November 2014

Holiday season is here and with it lots of activities and events.  However, we love this time of year and this year has been made extra special with the addition of our newest niece and cousin Harriet.  

We also got to celebrate my oldest niece Margaret's birthday.  We had cupcakes with her on the day of and then took her to paint pottery and go to Chuck E Cheese.  It was great spending a "girls day" together with Margaret and Kathryn.

This year brought us an early snow that was only here for a day but we had lots of fun playing.

Hunting season may as well be a holiday, We all enjoy doughnuts on opening day.  Ben was also lucky enough to get another buck this year and the kids were so excited!

The month ended with a beautiful weekend.  We took the kids to see Santa at Bass Pro, had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and had so much fun decorating our house for Christmas.

 

  

Our lives are full of blessings!

October 2014

I should have broken this post into several because we did SO many things this month and have so many pictures.  But, I am lucky to only get one post up a month and I want to make sure and document everything so here goes.

The month started off with a cool weekend at Farm Fest.  This is always fun with all of the cousins.

The next weekend was a busy one.  We spent Saturday afternoon out at Clay and Elissa's celebrating the fall birthdays.  After that we had a wedding to attend for Wes and Shannon.  I forgot my camera on this day but Clay took a few pictures of before the wedding.  Elissa also sent me a few more of us making a strawman.

The following weekend, we took the kids to Rutledge Wilson Farm to have fun at Fall Fest and to pick pumpkins.  The kids really enjoyed themselves (so did we).

Judd and Cindy were in the next weekend.  We did so many fun Halloween/fall things.  We painted pumpkins, played in leaves, carved pumpkins, and went to Spooktacular.  

The month ended with Halloween trick or treating.  Kathryn went to school and had a parade and party then we all went to Ben's work and finished the night at Northside Christian.  It was fun but Jack needed a nap so there aren't as many pictures of the day as I would have liked.  

It was such a wonderful month and November started off great too.  More on that in another post.

September 2014

What a fun month.  We started the month off with Labor Day weekend which meant that I got to spend more time with the kids and Ben had to work a lot of hours.  We headed to the lake that weekend.  This month we also had a day where we went hiking, had a picnic, and played at the playground.  Ben and I went to Kansas City to watch the Tigers play and had the fall festival. The weekend of the festival, we had company over that we had not seen in a long time.

Life started slowing down a little and it has felt so nice!  Now we are to October and we are enjoying decorating and gearing up for all the fun that Halloween is when you have two little ones.

August 2014

Wow, August was such a fast month but when I sat down to blog about it, I realized that we took hardly any pictures!  We started the month off down in Dallas, then we celebrated our anniversary.  The Willard Pool was a favorite spot.  We have been to the lake a couple of times this month and we had our fantasy drafts (all three of them).  We also had a going away party for one of Ben's colleagues and went to a Springfield Cardinals game with my family.  As noted before Kathryn also started school.  Here are our couple of pictures.

Kathryn's 1st Day

Today was Kathryn's first day of school.  She was so excited but once we got to school she seemed a little shell-shocked.  After school she was all smiles and reported lots of fun things about the day.  However, she sure was tired!  Here are some pictures to document the day: