Fall leaf pile

Nothing beats the joy of kids in a pile of crunchy leaves...

Scary peeps

My very own little Calvin & Hobbes

Snapped this one back in September...I mean seriously, how adorable IS he?

Mr. Aiden playing with the hose

Favorite summer water activity of the kiddos:

Quick flashback to February...

Trevor made me this napkin holder at one of his very first Cub Scout activities after he turned 8. He has so much fun in Scouts & can't wait to go.

This is where Aiden chills most of the time when I'm in the shower & the kids are at school. Keeps him out of too much trouble...mostly.

Mr. Aiden's birthday

We mixed his two favorite things in the world...dinosaurs & superheroes!

Daddy even was able to stop by for cake & help out with his new trike.

Chillaxin bros

How on earth did he get this big?

A bunch of sickos

We've been a bunch of sickos around here, passing around various forms of the crud for the past 2 weeks. So far Olivia is the only one to escape unscathed.....ok, that's a lie, she had pink eye. I just got told not to come into work tonight because I still sound like I'm coughing up a lung.

Stink face

I just love this picture of the kids....mainly Aiden's total stink face.

Toothless Aiden

Aiden was out shopping with his aunt & Grandma yesterday & tripped on the shopping cart & knocked out his top left front tooth. A few hours and 2 emergency trips to the dentist later it had to be pulled, it had a vertical fracture clear into the root. Dad was able to get off work early & stay with Trevor & Olivia while Mom had to take him back to the dentist after the last appointment was gone. He was a total trooper & let me hold him down, albeit screaming the whole time. It ended up splintering into 3 pieces & afterwards the dentist said it was the toughest extraction he's had to do like that. He told me that I was a brave mom, I responded that no, I was just mean. Good thing we have the best flippin' pediatric dentist office, ever.

We love you Aiden!

Assessing the damage on the way to the dentist....

Their entire waiting room is a giant pirate ship & pirate cove...

In honor of Halloween we stumbled in on Despicable Me day....it was playing on all the tv's, decorated all over the office, Dr. Whitt was Gru & all his office staff & assistants were his minions. Totally awesome!

Poor little guy completely conked out on the way home...

They put all the pieces of his tooth in this little treasure box for him to put under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy. How cute is that?

the Boys

Egads!

This is how Aiden sits when a movie is starting....doesn't matter what it is anymore, used to just do it when he watched The Hulk.

Sleepy kiddos

They've been running crazy, especially since school started back up again. I love it when they just crash like this:

Indian Summer

Here in Boise we've been enjoying a bit of a late Indian Summer, the kids have been loving it with extra walks to the park after dinner, jumping on the tramp, climbing trees, & making good use of our fire pit with s'mores & banana boats.

As much as I love the fall I've been enjoying our late summer this year and that my pretty flowers are still keeping me company on my front porch.