Pumpkin Funkin

Tonight we had so much fun carving pumpkins. Ava really got into it this year. She was digging the guts out and even trying to cut the pumpkin. She told Ryan everything she wanted - the shape of the eyes and nose and how many teeth. She is so proud of her pumpkin. Liam had to sit in his horse because he was trying to eat the seeds and when I moved him from there he began to eat the newspaper. I included a random picture of him so he didn't feel left out. So I have to edit this post because Ryan looked at it and I got in trouble because I didn't comment on how "totally awesome" his pumpkin is. In fact, it is pretty good...he did Frankenstein and I can even tell what it is. It really is neat Ry!

Catch Up Time

We have been really busy since September. Last weekend we went to the pumpkin patch for 3 hours. Ava had such a good time there that we didn't even have time to go on the hayride. They had so much to do there. We rode a 'horse' and a tractor...pet some animals, and got lost in the corn maze with daddy! We promised her we would go back real soon!

On Friday, we went to the ZooBoo with Joe, Amanda, Jacob, and Addison. We all had a great time and were bummed that the night had to end early. We had such a good time with them, unfortunately we don't see them as often as we would like to.

The kids got to dress up in their halloween costumes and see the animals. There were a few people there handing out candy - which makes the zoo even better! We had a tough time figuring Ava's costume out this year. I figured she would want to be what all 2 year old girls want to be - a princess or something girly. Not my child - she wanted to be a tree!!! I am not crafty enough for her to be a tree, so we settled on a mouse because it had a tail! Liam was a lion - which he looked so handsome in!

Lookin' Good

Last night we went to a wedding. A girl I teach with got married, but if you talk to Shane and Nicole we were at Dwight Freeney's wedding. We decided to get a family picture because I don't think we have had a time where we were all dressed up since Liam's baptism. Both kids did a very good job behaving and Ava had a great time doing her chicken dance!

Fun Weekend Times!

We had a wonderful time playing outside yesterday.  It called for rain all weekend and it ended up being almost 90 degrees yesterday.  We started the day off going to Nathan's soccer game and then out to lunch with the Potters.  After nap time Ava wanted to paint some wood windmills that I brought home from school.  One for her, and one for Grandma Kathy because she is coming down for a couple of days!

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  We then took Liam on his first trailer bike ride.  He didn't have too much expression the whole time, but at least he didn't cry at all!

                                         

We rode our bikes to the park behind our neighborhood and had a great day.  We stayed there way too long, we didn't get home until bed time and we still needed to eat dinner!  Unfortunately today is raining, but at least Grandma is coming to hang!

Updates....

Liam is now 5 months old.  I 

didn't think that it sounded too bad, but then a girl that I work with informed me that next month he will be 1/2 a year!  Time to start thinking about #3!!!  Just kidding - we will enjoy what we have for a while.  Here is my 

handsome man on his 5 month b-day.

We have had a pretty low key weekend.  Ryan has pretty much been awaiting this day for months - Colts home opener.  Me, being the wonderful wife who hates football, dressed Ava up in her Colts gear.  This

 year her hair was long enough to put into pig tails so people hopefully won't mistake her for a boy this year.  Here are a few pictures taken today.  As much as I do not enjoy football, I must admit that she looks pretty adorable.  Liam doesn't look

 to shabby in his hat either!

Lastly, here is a video of her helping me feed Liam.  He has been on cereal for about a month now and LOVES it.  When he sees it, he starts kicking and opens his mouth wide.  Ava has recently started 'helping' me feed him.  She loves playing big sister and taking care of her little brother.  Although the clean up is a lot more now!

Under the weather

So school hasn't even been going on for 10 days and already Liam is sick. We are getting ready to go to the dr. but he was up crying all night with a 102 temp. and pulling at BOTH ears. This morning Ava was trying to doctor him up and take care of him. She put him in bed and tucked him in and stayed and watched him to make sure he would be okay. So sweet!

Long Time No See

So we have been enjoying our summer up at Long Lake, but that also means no internet, so I have not been able to post very often. Ava has become quitethe fish. It is so hard to keep her out of the water - she will swim to the end of the pier by herself, go down the slide, and jump in and go underwater!! Liam isn't doing that much, but he is rolling over both ways now! He is woken up EVERY morning by 7am by his lovely sister with a kiss on his cheek. I am so thankful that she loves him and enjoys him being around.

We just got back from a Potter Family vacation down to Orlando visiting Great Grandma and Grandpa Wally. We spent 2 days at SeaWorld, which Ava absolutely loved. We also went to a few different Disney pools which she loved, especially with the 100 degree weather. Liam also finally got to enjoy the water! We also went to Chef Mickey's for breakfast one morning. Ava got to meet Mickey and all of his friends. She was completely scared of Goofy and cried when he came to our table. She did love Mickey though!

We also went over to Cocoa Beach to visit Ryan's friend from Samford, Jay Speicher. We spent a couple of hours on the beach, and Ava had fun making sandcastles with Jay and making new friends on the beach. It got a little too hot for Liam, so we went back to Jay's parents and played in the pool.

We had a great time down there and it was good to see G-ma and G-pa Potter again!