Anniversary Weekend!

We are spending our anniversary weekend as a family. Friday after work we picked up Tyler and headed to Millstadt for a Haunted Paintball Hayride! We all got paintball guns and got to shoot at monsters in the woods! Ollie had a great time! It was pretty fun but I think there could have been more monsters to shoot at. Then we had to walk back on a haunted trail before we could play some games. Ollie was scared on the trail so I carried him most of the way. He did very well

This morning we went to Stroller Class and brought Ivy back home with us. Aunt Erin & Uncle Kevin are going to the wineries today and she is staying with us all day and night. They played well together all day!

All is right in the world again! We have a basketball hoop in our driveway again! The neighbor offered theirs to us so Chris just dug it up and moved it over today! Yay!

Tomorrow we are meeting a photographer at City Centre Park for family pictures! I am so excited - we have never taken family pictures before! I think I am the only one that is happy about it but oh well! What a great way to spend our anniversary weekend - home together as a family! I can't believe 6 years have gone by already!

First Weekend in October...

Thursday evening after swim class we hustled to the other side of town to the Homecoming Parade at Aunt Erin's school. We missed the first part when they left but got to see the whole thing when they came back. Ivy was checking out her stash of candy when we got there!

The soccer team threw out blow up soccer balls. The kids had fun playing with it while we waited for the parade to come back by.

Ivy did not want anything to do with the Spartan mascot!

Candy!!!

Saturday morning I got up early and went to a huge garage sale in IL. I met Chris, Ollie, Erin & Ivy at Dad's house for lunch. We checked out the swimming pool progress! Ollie had a great time playing in the dirt! This is little boy heaven!

Ivy is spinning the wheel on the wheel barrow.

Time for a mule ride...check out the baby & stroller in the back. Ivy won't go anywhere without a baby!

Time to get the tractor and pick up some tree stumps!

Daddy had to go back to work in the afternoon so Ollie & I took the long way home. We rode on the Brussels Ferry and the Golden Eagle Ferry. Ollie borrowed some binoculars from Papa so he could look for some Eagles on the way. Unfortunately he didn't see any but he still liked using the binoculars.

This morning Ollie talked me into carving a pumpkin. Who says you can only carve pumpkins closer to Halloween? We will just throw it away when it gets bad and buy a new one. Ollie did a good job scooping the goop out. He picked out a superhero pattern book and decided on the Ironman design. I had to poke a million holes in the pumpkin and then cut it out. I have never used a pattern before. I am pretty surprised at how well it turned out!

Ollie used my camera and took a pic of me getting the pumpkin seeds ready to bake.

Can you see Ironman?

Oktoberfest!!!

It is finally FALL!!! This is my favorite season! On Saturday we went to Oktoberfest in St. Charles. Yes, they have Oktoberbest the last weekend in September, why? Who knows? But it was fun and we even talked Daddy into going with us! It is nice to have him home on the weekends! Ollie got to paint his own pumpkin and bounce as much as he wanted. We even saw Bruce, the magician (the one from El Maguey). He was doing a show in the children's area!

Ollie got a ghost painted on his face!

Afterwards we went to Red Lobster for an early dinner and stuffed our faces - it was awesome!

Sunday morning we went to Sunday School and the Kindergarteners brought out their health care kits during the offering in front of the whole church!

After Sunday School we went to Walmart to pick up some food for a last minute BBQ and to pick out a "prize" for Ollie. He got his 10 stickers (1 each day) from his teacher. While we were looking in the toy section we saw Nathan and his Dad. They were looking for a prize too. Then the trip to Walmart turned into an extended stay. Ollie & Nathan were running around showing each other "cool" toys and trying to decide what they would pick. Ollie finally picked out (wait for it...) a new Batman & Joker action figures! How many Batman & Joker's can one little boy have?

Later, for dinner, we BBQ'd and Papa, Grandma Pati, Aunt Erin, Uncle Kevin, Ivy, John & Paula came over. Today was Paula's birthday! Happy Birthday Paula and thanks for celebrating with us!

Ollie was playing Angry Birds on Papa's phone and apparently he is pretty good at it!

Ivy is really into babies. She is a little mommy! She takes after her Aunt Jen :)

Aunt Erin is helping Ollie with a Spongebob picture. It is sticky and comes with different colors of sand. The sand sticks to it to make it pretty. Just wait for Ivy to get a little older and I am going to start buying her messy toys!

What a great weekend and as usual over too soon. Tomorrow we are back to work & school.

Last Weekend...

Last Saturday Erin & I hosted a Scentsy party with Aunt Teresa. Aunt Teresa, Liam and Grandma Toussaint came over early to help set up. Ollie got to hold Liam!!! He just loves babies!

Then Papa & Grandma Pati came over. Papa took Ollie to the first Lakeside 370 Park Picnic. Ollie got to play lots of games and get his face painted!
Sunday we met our friends Amy & her son Cody at Pump It Up. Ollie & Cody are both in Kindergarten and got along great! They really had a good time playing in the boxing house!

They played air hockey for quite awhile. Unfortunately one of the pucks flew up and hit Ollie in the chin. It cut open and bled quite a bit. We had to put a bandaid on his chin and it did not want to stay on. That didn't stop Ollie & Cody from finishing their game though!

Tonight at Walmart, I could not resist. I picked up a new hat, gloves and t-shirt for Ollie. They are all WWE Wrestlers. Ollie was so excited when I got home he had to wear them all for PJ's!

Happy 30th Birthday Aunt Debbie!!!

Happy Birthday Debbie! You don't look a day over 29! Today we took Ollie to Papa & Grandma Pati's to hang out while we went to celebrate Aunt Debbie's birthday at the Bethalto KC Hall.

Ollie did all kinds of fun things while we were gone and was not ready to leave so we decided to go fishing for a little bit.

Finally he got a bite!!!

Waiting patiently for another fish...but they are not biting anymore. Oh well at least he caught one!

Ollie was telling us how he drove Papa's tractor all by himself earlier and decided he could drive the mule too!