Happy Halloween!

It's official!

I think we have a full-blown walker now!  Lauryn has been walking all over this afternoon, just standing up in the middle of the floor and taking off...yay baby girl!  I promise to post a video soon.  Have a great weekend and Happy Halloween!

Our little munchkins- the chatterboxes

I know this is a long video, but I thought some of you, especially family, might enjoy seeing Andrew and Matthew in action.

Here's just a little glimpse of our day today:

Pics and Prayer

Can you tell that Buzz and Woody are a huge hit at our house right now, or what?!

Even Lauryn is getting into them.  She gets so excited when the movie comes on. And when we are upstairs, she belines for the boys' room for their Buzz and Woody dolls, puts her arms (and dolls) up in the air, shouts "aaaayyyyy" (as to say "and BEYOND!"), and then proceeds to throw the dolls down.  She's a riot!

Andrew blowing bubbles

And please pray for this sweet baby boy Stellan,http://www.mycharmingkids.net/, who is back in the hospital again with SVT on his 1st birthday. It just breaks my heart, and I can not even imagine what they are going through right now.

Boo!

Here the boys are getting ready for a spooky Halloween. Let me tell you, I think this is going to be a great, fun Halloween. The boys are so into it this year. I guess this is when we all can start reliving our childhood too, right?! Matthew picked out these ghost bags the other day in Target; so, here they are filling them up with leaves, and with the help of mommy, hanging them up on trees (and tiki torches :)). They are so into Buzz and Woody that they can't wait for Saturday to dress up. And did I mention candy??? I think they will be "to infinity and beyond" :) when they recieve their "treats." Anyways, here they are decorating our backyard now. They are getting to be such talkative and imaginative little boys now... they are too funny. I can only imagine how much fun we will have at Christmas time!

the boys filling the ghosts up with leaves..."Help me mommy."

Andrew

Cheese!

Teamwork!

Look mommy!

Matthew

Under the weather

Our little babe is under the weather again. :(

But, doesn't this sweet pic make everything better?!

Ahoy, mates!

Our little Pirates

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mama Mia!

You gotta love it...

when they love it!

We have a surprise for you!

Way to go Lauyrn!!!



Our baby girl is growing up! :(   But, we are still so excited for her, now she can keep up with her brothers!  (Oh, and excuse the other surprise at the end of the video! :))

Only 2 more weeks...

until our little bug is 1 years old!  Lauryn is 11 1/2 months, and we will be celebrating her 1st birthday in just 2 weeks and 2 days...I can't believe it!  My baby is getting so big!  But, SO much fun too!  We love you babe!

She is getting very close to walking, taking many steps, but this is still her perferred choice for getting around.

Look at that face!  She looks just like her Auntie Shannon as a baby in this pic.

Loving some chicken parm and pasta last night.  

Monkey see, monkey do!

Our little monkey

This morning I took the kids to a great place to burn off some energy!  They had a trial Tot's Athletic class this morning, so since I was off from work, I decided to take the boys.  They had a blast.   And after, they had "open play" in the gym with so many fun things for the kids.  Lauryn loved it too.  I didn't break out the camera until the end when we were getting ready to leave, but the kids loved it all, especially the floor trampolines.

Watching her silly brother Matthew

Andrew taking a snack break.

Happy Fall Y'all!

Gotta love fall festivals...so that's what we did this weekend!  Sorry, there are  A LOT of pics, we had a fun & busy weekend...I tried to narrow them down! :)   The 1st set of pictures are from yesterday.  Late in the afternoon, while daddy stayed home with a little girl who was napping, I took the boys to a local pumpkin patch.  They had a great time, seeing farm animals (goat, calf, pigs, sheep, and turkeys), getting their face painted for the 1st time (loved it so much, they won't let mommy wash it off :)), riding a hayride, picking out little pumpkins, and playing on the playground.  It was a cool, beautiful fall day here.  

watching the pigs

face painting time!

Ta-da!

Andrew

going to pick out baby pumpkins

and one for Babe too!

Matthew

Matthew sliding

and Andrew

Saturday we headed to a local farm, and boy was it chilly, I mean COLD!  We bundled up and the boys warmed up by jumping on the trampoline and had a blast playing with their cousins Emily, Sara, and Charlie.  Nana & Grampy and Auntie Tammi & Uncle Tommy were there too.

Matthew

Andrew inspecting the tractor

Nana's kisses

I love this pic of Lauryn and my mom (Nana).

Daddy's girl

Our big boys!

Andrew

Mommy and Lauryn

on your mark, get set, jump!

And they rode ponies...can you believe it???!  Andrew was a little unsure in the beginning, and Matthew couldn't wait, but as you can see from their expressions, Andrew loved it and Matthew was a little leary once they took off.

And then we warmed up in the corn maize (it was so much warmer in there without the wind.).  Thanks for helping us find our way out Sara and Emily!

Matthew

Our family

And I absolutely love this shot that my sister took of my dad (Grampy) and Lauryn!

Lauryn and my nephew Charlie

and Sara

And Emily...they are so good with her and she adores them!