Introducing........

our little jester!

We have had such a fun halloween this year going around in our costume! Kate LOVED her silly hat and would run up and down the hallway in our house singing the "silly hat" song from Barney. Ty's mom had an awesome Halloween party the week before Halloween that sort of kicked off the festivities and then we pretty much went non- stop from that point on!

Here is Kate doing the dancing game on the Wii. She is OBSESSED with "who let the dog's out?" and knows the whole dance by heart!

The whole crew from Alice in Wonderland. Jack was even the bunny with his clock. So Funny!

Helping dad carve pumpkins.....

All the cousins:

Becky went all out this year! Each kid got two pumpkins... one to carve and one to paint. Then everyone got to decorate their bottle of orange soda. Karen made these cute spider treats.

and she didn't even forget the bubbling cauldron! Karen almost fainted after inhaling all the dry ice since it took me so many tries to get this picture right!

Happy Halloween!

Family Pictures

we finally did it! I have been wanting to get our family pictures taken for awhile now and I am so happy with how they turned out. I was really stressed about who I was going to have take them since I have always had Bobby Whitney do it and she was taking some time off. But I got a few recommendations and after looking at her blog I decided to use Sara Bateman. She was fantastic and great to work with. Kate was even talking about her on our way home. Here are a few (or should I say alot) of my favorites:

Got our family pictures back today. Love them. Love her.

More to come.

Pumpkin Patch

One evening before we dropped Kate off at her Grandma's we decided to run to the pumpkin patch by her house. Kate picked out the perfect pumpkin for her and loves having it on the front porch. EVERY time we come home she has to point out mom, dad and Kate's pumpkin before we can go inside. Of course they had all their halloween decor up and there was this one scary guy Kate would not take her eyes off. You will notice every picture I took she would smile but her eyes would not leave the "scary guy"!

Can't wait for Halloween!

End of Summer Activities

Nothing quite finishes up summer like the State Fair. Can you tell by looking at Kate's swagger that she is happy to be there?

Trying out food she's never eaten.. no! not the chocolate covered deep fried bacon, just cotton candy that her beloved Grandma spoiled her with!

Is this not the cutest picture ever? You can just sense the pride in Ty's smile!

Of course it wouldn't be right if her daddy didn't win her a prize!

Our one and only rendition of "Rapper's Delight"

of course Ty didn't miss a single word and I didn't know a single word! Typical!

We had to squeek in a visit to Wheeler's Farm. This was my first time going back there since 7th grade when I went to a Haunted House! Kate loved all the animals and the big "choos choos" aka tractors!

And last but not least we headed up to This is the Place. The train was a hit! The park was practically empty so we rode the train over and over again!

Best Buds.