Pumpkin carving 2012

The kids picked out their pumpkins!  HAHA  Love that Sidney picked the biggest one!

 Getting ready for the action!

 Digging in with some help from mommy!

 and some help from daddy!

 Here they are with their finished products!

Our pumpkins with their pumpkins!!

 

Karly's Birthday!

We hit the road to MN for cousin Karly's 2nd birthday!  We brought Nana & Uncle Ryan along with us!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture of Sidney & Nana!

 

 

The littles wanted to hit the pool as soon as we go to the hotel!

 

They had a ton of fun!

 

Pretty soon the birthday girl herself showed up to swim along!

 

I just love having these 2 little girl cousins so close in age!

 

On Saturday we went to Apple Jack's Orchards & had a ball!

It was a little chilly, but we still managed to have a blast!

 

The kids all got pony rides!

 

Nana bought all the kids apple cider in these cute little pumpkin cups!

Aren't they cute!

 

After visiting all the animals & checking out the caramels (i won't have a rant on how badly I crave MORE of those delicious caramels & WISH we had them here) we headed over for the games, rides & fun!

First up was the cow train!

 

Then we stopped by the corn pit & jumping thing, then we all ended at the apple shooter!

This took up ALOT of our time & was soo fun!

Here is P-didds getting a turn to shoot! (with Daddy's help)

 

Sidney enjoyed playing in the corn!

I even took a turn at the apple shooter! 

So fun!

The girls had fun at Karly's party!

Well, they did for most of the day!  By early evening there were some major throwdowns happening.

So Anna had a great idea to throw them in the tub!

They got along GREAT in there!

 

We had so much fun celebrating Karly's birthday & getting to catch up with the rellies!

The TOOTH FAIRY is coming!!

WHOOHOO, we're so excited! 

The Tooth Fairy will make her first visit to our house tonight!

 

Cayden lost his first tooth!  This tooth has been loose & wiggly for weeks.

Tonight Cayden was taking a shower & said he hooked a toy on it.

The tooth was laying flat in his mouth, just dangling there.

So Justyn called ME in!

(blood is NOT my thing, but loose teeth are intriguing)

So we twisted, pushed, pulled & tried.

It wasn't coming.

 So we took a break & tried again & wallah....out the tooth came!

Cayden was so thrilled!

 My gap toothed little man!!

So excited for him.

He has his tooth in a tooth fairy pouch on his door & is so excited!

At bedtime we were talking about how we used to put ours under our pillows, or I even had a tooth fairy pillow that had a pocket for my tooth.

He said "so, mom....does the tooth fairy just come & lift your head up to get the tooth?"

I said "I have no idea, I've never seen the tooth fairy"

teehee - soo excited for him!!!



SOCCER!!

We have an exciting year this year!!

Prestyn gets to play soccer too!  They boys were both so excited for the first night!

The first night it usually mass choas, but it wasn't too bad this year!

Here they are waiting to kick a goal.

 Sidney & I got to hang out & watch & cheer them on!

 I haven't got very many good pics up to this point, but HAD to share this one, makes me laugh out loud!!

Cayden is in 1st grade!

Our 6 year old all ready to go to 1st grade!!

 Headed for the bus! No fear, just straight up excited!

 We missed him during the day & waiting for him to get off the bus.

He came running & I was sure he was headed to hug his brother & sister.

 I was pleasantly surprised when I...his mama got the 1st big hug!!

 Then he went & gave Prestyn & Sidney & Daddy their hugs!

 We proceeded inside to hear all about his day & have an icecream treat.

He told us he LOVES school & wanted to write thank you notes to his teacher, principal & bus driver & tell them how awesome they were! And he did! :) 

He's such a soft heart & I know he'll do great again this year!

So proud of him!



Our Last Camping trip!

We went to Fort Lincoln State Park for our last camping trip of the season!

We started it off with a little bike ride/walk.

 Sidney tried, but ended up ditching her trike & walking.

 Then they found a toad.

 Sidney posed for a picture.

 Then they all did....WHO is that girl?

 GOOFY girl...cheesy boys!

 P-didds is always entertained by his army guys.

 Check out his setup.  The Power Ranger was the bad guy here.

 Can't believe how they fall asleep sometimes.  This was during our vehicle search.

 The kids by the river!

 Our little goof balls, they make me laugh!

 Fishing with Uncle Ryan!

 How the kids stayed entertained.

 the next day they "swam"

 Me & J!

 The kids all ready for our tour of the "on the slant village"

 Truck'n along.

 They were impressed.

 Especially by the buffalo facts.

 Our family after the tour.

 Our new ride!