Halloween 2011

Wow. No, not going to give excuses...

Halloween was great this year! We decorated cookies, carved pumpkins, visited a pumpkin patch, got dressed up and went trick-or-treatin'! Fun was had by all, I'm sure! :)

Kate and her friend, Sam

Megan, the little angel

Brooke and Megan waiting to Trunk-or-Treat!

Carli and her bff were both Tinkerbell--of course, Carli won't look at me when I take her pictureMy friend, Janna, got this shot and shared it with me! Thanks, Janna! :)Carli and her crazy posespose...again...and again ;)ready to go!still waiting...lolKate took Brooke around since I had to man the handing out of the candyThe loot! Kate was Alice in Wonderland (the "real people" version)Megan and her lootBrooke dug right in!Love that face!getting tired :)Brandon was a black ninja guyKate and Brookie both as Alice! Fun!

Kate's is in the middle and I think all the girls helped with the little ones

pumpkins...Carli carved the one of the left all by herself (mostly) and I did the one on the right. Don't remember who carved the middle one...maybe Megan

Random Stuff

August has been a busy month at our house! Here are a few things that have happened:

The girls had a pretend tea party in the kitchen.Brooke "eating" her water at the pretend tea party Carli had some dental work done at the hospital. She is not tolerant of the dentist doing work in his office so we had to take drastic measures. She did great, but it was a rough time for her. Here she is all snug in the wagon going back to the car after her procedure. Her dentist was so sweet and brought her a cute stuffed animal for her to snuggle with.

Carli and her great little friend had a blast dressing up when she came to play the day after Carli's hospital experience. They put on a great show dancing to the "Enchanted" soundtrack. Aren't they adorable?!

Brandon is playing percussion this year in 6th grade. He loves it! He received his supplies at band camp and went to town practicing!

I'm slowly working my way through my hundreds of photos from our summer. Hope to have some more posted soon!

First Day of School!

Brandon and Kate eating their breakfast. They are about ready to head out to catch the bus!

Kate is starting 5th grade. I can't believe how grown up she is! Holding up her "5." Such a cutie!

Brandon starts 6th grade today. Here he is, silly as ever. ;) Handsome guy, too!

The big intermediate schoolers
Megan is a big 3rd grader today! Wow! I thought she looked so beautiful in her new dress.Holding up her big "3"Now I am back to having 2 little ones at home. Carli will start preschool in a few weeks, but for now it's just me and my babies. :)

Scouting

Last week we had pack meeting with Brandon's scout troop. He has really enjoyed scouting and has done very well. He has an amazing Webelos leader right now and all 3 boys in her den earned their Webelos badge! She helped the families know everything we needed to do to finish before Thanksgiving. Since they did it she invited them all over to her house to have a party and what a blast that was for them!

Here's Brandon trying to put the pin on Ben's shirt. Usually it's a mother's pin, but I was taking the pictures. :)

We are very proud of you, Brandon! You are doing awesome!

Take me out to the ball game!

Both Brandon and Megan are playing on baseball teams this fall! So far we have had 1 game each and the next week everything was cancelled because of all the rain we've had. They are having a good time, though! Brandon hasn't played for a couple years so I was glad he was excited to play again. Megan is doing great for never playing before. Ha! It's kind of funny at times. :) She's adorable out there. Here are some pictures from their first games.

She's out there ready to catch the ball!The 2 girls on the teamBrandon ready for the game to startHe enjoys being catcher