stops around town including the great-grandparents and grandparents.

They made quite the haul of candy!!  This should last for awhile!

Adventures with Nellie

Some of you may remember Ned.  He was Hunter's preschool's class bear that went home on the weekends with the students to get a glimpse into their life at home.  Well this year, Hunter is in the morning preschool class and they have Nellie, Ned's sister.  This past weekend, it was Hunter's weekend to bring Nellie home.  And let me tell you, we had quite the adventures!  Take a look at what we did!

After school, Hunter, Nellie and I went to Mi Mexico for lunch.  Hunter enjoyed a quesadilla, fries and my rice.  He tried to feed Nellie, but she must not have been too hungry.  After this we went over to Caribou to visit Auntie Melissa who was working.

That night, we baked cut-out Halloween cookies.  We had bats, cats, haunted houses, ghosts, pumpkins and witches!  They were quite the helpers!

 Saturday morning, we hit the road at 8:00 AM and headed south to Iowa.  (See, Nellie picked a good weekend to spend with us).    We drove, and drove, stopped for some lunch and continued to drive arriving to Craig's project site around 3:45 in the afternoon.  We found out that Nellie is a great traveler!  And so were the boys.  We only stopped 3 times. 

At the site, they were just starting to put up the nacelle of the turbine.  So we drove over there and watched the crane bring it to the top of the tower.  They were going to hang the rotor (blades and hub) but the wind picked up and they were unable to.  Either way, it was fun watching the crane and seeing a little dot poke up from the top of the tower now and then directing the crane.  The little dot was a person.  Not sure I would like that job and I made my husband tell me he is not doing that. 

We got a tour of the site, checked out some turbines, went to Craig's office, checked out their wind turbine pumpkins and then went to the dirty hotel Craig's apartment.  Don't worry, he keeps his place pretty clean, but the first time we were there, the halls were dirty and Hunter called it the dirty hotel.  So that's it's name.  We went to Pizza Hut for supper and then hung out at the dirty hotel.  Brody had a rough night and didn't want to sleep.  We finally got him down around 10:30 which is late for a little by who is usually in bed at 7:00-7:30.

Sunday morning, we decided to skip church since they were up and at em at 6:00!  Short night!  We got on the road around 10:00 to head to Omaha, NE.  We had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory-yum!, and then went downtown to the Children's Museum.  The boys had a blast.  So did Nellie (Ok, so she just stayed in the car...it's hard enough keeping tabs on 2 boys).  But we did take a picture of her and Hunter outside of the museum before leaving.

Monday morning, we woke before the crack of dawn at 5:30, packed up and were on the road at 6:30 AM.  We drove and drove again and finally arrived home at 2:00.  We changed into costumes, took pictures to send to Target, then began our trick or treating adventure.  And all 3 of my "children" for the weekend were in costume: Mario, Luigi and a cheerleader.

Nellie came trick or treating with us around town to see our loved ones.  She  helped me hand out candy while my brother, Andrew took Hunter around our neighborhood and Brody stayed home and ate supper and went to bed. 

 It was a fun weekend and very busy.  Hunter was very excited after school because he was able to share what he did with Nellie.  Mrs. Roste told him that Nellie had never been to Iowa or Nebraska.  Lucky bear!  He told me the kids liked the pictures too and told me they said things like, "Whoa!  That is so cool!"  "Neat!" "That looks fun!"  He is proud of his daddy and was happy to share some of the things with his classmates and to actually be able to see the project.  Even though this isn't a typical weekend for us, we still had fun and it gave Nellie a glimpse of how wild, crazy, and adventurous our life can be.