Not quite Christmas card worthy

but still cute! Here are a couple of shots from this weekend when we were trying to get a shot in the fields behind our house (for our Christmas cards). They both cooperated, but never at the same time. We'll try again this weekend.

Prize winning Puddy

I never thought I would use "prize-winning" and "Puddy" in the same sentence, but I had to after he placed at a dog grooming show. Here is a picture of Puddy at his best; he is styling in the latest dog hairstyle.

Sunflowers

Last weekend we went to a Fall/Halloween Art festival. The kids made lots of interesting "art pieces". One of the things they put together (with a lot of help from Dad and Mom) was a sunflower necklace. We decided to plant the sunflower seeds in the backyard and hope we will have two sunflowers in our backyard each year. I thought it would be a nice way to watch the kids grow - I will take a picture of them next to their sunflowers each year. This year, all you see is them holding their sunflower necklaces in the back yard. The picture is actually really funny though, because they wanted to take the picture facing the house (which also had them facing the sun). Their faces are priceless.

Red eye

. . . would be more accurate than "pink eye". Micah is sick. He has "pink eye", an ear infection and a bad cold. Through all of this, he is still smiling and happy most of the time. His eyes got so red and swollen over the last two days that I had to take a picture. Also, tonight he was so exhausted (from being sick) that he fell asleep at 7:15 p.m. on the couch while I was giving Cal a bath. Those were all first time occurences (falling asleep on the couch, not bugging Cal and I while Cal takes a bath and falling asleep at 7:15). Poor guy!!

So much love

They are just so loving toward one another, as shown in these pictures. In case you are wondering - yes, they are always this happy to be around one another. :)

cameraman

Is he lined up to take a picture of Michael Phelps winning his 8th gold medal??? No, just checking out Daddy's camera.

. . . a few more pictures from Cuff's

Here we are heading out to the field, picking pumpkins and checking out all of the fun stuff you can do in the fields.

. . . more Cuff's . . .

Notice it is getting late here, but we stopped for one last picture of our "pumpkins". Calvin practically jumped through the hole in the pumpkin as he yelled "cheese".

Cuff's continued . . .

Here they are making the big climb for heading down the slide and running on the hay.

Cuff's Pumpkin Patch

Today we took the kids to Cuff's Pumpkin Patch. We did the following: went on a hayride, picked pumpkins, went on a train ride, ate hotdogs, went through a corn maze, went down hayslides and I am sure much more that I can't remember. Here are a few pictures of the corn maze adventure.