Mommy & Andrew's "Date" to the Arboretum

The Arboretum next to our house did a fall festival day for kids.  It was free to the public and had lots of fun crafts.  I thought it would be something fun & different for Andrew & I to do!

Rock Painting

Bubble Making



Andrew's Last Soccer Game

Andrew really seemed to enjoy soccer.  At his last game he even scored two goals!

We were soooo proud of him! And he was super excited b/c his Daddy/Coach promised him a "soft air gun" if he made a goal! (Funny guy - thought if  he got two goals, he would get two guns...hehe..that's my boy!)

Andrew and "the Tigers" cheerleader...she's easily distracted! :)

At dinner afterwards to celebrate the season :)

Halloween 2011

This was Alyssa's first Halloween! We celebrated by going to our church's fall festival the Friday night before Halloween. 

Alyssa was a cupcake:

 And obviously, Andrew was Spider-Man... he loved being "in character" :)

 Andrew with his little friend, Tyler, from t-ball this past summer:

Andrew was so excited to spot his best buddy, Matthew - love this pic of them!

Andrew with Matthew, and his sister, Megan:

Alyssa and Daddy waiting in line for the rubber ducky game:

Alyssa's favorite thing of the night!



Andrew loved the tall inflatable slide again this year:

 ...and the bounce houses:

 And the huge, inflatable game of Twister!

Then on Halloween night, we took the kids trick or treating around the neighborhood.  Here is Andrew doing his Sears portrait smile..such a clown! :) (Although a handsome clown!) :)

Getting Sister buckled in... you can tell how not happy she was to be out:

I had to snap this shot...I kept getting tickled at Andrew's hiney in his tighties...too cute :)



Cute girl

Sometimes we just can't help ourselves... girls are too fun to dress up! :)

Such a pretty pony....

Grammy got this pony for Andrew's first Christmas.  Alyssa is about the same age Andrew was when he received it.  I thought it would be fun to try and capture a few pics of her and see how much they looked alike :)

First S'mores Experience...

A few days after Alyssa's birthday pics and double ear infection...we had to take her back in and found she had bronchitis and the start of pneumonia too. So, after a couple of days of being holed up in the house...she and I were getting stir crazy and so was Andrew the Friday afternoon/evening he was home.  The weather was going to be cooler that evening...(FINALLY considering it was the end of October!) ... so I thought it would be fun to build a fire/do s'smores.  Mainly because (1) they are yummy but (2) as a mom of 2 kids - I am finding it's hard to keep them both entertained...particularly if one is sick and the other one is bouncing off the walls.

It ended up working and gave us about 20 minutes of fun, mess and another "first" for Alyssa... (and NO I didn't feed her chocolate or marshmellows!) :)