Maw Maw's Home & the Zoo!

Ollie & Ivy were very lovey the other night. Lots of hugs!

On Thursday Maw Maw came home!!! Ollie couldn't wait to see how his Squidward costume was coming along! It still has to be put together but it is going to be awesome when it is finished!

Friday Ollie was off school and we went to the Zoo. We took his friend Jay with us. It was a beautiful day perfect for the zoo.

Riding the train!

Checking out the snakes...

This goat really wanted something out of Maw Maw's bag!

They climb the rocks!

We had to stop Ollie from going up after him.

Time to work on the farm in the Children's Zoo.

Face painting!

Batman & Skeletor!

Birthday Parties & Pool Party!

Saturday afternoon Ollie was invited to two birthday parties! Maggie's party was first. It was at Great Skate. Samantha is helping Ollie.

Maggie had a Justin Bieber party - check out her cake! Too cute.

We left Maggie's party early and headed to the Putting Edge at the Mills for Nathan's party! Ollie wasn't really into miniature golf. He just wanted to climb around and have his picture taken.

Sunday was the pool opening & closing party at Papa's house! It was 80 degrees outside and 81 in the pool. I got in and stayed right by the return with the warm water.

Ivy didn't think it was too cold. She was digging in the cooler for ice.

Look at all the kids playing with our basketball hoop!

Homemade Pizza

Last weekend we made homemade pizzas for lunch on Saturday & Sunday. Chris made the dough from scratch. We all had our own personal pizza so we could put our own toppings on.
We started with Little Caesar's pizza sauce...

Then Ollie added pepperoni & mushrooms, then cheese and more pepperoni's!

It's so hard to wait!
What a great looking pizza buddy! What's with that face? That's his silly picture face.

Bella got mail the other day! Inside was a candy corn hankerchief - now she's ready for Halloween! Thanks Maw Maw!

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?