Joelle Caroline

Here she is! My dear friend Kara's little precious girl. Joelle Caroline was born Nov. 11 and weighs 6 lbs. 2 oz. We are soooooo excited for this new family. This little angel was prayed for and loved from the very beginning! Welcome Joelle!

Yep, it's what you think!

The Air Show

Upside down stunt flying.....

Jet fighters (I think I captured the sonic boom it made here)...

Pretending to fly helicopters....

Watching this monstrosity take off....

Seeing it fly....

Even trucks with tires bigger than us...

I'd say the air show was pretty cool! Oh yeah, pretty cool!

Kema

Enjoying a couple of rides one afternoon before having dinner on the boardwalk at Kema.

The Deer Lease

Ok, time for a day with Dad at the deer lease. Camo shirts, check. Camo pants, check. Camo hat, check. Mud boots, check.

All set to go! Before.....

And after! So much for the mud boots keeping them from getting covered in mud.

I'd say he liked getting dirty, wouldn't you?

Pumpkin Patch

We took our annual trip to the Christmas Tree Farm/Pumpkin Patch, and the kids had a blast as usual. So much to do, so little time!

Daddy and Braeden on the train ride.

Mommy and Austin getting ready to start the train ride.

Frankenstein and the boys.

GOBBLE GOBBLE

Ok, so if you have been to this pumpkin patch, we have always been able to get on the spider. Not until after the picture did we see the sign (under the spider's legs) that said "Please do not climb on top of the spider"....Oops!

Say "pumpkin pie!"

Oh, I am so going to climb to the top of all these pumpkins!

Top of the world! Top of the world!

Cutest little ghost and jack-o-lantern I ever saw.

Aarrrggg! Happy Halloween Mateys!

Getting ready to leave the house decked out in our pirate costumes. Aarrrggg! Trick-or-treat mateys. Give us all your candy!

Braeden's first chance to go trick-or-treating (poor kid was sick last year, and too small the first year), and he seems determined to see what the fuss is all about. He loved all of the other kids in their costumes, being out after dark, and eating candy; but he wasn't so thrilled about having to talk to the people who answered the door.

Austin was an expert trick-or-treater this year, and even learned a rhyme Mommy told him never to say at the door. It goes like this: Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear. Oh, this made Mommy and Daddy so proud, yeah right! He is our big boy that is growing up way too fast. Slow down baby!

Austin and Owen (Luke Skywalker).

School fun!

Braeden posing with Ms. Laura (who we were lucky enough to have for Austin's teacher last year too), while they waited for the big pre-schoolers to go on their Halloween costume parade.

There's Austin on parade with his class. Our buddy Rylee is the butterfly in front of him. They got to trick-or-treat through the church offices, and Austin was the only kid in the class to start eating his candy immediately. :)

Here's Austin's whole class. Getting 13 kids to pose for a picture when their buckets are full of candy is pretty difficult, but I think they did great. In front of Austin is Chloe (he thinks she's pretty great, and during the Halloween party he was very determined to make sure that she got a purple spider ring...because purple is her favorite color). She's a doll, and I would say that every kid in that class is amazing. We love them all!

Fall Festival

We went to the neighborhood Fall Festival this year and it was really fun. We got to play games like ball toss and bean bag toss to win prizes. We got to ride a choo choo.

Of course the bounce house is always a big hit!

And they even had a petting zoo with goats, bunnies, lamas, and a huge tortoise. It was fall fun!

First trip to the dentist

Braeden had his first visit to the dentist, and he did great. We went the day before with Austin, so he got to see just how his visit would go. He made us so proud, and wore the sunglasses like a big boy. He is getting so big. His teeth looked perfect (something I worried about since he fell and hit them in the bathtub when he was younger , and he sucks his thumb). The dentist said not to worry about the thumb sucking too much this year, since it is hard to break at this young age. He mostly only sucks it when he is tired or anxious.

Mommy's 2nd favorite shirt

Besides the Ovarian Cancer Awareness shirts they made, this shirt is my favorite. It is Linus from the Peanuts cartoon carrying his blanket, but his head is not there. Notice Braeden's lovey in his lap. It couldn't be a more appropriate shirt.

Our little helpers

This is not slave labor. Notice the smile on their faces as they do this. Swiftering the floor is fun, and it just happens to clean the floors too. :) Everyone wins in this situation.

Here is the proof that they like doing it.

Braeden is getting so big, and he wants to do everything his Daddy does. Here is is making sure the marks are level for Daddy to hang some sconces on the wall for Mommy. Too cute!

But really what he liked the most, was the tape measure.

Florida

It all started with a plane ride to Pensacola, Florida. Daddy was meeting us at the airport, so it was just Mommy and the boys. They were so good. It got trickier when we had to ride in a car for nearly 4 hours after the plane ride to get to St. George Island, but it was worth it.

Thanks Aunt Kelly for the DVD player, that was very helpful!

While we were at the beach, we went fishing on Daddy's boat.

We caught tons of "kermit" crabs (hermit crabs).

Here we are catching crabs.

Laura, Danny, and Baby Wyatt came with us. Poor Wyatt took a face full of sand, but that didn't bother him.

Here he is without the sand. He is such a good baby, and the boys call him their fishing buddy since that is what he will be when he gets older. Daddy and Danny go fishing and hunting together all the time.

Daddy got us some great pirate hats, which we will be wearing as part of our Halloween costumes.

What is that in the water? It's a crocodile!! Look out!

Dude, did you see the massive wave I just rode? Gnarly dude, that's all I'm sayin'.

And for the finale, drum roll please, Austin jumped of the boat over and over! It was fun to watch, and he would not have had that confidence if he hadn't taken swim lessons this summer.

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