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Time for footies!

The kids were spoiled by their Aunt Mo for their birthdays

Jonas takes his hot chocolate making duties on Sunday morning very seriously

We got home before James the other day after church and discovered we were locked out of the house, so I took the opportunity to take some pictures while we waited for James to get home with the key. I was grateful to have a moment to just sit down and pay attention to the kids for a while.  

Our exciting news - we are expecting baby #4 next year and we now have a new golden Kia so that we will be able to fit our whole family in a car once baby comes along. It was time for an upgrade. Jonas had ridden home in a friends' vehicle and told me " you know what I like about their car? It's easy to buckle the seat belts." He was used to being scrunched with two other car seats in the back of our Honda where it was often difficult to find his seatbelt let alone buckle it. This is our new family vehicle. I've never been one to get very attached to a car before, but it's soooo nice to have the space that this van is quickly becoming one of my favorite things. It makes me happy.

October Events

"It's gonna be a baby witch pumpkin"

 Earlier this month we got to visit the farm of a friend and pick some of their pumpkins.

Jonas is amazed that he can carry this enormous pumpkin

one handsome dude with a giant pumpkin

the cutest little pumpkin of all

  

 Dax turned 1 yr old. He had two parties one at each of his grandparents homes. He wasn't feeling well and fussed and cried through both parties.  He truly is a very cute and fun kid when he is happy, too bad relatives did n't get to see his happy side very much. This kid LOVES: looking at board books and electronic devices,  throwing balls, watching dogs, wrestling with his brother, standing up in his high chair, eating pretty much anything, oh and pulling everything he can out of kitchen cupboards. He also loves his mommy :)

Jonas waving to us as he walks in his school halloween parade

This year we have a dementor, Belle, and a puppy dog

ready to go

while enjoying their candy after trick or treating

their mouths were so busy eating candy I had to remind them to smile

in between trick or treaters Dax spent time banging on the door

Savvy helps to display our beautiful pumpkin carvings

Happy October!

 At the rodeo

 James is explaining to Jonas all about cowboys n stuff.

 Jonas' other front tooth was dangling by a thread for about a week. He finally lost it and we like his new toothless grin.

 Something Jonas does that makes me laugh although it probably shouldn't is when he pretends to be a drunken pirate

School, Karate, Dance

I know I'm biased, but isn't this the cutest little karate dude you have ever seen?



1st day of 1st grade.


My little bubba chubba is growing up. I get my exercise at church on Sunday taking him in and out of meetings for screaming and running after him as he race crawls down the aisle and hall.




My friend was signing her daughter up for dance and talked me into signing Savvy up. She LOVES to dance and I have fun dressing her up in her little dance outfit.











We had to say goodbye to some cousins. We don't get to see them as much as we want to anyways and now it will be longer in between visits, but at least they are moving to the south so we're fixin on a visit sometime.

Favorite Summer pics

4th of July

I know it's late to be posting about 4th of July, but I've been having some serious blogging issues. Anyways, we enjoyed our town's 4th of July parade. We drove downtown to find a spot to watch the parade, and on our arrival our oldest told us that he didn't bring his shoes. Not the first time he's done that. Luckily we live in a small town and didn't have to walk very far and he didn't really need shoes to enjoy the parade.






Later that day we went to a park and randomly met a lady who has a bearded dragon for a pet. She let Jonas see it up close. He looked pretty nervous, as soon as she took it back he asked her "When does it strike?" She said " no it doesn't do that" I guess that's what he thought it was going to do the whole time he was holding it.





Later that night we drove to a park where fireworks were permitted to light some. The air smelled like rain and there was a very nice breeze blowing to give us a break from the heat. It was fun to watch the fireworks going off and think about how awesome our nation is and how lucky we are to live here, where we have so many opportunities, religious freedoms, and the right to own a bearded dragon if we so desire.