Happy Birthday Poppy!!!!

happy birthday to poppy!!!!!!
bryce had THE best time riding around the block in poppy's cool car
(which i have affectionately dubbed The Batmobile)
bryce has THE best time doing pretty much anything with poppy (washing the car, traipsing through the woods, playing in the creek, making rock gardens, reading books, drawing pictures, and playing with Legos)
and poppy will do pretty much anything, if bryce asks him to!
(which is why I often affectionately dub him, The Sucker!)
we love you poppy!
happy happy birthday!
see you next week!
XOXO

portrait sneak peeks!

Good grief. This month has been NONstop, but especially this weekend. . .we've been going, going, GONE. Here, there, and everywhere. One of the weekend's events were family pictures - which ended up being a 3 hour ordeal, thanks to overbooking, and half of jacksonville getting pictures taken yesterday. If you are reading this blog, you will probably be receiving the pictures from our never-ending day, so i can't show you all of them yet, but here are a few pics we didn't order. (Although we loved them!) Thankfully, we were able to get a CD with ALLLL of the pictures on it. After Christmas I will post all the good ones, and if there are any prints you want (that you didn't receive) you can order additional ones from Portrait Innovations :)

These aren't cropped or edited at all, but those boys are cute as can be!!! How funny is that picture of Tanner?! We could NOT get him to sit still in that chair!!!!


Other than family pictures, we've also been to school for a Thanksgiving party in Bryce's classroom on Friday afternoon, and then celebrated Eric's belated birthday, with his family. We've been to St. Augustine for the annual tradition of Night of Lights (super fun and beautiful as always!) And in a few minutes we are heading out to a birthday party for one of Bryce's friends at Little Gym, and then Eric has to head to church for a meeting. Busy. Busy. Busy. And tomorrow we are having Thanksgiving lunch at school with Bryce!

Shhhh. . .

(don't tell tanner, that all i did was add his name into last year's thanksgiving blog banner, okay?) I promise next year I'll do a new one!

And there are pictures coming. . . one of these days.

We are HOPPING around here from one thing to another around here. Birthday parties, Thanksgiving parties at school, family pictures, etc etc etc! But we had a GREAT time in Fort Myers this past weekend, and I will try to share pictures soon!!

XOXO

happy birthday to dadddddy!

Eric is:

-the BEST at being tackled, smothered, jumped on, and rolled over
-running FIVE miles now, and has lost TWENTY pounds!
-the best teacher of all things football, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones (things that mommy knows NOTHING about. . .well, I know some things NOW, but I'm still clueless!)

-the best hamburger maker, and grill master
-excellent at killing bugs and removing all yicky things that get into the house
-snuggly, warm, and gives great hugs
-puts up with crafty messes and card-making, which occasionally takes over the whole bedroom
-thoughtful and clever and goofy and always makes me laugh, and. . .. .
-the BIRTHDAY BOY OF THE DAY!!!!

we love you Daddy!!!!
happy birthday!!!

the halloween faves. . .

My oh my, Halloween. . . .what a DAY! We started out at church, for the Fall Festival, and Trunk or Treat. We had all our decorations ready to decorate our car, and in the past there had been quite a few cars for the event. So we planned to just go there, and that was going to be the trick or treating for the year. BUT. . ..there were THREE whole cars there and decorated. Yes, including ours. What a bust! There were tons of people there for Fall Festival, but no one decorated their cars this year! So that was a bummer, but our car still looked great, and we gave out big handfuls of candy to the kiddos who came around. And Bryce had a great time playing the games, and jumping in the bounce houses.
Tanner went into the toddler sized bounce house, and had a great time, until it became overrun with big kids! Here are B and T in there together.

And here is Mr. B (before he put his costume on) in our groovy under-the-sea car. There were tons of streamers hanging down, but most of them are blowing in the wind in this pic!
Tanner, the train engineer, had lots of fun blowing bubbles (well, POPPING bubbles) and wandering around in the parking lot (it was all blocked off for the trunk or treaters. . .don't worry, i don't normally let him wander around in parking lots!)

Spider Man under the sea!

Tanner feeling quite impressed with his walking and trunk-or-treating skills.

So after Fall Festival was over, we went over to Eric's parents' neighborhood, and took Bryce trick or treating after all, since the Trunk or Treat was such a bust!! We had a great time. There were a TON of kids out, and Bryce had fun. (And he got a lot of loot too!)

Poor Tanner, who had NO afternoon nap, hung in there like a champ!

Tanner? Where are you?

Happy Halloween! Now we move onward to Eric's birthday, and lots more fall fun!!
XOXOX