More Allie and Taylor "goofiness"...

Last night we went to Grandma and Grandpa Harry's house for dinner and a little "Voit Family Fun". We had a great night with lots of laughter. Those little cherubs sure keep us all in stitches. Allie was in a performing mood that's for sure. They were all playing "Simon Says" with Aunt Lori. She decided to have the KIDS take turns being Simon. Taylor took her turn, which was great. Stuck to the rules. Then it was Allie's turn. She sat on Lori's lap and you could just see the wheels turning. The FIRST thing out of her mouth was "Simon says touch your balls." OH MY!!! We all laughed with a few tears in there. Then it was story time. Lori had them all "tell a story". Allies' was all about a princess in a tower - over and over. Not much more to her story. Taylor grew a little shy, so Uncle Mike helped her along brought some "gut" laughs out of her in telling her story. Owen was telling his story, which was very detailed and "made sense" as opposed to the others. He went on to talk about the rain and storm that was happening and the birds in the nest, three of them. In the midst of his story about the birds, Allie chimes in and says "and then they cracked a bird." I wish we would have gotten it on video; much funnier! However, we all chuckled. Taylor was into tackling - not sure what her gig was. She was going after Allie with a vengeance. Then turned her sights onto Owen. She was just coming up behing and taking them down. Forget dance or gymnastics, I think dad thinks we should sign her up for football! Needless to say, we went home, had a bath a never heard another word from those two until 7:30 a.m.!!!

Gopher Nation!

MMMM...wonder who's been teaching the girls this? Shawn, Chad thought you'd like this!! I see Chad, Shawn and "4" girls heading to Gopher games!!!

Starting Spanish....

The girls are starting to learn some Spanish - since I don't think it's an option to NOT know that anymore!

Halloween 2008

Halloween was a success, that's for sure. The girls had a lot of different occasions to wear their costumes. On Thursday, we went to see Aunt Jackie and then went to Aunt Jodi's house. There are neighbors at Jodi's who we always go "Trick or Treat". They really like the girls, and it's turned into a sort of "tradition" now. We also went over to their daughters house. We had never been over there before. As we are standing in the entry, Allie looks at Jill and says, "Um Jill, where is your kitchen?" Just out of the blue. Why??!! So funny. Then on the way back to Jodi's as she stepped on the manhole covers, she would stop and say, "Oh, a placemat." She is one random little girl. Taylor was quite the hit with her "wig", which was almost as big as her. Halloween night was a blast! Our neighborhood was wall-to-wall kids. Incredible! We went out, hit a bunch of houses and came back and unloaded the buckets to go back out again. Allie decided to stay home and pass out candy with dad. After some kids came to the door and she gave them candy, she closed the door and goes, "wow, what a rush." Even Taylor laughed. Silly, silly. They were VERY tired and ready for bed. It was 10:30 before all was quiet. Then, lucky for us, about 4 a.m. Taylor came in our room and said she's ready to get up - she wasn't tired anymore. Whoa....I beg to differ! Chad brought her back to her room and they had a little "discussion" and it wasn't long before she was sleeping. Whew...until 8:15 a.m. Awesome for us!!