Fall Fun!

Eden has had a thing against smiling so I decided to stop bugging them with pictures for a little while.  It worked!  A couple of days ago, Eden told me, "cheese me please mom."  (Translation:  let's start taking pictures again mom!)  Yay, my smiley little Eden bug is back. 

Last week, we headed over to the park and jumped in some piles of leaves.  I had to work for a while to make a pile up to Milan's standards, then the girls had a blast!  

 Our family!  We have tried family pictures a couple of times this fall and this is the only one with a happy Eden.  I'll take it!

 Milan went to a birthday party last weekend and somehow Eden scored some new bubbles too.  Eden and I hung out in the backyard blowing/spilling bubbles for a while.  The wind totally helped Eden and she was pretty proud of herself.  Milan was off playing hide-n-seek with daddy most of the time.  

 Yesterday we had some friends over for Pumpkin Painting.  Here are the girls and their masterpieces.  

An exciting trip to Wal-Mart

For some reason, the girls LOVE to go to Wal-Mart.  I'm not sure if it's helping put stuff in the cart or the stickers at the front door, but they're always excited to go (hey, at least someone is!)  Last week, there was one extra reason to be excited........

They also got hot dog whistles and stickers....score!

When the weather outside is frightful......

We had some freakish winter weather so we found some fun ways to pass the time.  

Reading books with daddy.

 We set up the tent in the living room and it was a big hit!  We would still have it up if it wasn't so dang big!

The tent made everything more fun! 

 Milan and I braved the weather and went on a fun little Pumpkin Walk here in town.  They had pumpkin painting and Halloween stations at all the different buildings.  Milan and I ended our date with Hot Chocolate at Starbucks and it was perfect!

Our new pets....Mexican jumping beans!  Eden ate her first bean (don't worry, the FDA says they're not harmful) then named her next bean Jumpy.   Milan named her bean Princessy since we wouldn't let her get a dog named Princessy.

Of course, we also built a snow girl in the front yard, but she melted before I could get a picture.  Hopefully that is a sign of warmer weather to come!

30!

October 1st was my 30th birthday!  I got to spend a great day with my family and a wonderful date with Dave.  We spent the night in Fort Collins walking around downtown, going out to dinner, and laughing a lot.  Dave also made me a yummy carrot cake with cream cheese frosting (my favorite!).  I felt loved with flowers, messages, cards (especially from my sweet hubby), and a visit from my brother and sister.  

Here's Milan and I blowing out the candles on the cake, we managed to do all 30 on the first try!

As far as 30, it's not near as old as I once thought it was.  It's funny because I had everything I wanted at 28.  At 30, I'm enjoying the pathway to our next goal.  And, I get to spend it with just the right people.  So many things to be grateful for.

Corn Maze

We wanted to show Denny and Marie a good time so we headed to the corn maze in Fort Collins.  Since it was so early in the season, we had great weather and the whole place to ourselves.

Milan did a great job navigating the maze!

Visitors

We had some pretty special visitors recently!  Uncle Denny, Aunt Marie, and Brynn came for a couple of days.....Eden could not have been any more excited about her cousin.  Eden asked to hold Brynn every chance she got, and as you can tell, Brynn was equally excited.

Playing catch with Uncle Denny.  Lucky guy got to play lots of games with these cute little girls :).  (Hopefully that made up for his less than luxurious sleeping arrangements.)

Brynn "enjoying" more attention from Eden.

Story time.

Cousin Love.

Smooches.

More Park Days

We have been loving most of fall.....every time it's nice or close to it, we head to the park.  We will take this nice weather as long as we can get it!

Our little acrobat. 

Some serious AIR! 

Ready, set, go.