WE 4 IVEYS: October 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

A Little Sample

I have A LOT of pictures to share, but for now here are 2. We headed to Grammie's to Trick or Treat. I will be doing a slide show and/or posting more tomorrow.

One Year Ago

I was just doing some reminiscing and wanted to share. Click HERE.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Pumpkins, Scarecrows and Swinging

I personally cannot stand carving a pumpkin and pulling out all the gunk that feels like brain matter or guts. Not that I have touched either, but had I, I'm pretty sure pumpkin insides would feel the same. Therefore I take the easy way out and just cram things in the pumpkin for decoration.

Mommy: 'Caden, give the pumpkin kisses.'

Caden: 'Okay, but first I need to check it out. Let me poke it.'

'Okay Mommy, here I go...'

'I'm kissing it!!! Take the picture, take the picture!'

Caden has been scared to death of this scarecrow. He has rammed toys into the scarecrow and walked a mile around him so as not to get to close to him. It cracks us up. He then graduated to just knocking it down and running away. Tonight I actually got him to conquer his fears!

Mommy: 'Caden, give the scarecrow kisses.'

Caden: 'Again Mommy, I'm going to need to touch him. I'll start by jingling his little bells around his neck.'

'Okay, I'm going to take a deep breath. I can do this...I can do this.' 'I'm doing it! I am giving him kisses!' 'Umm...yeah, Mr. Scarecrow, I'm just going to walk over here now away from you. Nothing personal...''Yea! I love to swing...'

'Please, no more pictures, just let me enjoy the ride.'

'Did you hear me Mommy?'

'Take a picture of this Mommy...my drool, blowing in the wind.'

Monday, October 27, 2008

Lane and Me

I did not forget to post these pictures yesterday. I just wanted to post them separately. I love my Lanerbugs so much and I have so much fun talking about dinosaurs with him, playing puzzles with him and reading to him. Except for that one book we read Saturday night that was totally boring!

Anyway, here is a very serious and dignified picture of Lane and me.

Lane, I hope you know that I really love you enough to post this picture of you and me acting silly!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Sunday at the Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Festival. Let me just say it was 150 degrees outside. We did not stay long as all the kids and adults were 2 seconds away from a heatstroke.

'Mommy, Daddy, I want this entire pile of pumpkins.'

'I'm totally kidding...calm down.'

I love this picture of him.

He loved lifting up all the pumpkins. He's pretty strong!

'I'm going to look for a pumpkin.'

'Here's the one I want. Look, I can even lift it myself.'

'I found my pumpkin guys. I'm outta here.'

Daddy trying to make sure Caden didn't drop ANOTHER pumpkin!

Caden and Mickey.

Mommy and Caden with Caden clearly not into photos.

Here is Lane riding one of the rides.

We had such a great weekend with all of you guys! We love you and can't wait until next time!

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Other Saturday Happenings

Avery is fascinated with using her little hands and putting them in shoes and crawling around with them.

'Caden, don't tell me what to do. I do this all the time.'

Kari and I decided to take the babies for a wagon ride while Lane led the way on his bike.

I love my Lanerbugs. Check out his cool Frankenstein pin we made together!

All 3 kiddos!

Lane leading us on.

ACHOO!

I love this picture of their little feet in the wagon.

'Caden, you drink your water, I'm going to eat this strap.'

I thought this picture was cool because Lane is in the background swinging.

Later that night we all went out to dinner. Here are the 3 kids before we left. Wow, is it hard to get them to all look at the camera and sit still at the same time. Poor Lane!