We Did It!

This is kind of old news if you are on Facebook, but if not...We are finally buying a house! We started looking a few weeks ago and to our surprise ended up in a new construction area. We wern't really planning to build, but after looking at our options decided this is the route we would take. We are so excited! It has been a long time coming. During the next couple of weeks things will be really crazy. We have to decide everything from exterior paint, shingle, and rock, to carpet and light fixtures, and everything in between. After that we just wait. The build out time is 5-6 months, so we are hoping spring but planning for summer. We will definitely keep progress shots on here so we can document this exciting journey for ourselves and anyone who is interested.

After we signed our contract, we got to put a little red monopoly house on our lot.

4 wheeling

Thanks to some great friends who let us try out their 4-wheelers and some other great frineds that came with us to share the fun, we had an exciting day. We rigged up the wheelers to make the ride comfy for the kids and off we went with food, gear, and a U-haul full of wheelers (only Brady would think of these things). The weather was perfect and despite some small mishaps that cost us at the 4 wheeler rental shop, we all came home with smiles on our faces.

We had some guys stop and ask if they could take pictures of Avery chillin in her seat, you gotta love Brady's unique ideas.

Thanks Travis and Vickie for sharing your day with us...we had a ball.

Soccer Celebration

After another fun-filled season of soccer, we ended with our first win and had a pizza party with our team. Caden had a good season, he really enjoyed playing but was discouraged because the field was bigger, there were goalies, and it was harder to score. He had a great time with his team and was thrilled to get yet another trophy in the end.

The Halloween Wrap Up

The kids loved painting their pumpkins this year. They were very intent on getting them just right.

Here we are all dressed up and ready to celebrate. We had a fun dinner with some friends and then went Trick-or-treating around our neighborhood.

Our adorable Cindy Lou Who

Our vicious Pirates

The whole gang before the ward Trunk-or-treat.

I think I am slowly starting to appreciate Halloween. As a kid it was definitely my least favorite holiday but it is gaining ground. I have fun getting the kids dressed up and even dressing up myself and there is so much you can do if you get into it a little.

Sugar Cookies Make it Official

Making sugar cookies has always been a really fun tradition for our kids. They love decorating them and I love eating them so really everybody wins. This time we even had some friends join in the fun. It's almost like once we make sugar cookies Halloween is really coming.

Everybody loves dough!

Kamrie always works extra hard decorating and then says she will eat it tomorrow. Either she really doesn't like them or she just can't eat the masterpiece she has created.

Caden usually has a much easier time eating his and loves to make more and more.

Fun for Everyone, sort of

After picking our pumpkins, we couldn't wait to carve them into glowing Jack-O-Lanterns. We had pizza that looked like a pumpkin for dinner and then started in on the fun.

Caden was so excited and loved every minute of it, He even confessed at one point that he wished he was me so he could CUT!

Kamrie wanted to like it, she really did, but in reality...

this is how she felt and her participation didn't last long.

She and Avery moved on...

hard at work...(sorry I forgot to turn this one, just turn your head, it is much quicker)

At last...

We had lots of fun, the only bummer is that we couldn't involve the kids more. It's a little hard for them to do too much when your activity involves playing with knives. They enjoyed what they could and we painted pumpkins later so that they could all do their very own.

Pickin' Punkns

We love Colorado, but I have to say we have yet to find a pumpkin patch that compares with Waterman's in Indy. Even though is wasn't Watermans...we found a pile of pumpkins to chose from and loved picking the perfect ones.

Caden wanted white!

And Kamrie just wanted something small. She picked one for her and an even smaller one for Avery since she was sleeping in the car.

Brady and I helped choose bigger ones to carve into Jack-o-lanterns and we were on our way!