Cousins

We got to spend some quality time with Micah's family over Thanksgiving break. We went to Belmont park with them, spent Thanksgiving with them, and another whole day at a park playing. Rory loved these bumper cars:

                                                          All the cousins bumping into each other:

                                     Syd and Madelynn, Sydney road the carousel about 10 times....

                                          At Grandma and Grandpa's house climbing the tree with Keegan:

                                              Kade and Rory and Sydney playing at the splash pad:

                                            Sydney, Kade, Madelynn, and Rory:

                                              Aunt Angie, baby Seth, Sydney and Madelynn:

Rory's Thanksgiving feast

Rory's class had a little Thanksgiving feast right before Thanksgiving break, and I brought a pie, so I stayed to help. Most of the kids just wanted whipped cream, so they would lick that off the pie, and I would put more on. Here's pilgrim Rory.

                       The far end is Rory's class, they combined it with the other first grade classes, too.

                                                            Rory, and one of his friends, Kate. She is the 'other" red head.

                                               Sydney enjoying some pie and popcorn and juice.

Micah's handywork

Micah tried his hand at making us a tabletop. He did a custom 8 point star inlay. it was totally experimental, and it came out beautifully if I do say so myself. i love having something like this in our home that was made by Micah, and i know it will be somehthing we will have for years and years to come. he used a combination of tiger wood, ipai, and wenge woods.

Random Autumn 2

Reading with Daddy before bed...

Rory had a fun run at school yesterday, and ran 4 laps(1 mile). They finished just as it started raining, then celebrated with Popsicles. C-c-c-cold....

He raised $40 for the school, thanks to Mema, Grandpa, and Aunt Kathryn and Uncle Jarrod(and Mom and Dad). For every dollar he raised, he got an entry to win a new bike, which is of course all he was concerned about. He actually was one of the kids with the most entries in the school, but i explained his chances were slim, and we should hope a kid who needs a bike wins it. He didn't seem to like that idea. Another kid won, he stomped his foot, but got over it when he went home and rode his own bike. Silly kid.

Halloween Shinanigans

Random Autumn

So I totally love this, Rory, on his own accord, decided to build a Lego masterpiece...can you guess what it is? I was really amazed that he did this all on his own. What a sweet heart. :)

 Grandpa was doing some major digging on a job in Carlsbad recently, so we took a trip over to see him and take a tractor ride. My kids are pretty lucky that they ca ride on grandpa's smaller digger so often, but this larger one was a lot more fun! Sydney was so brave to get into this noisy thing:

 We took a trip out to Bate's Nut farm last weekend to get a pumpkin and spend some time with the family. We couldn't leave without doing a pony ride of course:

 Micah turned the big 3-3 on the 17th, and although we didn't do anything exciting, we did get him a carrot cake....

 And the kids gave is an impromptu puppet show, too!

Some more summer stuff....

A friend from church has graciously opened up her super fun pool for anyone from church to use, so we have been going the last few weeks or so. The best part? The water slide of course! Rory and Sydney both love it.

                                            Rory and one of our friends Emily.

                                         We of course have spent lots of time at Legoland:

                                                       The beach:

                                        We went a couple of weeks ago with my sister in law Holli and nephew Seth:

                                                  Mini golfing too. Rory got his second hole in one(he got one another time he went with Micah:

                                              Lunch at Islands, yumm.