My little monsters!! Halloween 2011

hallelujah!!! The child is actually looking at the camera!! Can you believe it!!
This year daddy was the official candy distributer for the Ehlenberger household. While mommy maker of cool costumes took my "creations" trick or treating :) I can't take credit for the unicorn, cute as it is! Abby found it at the thrift store and had a fit over it!

"It's SOOOOO FLUFFY!!!" hehehe!
I can however attribute the awesomeness of Gabe and Noah's costumes to my creativity!! Gabriel was a mad scientist this year, which might I add totally fits his personality. Love it!
Noah was a very scary vampire! Noah told me this year, "I need to get into the scary side of halloween." He is so stinkin' cute!

Love this picture!! By far the best of the night! Love my crazy kids!

oh and those blue eyes!! Even on a vampire they are just beautious!

We had an awesome time trick or treating with our friends from church! Wish I could take credit for the cool decorations too, but alas that is the neighbors house.
And then there was candy.... lots and lots of candy!

Not too tall, Not too small!!

The kids and I visited the pumpkin patch the week before Halloween. I was a bit disappointed at first because it was wet and foggy, but I think it actually made the visit even more fun. Abigail and Noah wore their rain boots and had lots of fun TROMPING through the puddles.

I tried to get a group shot but Abby wouldn't look at the camera, even with her brothers' pleading.
You should really appreciate when you get to see this child's eyes in a picture. Usually I have asked her questions until she looks up and answers. Ever notice how she is not really smiling, she's talking... little stinker!
Gabe and Abby found their pumpkins rather quickly, but Noah was on a mission to find the perfect pumpkin.
His requirements: Not too tall, not too small, round and COMPLETELY orange.... WITH A STEM!
After walking up and down and round and round the pumpkin patch he finally found it!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Abigail turns 4!

This year Abigail is really into Rapunzel thanks to the movie Tangled, so part of her birthday fun this day was to make her own Tower cake! The cake is made out of donuts and cupcakes. The directions called for a brown cupcake liner for the bottom of the house but we couldn't find any so we just improvised with construction paper. It may not be the the prettiest cake but it made her happy and that's all that matters. Happy Birthday, Abigail!

Update on the Postcard Exchange

We are still working on getting a postcard from every state. I really want to thank everyone that has sent a card for us, especially those that passed on our information to others as well. You have helped us make this little homeschool project a huge success!

These are the states we have...

Alaska Colorado Idaho Iowa Maryland Minnesota

Arizona Georgia Illinois Kansas Massachusetts New Hampshire

California Hawaii Indiana Kentucky Michigan New Mexico

New York Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia Wyoming

North Carolina Oklahoma Tennessee Washington

North Dakota Oregon Texas Wisconsin

We still need :)

Alabama

Arkansas

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Louisiana

Maine

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Jersey

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Utah

Vermont

One really great thing that has happened is that our friends and family have not just sent cards from the U.S. we have been getting cards from all over the world. In starting this project we also came across a great website called www.postcrossing.com I am in love with this site!! We request an address and postcrossing emails us the address of another user from anywhere in the world. We send a card to them and when they receive it they register it online, once our card is registered postcrossing will send our address to another postcrossing user and they will send us a card. Here are the other places we have received cards from.

Friends:

Guam

Bahamas

Postcrossing:

Germany

Holland

China

Portugal

Taiwan

Our Summer 2011

Well the first thing thing we did this summer was have an awesome visit with my sister. Unfortunately I think I got a little preoccupied with showing her how to use her camera and forgot to use my own, so Tasha send me some pics please! We were blessed to be able to celebrate her birthday with her.

Next came Mr. Noah's birthday which was spent in one of his favorite places, the Pacific Science Center. We love the dinosaur area of course, but the boys had to be dragged away from this water sprayer. I love that they could play with the water and not get wet :)

After playing at the Science Center we picked up my dad from the airport and went on the church camping trip to the North Cascades. This is just one of the most beautiful areas in God's creation. It is sooooo green with moss and ferns and the trees are BIG! Oh and the waterfalls, there are waterfalls everywhere!

When we got home I jumped right back in to planning this year's VBS at Oak Harbor Church of Christ. We were Inside OUT and Upside DOWN on Mainstreet learning all about the stories Jesus told.

After VBS my mom came up for a visit. We had so much fun with her over the few weeks that she was here. The highlight was a trip to Sequim where we picked lavender together. Mmmm it smelled so good! The last part of our summer was spent enjoying our first experience with a Salmon Run. That was one fishing experience I will never forget. It was just beautiful where we were fishing and we would watch the sun come up. I used to trout fish when I was younger and I have never caught a fish as big as these Salmon. Jason has never been trout fishing so he is completely spoiled now.

We had a fantastic summer on Whidbey Island, it may be our last here so we are so thankful for all the amazing memories we made this year!

Postcard Exchange

Hi friends and family,
As most of you know, I am homeschooling my children. I would like to enlist your help in a little geography lesson. This summer we would like to exchange postcards with you. You would send a postcard to my boys, Gabriel and Noah, and write on it one fact about your state. We will in turn send you a postcard with two facts about the state of Washington. The goal being that we end up with postcards from all 50 states, they learn a little geography, and learn a lot about our state as well. What's in it for you? You get a hand written postcard that will be worth MILLIONS when Gabriel becomes a famous inventor and Noah a world renowned paleontologist.

Oh... Also, I don't know people in all 50 states so I would love it if you would pass this on to your friends and family!! ...or if your taking a trip this summer keep us in mind.

We would like you to use this address for this project. We got this box just for this project and that way you can pass on our address without worrying about sending people our home address.

Noah and Gabriel Ehlenberger
P.O. Box 175
Oak Harbor, Wa 98277


Thanks so much,
Sabrina

Beautiful Kids in the Tulips

BOYS!!!

This is what my boys were doing while we were enjoying the shops in La Conner. A man passed by me and asked, "do you claim them?" I groaned, "yes those two are mine" haha!

2 years in Washington

Pickin' a tree

This year we wanted to try the "cut your own" christmas tree farm. We got there and got our saw and tree sled. We were so excited! After we walked the whole farm we realized that we didn't really like those type of trees. The kids didn't care they just wanted daddy to cut down a tree, so we found a nice pre-cut tree that we liked and daddy pretended to cut it down.

While Jason got the tree loaded the kids played in the haystack fort they had there.

Thanksgiving 2010

Halloween 2010

Yes... I realize this is out of order, but I couldn't leave out the big holidays. I am so behind on this blog. Hope you enjoy the update :)