Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Brian's sister Brooke & her family at Brooke's in laws house in Queen Creek! It was a great time to spend with family and eat some good food!!!

Brian holding Quinn, Brooke's 1 year old! Loving the face!

Keira "helped" Quinn open his present!!

Isn't he cute?!?!

Yummy turkey leg! A tradition in our house...Ty gets a leg!

Monkey face from Keira makes the day perfect!!!

Bikes!

My birthday gift from Brian and the kids was a bike! Tyler is doing such a great job riding his bike and while Keira is still working on getting her princess bike to go without mommy's help, it is great to be able to ride as a family!

Cowboy flag football season comes to an end...

Tyler's fall flag football season has come to an end! While our team developed individually and as a team, we lost our second tournament game on Saturday! It is a lot to ask 5-6 year olds to play back to back so I think our players were okay with going home...not so much for our coach!

Warm up time!

Coach John and Brian during game.

Half time...

Finally a good action shot of Tyler running the ball!!!

Tyler's Cowboys helmet for a good job! He also got an MVP plaque for never missing a game or practice!!!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween! Brian's sister, Brooke, her husband, Dave and their son, Quinn, came out for a very quick but fun trip!

Brian had his work cut out for him this year with the pumpkins since Keira picked a challenging Sleeping Beauty design. Luckily, Ty picked a Yoda head and arms he just stuck in.

This year Ty dressed up as a Clone Trooper from Star Wars, Keira was Cinderella (sans the crown or jewels since she wasn't interested in wearing them!) and Brian was the Grim Reaper.

Dave and a little shark...oh...it's Quinn!!!

Keira was done trick or treating early so she came back to the house and passed out candy with Uncle Dave and me! This was my first year I stayed home to pass out candy. I always feel bad when we go out and the houses are dark because they are out too. So, little did I know how much candy I would need. We went through 10 bags and I had to bring down some dum-dums from our pantry!!!

Marley Farms

During fall break the kids and I went to Marley Farms with my Aunt Shelly and Aunt Chris. The farm has goats, donkeys, cows, kangaroos, tortoise, lamas, deer, pigs, and more.

Tyler and Aunt Chris feeding a Zonkey (zebra and donkey)!

Tyler found a tortoise hiding out in the shade.

Keira loved to brush the goats and followed them around the yard.

One of Ty's favorite animals on the farm, the deer.

Aunt Shelly & the kids feeding the goats.

Pumpkin Patch

I love Fall! I love the beginning of the Holiday Season and when the weather starts to cool down. Well...this year the weather hasn't cooled down much but we are getting ready for Halloween & enjoying pumpkin patches at the farm. This past weekend we met up with our friends Telle & Chad and their adorable daughter, Kaylee, at Schnepf Farms.

Keira was SO excited to ride the pony. Ty didn't want to ride at first but decided to give it a try and loved it too!!!

Keira showing Kaylee (in pink) the goats.

Down a very dusty slide!

Down a very long and dusty slide!

The kids are very excited to carve pumpkins. They have already decided what they are going to do and can't wait to get started!

Growing Up Too Fast

Ty's school pictures came home yesterday...He is growing SO fast!!!

Kindergarten pic on the left. 1st grade pic on the right!