Carving pumpkins!

I love Halloween and one of my favorite things about it, is carving pumpkins! On Sunday, we went to my parents house to eat homemade vegetable soup. I made a ooey gooey pumpkin cake to take too. After dinner, we carved our pumpkins to put outside our house. I will post a picture of the pumpkins at our house later. We had a great time!

Jake's pumpkin crocs!

Jake saying cheese and one of the pumpkins before it was carved.

How's the pumpkin face look?

Checking out Daddy's work

Papa and the boys

Of course Ben was trying to get down

Lee is really concentrating on his carving.

Nice work Lee!

Craaaaazy hair days!

For some reason when Ben wakes up from his naps, his hair is CRAAAZY! I think he rubs his head into the corners of his bed and this is what happens. I try to take pictures of Ben's crazy hair when I remember because it is so funny. I can brush it, but it doesn't help much. I think it is getting close to time for a hair cut.



Maybe we shoud dress Ben up as Elvis. My mom calls him little Einstein, so that's an idea too!

Look at me and my CRAAAAAZY hair!

I even put one of my mini hair clips in it sometimes. He is so cute and would even make a cute little girl.

And to end this posting, Ben with pretty good hair looking adorable.

Love the Pumpkin Patch!

Nana was visiting us this weekend so we decided to take her to the pumpkin patch, a Southern tradition.  We went to Burt's farm on Saturday and it was a beautiful day to go. We met our friends Bobby, Gina, and or course Jack and Emma for lunch.  Then we took the beautiful drive up to Burt's Farm to look at all the great pumpkins.  We had a great time looking at all the huge pumpkins and riding the hayride. We went last year when Ben was only a month old.  I love the fall and can't wait to go back to the pumpkin patch again.  If you enlarge the above picture, you can see Ben sticking his tongue out.  Maybe he thought those pumpkins looked tasty.

The rules which I don't see very many people following.

Jake and his best friend Emma. I think Emma is trying to get a leaf out of the tree.

Jake and his other friend Jack checking out the pumpkins.

What a cutie!

Gina and Jack on the hayride. Can you find Emma?

The talking Pumpkins on the hayride

Lee and Jake on the Hayride

Which one should we get?

Nana and Ben

Jake and Emma loved running around the farm

Gina, Emma, and Jack sitting on the pumpkins. Oh no, remember those rules? :)

Nana knitted a pumpkin hat for Ben. Too bad she didn't finished it before we went to Burt's, he could have worn it there. She finished it last night and it looked adorable on him.  

Jake's exercise video

I don't know where Jake learned this because unfortunately I don't really exercise. Hey, maybe I could make some money off this.

Seeing an old friend and a birthday party!

Last Thursday my friend Stacey came over with her son Ian. Stacey moved to Jacksonville about 6 or 7 years ago and just moved back to Georgia a couple of weeks ago. I am so glad she did so that we can get together more now. She also only lives about 20 minutes away. Her little boy Ian is the same age as Jake so they had fun playing together.  They are enjoying a cookie in the picture above. We are going to try and get together at least once or maybe twice a week.

Having fun riding around

On Sunday, we went to a birthday party.  My friend Jeanette's twin boys Cole and Hunter turned 2 years old. They have an awesome play set out back in their huge yard. I wish we had such a big yard at our house.  Jake and Ben had a great time playing and eating cake and ice cream.  Jake kept thinking he was going to get to open the presents.  

You may think Ben and Jeanette's son Tanner look the same age. No, no, no.  Tanner is 6 months and Ben is 13 months. Can you believe how big Tanner is or how little Ben is?  I don't know what or who Jeanette is feeding him.  We haven't seen him in a while and he is so cute.  

Ben had just woke up from falling asleep in the car so he doesn't look too happy.

Cole and Hunter were dying to get into their cake

Jeanette and Cole, or maybe Hunter opening the presents

One of the boys listening to their new headphones. Sorry Jeanette, you can email me and tell me if this is Cole or Hunter.

Yard Sale and the Unknown Comic

Last month we received a letter saying that our subdivision and the one next to us were going to have a community yard sale. I have been wanting to have one for a while now to get rid of some of the million toys and baby clothes we have, so we decided to do it! I was worried that I wouldn't get things together in time, but it really wasn't too bad.  Our DVDs seem to be the best seller, but I did sale lots of toys too.  Yeah!!  Overall we did pretty good and made $108 which will go to the stay at home mom fund.  

We actually brought out even more clothes to sell as the day went on.

Ben had fun hanging out

We tried to sell Jake, but no good offers were made.

I don't know if some of you are old enough to remember the Unknown Comic.  I believe he used to be on Saturday Night Live and my uncle used to imitate him too.  Well, one night we ate Chinese and Lee decided to place the bag on Jake's head. Then he took it off and made a hole so he could drink his juice.  Jake liked it and thought it was funny.

Laughing it up!

Lately Ben has been climbing onto the ledge at the bottom of the stairs and tries to climb up the stairs.  I haven't put the gate up yet like I did for Jake because Ben cracks me up when he does this.  He knows I come to get him when he does it so he laughs about it. I had to video it today to show all of you how cute his little laugh is. I go get him and he goes right back and does it again while laughing.