October is almost over already ! We've gotten to do a few more fall things like collect leaves, put up our decorations and get a couple of pumpkins. I've been eating some candy too.



I got to be a volunteer driver for Nolan's preschool field day to the pumpkin patch for a tractor ride. The kids got to pick out their own pumkinds. Caleb got to go to.


It was very cute to watch all of the kids walking around the patch to find the perfect pumpkin. Some of them looked for bigs ones and other for small ones. Nolan wanted perfectly round ones with no blemishes of course.

Caleb just liked to play in the mud and look for the wettest tractor tire marks he could find. He definately didn't want to come home.

Here are some girls from Nolan's class. He's especially crazy about Kaitlin in the middle, but I've seen him and Gabby (in pink) giving lots of hugs lately. =) The whole class is basically blonde except Maddie.


There's the group. Nolan's buddy Cole was there too with his little bro Carson and daddy Mike. We got to play on a giant tower of hale bales when we were all done and that was most of the kids favorite part.

All that work staining the siding is finally paying off. It was a pain, and more work and money than we anticipated, but it does look really nice. The soffits look great too. I'll have to get a close-up of those and the other little details the guys put into the trim. Some of the boards turned out lighter than others since we went through so many batches of stain, but we can touch them up with a little more stain if necessary. I actually like the variation. We're in the process of trying to clean up all the wood now. They're still working on the back of the house, but it's mostly windows so hopefully it'll go fast.

October has been a really busy month so far and it has gone by fast.

I've still been working 2 hours a week at the gym's childcare center for a free membership and it's fun to play with the boys and all the different toys and kids.


The rain has come a few days already and the boys are enjoying their new raincoats and rainboots.

Nolan still loves spending time with dad, and dad loves the beach so that's always a good time.


We got our family photos taken at the beach and although we haven't seen them yet I'm sure their great. The boys had a fun time and were pretty dirty by the end of it though.

Nolan has been a really good big brother and is getting to be a big boy and good helper. Caleb always asks "where's nonan?" when he can't find him.

Most of the flowers are gone around the house, but my artichokes never got harvested and they make very interesting flowers.

There are still a few other flowers in the yard including Crocosmia.

Caleb enjoys blowing the seeds off the dandilion heads.

He also still enjoys trying on all of our shoes. It's cutest when he's in my heels with just his diaper on but I haven't caught that one on film yet. The vans are pretty cute too though.