Halloween Party

Maggie was practicing her dance for her upcoming dance recital. We thought some of our family would enjoy this.

Julie and the kids met at the neighbors house for the annual Halloween Party. There were several kids there and several pumpkins that needed to be carved.

Dave, Heather and Chris helped the kids carve the pumpkins.
Drew hung out in his walker so he couldn't make himself sick on pumkin guts.

There were lots of Halloween treats...

Including Spider biscuits.

Billy and Maggie had to scoop out their own pumkins.

Finally the pumpkins were carved and all lined up in a row.

At the request of some of her fans, I decided to include more pictures of Julie. (I sometimes have a hard time pinning her down and getting a picture taken).

So I have to resort to taking the pictures when she is not paying attention! She was watching T.V. with Billy and Drew. Drew did NOT want to sit in her lap, he wanted to sit by himself like a big boy off to the side of beoth Julie and Billy.

Trunk or Treat Oops!

We all dressed up this evening and went over to the church so the kids could go trunk or treating (When everyone from the church gets together in the church parking lot and gives candy out from the trunks of their cars). We went to the church and there were only two cars in the parking lot. I called Julie, who was still working at home, and she looked on the announcements and saw that the event is not until Wednesday the 29th. The kids were dissapointed. We ended up getting pizza, their favorite meal, to make up for it.

Stay tuned for real trunk or treat pictures after the 29th.

Fall is Here

Drew loves to listen to music on the headphones and dance to the music.Maggie and Billy after a long day of playing outside.

Maggie's fieldtrip to the corn maze. I can't believe it's that time of year again. It seems like we just got done with this same fieldtrip last year!

Magie again with her friend Tiley

Drew entertained himself with toys, leaves, and whatever else he could get into!

All the kids and adults got lost in the corn maze.

There were even games with prizes.

In the end, a good time was had by all!

Misc. Recent Pictures

Bathtime for Drew
Maggie was having a tea party with a few of her friends. Drew decided to join the girls. I'm really starting to wonder about that boy!

Getting Organized

Drews favorite toy lately is Maggie's purse, I hope he grows out of this phase!Maggie went on a field trip with her class to a cow farm

Tiley is one of Maggie's friends in her class
I know it's taken me a while Dad, but here are the pictures of the shelves. (Before)


(After)... It's only been a week and we have already completely filled our shed.

School Days

Once again it has been a while since we entered a post on the blog. We have been really busy as we have been trying to get things done before the end of the summer. There are several weeks worth of photo's here but better late than never. In this first photo we were celebrating Amelia's birthday (Julie's mom).

I'm not sure where this picture fell in the last few weeks but Drew has been enjoying corn on the cob as it has come to the end of the corn season.
Billy went back to school and was excited on his first day back.


Maggie was also excited to go back to pre-school.

In between the first day of school and this next section of pictures my family came to visit from Oregon. We had a really good time and enjoyed their company. My dad and I worked on a shed for my backyard for most of the few days they visited so I didn't get any pictures but I'm sure my mom will have plenty of pictures on her blog.
Maggie celebrated her birthday today even though her birthday is not for a few weeks. I built a large play house for her which we couldn't keep a secret any longer so we decided to celebrate her birthday early.

Maggie had a lot of fun opening her presents which consisted of clothes (Her favorite) and items for her playhouse. She had a fun birthday.
Maggies Playhouse

The shed which was built in about 4 days. We are excited to finally have storage for all the items in the garage. Thanks Dad, Mike, Travis, Blake, and Kyle for all the help, I couldn't have built it without you.