The most wonderful time of the year

Forget winter! Fall is in full swing and I love it! 

The mountains here with all the trees are absolutely gorgeous. We have been doing lots of fall-ish activities and enjoying this wonderful weather.

I took a flower decorating class with a Mom's Group and here was my..ahem.. masterpiece. I will say that I learned a lot and hope to have the time to try it again.

For Kinsley's theater class they had to create a character and design the stage makeup for it.

Meet Weather Girl.

I made Kinsley wear jeans the other day. Oh the horror. But she looked so cute!

The big kids opening their Halloween gift from Mimi.

Hadley trying to convert her sippy cup into a Big Gulp.

Enjoying the beautiful weather in the backyard.

  

Before church on Sunday.

Colby rocking the mummy shirt.

This week we went with the Trawicks to another pumpkin patch.

The "big" kids had a blast running around.

Hadley in the corn maze.

They stopped running just long enough to get a few pictures.

I think my kids are going to kidnap Anderson someday and make him part of our family.

They also had a cotton field.

Oh my, how I love a cotton field.

Looking for the animals.

Finally at the pumpkin patch.

Justin found one.

This was from yesterday. I was trying to clean the house and Hadley was being so busy. I finally gave in and let her play with something from the bathroom cabinet.

Yes, it's a tampon. 

I'll be waiting for my Mother of the Year certificate in the mail any

day now.

Our new house.

I heart it.

It was wear your team shirt day at K's school.

I felt like I was feeding her to the wolves with sending her to school with her MSU shirt living in Alabama.

Proof

So I've mentioned a few times how Hadley is a bit of a wild child. I know it's hard to believe with that angelic face she has and all. Well now I have photographic proof of the little stinker.

A couple of weeks ago, we took a weekend trip to Mimi and Pop's and while we were there we went to the farm and got pumpkins.

When we got home, the kiddos wanted to paint them so we took them to the back porch and got to work. Check out Hadley patiently waiting at the small table.

Kinsley was in deep concentration.

Colby was so excited.

And Hadley...

well she had to taste the paint.

Check out her lips.

Yes, it's non-toxic, I checked.

She painted for a second....

Then she wanted to paint Mom.

Colby hard at work.

Kinsley finishing her design.

And sweet Hadley...

well this was about the point when she broke the paint brush off into the umbrella hole on the table.

Giving me the, "I can't believe you handed a 15 month old a paintbrush" look while downing some applesauce. 

The finished products.

Kinsley had a 1st grade program last week at school.

It was all about Alabama and she got to hold a poster of the state.

Always loving the spotlight :)

We had to get the sillies out before we went to school.

Hadley rocking one of the new outfits Nanny made for her.

And trying to ride the dog.

Reinforcing the fact that we definitely need to child-proof this house.

"I need to make a phone call."

This would be the stinker Sunday morning after she stole Kinsley's powdered doughnut.

And it was good!

She was a little ashamed though.

A few years ago, I remember posting a picture of my bed after Kinsley made it. I think she was 3 or 4 years old. Well this morning Colby told me he had a surprise for me and had "made" my bed. Which really did help me because I was  cleaning up the mess after Hadley had pulled my entire standing jewelry box over while I was in the shower.

Now please forgive the lack of bed linens, headboard, frame, anything. We put our old bed in the guest room and bought a king size bed for our new room and clearly I haven't done anything with it yet.

But Colby still did a great job I think!

Colby was Starfish Student at his preschool last week and I had the pleasure of getting to eat lunch with him and his class on Friday. I love getting special one-on-one time with each of the kiddos.

 Even if it's just chasing after this one!

Our Newest Addition

Meet Mr. Goldberg "Goldie" Brennan

Kinsley and Colby had summer goals that I had set for them and if they made their goals I told them I would get them a fish. Well Kinsley read her allotted amount of books and wrote her weekly stories so she got her goldfish. Colby not so much. With the move, the goldfish got put on hold until this week. The kids were so excited to get the new family pet. I tried to convince Kinsley to get several of the $.38 fish but of course she went for the $5 fatty goldfish. What I didn't realize until after the purchase was Mr. Goldberg's wound on his side. Kinsley was convinced he was in a "fish fight." Well today I found another sore on his nose. I think we may have a diseased fish! I'm kinda scared of what I find in the morning.

Why is it so hard to get pictures of the little man?

Well that's better I guess.

Hadley was actually having a lot of fun playing in her room.

Of course you would never know from this picture.

Here she is escaping to her bathroom.

Probably to play in toilet water.

Oh you haven't heard? It's her new hobby.

Both the girls rocking their jeggings.

Kinsley started her Theater class this week and she is hooked!

The first night they did improv and she loved it. Next week they learn stage makeup.

Did I ever doubt she would love some drama? Never.

Miss Hads is getting so big. 

Where is my baby?

This is a more accurate picture of the little stinker.

She keeps me on my toes more than my other two.

Combined.

Last Saturday morning, Hadley was promoted to pancake Saturdays with the rest of the crew.

Look at those skills with the spatula.

As a family, we have some wild hair in the a.m.

Meet Hadley's new friend blankie. 

Yes, now I have two blankie addicts and one "comfy pillow" addict.

Colby's practicing for when they ask him to be on Cribs.

When they call, he will be ready.

Here are a few pictures of the house.

I really haven't done much decorating yet.

We actually did buy blinds for the rest of the house because it came with basically none. However we bought all Lowe's had and our poor den missed the bus.

Please excuse the bathroom stool in the picture.

I was feeding my ModgePodge addiction.

This afternoon we made caramel apples. 

Tonight the kids licked off all the caramel and we threw the apples away.