Finally Up-to-Date!

I spent the free moments of my day catching up on this blog. Unfortunately I have sick kids, but thankfully they all took really good naps today! I think there are eight or nine new posts... just keep scrolling down. This is my first set of updates since Ellie Kate was born! I am going to try to stay current...Ha! Just like my scrapbooks! Life is busy with three kids! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

We had a really fun Halloween. Since it was Saturday, we started the day with a little College Game Day and ate some Monkey Bread. I love this picture. It looks like Ellie Kate is terrified that we are letting Zach hold her!

Then we headed out to the front yard to carve our pumpkins.

Here I am sketching out the designs for my pumpkin carving - perfectionist husband.

Here are the completed designs. You will see that each pumpkin coordinates with each child's costume. Andy came up with the idea of putting a bow on Ellie Kate's pumpkin, which led to the bow on her costume.

This little pumpkin fell asleep before we even got her outside!

Dash Incredible and Spiderman AKA Andy and Zach. They begged to have costumes with masks and then they didn't even want to wear the masks... of course! See the coordinating pumpkins!

Our friends came over to take pictures before our big night of trick-or-treating.

We met up with some other friends to trick-or-treat at the shops downtown.

Then we made our way over to our church for the Fall Festival.

We finally got a few pictures of Ellie Kate awake.

Our three kids at the end of the night.

Pumpkin Pickin'

Today we went up to Valley Center to Bates Nut Farm. It was a warm fall day and the sun was bright. We did our traditional family picture and the kids each got to pick out some pumpkins. I even got to pick out some other fall vegetables to decorate the house.

My three little pumpkins.

Andy was the first one to decide on a pumpkin.

Look how strong Zach is getting!

Here is our little princess in a pile of "Cinderella Pumpkins".

Daddy and Andy with our wheelbarrow full of vegetables.

The boys had a great time getting their cards stamped in the straw maze.

Proud to have completed the maze!

Grilled corn on the cobb... yummy!!!I needed some new ways to keep Ellie Kate entertained, so she had Christmas a little early this year. She got a new pink Bumbo chair....

... and a new tea party exersaucer. She is loving both of them! Now I sit her in the Bumbo on the kitchen counter while I am cooking dinner and she sits in it on the table during meals. I love all of the fun things they have for babies (and their mommies)!