4 of 4- Yes, Even More Pictures

(K, there are 4 posts of this trip to look at. The first one is at the bottom. Just so you know....)

I LOVE this picture of Zoe. She and I were waiting for Austin and Travis to get off a ride, and we were hanging out on Main Street. She was in the middle of the road just twirling around in her dress and loving that everyone walking by was going "Ohhh! How cute!!" She was seriously showing off how cute she was. She was actually posing and saying "Cheese!" We even had some random lady in line at the Haunted Mansion ask if she could take a picute of Zoe becuase of how cute she was. Of course we demanded a few thousand out of her first, made her sign all the necessary documents, you know, the usual.

Ok, that is all the pictures I am going to post of this trip. If you want to see the rest you are gonna have to come over and look at the book I will make whenver I have time! Keep scrolling down for 3 more posts of this awesome trip!

3 of 4 - Even More Pictures

I know, I know, I take tons of pics. I just hope someday the kids will enjoy looking at them when I print this month out. Enjoy.

Ok, see this awesome hat? Yeah, lost it on the Matterhorn. Rather not talk about it. Touchy subject. And see the lanyard on his neck? That is our family's new hobby... Pin Trading. It is so fun!

2 of 4- More pictures

Ok, so Disneyland may not seem that exciting to all of you, but it still is for us. We love it. By the way, the first post about this is after this post. There is a slide show. Don't miss it. Seriously, it took me like 30 minutes to make it for some reason. So please, watch it! Anyway, here are the pics...

I was so proud of this picture, even though it is my camera that deserves all the credit.

The kids dressed up in some Disney Costumes the second day we were there. Austin wore his pirate costume and Zoe was Alice in Wonderland.

Even on vacation, Travis can't resist a good game of poker.

Seriously, click on this picture and blow it up... is she scary or what? I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

1 of 4-Haunted Mansion Holiday

Ok, here are some pictures of where we went. I think that Koe and Kristal deserve some snaps for guessing right! Now, this slide show is mainly just to show you how Disneyland decorates for Halloween. The next few posts will be of us and the kids. I know, you can't wait.

We're off to see...... what?

Where are we going? Can you guess?
When all is said and done, our car will be a mess.
At 3 in the morning today we will start,
Where, do you say? Make a guess, that's a start!
Tuesday we will be back without delay...
You have 'till then to have a say.
For the one who can guess where it is we are,
Will probably be the best guesser by far.
Now, Jana and Mom, you musn't cheat,
You already know where we are going is neat!
So keep a secret so the others can play.
I want to see if they can guess today!
And when we return, here you will see,
The answer to where it is we will be!

'Till Tuesday!

Ok, Now What?

I know that ever since I left you, my dear and faithful readers, hanging on the edge of your seats about my ever so important ebay issue, you have probably been experiencing occasional night sweats from the anxiety of needing to know what happened next right? You, I'm sure, have been refreshing this blog page every 5 minutes, hoping that I finished the story? It's ok, you can admit it, we are all friends here. Well, today is your lucky day. The second half of this ebay saga.

So I wrote to the Trust and Safety Department and told them all what a !#$@* she was. Well, this did not get me anywhere unfortunatly. So I replyed to her little response in my feedback section, and on hers. So I feel a little better because I got the last word in you know? But it still kills me to go to My Ebay and see that stupid red negative amongst all my perfect little green positives. Well, here is where I need all your expertise.

She emailed me yesterday requesting for me to agree to mutually withdraw the feedback we both left. The feedback will still be there for people to read, but it won't count against our scores.
I am thinking I don't want to do this because I want her to suffer. You know? Why now does she care about having negatives? I already got my words in, so should I agree to this, or not?

See? I Told You.

Ok, yesterday we were searching for a car and we were letting the kids walk instead of sit in a stroller because they had been sitting all day in the car. WELL, we were crossing the street and Zoe was lagging behind. No, this was not a busy street, but it was a street where cars can drive, nonetheless. So, she was way behind us. Me and Austin are already on the other side of the street waiting, and Travis says "Hurry Zoe!" Zoe was in the middle of the road when he said this to her. Can you guess what she did? She looked right at Travis with NO expression on her face, stopped walking altogether, then sat down in the middle of the road. I told you she was a big brat Kristal. And I use the word Brat with LOVE of course for all those who don't understand my humor! So he had to go back and pick her up. She is so mean!

But revenge is SWEET!!!.....

Sassy Cassie's Shower

Saturday Cassie had her Baby shower. Here are some pics from that lovely event.

Here is the diaper cake I made her.

In the words of Cassie, "This is SO CUTE".

Cassie, I don't think this will fit you.

Her Mom In-Law made her this crib bedding!

Our Haunted House

Ok people, it is officially the awesomest time of the year- the last 3 months. Every month has something exciting to look forward to! Halloween is practically knocking down our door here, so we finally found time last night to decorate with what little Halloween decor we have. Austin had fun though! Zoe was zonked out, so she didn't get to join in the festivites, actually she still hasn't even noticed that all this stuff is out!

Here is a pumpkin he made...

Our Spooky town on the mantle...

I would show you the outside of our house, but it doesn't look that good! So anyway, Happy Haunting!

By the way, there is a post about our Build A Bear trip that just got added for September because I started it one day, and just finished it now. So scroll down if you want to see that!

The Truth Hurts Sometimes

I know I keep blogging about the funny things that Austin says, but come on, they're funny. So why not? Here is another one.

For Cassie's baby shower I attempted to make cinnamon rolls. Key word here being "attempted". Well after the shower Austin saw them for the first time, and here is how the conversation went.

Austin: "Aaghh! What is that?"(nose turned up like he has just walked into a port-a-potty)

Me: " It's supposed to be like a cinnamon roll."

Austin: "I don't want to taste that! GROSS!"

Does that give you some picture of how my "cinnamon rolls" turned out?

Build-A-Bear, Make A Friend

2 Saturday nights ago we went to Build-A-Bear. That was really fun! The kids, well Austin, had a lot of fun with it. I originally went in there thinking that Zoe would be the only one having the time of her life because she is all into animals and stuff, but Austin was way more into it. Zoe just wanted to run around the store and UNSTOCK the shelves. Hence why she is in almost NO pictures!

Austin and Zoe putting hearts into their animals.

Zoe picking out a ballerina dress for her bear.The Dressing Room.

And $54.00 later, "Sammy" and "Super Pup" were born! And Austin treats "Super Pup" like he is real. He puts him down to sleep in his "box house", and takes him lots of places with him, like Show and Tell at school.

Then, sleep fell over the kids and their new friends, And They Lived Happily Ever After.

What?

Austin was watching Chicken Run tonight, and at the end of the movie there are these 2 chickens that hug. When Austin saw that he said to Travis, "Dad, those chickens want a baby."

All we could do was laugh.

Vonda, this one's for you!!

Vonda has requested that I blog about my upbringing. This should be interesting because I have never really written about that before. So I am not sure how interesting this will be! But here goes... a look into the life that was Amy Brinn Campbell.

So I was born January 2, 1983 in Tucson, AZ at the Tucson Medical Center... Mom, is that right?? I lived there in Tucson until I was 13. I went to Copper Creek Elementary, which I remember looked as big as a High School. I drove by there a few years ago, and I wasn't far off. It really is big!! That was the place I had my first boyfriend, Darius Pittman, YUCK! In 4th grade was when I started playing the violin in the school orchestra. In the 5th grade, I got my braces. Someday I will post a picture of my oger-esque teeth back in the day. It was to die for, let me tell you.

Eventually I graduated elementary school, and went to middle school. Cross Middle School. I spent 6,7 and half of 8th grade there. I started playing school sports, volleyball and basketball. The next year, 7th grade, is when I got my boobs. I had tons of friends, I was in love with Jordan McKee, and I was still in orchestra. Not to brag or anything, but I was always 1st or 2nd chair in the orchestra. It was either this year or my 6th grade year that I was selected to play in the All State Orchestra in Phoenix. Only 2 people out of select orchestras were invited to go. My friends and I would go to the mall and shop and hang out. We were all into No Doubt and Nirvana. As a family, we would always go to the lake, it seemed like every weekend, no exxageration. We were big boaters & skiiers. We went to a lot of U of A games. We went on vacations all over. Disneyland twice a year, snow skiing in Beaver Creek, Colorado, all over the place, and they always seemed to be big cities. Probably why I think of a vacation as being in some big city somewhere, hitting the town! I want to go to New York City, Paris, Chicago, Seattle, actually, I want to go EVERYWHERE. Big cities excite the crap out of me. So much opportunity, things to do, things to try, the possibilities are endless. Anyway, then we moved to Gilbert, where I went to Greenfield Jr. High for the last half of 8th grade, and when I got a stupid poem I wrote published in some book. It was about basketball! Stupid! Then Gilbert High came. A school of 3000+ students, 5A sports, it was fun. I played on the Varsity Basketball and Volleyball teams there. The pressure that a person has to endure in the sports programs here taught me alot about endurance, and fighting for what you want. I miss the competitiveness that was playing for Gilbert High.

I have a brother, Josh, who is 17 and really cute, tall and buff! A sister, Cassie, 22, who is pregnant with her first boy, and 2 parental units, John and Mary Ellen.

We were very privledged as kids. Not just with our vacays, and everything, but Christmas was and still is the most intense and exciting thing every year. We always went all out. Example, Christmas for us starts right after Halloween. Prestents seem to be endless, decorations everywhere, traditions non-stop. I mean, it goes on and on. No exxageration, we always ( and still do) listen to 99.9 nonstop through out the holiday season. THere is NO turnign the station to see what else is on the radio, we ONLY LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC. Same goes for movies. Christmas ones only. That is just how it was, and I now I am the same obsessive freak about Christmas as they were. I love it! Oh, and I SO want to go to New York for christmas someday. But that is just the way we grew up.

So, there wasn't much to tell, but there you go. Ok, Vonda... was that at all interesting??

Ooooohhhhhhhhh!

That was what Zoe said in the highest pitched tone you ever heard... "Oooohhhhhhh!" Last Sunday when we went and picked up our kids in Safford, they were catching a baby lizard (yuck), Austin didn't seem to mind it at all, but once it was on Zoe, she proceeded with the faces you see here, and the high pitched "Ooooohhhh!'s" She really is a girly girl, even though she seems to reak havoc and destruction on everything she touches....and eats like there is no tomorrow. Seriously, she can hear you open the fridge from the other side of the house, and she will come a'runnin! I know that has nothing to do with lizards, just a little Zoe trivia. Who knows, maybe sometime soon I will give you all a little review quiz to see who is really reading my blog?? Hmmm, it's an idea...

Dear Santa...

Guess what Austin just told me he wants for christmas??

He wants a baby Zebra for christmas. Pishaa! As if! As soon as monkeys start flying out of my butt, sure, then you can have a baby zebra for christmas.

Here was his logic to why it would be ok to have a baby zebra.

Austin: "Mom, I want a baby zebra for christmas."

Mom: "Ok, I don't think that you will be getting one of those, how about you ask Santa for a baby puppy?"

Austin: "Because I want a baby horse and a baby zebra. "

Mom: "But a baby zebra won't fit at our house. "

Austin: "Mom, he would fit in our backyard, and I could feed it carrots, and play with it..."

Mom: "But I don't think it would be very happy at our house Austin."

Austin: "Well he would be happy with me Mom! "

Austin: "We could put him on the roof, then he would fit?!"

Mom: :"Well I dont understand why you want a baby zebra."

Austin: "Well I want to borrow one so that he can sit on my bed, or on my lap. Cuz sometimes I dream about baby zebra's..."

Mom: "I don't think so."

Austin: "Come on Mom!! It is only a present!!!!"

Seeing that I am not giving in to the whole zebra thing he settles with this one....

Austin: " Ok, well then how about we get a little baby dolphin and we can just put him in our pool. I didn't say that we would get him from the zoo or Sea World, we would just get him from the pet dolphin store. That would be so sweet!"

He actually thinks this is a realistic situation, buying him a zebra or horse and he especially thinks it more than easy and normal to aquire a dolphin.