Fall 2009

I know it has been FOREVER since I posted, but I have had sooo much to post that I just haven't wanted to take the time to do it! (I am becoming quite the procrastinator....yikes!)

We were so excited for the first snowfall way back before Halloween. Coleton waited all day for John to get home because he wanted to hit him with a snowball....oh the love around this house! Of course the minute that John starts throwing snowballs, the neighborhood comes alive!



It is official....John and I are now a GREAT UNCLE and AUNT....John's niece just had a darling baby girl! We had a shower for her and it was so fun to plan. She wanted a book shower because she did not know the gender of the baby. We went with a Dr Seuss theme. The invites were little books with a poem inside, and the food all coordinated with Dr Seuss books. I only took a few pictures, but here they are....


We had a fun Halloween. We ate our traditional pumpkin stew...well the adults ate the pumpkin stew and the kids ate pizza. Hailey informed me that the stew is the only thing she really doesn't like about Halloween. Hailey was a "Twilight Tiger", Coleton was a dinosaur, and Easton was supposed to be Tigger, but he would not wear his costume, so I settled on his Superman cape. (You can tell he is the third child, at this point it is really not worth the fight...right??) Coleton was very specific that he wanted to be a brown dinosaur with green spikes and a club on the tail. I ended up making his costume. It was so fun for me and I hope next year to make all 3 of the costumes...if Hailey will let me that is :0

Here is the very large trick or treating group!

The costumes

Our pumpkins. The kids will not put their hands into a pumpkin so John and I carve and the kids paint.

After trick or treating we go to my mom and dads and they give the kids matching jammies....one of our favorite traditions.