What we've been up to

The weeks are getting away from me. This whole "being on a schedule" thing is really tough for me. I've loved our time of doing what we want and now we're trying to embrace the new

Celebrating with my boys. (and yes...I know I'm that far behind!)

Noah is loving all the fun things he makes at school. He loved running around "scaring" Mommy with his spider hat.

Who knew...they spent the whole summer avoiding the sandbox just to discover a love for it just as the leaves are falling off the trees. I've finally had to tell them the sandbox is closed for the season. But I forsee a bright future for the sandbox:)

We had a fun small group night of carving pumpkins. We are no dummies. We knew the boys' attention wouldn't last long, so we only carved one pumpkin. And as Aaron said...

That's as Hawaiian as a pumpkin can get in our neck of the woods:)

Most of our small group. The night was a success.

We also got to take a trip into the big city to visit the Aquarium and going in the middle of the week was great. We were able to take in all of the exibits we wanted to without dealing with the crowds.

The boys enjoyed watching the dolphins and whales

And I think the boys finally found Crush...from Finding Nemo

We had a great day. We ended the day at the Lego store and I could have filled a pool with all the boys drool. I wish I had pictures but they were in heaven...and definitely couldn't decide which set was their dream set

B likes to Rock the hair!

Field Trip!

We got to go on our first official field trip a couple weeks ago...a trip to the farm for a corn maze, pumpkin patch, hay ride, games for the kids and some farm animals.

B-are you excited to be riding on a haywagon?

N-what do you think about your first field trip?

We went with our buddies, Miss J and O! Fun to have a buddy to play with.

The boys took a trip on the cow train and thoroughly enjoyed making the "Moo" sound

...at the top of their lungs.

Noah could have played on these all day. Whenever we had even a moment of free time, he would dart back to these trikes and race

B liked to watch the ducks "race" as he pumped the water

And his group for the morning, with some siblings, right before our

crazy, we-almost-got-lost-in-the-itty bitty maze mania.

B wasn't so sure about the jumping pillow but N loved it.

I love how blue the sky is. I may have to keep looking at the picture all winter to remind myself that there is still blue sky and it will come back again:)

I think we wore him out!

More Candy!!!

I think I'm going to rename Halloween to the day of "More Candy!".

B would get so excited when we got to each house and shout "MORE CANDY!!"

Noah's trash truck costume-he requested to be a trash truck man. Thanks to a couple of friend's ideas, we created our own trash truck. Whew...this was a lot of work. And we didn't take into account how heavy it would be, but he loved it and manuvered around all the kids and houses pretty well. He couldn't really reach the door to knock, but quickly figured out that he could use his back end to bang against the door.

As B has already requested his turn in the trash truck costume, we need to design better wheels, as he was wheel-less by the end of the night!

B was our little Bee! He wasn't so sure about it until he went to show big brother and N told him how cool he was. (Way to go Noah!)

We planned to stay out for just a little while since the boys don't really need that much candy, but they were having so much fun, they begged to stay out even longer and we were out the whole 2 hours!

(Yes, for our back home family, there are designated times for trick-or-treating!)

And of course, what trick or treating would be complete without checking out the new stash! I really wish B was more into candy...(just kidding!)

And I thought it would be fun to go back and see all the costumes:)

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