Thursday, October 5, 2017

October 31st, 2017

10.31.17 - Kindergarten field trip to Big Springs pumpkin patch

Mrs. Mikes's class, love these guys!!
Chloe is in the back center in between
Miller and Connor

Keegan, Chlo, Connor, Ayden
Smart and silly kids - they were holding up the pumpkins!  
A pretty creative way for more of them to be in the photos at once?!


hayride selfie with Alexis and Connor

Miller, Chloe, and I shared a seat on the bus

LOTS of Chloe and Miller selfies on the way home


Happy Halloween!!!  
Annual chili dinner before trick-or-treating
Ryan, Kaden, Lucas, Max, Cooper, Sawyer

Hensley, Zoey, Chloe, and Mari

Abby, Lyla, Elly

Coleson counted 22 in this picture.   And yet three families had already left and one arrived just after this.  Our chili dinner seems to grow every year!  I love our awesome neighbor- friends!

 Fun with my friends too!!  Kristin and I had the same hair!  And Alyson and I both lit up!


Zach and the older boys lasted a long time!


Wednesday, October 4, 2017

more October 2017

🎃10.26.17 - Berry Patch Farms!🎃
Just me and my babies, a WONDERFUL afternoon

I love these three cuties!!








Friday night football, go Grizzlies!

"matching best sisters"

Mega Awesome Costume Party at church


The Year We Actually Carved A Pumpkin


all dressed up the Brandons' annual Halloween party

Bet you didn't know Laura Ingalls Wilder
wore pink cowboy boots and rode zip lines


Throwback to 1999!!!!





Tuesday, October 3, 2017

October 2017, part two

Happy 50th day of Kindergarten!! 

First tribal celebration day of the new school year
Happy CHOA Cape Day featuring Abby, our own personal super hero!

Abby and Logan were Mrs. Baker's picks for Pride of the Den.  
I didn't know this until I got there, turns out it's a really cool thing and a big honor! 
Abby and Logan's official Pride of the Den photo shoot! 
So proud :)

I loved being able to volunteer for the tribal celebration, a very fun morning 
Chloe, Lilly B, and Mari
the Dobrina Tribe won - most points for the first quarter.  The prize was running around like crazy for an hour, err I mean, a carnival/ field day party.


Friday evening Creekview HS Homecoming parade with some of my favorite girls! 
Lyla, Abs
Zoey, Chloe, Mari

poor, sweet Sawyer -
the big boys were at Lucas's birthday party

Happy Birthday Lucas!
Ryan, Lucas, Cooper, and Cohen
they went to Get Air and Culver's to celebrate



another all-day Saturday at the fields with our friends :)

Go Falcons!
Coleson and Justin [Couper's daddy]
Michael, Mari, Claire, Landon, Chloe, Couper, Bryce, Alice, Lennox



We spent Sunday lunch/ afternoon hanging out with the Houlihans.  
Faith LOVES Maya, it's sooo sweet



Mommy/ Chloe Trunk-or-Treat Date at Alice's church, thanks for inviting us!
COLD night, but lots of fun!!
[Daddy took Ryan and Abby to Culver's, yumm]







Monday, October 2, 2017

October always has a million pictures

cub scouts popcorn show and sell 
Johnny, Ryan, Matthew, Nickolas

Finally!!!  And both in one night! 
And for the babysitter nonetheless, way to go Kiley!


Erin's "cider and s'mores" party
I was tagged in this one, not the best of Chloe, but that's Miller in the blue and red stripes.  Coincidentally, he's her newest best friend at school and happened to be at the same party.  She adores him!  They are so cute, they sit together at lunch everyday [remember I'm a lunch monitor now!] and talk and laugh and giggle.  If she weren't five, I'd think she's boy crazy!
*Miller is the same one that she ran into at the park over fall break
*and since I'm posting from the future, I can tell you ... just wait until you see the pumpkin patch field trip pictures :) 


HA!!!!  Ryan was flipping through this book at
Target, couldn't resist this selfie ;)

This counts as a pumpkin patch right?!? 
We're such awesome moms!

Small group birthday dessert 
Happy Birthday Sam!


Proud Momma right here!!!!!!!!!
Ryan was one of only three 4th graders to make the MES Academic Bowl!  
He went through two rounds of testing and beat out some of the smartest kids I know!  I'm so excited for him!

Loved finding this message in Abby's drawings!  
And Chloe's teacher told me when they called Ryan's name on the announcements, she said "that's my brother!!"  happy mommy :) 



We're outta here!  
Picked the kids up early and we're off to Bert Adams scout camp for the weekend.

Seth, Spence, Ryan
 Lots of playing in the big beautiful field next to our campsite.
Brendan, Chlo, Abs, Spence, Max, Logan, Ryan


On Saturday, there were lots of planned activities the kids could do.  We split from the boys who were doing things like BB guns and archery.  
The girls and I went on a guided nature hike where we saw this poplar tree.  Yep, it's still alive, there's leaves higher up.  It has heart rot and has been struck by lightening at least three times.

bouldering with my little monkey.  
They climbed all around the walls of this old barn-like building.


speaking of BB guns,
here's my baby boy about to shoot his eye out.

pumpkin patch picture #2 of the year, point Mommy! 
The girls were not impressed for some reason.



Chloe with her parapro Mrs. Smith
Chloe was in heaven having Mrs. Smith there!! [she has a 3rd grade scout].  By the end of the weekend, she was an honorary Smith.  She sat with her, she went to the bathroom with her, she even helped them pack up their tent.  We felt a little ditched, hehe :)

Ryan, Matthew, Spence


Matt Ryan to Julio Jones!
These costumes weren't planned, but
I doubt they could have planned it any better if they had tried!

The risk of bringing along new Halloween costumes [both long dresses], that might get ripped and would end up smelling like campfire, didn't seem worth it.  But they still looked cute in their pumpkin shirts!


 the Webelos! there were only five between two dens
Johnny, Jackson, Spence, Ryan, Matthew

While he's no AJ ;), Chloe did take a liking to Spence and tried to hold his hand all night.  
Oh goodness, we're in trouble!

Poor Maya ;)  
Zach sent us this pretty funny text from their evening stroll.