Celebrate good times, c'mon!

Happy birthday Lia, Caden and Hunter!

These little cuties are some of our best friends that we get to play with all the time.

They're exactly 3 months older than my 3 and we have a great time together.

Their amazing mommy planned this incredibly fun bday party at Classic Fun Center this year and man, it was FUN, FUN, FUN!

 

 There are tons and tons of bounce houses/slides to climb on and of course my incredibly fast and furious Jax came out of one of the slides and this is how he landed and stayed for about 2 minutes.  I love him!  Since he could walk, when he fell he would just stay put for awhile until he felt he could get up - such a funny kid!

 Here was most of the party crew - it was a super hero themed party so everyone had on their favorite gear

 Just another cute shot

 Although this is blurry, this is one of my favorite pics ever!  Love my tough guy with his little mask pulled down - don't mess right?

 Yummy!

Enjoying the treats and snacks of the party

 *Molly, Mason, Lia, Hunter, Lucas, Bella and Avery*

 My Austin, I've gotta watch this one - he loves anything with guns...couldn't play worth a lick but loved trying :)

 And my Rio - this was her choice of the use of her tokens - a nice, fancy car ride

 Mass chaos opening presents with triplets!  I loved watching it - it reminded me of our house and I didn't feel so crazy :)

 Then, we went into the rink with our scooters.  My kids thought this was the coolest thing they've done.

Super blurry but pretty cool pic of Austin and friend Hannah in the background

 Rio was cruisin so fast she was a blur too!  (Actually she is quite a slow poke - she's pretty cautious on hers and I'm grateful for it because the boys are not!)

 My boys

Lining up for "Red light, Green light"

Ready, set and go!!!

*Rio, Hannah, Kennedy, Jackson, Austin, Jax and Eden*

 

GREAT PARTY!  Thanks Ang and Dodge triplets!  We had a great time!

Mowin' with grandpa and Luke's bday

I've said this before but my dad is completely amazing and kind! He comes over every week during the summer and mows our lawn and loves it too :)

Logan has watched the "big kids" sit with him and mow and this time, he was insistent on being able to ride with Papa too!  So of course, my dad let him - it was adorable!

 Just a few pics of this little cutie playing!  I just love him so much! He is honestly a joy and is always filled with a smile... or a big scream if he doesn't get what he wants

 In our families, we have 3 bdays on October 1st: Uncle Mike, cousin Cole and cousin Luke

We were so excited to celebrate with all of them!  These pics are of Luke's bday

*Jax, Luke, Halle, Rio, Austin, Ella and dog Brownie*

 Grandma Marsha and Papa Dougie with Luke and Halle

 Spence and I with Luke and Halle - she wanted to be in all the pics :)

 Sky and Matt with their brand new 6 year old

 Happy 6th bday Luke!  Love you!

More bday fun for Spencer

Some of Spence's family was gone over his birthday so we celebrated a few days later.  We went to a yummy dinner with my parents and Sky & Matt as well which was so fun!

Getting ready to open presents...who do you think was more excited? Spence or all the kids?

 Yummy cake and home-made peach ice cream from our very own tree - de-lish!

 Everyone eating - I love being all together!

Spence, our cute kiddies and Grandma Morris 

 Uncle Andrew with Kristin and Mike's kids : Ty, Brinlee and Hayden

Logan didn't get quite as messy with daddy's cake :) but he tried!

Fun at a park in the middle of nowhere!

After we had a fun filled morning at the kids preschool field trip, we headed off to the middle of nowhere near Copperton to visit a really fun park there.  My friend Roxy lives "near" there sort of and said it was super fun so we had to check it out! 

My little Logan cruisin' around thinking he is one of the big kids!

It got a little crazy with Logan so thankfully my friend Ang brought her pack n play for her little Karson and our two boys had a blast playing together

Cute friends!

This is my amazing friend Julie - she was pushing Karson and Logan in the swing and they absolutely loved it!  She is so fun

Yah boys!  They had so much fun and fit just great!

Roxy's Reese and Rio are two little monkeys - they both are super strong little girls and love climbing

We were trying to get a pic of all the kids...so of course all the moms had to help out and make sure they didn't fall off :)

My Rio was in front too so I was extra cautious she would be safe

And here you go!  All the kiddies together - we were just missing Logan and Karson.

We're so lucky to have such a great group of friends to play with

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Avery, Reese, Mason, Jax, Molly, Hannah, Hunter, Lucas, Caden, Eden, Bella, Austin, Lia and Rio



What a great group of mommies too - they are all hands on and I love it!

Pre-school field trip to Wheeler Farm

My kids absolutely love their preschool and have had so much fun so far!  They even got to do a field trip early October to Wheeler Farm and were so excited that their teacher Miss Catie got to go with them - what a treat that was!

Collecting a leaf pile while we waited for everyone to get there

 See how many I have?  Austin was so proud of himself

 Listening to our tour guide who would take us around for the day

 For some reason, my kids absolutely love the Blacksmith and were completely engaged

 Then we were ready to feed the ducks and they thought it was so cool to do this with their teacher and not just mommy

 I was really nervous that they would just be a little more clingy since I was there but they were amazing!  They listened and followed their teacher and did awesome

 This little cute boy in their class has a crush on Rio

His mom said that he came home after the 1st day and said there was a very cute girl in his class.  Then the 2nd day, he said, "mom, I'm excited to go and see Rio.  She's the prettiest girl in the city!"

I thought that was so cute!  What a sweet boy he is and it gave me a little glimpse of what is to come in the future..YIKES!

Then we played at the park there for awhile and had a great time...even this adorable guy who I found underneath the big log :)

Man, he is cute!

Happy birthday Spence! (Sept)

Happy birthday sweetie!

So cute! My sweet Spence and 3 of the 4 kiddos

 They were so happy to share gifts with daddy

 YUMMY spelling cologne!  Austin asks almost every day to smell like daddy - so sweet

 Happy birthday Spencer - cute new sweater!

 Spence could barely open his presents without his special helpers

 Aww..love you daddy!  Happy birthday

 7 candles to represent 37 years!  Didn't think 37 would fit this year :)

 Logan and daddy

And blow!!!!

Love you Spencer.  Thank you so much for all you do and all your hard work both at work and at home.  We wouldn't know what to do without you, especially little Logan - he loves you and gets so excited to see you.  Know how much we love you!