Pumpkin Carving

Carving pumpkin's is one of the great memories I have of my childhood. We would all carve pumpkins and then bake the seeds to eat.
It's something that I haven't done in so long and I was so excited to do it with my family. Well, we carved a pumpkin last night...or shall I say, I carved the pumpkin. I bought some fancy kit that was suppose to be very "easy" and you can make all kinds of cool designs. As most of you know, I'm not very crafty and apparently not so good at pumpkin carving! But I had fun trying.
Ben enjoyed pulling out all the "guts" and picking out the seeds, while Addison was happy sitting in her chair trying to see what trouble she could get into!! Art's job was clean up crew and gave the kids a bath while I struggled to make my skull and cross bones. Things didn't go as I planned, but we got some good memories and pictures!

Kayla and Sophia's Halloween Party

October is such a fun month! I love all the fun Halloween stuff for the kids!
Today, Sophia and Kayla had a Halloween party for the neighborhood gang and it was a lot of fun. We played pass the hot pumpkin, chicken limbo and enjoyed some yummy smores! The kids had so much fun that they were both asleep in the car by the time we left the subdivision! :)The kids had a blast playing pass the Hot Pumpkin. Ben had a hard time figuring out that he needed to pass the pumpkin gently rather than chucking it at the kids. But when he has something he can throw, watch out!

Sweet Kayla or should I say Snow White, was the 1st one out, but what a big girl she was about it! Not even a tear!

Addy sat aside and watched. She's way to cool to play games....

Wow, Look at Reece go!
What a great looking group of kids! They most have some good looking parents!!!!

Addy's Big Birthday Bash

Addy's 1st Birthday Party went great! As we expected, she loved the cake and couldn't get enough of the frosting. Looks like she's taking after Grandma on that one! It was so nice having all of her friends there to celebrate!
Addy and Elena

I think the bear Great Grandma made was hit!

Addison turns 1 !!!!!

Our sweet little Addison Grace turned ONE! Wow- It's so hard to believe that she's already a year. She's grown so fast, and although she's on the small side, she's got big plans for the future. She started the morning clapping her hands and was full of smiles while Ben and I sang to her as she first opened her cute little eyes at 7 AM.

After about 20minutes of being up she realized that it was "her" day and she didn't really want to do what mommy wanted her too....
Then she really got upset when she heard her bottle was going to be taken away.....
But things got better as the day progressed. Mary and the daycare kids helped her celebrate.

Yeah for Me!
Not too bad Mommy! I think I like Cookies!
All Addy's Daycare friends

Ben & Carter's Pumpkin Painting Adventure

Ben and Carter had a blast painting pumpkins. As always Ben was a total mess and had paint everywhere, but Carter managed to keep each paint color separate and came out without a drop of paint on him!
It's so fun to watch them each have their own style!

The Great Pumpkin, Charile Brown!

Fall is here and I love it! The weather is finally starting to cool off and if those little black bugs would go away, things would be great!

This weekend, after healing over the loss of the Bears game, we decided to take the kids out to a local pumpkin patch. The kids had a great time.
Wow, is that a Donkey....

That's a big one

Where's Benjamin........

Halloween Photo Time

Today was such a nice fall day that we decided to get the kids out in their costumes and get some pictures. Addy really didn't mind having her costume on, which surprised me. She was more interested in eating the leaves. And Ben just wanted me to stop taking his picture so he could ride his bike in his frog costume! All in all it was a fun time!

Big Boy Bed

This past week we decided to put Ben in a big boy bed. It was sad watching them take apart the crib. I can remember how excited I was the day it was put up. I use to sit in the "nursery" rocking in the chair, staring at the crib, anxiously awaiting the arrival of my sweet little baby. It seems to weird thinking back to my pregnancy with Ben, not knowing what motherhood would be like and having no idea how much our lives would change. It's been an amazing 2 1/2 years!

Ben LOVES his new bed. He's always liked sleeping in our bed, so we knew he'd love his own big bed.