Pumpkin Picking and Carving Festivities

Last night we took the kids to the pumpkin patch, to pick out a pumpkin to take it home to carve it. This is the first year that Jakob cleaned and carved his own pumpkin. Isaak cleaned his out, but I had to help him carve it. Of course, Colin and Natalie "helped" carve their pumpkins too. They all did a great job and were very proud of their pumpkins!

Here comes the end of Football season!

The boys have this coming weekend off of football games, and the following weekend (Nov. 8th) Jakob's team gets to go to playoffs, and Isaak's team gets to go to a bowl game. It has been a great season. It seemed to go too fast. I will miss watching them when it is over. This is the first year that the boys had to play on separate teams. At the beginning of the season that thought sent me wanting to breathe into the nearest paper bag. If any of you have experience with the Pop Warner football, you know how involved it is. Especially the first month where practice is every night and of course the boys didnt have practice even remotely close to eachother.
So this past weekend, they both had games at 2pm. One on one side of town, and the other on the other. Dave went to Isaak's game, and I went to Jakobs. Dave took the camera with him to take some pictures of Isaaks team in action.
I know all the kids look alike in their pads, remember, Isaak is number 60.

Its Halloween, so time for some good scares!

Dave and I saw this today on the Ellen show, and about died laughing at this lady's reaction. I just had to share.
Guy Scares His Aunt


This is my ultimate favorite Scare Tactics show, I love it!

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Me and the Princess

Dave took some cute pictures of me and Natalie the other night at the boys' football practice. Sure wish her hair would grow back faster though, she always has this homeless look about her now. Not much we can do about it though. It does go in a ponytail, but it doesnt stay long. Pretty soon she has spikes sticking up..*sigh* Anyway, Dave did a good job being the photographer this time!

Binky-free?

So last night was Natalie's first night to sleep all night without a binky. I thought for sure she'd wake up 100 times and cry for it. But it didnt happen. It is wierd because she wakes up when she does have it, and loses it somewhere in her bed, she'll cry for it until I fish around for it and put it back in her mouth. My kids were all big pacifier lovers. But surprisingly she did fine, and hasn't asked for it yet today at all. I am really hoping I can end this phase as easy as it was for Colin.



**UPDATE**10-18-08
Natalie is STILL binky free! I am SO HAPPY!!! What a big girl! Next comes the potty training...

Snap Happy

I started out taking pictures of Isaak in his game gear, and saw that the lighting was perfect, and all my kids were running about the front yard..I started just snapping some of them doing what they do best...being goofy. I love these kinds of sessions, because I dont care how they are positioned, or what they do, it is fun to see what they come up with. You can definately see their little personalities!
**you can click on the pictures to make them bigger too.

He is going to melt some girls heart one day...


Oh look..Colin found some "eggles".



Lets document the last days with this darn binky!



Poor kid is as white as me.






"I need a nice smile with teeth Sis..."



Jakob



Pretending to be nice to eachother for once...



Some handosme boys I have here!



Cute kids! Nice pirate face Colin!



Can you tell Natalie knows she is beautiful?



Jake and Natalie

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I have no words...Because I am still so upset!!!