45th time's the charm

Does anyone else have this problem? I CANNOT get a good picture of the boys if I am the only parent there. It's impossible! Some that didn't make it past the editing room...

Pumpkins, bunnies, and bouncing, OH MY!

I took the boys to the pumpkin patch last week. We had fun, but it was SO hot! They had fun looking at the animals and bouncing in the bounce house. Can you believe that Aidan took the last picture? I doctored it with soft focus, but I was impressed!

Soccer

Some pictures of Aidan at his soccer class. Cruz, I think, liked it just as much as Aidan. He would run around and kick the ball the entire practice time. I think he just wants to be like his big brother. It was nice to see Aidan actually get worn out! Bedtime on Mondays were easy, if only for a while!

Good...even when frozen!

The other night when I was making dinner I had the fridge and freezer open getting out all that I needed. Cruz always makes a run for the open doors because he loves to explore in there. Well, I turned my back, letting him look (more to keep him out from under my feet for a minute) and that's when I heard it. It sounded like a bag of pebbles hitting the ground.
He found the corn. And by the time I got the camera he had already put some in his mouth.
So cute, but kinda gross, too. At least the floor had just been cleaned!

An apple a day...

We went to Oak Glen yesterday with the boys and had a
great time picking apples. Aidan especially loved seeing the goats and chickens. He was so excited when he found out that we were going to use the apples that we picked to make a pie! He keeps bringing up the pie that I'm going to make, when I'm going to make it, have I made it yet. You can tell he's so deprived!
The weather was really nice. We had never been there before and thought it was so beautiful up there. Although, we would not go on a Saturday again, it was really crowded! We will definitely have enough apples for an apple a day...for many days!

Lake Mead

We went to the lake again last weekend and our friends, the Lippens, were able to come with us. It was so much fun, even though it was so freezing! We decided to try and be adventurous and go out on the boat anyway. It was probably not a good idea! We found a beach and ate lunch. The kids searched for seashells while Joe took Jarrod out for a run on the wakeboard. YOU ARE CRAZY, JARROD! The way back was even colder, with rains threatening to come down at any second. It never did rain, but I thought I was not going to have a nose left by the time we made it back to the marina! The kids, of course, didn't know the difference and had so much fun playing and exploring together. They were exhausted by the end of each day, which gave the adults some time to hang out together without those ever present interruptions, as cute as they may be! We were able to get a group pic before we left, at red rock, and it didn't turn out too bad considering we were trying to get all 5 kids to look at the camera at the same time! Thanks for coming with us, guys, and for the memories we will not soon forget!

Bees+lab puppy= swelling

These are pictures of the first of three run ins with the bees in our backyard. Our chinese lantern tree is in full bloom and attracting all the bees in a ten mile radius. Hank has not yet figured out that eating them is NOT a good thing. Poor guy.