Halloween

We sure had a Happy Halloween!  

Our Minion...

 Our pop star turned witch at the last minute...

 Dash...

 I tried to talk her into one of the costumes I made for Ashlyn but she was determined to be a witch...

Fall Pumpkin Farm

Every Fall that we have lived in Raleigh we have gone to the pumpkin Farm.  I realized that Connor has never been with us!  So sad!  So we cleared some time on Saturday and we forged the crowd.

Hay ride to the pumpkin patch...

Blinded all of my kids by making them look into the setting sun...

The scary spider made from a large hay bale...

 Our favorite is always the corn pit.  No one (especially Kamryn) ever wants to leave it and we always find tokens of our fun when we get home and undress..

The Giant slide never gets old either...

There were two different kinds of mazes...

Ashlyn was dying to get her face painted and begged me not to wash it off in the bath that night...

We ordered dinner on the Sheetz computer screens and let the kids pick out their own drink, they thought they had died and gone to heaven, I felt like I had died and gone to the circus...

Dylan said it was the best Saturday ever!!!  Score!

Winterpast Farm

We discovered a small local farm.  We can't seem to get enough.  You can hand feed all the animals and many of them just roam free around the farm yard.

Of course the rabbits, especially the bunnies stole the show...

Ashlyn already has one picked out to "rent."  She working on earning it.  

Kamryn loves them when they sit still...

Corbin is my baby lover, so you can only imagine how smitten he is...

Dylan has bunny magic, his bunny always sat so still...

Lucky, the llama, was so fun to feed...

Even the emus were fun to feed...

My favorite was the little mini male goat, Kamryn didn't think he was as cute as I did...

But she did love throwing the pieces of bread to the chickens because it meant she could keep her distance.  She did love the piglets, but of course they were a little shy.

Everyone enjoyed the box turtles...

And there were swings, slides and toys to play with.  A relaxing and eventful outing!

Spring Catch Up

I know, I've been a blog slacker.  Just too many other fun things going on and not enough time to write about it.

We had a fun Cinco De Mayo party with some friends and neighbors.  We of course had yummy food, but the pinata was the big hit, literally!  There was a down pour so we had to do our pinataing (probably not a word, but I like the ring of it) in the garage.  Kamryn was thrilled by the idea of a pinata.

 Just for documentation purposes... A package came and I was slow on putting it away.  This is what I found after a long period of unusual quietness...Styrofoam was EVERYWHERE.  It was full of static so it clung to everyone and everything.  Therefore, it got tracked throughout my entire house as well.  Luckily, Corbin turned out to be a good cleaner and I kept my cool.

Hammer, Connor's cousin, came to town which is a great excuse to head to the beach.  Corbin had one thing on his mind...

 Flying a kite

 We enjoyed the sand, and we can't leave without making our traditional mermaids...

 These girls couldn't get enough of the waves, Dylan didn't let Hammer get out of a game of pass and I enjoyed watching this blissful day!

And of course, I never did post about Easter.  Nini picked out these adorable outfits...

 She brought them out when they came for Dylan's baptism.  So it was eating a hole in Ashlyn's closet for weeks.  She could barely stand it.

We never miss strawberry season.  This year was no exception.  The strawberries were exceptional and made exceptional jam. You can't tell, but Kamryn is CAKED in strawberries.  I had a difficult time picking strawberries and at the same time meeting her strawberry demand.  When she wanted a strawberry she would say "hey."

And we have been enjoying our friends and fun out door activities in Raleigh!  Especially Pullen Park.

Can you tell these two love each other?

I also had a fabulous Mother's day weekend.  I flew up to Boston and ran the Cape Cod Ragnar.  It was GORGEOUS!!!  And fun.  I think we cried from laughing more than once in our van.

I then got pampered by my family all day long!  A good day for recovery!

Father/Daughter Dance

Ashlyn's Elementary school had a Father/Daughter dance . Ashlyn was very excited to get all dolled up for her big date!
After dinner, dancing and a double date with a friend for desert they came home and showed me their new dance moves!

A Moment

These are the moments I live for..The picture alone is more eloquent than any words I could put together.

Photo mania

I have some budding photographers at my house...
carpet...

Kamryn who goes everywhere with her sunglasses...

corbin took a picture of his own black eye...

I am pretty cute...




Connor drooling over his parent's neighbor's yard..

We have an awesome diaper bag, don't you think...

These are a select few. I deleted hundreds last night. As you can see most of them are from the backseat of the car.

I am sure you are all enjoying Connor's postings. I am sorry I have been a little lazy/busy lately, so it was good to have him bridge my gap. The kids and I have been having so much fun lately since they have been tracked out. More to come.