Green Bean - 10 months

Green Bean - AKA Ham Ball is 10 months.  He amazes us everyday with his cheerful smile at 6:30 am no matter what time we put him to bed.  He is the happiest in the morning when he can claim all the toys as his own - since his sister is still sleeping.  He loves to play with anything that makes noise.  As soon as a door opens he is quickly at your heal.  His favorite thing to do is to chase his sister around the house now that he can catch up to her with crawling - rather then the famous army crawl he has been doing for the past two months.  He loves climbing and standing.  He drinks whole milk and loves eating any kind of food - especially ice-cream, cookies and cool whip from his daddy!  

Here are some of the last sunny WARM days of October with Cray playing outside.

 AKA - Ham Ball - the smile!

Hay Ride

The neighborhood that I grew up in has a hay ride for the kids every year.  This year all the cousins dressed up as Ace Hardware Employees.  For once the weather was amazing and the kids didn't have to wear 20 layers to stay warm :o)

Shining your light....

We are not much for the Halloween season here at our house.   However - we love pumpkins and all the amazing fall colors, trees, weather & flowers that come along with it.  We carved pumpkins in the past with Pink Bean and it's always a fun night together.

Daddy talking with Pink Bean on how to make her pumpkin special.

Yes - Lil Green Bean is in the picture too... can you find him?

 She was thrilled to take out all the slimy seeds...

 Green Bean wanted in on the pumpkin action.

 Green Bean loved getting his hands dirty...

Cowboys & Indians - Fall Harvest Party

It was that time of year again for our Annual Fall harvest party.  This year we decided to make a theme that everyone had to dress up to instead of letting the couples pick.  We picked a Cowboy and Indian theme and had a cookout in Gpa's Woods.  JP fried Chicken and  French Fries which turned out AWESOME!  We had Apples & Caramel Dip and Carrots & Dip for a side.  We later fried FRESH apple fritters that Laura made - which were AMAZING and we made Dough Boys over the fire... which turned out like a big cream puff!  We had a couples Scavenger hunt - where they had to stay linked with each other the whole time, Apple Bobbing on a string as couples and Couples Questions which got the whole group involved and talking.  I really enjoyed this get together this year.  It was so relaxing, easy and FUN.  I didn't get everyone's couples pictures this year... but here are a few of the cowboys and Indians that showed up.

Kyle & Diane

Laura & Jesse 

 Keith & Autumn

Evan & Amanda 

 I didn't get a couple's picture of

Amos and Sarah... but this pictures

 show Amos dress up. 

 Everyone digging into the fried yummy food.

 Getting ready for the couples Apple game....

to see which couple eat the most of the apple in 15 seconds.

 Making Dough Boys over the fire.... which were very yummy!



Road trip to see the Butler Girls....

Here is Kora's captions for what went on with our fun road trip to the Butlers while our daddy was out of town.

We broke daddy's car when we went to Butlers.

 We eat icecream... and I dont know ... Chocolate!

 We watched Scarlett cheer... 

while Mommy went shopping

 We played with the Doggy...

What was his name...

 We were pulling Doggy...

 Maddie was playing with someone else's dog.

 I was trying to hold the Dog...

 The Dog put the pen down...

 We were putting him inside his pen...

 We were standing inside the Dog pen...

it was sooo funny!

 We were dressing up...

*I asked her what else... and she said

We were dressing up... that's the same one...

 The necklace was on the mommy...

 We were down stairs...

 Willow wanted to go with us..

and Scarlett....

*Mommy's Ikea boxes...Filled the whole car!!!

Thanks Butlers for letting us spend the night &

Maddie for babysitting the kids in the car ride!

Cousin Fall Party

We enjoyed a day with the Clark cousins at a local farm.  The weather was awesome and the kids enjoyed running around to all the activities.  

Small wagon ride  

 Green Bean & Denise on the big hay ride.

 Pink Bean 

 The boys & Maddie

 Green Bean

 Can't leave the farm without a picture by this sign.

 Later the kids dress up and we had a 

little trick or treating for them.

Play Group...

We try to get together every month for some play time with our play group.  The kids were playing church on the steps.  They dressed up in princess outfits and play high heals, found lil play books and began to sing.... it was highly entertaining.    

Free Keurig Vue Brewer Machine

We did it again!  We got picked to host another FREE house party from houseparty.com  - We signed up for the Keurig House Party and they sent us a FREE Keurig Vue Brewer Maching with samples to hand out to all who came.  One of the things they asked us to do was to take mug shots of everyone... so enjoy all the MUG shots below!

 Heidi & Samantha 

 JP - Full of Froth!

 Ariel & Sherry 

 Liz

 Uncle Dale

 Wanda & Rock

 A Marilyn & U Dale

 Kaden

 Emily

 OUR KIDS wired after the Coffee party...

you would have thought someone gave them coffee...