Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Fall Fun!

 We have had a great fall-- it has been so beautiful here, which means we have been able to play outside some!  The girls (Piper especially) are getting excited for the birthdays!! We will have an exciting November!!  I cannot believe Ava is almost one and Piper almost three-- where does the time go??


Daddy has been busy working in the field-- we went to see him one night last week; such a beautiful sunset
 Piper helped daddy and Uncle JJ in the field
 She had to have "farming clothes" on-- which meant jeans (probably the 3rd time she has wore jeans in the last six months) and her "farm coat"  (this is a RRVW coat from Grandma Bev)
 Checking out the new tractor
 Riding with daddy
 Ava in her favorite place-- the swing!!
 Such a happy girl!
 Piper was being a "crabby patty"
 Sweet girl.
 Piper still had some attitude-- trying not to show that she is having fun
 Cleaning pumpkins-- Piper was not very impressed by the insides
 really getting down to business
 She kept saying, It's too messy!
 All clean!
 Coloring our pumpkins
 Originally we tried to do cinderella, but I couldn't quite do it-- the knife was not working very well for me.  So.... we converted into a smily face 
 Ava taking a nap with daddy
 Ava LOVE the ball popper!
 Play time this morning
 She has this thing mastered now!
 She likes to dance along with it
 Such a happy girl!
Singing a little!
cheese!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Pumpkin Patch

 This past Sunday the girls and I went to Fargo to meet Molly and the boys for an afternoon of fun.  We went the their church first for the Fall Festival-- a great dinner and games for the kids.  Piper was very excited because she won a cake in the cake walk-- her very first time!

We went to the pumpkin patch afterwards-- fun had by all!! The kids really loves all the sights, except maybe Luke who had a little melt down at the end! :)
Checking out the petty zoo

 Jake, Molly and Piper being animals at the patch-- Grant didn't want to be the turkey:)
 Hole in one!! Just kidding-- more like hole in 20 at that rate!
 Grant busy golfin
 Strike a pose, Jake!
 Barrel rides..
 Then Piper had to do it alone....
 The three older kids in the big chair

 Going down the hay-slide
 Great smile, Jake!
 Piper loved the slide
Molly & Lukey looking cute in his football outfit
 Me and Ava
 Playing in the corn
 Swinging
 Me and the girls
 Piper was so excited to "go in the red thing"
 Granty on the way to the corn maze
 We better not let Piper lead us..
 Going through the corn maze.. we got a bit lost
 Attempting a picture of all of them...
 Jake leading us out
We made it!!

Ava Grace

Our sweet little Ava is growing up so fast-- almost a year, where does the time go???  She will be one in two weeks!! She is such a good baby-- always smiling and waving.  She has had a rough couple weeks; getting 6 teeth at one time is not fun!!  Hopefully they will be in soon!!