Snow White and her ferocious red dragon

I am biased, she is gorgeous!

Carson was checking out her makeup.

Isn't that a ferocious looking dragon? That is exactly what he wanted to be ~ a scary red dragon. I thought it would help him with his fear of things dressed up, not so much!!!

I love this picture.

Oh the crazy candy sorting that happened when we got home!!!

Fall Fun Fest

Our church hosted a Fall Fun Fest. This is our first fall at the church and WOW ~ this event was much more elaborate than I thought it would be.

There was face painting ~ a fire truck putting out a fire for Car and a glittery dolphin for Laney

Laney rode a pony when she went to the pumpkin patch with Aunt Shannon and Uncle Aaron, so she was totally an old pro at this!!

Laugh if you must, but this picture brings tears to my eyes! There was a cake walk game (a circle of numbers on the floor, you walk around them until the music stops, they pick a number from a hat and the person standing on that number wins). Carson played this game for over 10 minutes trying to have his number called. The ladies running the game offered him candy twice if he wanted to quit, but he was determined to win...I think this picture says so much ~ the hands, the face ~ I felt so bad for him, yet I admired his "stick with it" attitude. He's such an example to me sometimes!!!

And, of course, before we could leave, there had to be a football toss!! Look at that arm :-)

Bits and Pieces of the last few weeks

I love this picture! I bought the kids Word of Life Quiet Time books for this year because our church doesn't send home anything for them to do during the week (we were spoiled at our last church!). We try to do this every morning after breakfast. This is Carson HARD at work...I love his face, oh the concentration!

If you know me well you know I hate nothing more than spiders. We have this beautiful spider that has decided to call our backyard home. Unfortunately this picture doesn't really do justice to her intricate web and the food she's wrapping up. She currently has moved to the swingset and has quite the egg sack hanging with her...yikes, babies!

We attended Franklin College's homecoming this year. The kids had a great time seeing where we used to live, eat, go to classes, and hang out. They were pretty bored during the game, even with a mini football and pompom to play with. So, we headed to the park behind Matt's fraternity house for a while to get some wiggles out. It was a fun day!

The Colts had a Monday night football game last week and Car desperately wanted to watch it with Matt. So, he took a bath and curled up in the chair to take it all in...I don't think he even made it to kick off!! I offered to go put him in bed and Matt questioned what it was hurting for him to just stay there...I guess we ALL miss those sweet cuddles that are so quickly disappearing from our everyday routine :-(

Okay, this is totally hilarious and wrong all at the same time. Carson has decided that when Delaney is home during naptime (Monday and Friday b/c she doesn't have school) that he doesn't have to nap either. So, the other day I told them that as long as they were being quiet I didn't care if they were playing in her room. I went to check on them and found this!! If her hair wasn't over her shoulder I don't know that you could tell them apart...I laughed so hard I almost cried.

A day at the park

Indiana weather is bizarre and when you think you should be freezing and staying inside, we're out running like wildmen in the park...here are my wildman and wildwoman!!

My cookie obsession pays off...

Sometimes, while working late in the evening, I have a NEED for chocolate chip cookies, not Chips Ahoy, I mean straight out of the oven chocolate chip cookies. The other night, last Tuesday night to be exact, I had one of those cravings (no, I am NOT pregnant). Wednesday morning as we heard the trash truck approaching, I thought...I have fresh cookies. I darted into the kitchen, grabbed the ziploc bag with the cards in it (yes, I'd saved it for a day like this), and filled it up with cookies. We went out and (I feel like I should be able to insert a drum roll here)...it was OUR crew!!! They seemed excited and the kids were thrilled!