halloween with friends.

our friends tina & rob invited us over for pizza & their neighborhood halloween party... which was huge! jump houses galore, mazes, a balloon man. lots of fun. not a lot of candy- but that was fine by us parents!

here's finn's costume all finished! minus the hat.
maya was the hungry catepillar! tehee. homemade as well. i ran out of time & was going to make the hat but bryan said just use a hat you already have. so i used the giraffe hat & sewed on some eyeballs. worked alright!
here he is with the hat aunt rae rae & uncle jeff gave him.
kyan says rrrrrrrrrrar!!!
matt & miss minnie.
3 stooges. it was our turn to return the favor to our friends jenn & chad. they watched finn while we were out of town for frisbee/wedding. avery is on the right. he was such an easy addition to our brood. at one point, while we were walking to the park, bryan said "i forgot we even had avery!" luckily he was in the wagon & we didn't REALLY forget him :)

miss sophie bug!!

melissa perfecting the mouses!
bounce, bounce, bounce!
they loved it!

owen was a lightening mcqueen!


watching the balloon guy. finn left all of his friends for a front row seat.
maya konked out.


i spied my friend paige with her husband (dressed as Zach Galifianakis from hangover) & babe in the audience.
the dads.
you okay owen?
avery looking for me.
lil micah!
tina & kyan.
the balloon guy was awesome. melissa & emma.
joanne & owen.
no better way to end the night than with some tackling!
finn in time out :(



fun times :)

mass post, attempt to catch up!

in no particular order (mainly because they upload out of order) these were taken 9.24.11 thru 10.28.11.

maya & i attended our first bris for baby micah.

love this lion king moment.
beautiful family of four.
we had the aspinall's over for some dinner. tickle monster!!! (he loves this book aunt khaki!)
playing trains...
twirly whirly.
finn & owen feed off of each other & they are funny & rambunctious!
sophie talking with maya.
we had an intense game of hide & seek.
finn & sophie. "you okay, sophie?"


i hosted an art social & it was a lot of fun. maya helped me while finn napped.
& then chelsea came over & took both kids on a walk so i could finish cleaning! life saver :)
we decided to test out both kids in the bath. maya loved it the first time. since- she's become terrified. i think she saying she'll stay in her hammock bath awhile longer.
i bought a mullet wig for our halloween contest at frisbee. i was a redneck. thought i'd put my baby fat belly to good use ;) i claimed i was from tennessee!!
we went for a nice long walk. finn always stops to talk with "those men".

tons of energy to burn! he goes so fast!
& then this bike ride lasted a little too long. someone was tired.
our good friends brian & heather had us over to visit with heather's family.
they're baby people -so they don't put our babes down when we come over.


he was all worn out from playing with their lego's. :)

we went to the children's museum which we LOVE!


some of us wake up bright and early.
we painted pumpkins with chalkboard paint & then we wrote the letters b-o-o on them!

i'd purchased a couple chairs at goodwill. well, one was broken. woops! so we finally repaired it with the help of our landlord- he cut some new pieces for me! next up: painting them. let's see how long that takes us.
we got a new dining room table. it's fabulous. finn & bryan decorated the box before we recycled it.
finn & bryan went for a bike ride... the weather is starting to be perfect for it & maya is almost big enough to go with us!!!!
an especially good hair day :)~
kylie being so kind to act as our tunnel.


i loved this lil outfit with his dark jeans... so i wanted to take a picture & he gave me attitude!

laundry must be put on pause for family cuddling.movie watching stuff. can you find maya!?
our sweet bay-bay.


too cute. we promised he could finish the movie if he put his pajama's on & they resumed the cuddlin.

okay... we're getting there!