Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halloween 2010

For some reason, even though this weekend was the official "Halloween weekend", I'm just kinda over it already. Maybe because we already endured Luke's Fall Festival at school, pumpkin patch/painting pumpkins at school, his class Halloween party, trick-or-treating at school, Tate Farms with the fam, trunk-r-treat at the Y, and a Halloween party at one of my co-workers homes. Don't get me wrong... I love Halloween... but enough is enough, right?

Even though I feel "Halloween-ed out", it was still another fun fall weekend! We carved pumpkins (finally!) this afternoon.

I tried to get Luke to touch the pumpkin goo in the middle of the pumpkin, but he decided that it would be good enough to just barely touch the goo that was still attached to the top of the pumpkin.



"EWWWWW!! YUCKY!!!"


I carved the first pumpkin, and Luke could not have been less interested in what I was doing. Once my pumpkin was complete and I handed the electric carver over to Andie, Luke immediately wanted to "sit in da wap" (sit in the lap) of dad and closely oversee his every move.










Here's the little stinker before we carved the third pumpkin.


Ok, now fast forward a few hours to "twick o tweet" time! Luke put on his costume (Russell from the movie "UP") for the third time... and for the third time we got tears and a series of "don't wike it! don't wike it! don't wike it!" as he tried to rip the handmade sash with all of the iron-on badges off of his body. Since this was the third time, I was a pro at getting a glo stick in his hand and escorting him outside asap to get his mind off of the sash (which you'd think was made of fire and nails).



Luke had a REALLY fun time "twick o tweeting" this year! Although he was super shy at people's doorsteps, he was very eager to go to the "neck house!" (next house). Once we hit all the houses on our little street, we headed back to our house to help dad and Mr. Mike (our neighbor) hand out candy. And by "help", I mean that Luke ate a sucker... then some M&Ms... then another sucker... then some gummi Starburst... etc. Big help!


This was the scene at our house:



Our pumpkins:



Luke doing what he does best:



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

ps - since this is a post about Halloween, I should probably include a photo of our costumes as an ensemble! Luke's "Russell" costume on it's own isn't nearly as impressive as seeing Russell, Mr. Fredrickson, and the flying house from "UP" all together!!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Tate Farms

How do you sum up the pumpkin patch in three photos?

1 - pumpkins


2 - corn crib


3 - slide


'nuff said!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Smoothies are good!





("more please!")



Doggies are fun!



And wagon rides make me smile!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Fun with Friends

Luke has a best friend and his name is "Ander" (Andrew).



Over the past few weeks, we've gotten the chance to hang out with the Barnsby's a lot, so it is high time that I posted some pics from all the adventures that we've had!

The boys having fun at the Botanical Gardens:









A hug (with a running start) that got a little too aggressive for one party:





Me and the boys!



Picnic on the mountain:











(exploring with Ms. Kristen)



(feeding the fish... aka: kiddos eating lots of saltines)


Playing with Play-doh!






We always have so much fun with the Barnsby's and are happy that we live close enough to get to see those guys lots! Poor Luke is now lost without having "Ander" around. He'll just be in the middle of playing and say "Ander toming?" (Andrew coming?) or exclaim "Ander's turn!"

Although the boys have VERY different personalities... like, polar opposites... it is fun to see them being BFFs!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Evan is Three!

Happy Birthday, big boy!!



Ronin is always to freakin' happy and photogenic!



Luke wanting to be just like his cool cousin, Ronin!



Sweet baby Logan. I just wanna squish and nibble on those cheeks!


Luke getting the hang of the slide/bridge.


Maeve is showing that cake who's boss!


Seriously... soooooo happy all the time!


Dubroca Family, Adams Family, Hammond Family, and Badoud Family:



Fun party... glad we were able to celebrate with friends and family!