Playing Dress-up

Michayla got wrapped up like a mummy at our JRC Halloween Party. She's actually dressed up like a princess underneat all that toilet paper.

Allyson was really playing the part of the wicked witch that night. How did she learn to make that face???
Where has the innocence gone? She looks so suspicious here!

Blake was a happy Power Ranger Man (he refused to take off his Batman Cape). I love his big smile!

Jack-O-Lanterns

These are the pumpkins that we picked from the pumpkin patch to make Jack-O-Lanterns. Each of the kids picked their own pumpkin, and chose how to carve it. We also got one big one for the family.









I (Brent) helped do Blake's pumpkin & the family Jack-O-Lantern. Michayla chose the pattern for this pumpkin and I tried my best to make it work (I actually messed it up pretty bad)






Michayla wanted to carve a witch into her pumpkin. This one turned out pretty good (because Michelle did it)




You're going to have to use your imagination on this one. Believe it or not, that is a spider. Blake really wanted a spider, and it was hard to do on this small pumpkin. I actually broke off 2 of the legs and had to try to fix it with toothpicks.

Here's the family Jack-O-Lantern. We finished all of the pumpkins and then left them on our front porch to rot for 2 weeks. We finally threw them away yesterday!

Visitors in Kansas!

Blakester and Grandpa




Allyson playing in the corn.



Michayla and scarecrow friend.



My parents came to visit us!!!! Yeah!! We had so much fun with them. The first day they were here, we went on a field trip to a pumpkin patch here in Kansas called Gary's Berries. The kids loved the hay ride to the pumpkin patch, and picking out thier very own pumkins. We went with Blakes preschool group and had a great time.

Michayla Found a Friend

So, recently Michayla has taken to bug liking. I think its kinda weird because Blake really doesnt want to even touch them. This all started about a year ago when one of my friends showed Michayla how cool it was to hold worms. Thanks Sally! Just kidding, I'm glad she likes them. This praying mantis was pretty cool, other than we found it in our basement.:)

More family pictures.

This one just was funny. We are sure Allyson was flipping off the camera! She was such a monkey that day. She would NOT let us take a picture of her for anything. We were all so amazed that we got a couple good ones of the family:)
This is my absolute favorite. Blake LOVES his daddy!
This is not my favorite pictures, but the background was my favorite out of all of them.
My favorite people in the whole world!

Family Pictures

Well, yesterday we got family pictures. My friend Jessica Bolda took them for us and did an AMAZING job. Thanks Jessica. It was an adventure to say the least. We could not get Allyson to sit still. I'll post some of the ones with her going all over the place. It was pretty funny. We got them taken at a beautiful lake here called Shawnee lake. Hopefully these last us a little while.

and I've always thought Blake looked more like Brent!