Asher's Masterpiece

So we got a call this morning from Food Lion saying that Asher had won his age group's coloring contest and that we could come and pick up his prize! I was so excited for him as I remember thinking when Blake actually went to turn his picture in, "Why in the world are you turning it in with all the "stuff" he drew around the actual pumpkin!" Serves me right though... wouldn't you know! Asher was so proud and we were too! Watch out Monet!

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun and BUSY day today! This morning we headed over to our buddy Hudson's house for his birthday carnival (forgot my camera for this so hopefully I can steal some pictures off of my sweet friends' blogs :) The boys had a blast eating lots of carnival food... corndogs, chips and cheese dip, popcorn, apple slices with carmel, and of course cupcakes. We came home, got everyone minus Asher changed out of their costumes and down for naps, changed clothes ourselves to head to a wedding, and left with Asher to said wedding. We had a great time and made it home just in time to get everyone back in their costumes, loaded up, and on the way to the Fall Festival at church. We stopped at Target (still needed some candy for trick-or-treaters) and McDonalds for a quick and very not so nutritous dinner for the boys. I did have my camera with me, but didn't get any pictures taken as I didn't have enough hands. We decided to "divide and conquer" as we call it, so I took Nate and Judah and let Nate do all the little kid games (which he LOVED) and he loaded up on candy! He got the hang pretty quick of sticking out his little pumpkin bucket for that candy :) Judah did great hanging out in the stroller too so it was nice to avoid any breakdowns this year. Blake and the big boys played some games and had some turns going down the big inflatable slide. We got home around 6:30ish and Blake, Asher, and Caleb headed out to make the neighborhood rounds while Nate and Judah helped me hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. All in all, a very busy day for us, but we had a BLAST!

pretty good for all four :)
I think we have enough loot to last for a LONG while

Daddy's masterpiece

Loving Nate's face in this one.... I think Asher is trying to make the same face as the jack-o-lantern

Boys watching intently

Asher's First Field Trip

Asher's first field trip of the year was to the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. I got to go with him and we had a great day.... exhausting, but great nontheless! The kids of course were full of energy, and keeping up with a group of four kindergarteners who all want to go in different directions is um... challenging! The kids rode the train, explored the museum, had a picnic lunch, went in the butterfly house and saw butterflies hatching from their cocoons, saw farm animals, and played with all sorts of fun outdoor things. it was fun to spend the day with him and his classmates and get to know some of the kids and other parents. Their next trip is to an English Tea Room as they will be studying about the country of England.... I think I might skip out on that one :)

Asher's class in front of the rocket
Asher and Nicholas on the train

Judah's Dedication

I know I am waaaay behind in my blogging, but wanted to get a couple pictures of Judah's dedication on here.... poor fourth child! I think I had probably about 50 pictures of Asher on his dedication day. This was the first time we had dedicated one of our boys when they were over the age of 6 months, so it was kind-of fun to not have a newborn up there. Judah did great.... sucked his thumb the whole time and took it all in. It was a speical time that never gets old to me!

Nick and Allison dedicated Emmaline too!
Sweet Little Bug

How Many?

So I found this scene in our cul-de-sac a couple of weeks ago, too ridiculous to pass up getting a picture of.... seriously, WHO needs THREE UPS trucks to deliver them something?! Definitely wasn't our house..... and actually no one on our cul-de-sac got anything delivered. As it turns out they were all meeting to swap some packages in and out of each other's trucks. All the drivers were laughing though when we stuck our heads out our front door to take a picture!