Our Week

Great weather for a visit to the park!

Connor found an old tree that he loved climbing on and he cleaned off the stump!

Caylee has been eyeing a pair of Connor's underwear in the clean laundry pile for days and she kept trying to put them on...so I helped her out!

Miss Piggy stole Connor's bacon right off his plate!  And then later she stole his bowl of spaghetti off the table!

A trip to Ikea with Mama

Annual Leaf Photos

The leaves are back and it's time for some major yard cleaning.  Caylee never got to play in the leaves before, so this was her first time.  This was also her first time in her new boots, so she wouldn't really do much besides stand in one place or sit!

Connor loves jumping in the big piles!

Once Caylee saw how we could throw leaves in the air and watch them fall, she loved it!  Check out that fall chic fashion!

Pumpkin Picking

Our annual pumpkin picking event with Aunt Julie came far too quickly this year.  How is it already the middle of October?  This year, Caylee was able to participate for the first time too!

Connor loved feeding the animals

Caylee seemed a little scared of the bigger animals, but she loved the goats and the sheep

Connor got to pick one ride and he chose the big slide to go on with me.  So fun!

Pumpkins! I don't think she quite knew what to do...

He wanted a picture with the ghosts...

Our usual crying sibling photo...

The girls!

Once we got to the little pumpkins, Caylee seemed to get really into it and helped herself to a few of them.

Connor insisted on pulled the wagon himself.  Our strong guy!

What a tough face!

Our Week

Last Sunday was the first day of football, so we went all out with fun snacks, Bears gear, and some family time together on the couch.  Caylee dug right into the artichoke & cheese dip!

During the 2nd half of the game, I took Caylee over to the pet store where she had a blast playing with the small animals.  She was shrieking so loud when she saw them!

Trying a whole apple for the first time!

What happens when a 4 year old goes into the beer cooler at the store...

Just like Mama with her purse, necklace and baby stroller...

Star sunglasses at the Kite Fest!

So proud that he conquered this all by himself!

Caylee's 1st Race!

 Caylee "ran" her first race with me on Saturday to support the Mother's Milk Bank.  It got extremely cold all of a sudden, so I was running around trying to find all our cold weather things to bundle up for the morning outside.

The boys were very sweet for deciding to come cheer us on in the cold and Connor loved the little cow he got in our goody bag!


Before the race, Caylee got out and played with some of the other babies in the VIP nursing area.  It was really nice to have a little toy area and diaper changing station for them.

The night before, I found out that strollers were not allowed in the 5k, so I could only do the 3k walk with her.  Since I didn't train at all, that was probably a better choice anyway.  When we started the race, I realized that everyone was walking super slow and I could get towards the front pretty easily.  Caylee and I pushed hard up the hills and made our way towards the front of the walkers.  When the track turned around, I realized we were in 5th place!  A bunch of people stopped to get water, so I ran right past them and kept going.  I mostly walked, but I did a few spurts of jogging when I felt like I could.  At the end, I'm pretty sure I was the 3rd place walker and the 1st place walker on our team!  We did awesome for not training or working out the entire spring or summer, so I'm pretty proud!

Labor Day Weekend Fun

It was nice to get back to "normal" after a long 2 weeks, but it does feel a little different with one member of our family that's gone.  We had a lot to do to catch up from the past couple of weeks, but we wanted to have some quality time together during one of the last summer weekends.  On Saturday, we went to one of my favorite summer festivals where Connor made a giraffe mask.

After naps, we promised Connor we could play with his water balloons!  Those are on video, but I caught this little bikini girl on camera!

#icantfeelmyface

Connor found the missing Minnie Mouse sticker in the grass that disappeared on maybe Wednesday.  That thing survived 4 days outside on the lawn!