Jennifer's shower

This weekend we threw a baby shower for Jennifer. I have been friends with her since elementary school. It is so hard to believe that we are old enough to have children. I have so many memories with her in them... swimming in her pool, volleyball, slumber parties, riding around in her Saab, more volleyball. I can remember all of the fun we had like it was yesterday. OK, enough reminiscing, I am going to make myself cry. It was so good to spend time with my girls! We don't get to do it enough! I miss you guys!


Abby decided she wanted to go with me to the "big girl party" She helped with the presents and games. I think she was dissapointed in the games because she thought they were going to games like bowling and candy land.

Here is the cake that Christie and I made. Well, Christie deserves most of the credit. I was there mainly for moral support and to decorate it. Good job Christie! Maybe we should go into buisness.

Here is Jennifer in all of her glory. Only 1 1/2 months left!

And the winner is....

Sorry Ryan, not you :)! We carved pumpkins this weekend for Halloween. Abby dug right in and got dirty, but Claire was a bit hesitant (imagine that!) Ryan was trying to be really creative this year and he created...well, I am not sure what he created. The girls decided his was scary and they liked theirs better.

Yeah Claire!

I just wanted to let everyone know that Claire asked to go pee-pee in the potty today. Yeah Claire! She thought I was crazy with all the screaming and clapping. I am very excited and even though she is only 20 months, I hope this continues. I love the thought of no more diapers!!

Waterman's field trip

Today Abby's class had a field trip to Waterman's farm. They get to take a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch and pick a pumpkin. Then they played on all of the fun stuff they have there. We jumped on a bouncy house and went through a corn maze. Below is a picture of Mrs. Flora's class. The middle picture is Abby on the hay ride, and the last one is Abby with her buddy Emily.

Hay Ride

Fall is always a crazy time in our house. It is by far my favorite season and I love all of the fun "fall activities" there are to do. I always feel the need to spend as much time as I can outside. I have this feeling of impending doom of winter arriving. It will not be that far from now that we are cooped up inside counting down the days until spring. Here are some pictures of a bonfire/hayride that we went to last weekend at southeastway park. One of the girls in our playgroup has one every year. It is always fun to get together with everyone. The kids had a blast and did not want to go home. It was a very late night but worth it. Lainey got hay in her eye and her eye was enormous so she was taken to immediate care to get it flushed out, poor Lainey!