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For those of you tired of pumpkin patch pictures in March, here's a little Irish kiss from the kids!

After attempting to create a Saint Patrick's Day sign, Blake decided he prefers to call it "Green Day" because he said there are too many letters to write in Saint Patrick's Day- ha!

A little mischievous leprechaun had to use the restroom at our house that night. ;) We also made rainbow cupcakes (with gold on top) with a couple of friends.

(By the way, Megan's going through that "change your clothes every 2 hours phase" that I always heard about with girls-my boys never did that! I don't love the extra laundry- because anyone who knows Megan knows that she doesn't stay clean for more than 5 minutes so everything she wears gets dirty- BUT I love seeing her enjoy dressing up so much!)

Hope you all had a fun Green Day!

Pumpkin Patch

A couple of weeks ago, we made our annual trip to a nearby church's pumpkin patch. Being surrounded by pumpkins makes a girl happy...love this time of year! Our little pumpkin collector:

Pumpkins

This year, we decided not to carve the kids' individual pumpkins and instead bought Mr. Potato Head sets. :) We did "gut" the pumpkins for the pumpkin seeds (yum!), but it was much easier to just stick in plastic body parts instead of carving them (and the kids thought they were neat)!

Halloween Night

I have other fall pictures to post, but for now, here are the kids dressed up for trick-or-treating.

They were all VERY happy with their choices!

Kyle- Harry Potter (he's reading the series right now and loves it!)

Grant- Vampire

Blake- Buzz Lightyear

Megan- Minnie Mouse (the love of her life!)

First Day of School Pics (Finally!)

Well, I started this blog post a month ago...and even then, I was a month late in writing it. :)
School is going full speed ahead and everyone is having a great year so far!

Megan's first day of 3-year-old preschool. She has the same teacher that Kyle and Grant had when they were 3. :)

Blake's first day of kindergarten at the preschool. We're using this class as a "transitional kindergarten" since he will do kindergarten again at the public school next year. We were not sure what to expect this year, but he's having an amazing year so far and we're sooo thankful! It's a half-day program and he seems to be thriving in the structured, academic setting. They really have a nice balance of play and learning in this kinder class. And Blake's teacher is one of Kyle and Grant's former teachers, too. We love this preschool!

Grant and Kyle's first day of 4th grade! They team teach in 4th grade (one teacher teaches math and science, the other teacher teaches reading, language arts, and social studies), so both of the boys share the same 2 teachers. Very convenient for all of us and they're wonderful teachers!

Grant:

Kyle:

Backyard Camping

We went camping in our backyard one night over Labor Day weekend! The kids loved it. At about 11pm, Megan declared that she was ready to sleep in her own bed in her room, so I volunteered to go inside and sleep with her. :) Aaron stayed with the boys for the rest of the night and everyone slept well (once they settled down and fell asleep)!

My parents were also here Labor Day weekend- here is a lovely picture taken bright and early in the morning as they were leaving!

Toy Store

The boys had gift cards to spend from Toys R Us, so we made it a family outing last weekend. Our kids are used to buying toys from Target, or if we're feeling up for a crazy shopping experience we might venture over to Walmart- but we rarely go to Toys R Us because it's just not convenient to our house. Actually, Blake and Megan had never been before- and they thought they had died and gone to Toy Heaven! They were going up and down every aisle- oohing and aahing, pushing buttons, giggling with excitement. Blake must have told us at least 5 times, "I like THIS store!" It was so funny! I was glad I had my camera phone to take some pictures.

Blake loves Toy Story, so he was thrilled to see this display at the front of the store:

Kyle and Grant knew exactly what they wanted to buy with their gift cards- Mighty Beanz!

Buzz Lightyear chairs:

Megan found the princess aisle:

They had all sorts of trikes, bikes, and Power Wheels out on the floor:

That was enough excitement for one evening!