PreSchool Field Trip

Well, we made one more field trip to the pumpkin patch today. I took the kids this morning to meet up with Andrew's preschool class. We had a really nice time, despite Luke being a little over tired. Andrew has some great friends and I loved watching these boys interact...what a difference from last year when they were 3. His best buddies in his class are Jake and Hunter. The kids took a train ride, rode the hay ride out to the pumpkin fields, had apple cider with their teachers, these boys snuck on the giant slides, and we watched the pig races. We ended our day having a picnic lunch with some friends from last year's class. Sorry there are no pictures of Allie, she was strapped to the front of me in the Baby Bjorn. I think we are finally done with our pumpkin patch visits for the year!!

PreSchool Field Trip

Andrew and Hunter having a hay fight

Andrew and Jake found the goat with horns

silly boys with their gourds

Andrew and Hunter once again covering eachother in hay

PreSchool Field Trip

Jake, Andrew, and Hunter riding out to the pumpkin fields

Andrew's pumpkin of choice

of course Lukey picked one out for Allie

the boys snuck into the giant slides..oops, we didn't know they cost extra

my tired boys waiting for the pig races

Little Pumpkins

Allie and Kate hanging out in the pumpkins together. Heidi also jumped in with them. These girls are so lucky to all be close in age and to be able to grow up together.

The Flower Farm with the Family

This Sunday afternoon we went to the Flower Farm with grandpa and grandma. This is a cute little farm that sells pumpkins and gourds. Grandma packed us a yummy picnic lunch. The boys love running around this place. They especially love the little fluffy chickens they have there (I think they torment these poor little animals, but it keeps them occupied). We attempted to get a picture with all the grandkids and these were our best shots. One day we will get them to all look and smile at the same time. It was a nice afternoon in warm California weather.

The Flower Farm with the Family

Andrew...Grandma...Ben

Heidi and Grandpa

Aunt Jamey & Allie

Bishops Pumpkin Patch...once again

Our cousin Noah was visting with Aunt Christy this weekend so we took them to Bishops Pumpkin Patch. It was very busy, but the boys loved showing Noah all their favorite things at the patch. Oma, Aunt Kim, Aunt Lily, and Aunt Diana also drove up to hang out with the kiddos. I think this is one of the best pictures of our three little ones. Can you tell the boys adore their little sister?

Luke picks flowers for Allie and I almost every day. He always says in the sweetest voice, "For you mama and for Als." He is definately a gift giver and for those of you who have read the 5 Love Languages book...gifts is high on his list!!! He is precious!!

Our Little Gymnast

Luke and his friend Jacob started gymnastics this week. Luke is very excited to be involved in his own class. He was the most excited to tell Andrew all about it. Andrew is actually very excited for Luke too, he asked if he could miss school one day to go watch his brother. Luke and Jacob loved running around together in the gym. Jumping on the trampoline was probably his favorite thing to do. These two boys are both so stinkin' cute and they both have a little silly side to them that likes getting into mischief. When you watch them running around the gym together, you can see it all over their smiling faces. Luke wore is PJ set that TT gave him. I thought it looked like a cute outfit to wear to the gym. He looked very very cute!!!!

Our Little Tinkerbell..

Here is little Miss Allie in her Halloween costume...you can tell she really loves it. The boys picked it out for her a while ago at a garage sale. Thankfully it was only a dollar because it doesn't look like she is going to wear it for any length of time.

she loves pulling on everything and I mean everything she can get her little hands on

"Mom..what are you doing to me?"

A Sunday with Pake & Oma

Pake & Oma came to visit this afternoon. We walked to the park, the boys built lots of things with legos, and we ended the evening by decorating Halloween cookies that Oma had brought. Luke really loved the sprinkles..as you can tell from the picture.

One of many pictures Luke took, this one actually turned out pretty good.

Allie in Overalls...

she is so stinkin' cute...

HOPE walks

Saturday we did a walk called HOPE walks...it was a great time to help support kids in other countries who are suffering form the HIV virus. Andrew was a trooper and made the whole walk and Andy was a trooper and carried Luke on his shoulders almost the whole way.

Andrew and his friend Jake

What happens when Leslie babysits...

On Friday we got to have our friends Lauren and Jacob over for the day. We had a great time together and I got a taste of what having 5 kids is like...not actually too bad. The kids played outside and got covered in mud (Lauren was actually the 1st one to smear mud on her face), they all took a bath and wore Andrew and Luke's PJs for nap time, the little guys took naps, Lauren & Andrew had a campout in the playroom and played house, we had snacks, played outside some more, a put stickers on our bellies, ate dinner, and took more baths. It was a great day and the kids all did great together. We had to leave out a couple pictures because Lauren was just "being one of the boys" and she kept taking her shirt off to be like the guys..we figured they wouldn't be the best to post!!1