Halloween

Wow...it's been awhile since I've updated this!! I can't believe Halloween is already done and gone. We took Bradyn trick or treating with his cousins Tyler and Alex. I took Bradyn to about 5 houses and then we called it quits because it was so cold and windy and we had another party to get too. (less houses - less candy!)

Below are pictures from our annual Halloween party. We have a costume judging event for the kids and adults and you can win prizes. This year Caleb the lion and Madison the bag of cotton candy won. For the adults the scariest prize went to the scary clown, the funniest went to the hillbillies and the best costume went to Noah, his wife and their baby sheep.

Mario & Luigi (Tim and my favorite sister-in-law Amber)

Gangsters (Matt & Krista)

Noah & his wife and baby sheep (Dave, Sarah, Charlie and Abby the bunny who was missing from the picture)

Here is my little fireman.

Unusual Landings

About 7:30 tonight this is what floated through our neighborhood. It was the highlight of the evening for all the kids. I'm not sure if they meant to land in our subdivision or not but they did and it was pretty amazing how quickly and easily they did it!! They brought the balloon really low to the ground and threw out a rope to some people that were following it in a support vehicle. They pulled the balloon down to the ground and squeezed it right in between 2 houses (in the picture below you can see that our houses are fairly close together and they just went right in between without touching anything!)

The people got out of the basket and then they let the air out.

From the time the balloon landed until they had it all loaded up was only about 15 minutes!! The people even handed out stickers for the kids and let us look in the basket and the kids could touch the balloon!! Not an everyday sight to have a hot air balloon in your front yard and you don't realize how big they are until you see one up close!

Papa & the boys

Last week Friday my sister and I took the boys up to Silver Lake to visit Papa & Grandma. It was a great day to hang out at the beach and boys had a blast in the sand...more like throwing sand, luckily we had the beach to ourselves!! I just had to throw in these pictures because everywhere Papa goes the boys follow right behind - Papa sits by the picnic table, so do the boys!

Papa walks down to the dock, so do the boys!

Last weekend was also Bradyn's first sleep over. I left him with Grandma and Grandpa all weekend!! I did just fine and our course Bradyn loved it so much that when they dropped him off on Sunday night he cried when they left! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for watching him!!

Birth and a Wedding!!

On Thursday, August 6 - Charlie Ryan Wolters finally arrived!!! We were unpatiently waiting and he's finally here! Congrats Dave, Sarah and big sister Abby!

On Saturday, August 8 - Flamboe finally got married!! It was a beautiful wedding and he had an awesome time at the reception! Congrats Dave & Heather Flamboe!

Summertime Fun!

Last night we had a cookout with some friends and here is a few pics of how we spent our evening!

Hamburgers and hotdogs over the fire

Daniel, Abby and Bradyn waiting waiting for supper.

Playing kickball - parents vs. kids

Even the little kids joined in and everyone had a blast....until the mosquitos started eating us alive!!

Storm damage

This is the aftermath of when the storm came through last night. I was getting ready to get in bed when I saw something fly past the bedroom window and then heard a loud "thud". I ran into the family room and looked out the window to see the neighbor's trampolene on top of our deck! This happened one time last year and they decided to bolt it into the ground so it wouldn't happen again....well unfortunatley that didn't help. Their tramp is the one with net sides so the kids can't fall off and those support bars are pretty badly damaged but luckily it doesn't look like the actual tramp part where you jump on was damaged! We thought one of the supports underneath the deck was cracked but luckily it's not, just some broken spindles and a few knicks in the wood - all of which can easily be fixed :) And one more note if you will notice our backyard (which there isn't one!!!!). The county came in a moved the drain about 10 feet or more into our backyards so now we don't even have room to put a swingset or anything else!!!!!!!! So our backyard is about 5 feet off of our deck now!

Haircut

I had a friend try to trim Bradyn's hair just over a month ago and he was throwing a fit about it. So I finally gave in and decided he needed a full cut so last night we took him to Great Clips and here are the results! The picture above is what it looked like just before she started cutting.

This is what he looks like now!!

When she used the shaver around his ears it was tickeling him and he was giggling!! He sat so nice during the whole haircut and now he doesn't look like my little baby anymore, he looks like such a little man with his new haircut!!