Harvest Fest...

A local church was having a free Harvest festival so we decided to hook up with our neighbors and take the kids. It was pretty chilly so after a bit we had to take off..but overall it was a lot of fun.

Lots of face painting and pumpkin painting!


Yum! Cotton Candy!


This is all he wanted to do! Go figure!


Cheese!

The kids squaring off...

Now the adults! This was too funny!

I love to hear the kids just chuckling at their dads!!!

Really Behind...

So I'm really behind...It's been over a month and not many posts! I even looked and saw I only took 80 pictures for the entire month of September...usually I average at least 300 per month! I know, I'm a little crazy with photos! So here are some recent pictures of some "stuff!"

Here are some shots from Isaac's fall trip to the Pumpkin patch with his class...he was so excited to bring home his pumpkin and couldn't wait to decorate it! I didn't go this day but another mom was great about sharing her photos!! Thanks Heidi!!

His Class

Love the hat

Win Rockettes Tickets with GRKids!

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Art Prize take 2!

So our friends from Illinois were up for the weekend and we couldn't wait to go back downtown. We had one night for just us adults and a nice dinner at the Bull's head! Yum! Then the next day we took the kids back for more! It was so nice just to walk downtown!

The kids were very fascinated with the mural by the Children's museum...they loved the mirrors!

and of course the balloons!

The four of us with no kids! Yeah for date night!

Art Prize...take 1

So one Sunday we headed downtown (with thousands of others!) to see the airplanes! I'm sure you've all heard about it! Isaac was so excited to see those planes fly off the buildings and loved that he got a couple! It was a ton of fun to just walk around with the Clarks and take in Art Prize together! Here are some shots from our trip.

I know this isn't part of Art Prize...but Isaac thought it was cool!!! Go Blue!

Just taking a break...for a sec that is.

Admiring the art with Dad.

The group shot!

Nessie...

This was how we kept track of the kids...there were so many people! Unbelievable! What a great thing for GR!

Open House

Isaac's school had an open house to let the kids show their school off...so Isaac couldn't wait to invite both Grandparents and show them his new school!



Here he is hugging Elliot before class....really he's hugging not choking!

A couple of Neighbors are in his class and Isaac just loves that. Mason - his new best friend didn't want to be in the picture but Emma was all smiles!! So fun for them to know other kids in the class and see them in the neighborhood.

Soccer!!!

So Isaac is loving playing soccer this year!!! He smiles all the time and just goes hard! I fyou ask him how many goals he made he usually says something like - 72! No modesty there! He does know how to celebrate after a goal though! And then he looks to see if everyone saw it!

Here he is concentrating before the game

The fan club! I love how well our family all support us!!

Elliot trying to scam some food from Grandma & Grandpa!

Our friends from Illinois even came out to cheer him on!

Madi decided not to play this year..I think she loves playing one on one with daddy instead!! Nothing wrong with that!

New Pictures!

So I needed so new pictures for our living room wall and just took a night so try and get some good shots! We had some old frames that had other prints in them and I thought they might look good collaged on the wall with pictures of the kids. I wanted some nice closeups and took these...

Here is the final layout...as you can tell we chose a different shot for Elliot since the one above was a little washed out by the sun...next time I won't use such a close up of Elliot and I think I'll like it much better! But overall its what we want for up there!

After pictures the kids just had fun outside...Here is Elliot running....

and then tackling!

Brothers!!! Too cute!

Talking...Num Num!

Elliot has really started "talking" a lot more these past few weeks. He's really trying ot communicate with words...even if we can't understand him. And if we can't understand...he just screams! That is pleasant! But its fun when he just starts rattling off words. We caught him the other night doing this at dinner....

I love the fact that he is loving my cooking! Num Num! :)

First Day

Ahh...the first day of school. I really think I was dreading this...mostly because this is the first time someone else will be spending more time in a day with Madi than me. I know its all just part of life and it will be nice for me to have more time - especially when they all are in school...but I miss her. From the time the bus drops her off till bedtime just flies by.

As you can tell she was so excited. She let me take this shot but when I asked her to pose by the bus stop...she said "No, mom!" But I still got a hug and kiss! So thats okay. They grow up too fast! When she got off the bus she ran right over to me and hugged me for a long time....that is the best feeling! I think she missed me as much as I missed her.


Yesterday was also Isaac's first big day! We took him to meet his teacher! He wanted to be just like sissy...so he brought his backpack and everything to the open house! He had so much fun in his room...it was hard to get him to leave. He can't wait to go back! He likes it too that he has the same teacher sissy did! How fun! It's really going to be a different year for me with 2 in school...

Campout!

Before Summer was over the kids (or dads) thought it would be fun to campout in the backyard. So they set up their tents and had a great night camping out!

The boys helping to set up the tent

Two very excited kiddos!

They even let mom come out for a bit to play a game of Blokus!