Happy Halloween

Trick or Treat

Love your favorite Batman, Astronaunt, Race Car Driver, and Peter Pan

Candy Cottages - AKA Gingerbread House

The last project we did at Gigi and Pops' was decorating these cute Candy Cottages.  My mom is now selling them at her store, The Lemon Tree and they are great!  They are basically a gingerbread house made of plastic, so you lather on the icing and decorate with your candy of choice depending on the holiday then you can clean off the plastic and store it until the next holiday.  It was GREAT!

We went with brown icing for the halloween theme and lots of orange and black candy. 

Turned out cute and yummy!

Pumpkin Carving

Also while on Fall Break the boys conned Pops into carving pumpkins.  We told them we were wanting to wait until Daddy returned from Africa to do it but they couldn't wait.   Gigi bought pumpkins earlier in the weekend for her yard then we each got a free one at the pumpkin patch.  So we adults were worn down and carving pumpkins was the next activity at hand!!!

Gigi helping Cole scoop the insides while Crosby supervises!



 Caden and Carter worked hard!

 Crosby just liked that he could pick up his pumpkin :)

 Pops the master carver at work.  Caden drew a design he wanted, then of course Carter wanted the same one.  So I tried my hand at it.  Cole got a simple design by Pops.

 I felt that Crosby needed one too, so I made him a simple one and he loved showing it off!  Kind of looks like him huh?!?!

 Here are all the pumpkins, from L to R: Crosby's, Cole's, Carter's, and Caden's

Again they had a BLAST and that is what matters!

Pumpkin Patch

While at Gigi and Pops' house we headed to Piedmont to Charlie's.  It was a great place for the kids to play a little and check out animals, pumpkins, hay ride, etc.  I got a groupon for it so it was pretty cheap for all of us to go!  When we arrived, we first checked out the animals...

Caden and new his llama friend.

Cole wasn't sure about all these animals and why he had to be quiet and gentle :)

Even Gigi got in on the petting action.

This was a great funny part.  There was an open area with a few games and then they saw the potato sacks!  The big two could do it pretty well

This longhorn was so tame and friendly!

Cole didn't quite get the potato sack and it was twice as big as he was but oh was he having fun!

 Then we headed over to the pony rides...Cole did amazingly well ALONE!  Crosby wasn't too sure and it didn't help that Momma wasn't right next to him, but over on the side taking pictures.

 Carter had a blast! - See Crosby in the background...not happy!

 Afterwards he was a much happier camper!

 Caden did great too...went a little slow for him he said!

 Cole was LOVING this!

Gigi with two of her boys!

 Gigi and Crosby - so cute!

 Crosby had a great time on the hay ride.

At the end we each got to pick a small pumpkin and take it home...the boys thought that was the BEST part!  It was a great afternoon and I am so glad my mom went with us!

Fall Break

On fall break, we headed down to Duncan to visit Gigi and Pops while Daddy was in Africa.  The kids had a blast.  We went to a pumpkin patch, carved pumpkins, decorated a halloween themed gingerbread house, and lots of little stuff.  Here are a couple of non-themed photos from the weekend.

Crosby loved crawling around in my mom's yard and flower bed!

Cole won Gigi's heart all over again. 

 Crosby was showing off his new skill...giving kisses!  Pops didn't really enjoy the open mouth kiss, but the cuddles that went with it were great!  Pops also taught him to say thank you :)

Crosby is Getting So Big

I took these pictures about 3 weeks ago on a rainy Saturday.  He was about 13 1/2 months in these pictures.  He is growing like a weed!  Crosby eats just about everything in site, but LOVES bananas!  Crosby is also a GREAT sleeper.  Goes down for naps and night time so well!  The only thing I don't love is that he is up around 6:30 every morning! He isn't quite walking, but just this week started standing along for longer periods of time...so we are on the right track.  My little man is growing up!

Cow Plop and Fall Festival

At the boys' school they have an annual fall fundrasier called the cow plop.  The kids sell raffle tickets and the school marks off a huge grid, assigns each ticket a square, then they let a cow go and wherever she poops, that's who gets the $$!  So funny and fun for the kids.  This year we combined the cow plop with the fall festival.  There were games, pony rides, face painting, roping, a bounce house, and food...FUN was had by all!

I had to work the event, but thankfully it was a Becca day, so she kept Crosby at home, AND Grammie was in town so she monitored the other three while I worked!

Carter wanted his face painted like a tiger...growl!

 Of course Cole had to immitate his brother!

 Carter tried his hand at roping...

 Not too bad :)

Caden ran around the entire time with his buddies and they other two kept Grammie on her toes.  They all had fun and went to bed great that night :)

Movie Night with Your Best Buddy

Several weekends ago, we decided to let the boys have a movie night one Friday evening.  Caden wasn't totally into it but Carter was.  Then we realized that Ben, Carter's best friend, was next door at his Mimi and Pa's for the night.  So I thought it could be more fun for Carter to watch the movie with his buddy.  These two were just so precious while they were watching the movie!

I pray these two stay best buddies for life!

Bath Time Cuties

I found a few random cute photos on my memory card today so just enjoy the next several posts and all their cuteness :)

4 Little Men

I really don't have many words to go along with these pictures.  Baileigh did a phenomenal job on the boys' pictures and I couldn't be more pleased!!! 

Spending "Fall" Day Outside

The weather was GORGEOUS this afternoon, so we had fun outside!












Hope you enjoyed your day!

Genesis 1:14 (NLT)Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them mark off the seasons, days, and years."

Run For The Shelter

If you remember this post you might be surprised by what I accomplished today.  I began running last fall while trying to lose all my baby weight.  A few of my were running and they were losing weight like crazy.  I started and didn't love it, but didn't hate it either.  The spring went well, running, losing weight, etc.  Then summer hit and things got crazy.  I had a hard time finding time to run and it was just too stinking hot!

So once school started back, I knew I needed to get with it.  The local youth and family shelter here has a run every fall and since I missed a couple of 5K races over the summer this was my chance to step up and go for it.  Not only did I do it, but I talked Becca into doing it with me.  I even got Cory, really SPC to sponsor us!

Becca and I got everything worked out with Cory where we could run in the evenings after soccer practice or her dance practices.  It was great!  She is a great encouragement to me and motivator!  I love running with her!

So today was the day.  We set out with a goal in mind, hers was a little faster than mine, but we did it! 

I asked Cory to sponsor us and he said he would, but then he bumped up a sponsorship level and we added two more to our team!

Becca, me, Tisha, and Brandy!

We were doing great at first.  I was a little annoyed that people kept passing us.  We were trying to start out slow.  Becca kept telling me not to worry about it, just keep going.  I track our pace on my phone and it would tell me every 5 minutes what our time was so I knew we were ok. 

We got close to the end and a few girls that looked around my age were having to stop and walk, so we just kept running by them.  No lie, that felt good!  We also knew we would pick up the pace, ALOT, once we saw the finish line.  So we started going faster then the next thing I knew, Becca said that there was someone right behind me and not to let her pass me...Go, Go, Go she said!  So I ran even faster, it honestly felt like a sprint for this old lady!  I can't believe I ran that fast at the end.

So we finished in 31:20 and we were thrilled with our time!

Now we think we should tackle a 10K...are we crazy?!?!