Thanks Jukers!

Want to know what William and Natalie will look like when they are teenagers? Just kidding! Here is a silly video; thanks to the Jukers for introducing us to it!

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Guess where we just got back from?!?!

Hello faithful blog readers! Just a quick post that we are home from our fantastic family vacation to Disney World! We had such a blast and if I wasn't completely swamped with things to do I would blog about it all now. So it all must wait till I have a little more time! Thanks so much to my dear friend Jen Woods for showing us the most amazing time ever! Her Disney expertise really made the vacation spectacular and we thoroughly enjoyed spending time with her, especially when she was on stilts! Anyway, more to follow!

A bad idea that got worse...

Every once in a while we decide to go into New Orleans for fun and exploring around the city (safe parts!). Saturday night was such a night. So, we loaded up the kids and drove into the city.

There were many things that should have given us a clue that something was wrong, and in hindsight I can totally see it! But hindsight does you no good, now does it? As we were getting closer to the city, both Tom and I commented on how busy it seemed the traffic was. We blew it off on it being a Saturday night with really nice weather. We even saw large groups of people waiting to take the trolly downtown, which is also pretty rare. But we kept driving.

As we were coming down Canal St., the foot traffic was insanely heavy. Again, it must be this nice weather we are having! We went to park in our usual parking lot, but it was full! Hmmm...we've never had trouble parking there before, but there's another parking garage just a little ways down...we can park there! We finally found a parking spot all the way up on the 7th level, loaded up the kids in the stroller and headed down to the street. As we were leaving the parking garage, Tom and I both noticed how many out of town license plates there were. We will see some on occasion, but not as many as were there!

We decided to head towards Cafe Du Monde to get Beignets before we started exploring and looking for street performers. As we were headed down the street, it hit us! There must be a Mardi Gras Parade tonight! (Now, for those of you not in the know, Mardi Gras parades begin long before Mardi Gras, which is on February 24th this year. It's actually refered to the "season of Mardi Gras.") We have only been to parades in Houma, and those aren't so bad! Now we'll get to see a New Orleans parade!

Tom saw a police officer who was starting to block off traffic and he jogged over to verify that it was a parade. I didn't hear the conversation, but I did hear Tom's laughter. He jogged back and said "oh, yeah...it's a parade. And the officer was kind enough to let me know it was very ADULT in nature and always stirs up alot of controversy! And, it's coming this way!!" I wheeled the stroller right around and headed right back to the parking garage! (See what I mean by hindsight?!?)

When we got home I did go online to see what parade we had barely missed taking our children to! It was the Krewe du Vieux and I can't type their theme without blushing, so if you are that curious, google it!

They Share a Hair Stylist

I literally have but a few minutes, but I absolutely had to post this! I have all sorts of pictures from Christmas but this is so funny it had to do it immediately! I have often commented on Natalie's hair and how awesome it is, especially first thing in the morning. It's almost like she rubs her head all night long so that it is amazingly crazy in the morning! She got a baby doll for Christmas that she named "baby Binky." When we got baby binky her hair was blonde and perfect. This is what they looked like this morning:

Baby Binky's hair? Not so perfect anymore! Now they are twins!

My husband is a 12 year old

Often when people ask how many children I have I tend to reply "three" because Tom tends to fall into that catagory. Ok, so I only birthed two, but I seem to find myself trying to convince three kids why having halloween candy before dinner is not a healthy choice instead of just two, etc.... There are so many situations where I just shake my head and look at my husband and say "you know better," such as the situation with the fog machine, or, most recently, everything that happened with the blank firing machine gun in the backyard (please don't even ask!).

Just the other day we were on a family trip to Wal-Mart checking out bikes because Christmas is coming up and William is quickly growing out of his old bike and I needed to see what size he could ride now (sans training wheels, of course!) to give Santa the heads up. So William and I are checking out the bikes and Tom is off looking at something, comes back and declares he's found what he wants for Christmas. What you ask? See picture below:



It's the Nerf Vulcan Machine Gun. He says that he wants to set up an obstacle course in the backyard and pretend it's like old school American Gladiators where one person trys to run to get to the end and the gladiator trys to hit the person with balls (or in this case, nerf thingys). William is really looking forward to this.

All this is great, but here is what he tried last night that has made me post about my husband. I was so exhausted last night that I gave the kids a bath, put them to bed, and crawled to the sofa to chill in front of the tv. We found a really interesting documentary on discovery health about the tree man that was actually pretty cool, but I still fell asleep about half way through. Well, I had been resting my head on Tom, and somewhere between me falling asleep and the end of the show he had gotten up without waking me up. Well, I finally woke up about 10 o'clock and he was moving my arm for some reason. He whispers "shhh...go back to sleep." I immediately knew something was wrong because he never tells me to go back to sleep. It's usually "if you're going to sleep, do it in your bedroom." Stuff like that. Anyway, I sit up and look around and notice a bowl full of water next to the couch. And then I realized why he was moving my arm. He was trying to stick my hand in the warm water to make me wet my pants! Who does this to their spouse?!? He said he just wanted to see if it would actually work. I tell ya, William has a built in best friend for life with Tom!

Holiday Fashion Shoot

Just wanted to post some pictures of our latest photo shoot! (My favorite is the last one.) There are more, but I just wanted to post a few.

The Incredible O'Briens

The O'Brien family was an ordinary family. Two kids, a house...or so everyone thought. Average family by day, super crime fighting heroes by night:

Happy Halloween!