Are you Prepared for an Emergency???

This is our life...Fire Safety. Matthew has all three of his firefighter jackets hung on his door at all times. I have tried to tell him that he only need one at a time, but he says he needs to be prepared in case the firefighters come over and need an outfit. In the event of an emergency 3 firefighters will be set! He even has a light on his helmet for entering dark buildings and cones to place outside of the fire. He is desperately looking for an air pack to wear on his back and until then he will not be satisfied that he is a real firefighter!

A month ago, Grandpa was taken to the hospital in an ambulance when he was at our house. When Grandpa was safely taken out of the house (Thankfully, he is just fine now!) Matthew came upstairs and asked one of the firemen if he could tour the fire truck. I had to tell him that they were working and we would go to the fire station soon...

Don't Faint...I am back!

OK, so I am back! Don't faint! After much prodding from friends and family I have started back up on this blog thing. You have to know, that I grew up without a computer and I am pretty incompetent! I have now logged on over two hours just trying to find the pictures I want, compress the pictures, add them to the blog and I have to so that I didn't get the exact pictures I wanted but this is going to have to do for now. (I took 150 picture of the kids in their Halloween costumes! On small thumbnails they all look pretty good. It isn't until I put them on the blog that I realized it was probably a little different picture. Only Miss Anal (Me) would notice.)
Matthew is in love with Firefighters now. He has 3 costumes now and has to have each them hanging up on his door with his helmets and his pants tucked into his boots like real firefighters do! He is really funny. He says Fire fighter like this: Pronounced: far-farter (say is very fast in a low voice). Our days are filled with him talking about far-farter helmets, far-farter pick axes, far-farter pike poles, far-farter air packs---you get the point!!!

Allie was a total poser this day, after all, she is going to be a movie star one day. She had the Snow White thing down. The make-up for this photo shoot took an hour per girl. Matthew didn't take long as he lives in his Fire Fighter costume!!!

Here are a few of my favorite photos of Emily. She told me that this year she didn't want to be a princess. I had her try on an Incredibles costume and she said, "This is so hideous, I would rather be a princess!" I want pretty, cute costumes so we agreed on a pretty witch. It was a costume from the Disney Store (actually a fairy minus the wings.) Doesn't Emily look old?