Our St. Louis Trip

We all went to Uncle Marts house in St. Louis to visit for the thanksgiving holiday. The first day we went to the Gateway Arch. The Arch is the tallest national monument in the United States at 630 feet.
Construction started in 1963 and the last section of the Arch was put into place on October 28, 1965. The Arch sways a maximum of 18" (9" each way) in a 150 mph wind. The usual sway is 1/2". We all rode to the top of the arch in the "Pods" which are part elevator and part amusement park ride because of the irregular shape of the arch. Take a look!

The 1st Ride of the Year

Excitement today in the Dempsey house. We got SNOW!!!!! Enough to ride the snowmobile. P.J.'s still on, as no time to change we had to get to that snow, snowsuits fit well over top and outside they went. Emma got to go on the first ride with Daddy around the block on the new sled. Connor was excited to do the snow angels, shovel, snow blow and of course ride the snowmobiles. Bubba Dog was just as excited too. We are still getting snow, looks like until Sunday.

Girl's Day Out

Emma and I had a girl's day out with Rhonda and Deanna. Emma and I started our day out with a trip to the hair salon to get Mommy's hair done. I asked Emma if she would like to get her hair cute for the 1st time but she was not in the least bit interested. Then we headed off to Carousel mall. First we had some lunch of choice, then to Libby Lu's were the girls got to dress up in fairy outfits and have their hair, makeup and nails done. They also got a backpack and were able to pick out 5 goodies of their choice to fill up their bags. After all that we headed out to mall to the carousel for a ride. Then to do some shopping for Emma, she thought she could uses some dresses. It was a success we found a dress and skirt. I think we may be in trouble in a couple of years with the shopping the girls are pros already. Deanna and Emma would say "oh how cute is this" they were even checking out the boy clothes for their brothers (we are in TROUBLE). It was a fun day.

Road Trip

O.K not sure if you can call it a road trip maybe a quick one. Connor had no school Monday or Tuesday so we took Emma and Seamus out of school (school skippers) and headed 3 hours north to Great Poppy's and Uncle Jeff's house. We all had fun feeding the fish, checking out Uncle Jeff's new electric wheel chair and playing with Great Poppy. The kids were great in the car, I could not have asked for better kids. Thanks again Great Poppy and Uncle Jeff for a fun time.

Playing in the Leaves

We have had a few nice days this week, and the kids have been bugging me to rake the leaves. As many of you know we do not have any trees in yard besides the small one in the front yard.

So as you can imagine not many leaves to rake but we managed to get a few and the kids had a ball the small amount of leaves we manged to rake up.

Monkey Munch

To those of you who are followers of Jon & Kate plus 8 (other wise known as Aunt Char and Emma) there is a reciepe that Emma had seen on one the shows and has been bugging me to make. Tonight I finally said o.k. lets do it. If you like chocolate, peanut butter and chex ceral it is a great quick and easy snack, other wise known as monkey munch. My two monkeys above enjoying the Monkey Munch think it is something to add to our receipe box. Head to the following site for the receipe http://www.recipezaar.com/290434

Trick-or-Treat

The witch and the Transformer Bumblebee had a good time Trick-or-Treating. We had a whole house full prior to going out. I think all togather we had 12 kids. This year they made it all the way around the block and then some. We even made a pitstop home to drop off some candy to start to refill our pumpkins. Gigi, Poppy and Great Grandma stayed home to hand out the candy for us.