Pumpkins and Halloween

This month flew by. Here are the highlights...

PUMPKIN PATCH: with friends, Jacob's pumpkin at 38lbs, many others by the kids, animals, farm equipment, and plenty of slides.

They had a huge slide that the kids loved, especially Marli as we would walk to the top and then let her go.

HALLOWEEN: Emmi was Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame which means I had to make it as it isnt the most popular right now. She has that book in her class at school so has read it there.

Moo was the banana I made a few years ago for Emmi. I think this was the last year I can get away with that.

CROSSFIT: I competed in my first Crossfit competition and came in 3rd of 16 in the Women's modified group. Not bad for only been doing it for 6 months and been signed up at a gym for 3 weeks. :D We had to do 3 WOD(Workouts of the Day). I won the 3rd so I went from 9-7 to then 3rd. Here is a video of me around 1:00 doing a deadlift: http://youtu.be/67rCNbegmFM

Fantastic Sitter

Our sitter loves photography. I had told her if she ever felt like grabbing my camera to feel free. One day last week she did..... and of course took some cute pics of the kids. She takes way better pictures than I do or at least my kids cooperate more.

Who is this kid and how old is she???

Thanks Christie you are definitely the best and we can't thank you enough.

Playground

We have reached the point now where Moo can play pretty much on her own. Not where I can just sit there but I dont have to chase her up down all around, think more like I can man the playground from the ground. Which is nice if I go with other moms as I can actually kinda talk to them. Here are the kids playing today as their cousins came over.






Then on the news front is we have a new dog, Murphy aka Murph. Our friend Daniela works with a dog rescue group. We mentioned a few weeks back that we were going to start to fill out paperwork to foster dogs. That night someone happened to have tagged her in a photo on Facebook of a black lab looking dog. She casually just said hey check him out. So I told Jacob who proceeded to call the number and get more information since he was in a kill shelter in Georgia. Daniela was able to work some magic and he got pulled from the shelter with us being the foster parents. He was transported here the day we left on vacation so Daniela covered him and gave us updates while we were away. We have had him since we got back. He has been a really well behaved dog and listens to Emmi. So we have decide we are going to keep him. Here is a picture although not the best so I will take more soon.

The best vacation place.....

Last year at this time we went to North Topsail and had the best time so we had to go again. This year we are down Kona but added Memere and Grandpy Harley to our trip.


The first day here there was a turtle nest in front of our place that had hatched the night before. The Turtle people came back to open the nest. Sure enough there were still 3 in there that were set free as well as many shells and eggs.


The girls have also loved flying kites.



Of course we dug holes and played in the sand.


The guys are into fishing. Grandpy Harley was the first one to catch a fish.


We have also seen our usual commercial fishing boat and dolphins in the water.

Eating Out

This is not something we seem to do very often. We much rather buy some really good quality food to make at home. However when we do eat out or get take out, one of our favorites is a Chinese/Sushi restaurant. So yummy. We decided to take the girls since Emmi has been asking if we can go out to eat. They did really well so I think we can make this happen more often. Not the best pics since taken from my phone.

First day of school

Today was the first official day of preschool for the girls. Jacob handles the drop off but called me as soon as it was done. Moo just walked right in like nobody's business. For Emmi it was old hat. When I picked up Moo, Ms Wiley told me that she was fearless, jumped right in to everything they did and was first for everything.

And so it begins....

Why not go for it all at once. We now have a ballet dancer, gymnast, and 2 school girls.

At our community center they have ballet classes for kids so Emmi said she would like to give it a go. Since it was a last minute decision I had already offered to watch my nephews which worked great since they entertained Moo during the class. Tyler took over a hundred pictures. Here are a few pics that made the cut.

Here is Emmi at her gymnastics class about to jump on a trampoline.

Then doing a flip.
Then here are the girls walking in to school since we had meet your teacher day. Mixed emotions with Moo walking in.

Here is Moo in her class where right now there are only 4 kids one of whom is Sawyer (Griffin's little brother). We are super excited about her teacher as she is the best 1 year old teacher. Emmi's class has 12 kids which include her best friend Brooke and of course Robert. Wednesday this coming week will be their first day.