First Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

This year we hosted our first pumpkin carving party and had so much fun! Everyone seemed to get in to it (especially Mr. Park) and I am excited to make this an annual event. The one thing I learned is that I need more prizes! Those kiddos take a contest pretty seriously! :) I am posting pictures from the party here and then doing a separate post for all my decorations - I am sure that does not surprise anyone.

Stacey and her little chef, Jack!

Colin & Mr. Ryan

 A little bit of the chaos

Megan and Truman

 Pumpkin carving time

And the little boys playing together!

 Me, Stacey, Terra and Jessica

Lindsey, Me & Nat (Click Here girls...missing Susanne!)

Ryan loves a good shoulder ride! Super fun on Uncle Bryan!

Stacey and her template free pumpkin!

Very serious work here...

Pretty sure they almost broke-up over this pumpkin...just kidding :)

Arts & crafts for the kiddos!

Justin and Marin finally arrived!

Audrey so proud of her cookie monster pumpkin!

Ethan getting some monster munch!

 Terra & Ryan

(almost) all of the pumpkins!

 The party people

 Some pumpkins in the night...

And some adorableness - Ryan and Marin hugging it out. Love them!

Halloween at Lakewood

Every year Lakewood Country Club throws a Halloween party which is fun for everyone. They have dinner, dancing and costume contests. Ryan and his shark costume didn't win this year - he lost to twins dressed up as golfers. Not sure how we are going to compete against twins every year, but I will come up with something now that I know who the real competition is! lol.

Ryan had a blast - it's a lot of stimulation but he seems to enjoy it. Plus its always super fun when his cousins and grandparents are around as well!

When you walk in they had a spooky little set up and a photographer to take pics. Ryan was not a fan of this whole thing so the picture below was the best I could get. The photographer didn't even get one because my flashed messed hers up - then he started crying. Oops!

Then came dinner. Little man loves his corn dogs. He was happy because grandma was there to play with him and feed him.

 Did I mention he loves ketchup?

Hanging with Uncle Michael

 Ryan was a huge fan of the glow stick....and of course it went in his mouth

 Me and my bug

Cousin Ethan (Zombie) and Audrey (Tinker bell)

And little Miss Lyla was a bride! So cute!

A semi-group shot

And one more picture on the way out...

Happy Halloween

Argh! We were going as a family of pirates but Kevin decided last minute to go as a pinata. It was fun and Ryan loved it! Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!!!

We have had such a fun weekend - lots of pics to post! 

Shark Attack

I love Halloween! Especially with little kiddos - everyone looks so ridiculously adorable in their little costumes! Last Thursday we got together with our Square One friends. It was so much fun seeing all the kiddos again - everyone is getting so big! It's crazy that we have been friends for over a year now...

Anyhow, back to Halloween, costumes and general cuteness.

Introducing....

My favorite little shark!

 Elle the fish!

 Henry the Giraffe!

 Lily the Poodle girl! (Her mom made her outfit! so cute!)

 And Conner the baseball player!

I thought I got solo pictures of all the kiddos but I didn't get a close-up of Madelyn in her tinker bell costume. 

Here is my little shark playing with Conner

And doing his silly face

The whole gang! I wish I had a picture from last year (but we forgot to take one with their costumes)

 And apparently sharks like acorns....

Dear Ryan (15 months)

Little man is 15 months today! (October 24th)

Giddy up cowboy! Biggest news this past month is that you started WALKING! That's right, no hands - full on walking! Yee-haw! With that being said you are still a huge fan of crawling and walking with support...love my little cowboy!

Routine:
Not much has changed on the routine since last month. You seem to love your routine and so do we. One happy family!

Meals/Solids:
All is well on the eating front as well. One of your new favorite things to eat is the chicken salad from Whole Foods. It's a little random but you just love it. You also are a huge fan of yogurt covered raisins. Another favorite that you just discovered is KETCHUP - yum yum yum! Apparently your dad was also a huge fan of ketchup growing up - thats how Grandma got him to eat his green beans!

Development/Milestones
Walking!
You are also working hard on some new teeth and we can't wait for them to get in. Your bottom left one popped though (Mommy first saw it when we got back from Houston) but when we went in for you 15 month appointment it was gone! Dr. Neely said that sometimes happens and it has to recut its way back up - gee wiz. Anyhow, we also can see that your molars are about to come through as well.

Firsts
You had your first weekend away from us (mommy and daddy). Grandma & Grandpa watched you Thursday and Friday and then Yia Yia and Papu came in town to watch you over the weekend. You did great and had a lot of fun with them. Mommy and daddy were so happy to see you when we got back from our trip.

Sizes:
Weight: 21lbs 3 oz - 8%
Height: 30.5 inches - 30%
Clothes: 12-18months
Shoes: thinking 5!?! He grew out of his 4s so we are headed to the mall tomorrow!
Teeth: Four top front teeth, two on bottom. NEW: bottom left (October 4th)

Words:
Da - Dad
Mooooma - Mom
Ba - Bob or Dog, sometimes Ball, Book or Bubbles
Uh oh - uh oh

Love my boys!

Random notes:
You LOVE turning on your noise machine. It entertains you for quite a while. Sometimes you walk over to your machine, turn it on then head over to your crib and grab your sleep sheep to turn on. So silly!

You are a fan of reaching up. You love to reach for door handles and anything else that is out of reach - its really cute to see you try.

Love you bunches! Love, Mommy!

Grapevine Reunion

On Saturday we headed out to Grapevine for a last minute mini reunion with friends! The Terry's came in from New York, the Paprocki's came in from Austin and the Itz's came in from Keller :) We were still missing a few from the crew but had a great time seeing everyone that was there.  It's also getting more fun for the kiddos since they are getting older and can play with each other. Reese and Ryan had a ball crawling around - they loved hanging together!

Reese is 9 months - I guess she digs those older boys :) haha 

Here is Ryan showing Reese the door- he is a BIG fan. It's gonna be trouble when he figures out how to open them!

Here are these two playing on the couch together. Ryan LOVED jumping on the couch - he was having so much fun with Scott. If he could talk he would have said "Again, again, again.....and again"

And check out these two scrumptious little men! Jack & Ben!

One quick pic before the kiddos had to hit the hay! Wish everyone could have made it - now that we don't have any weddings its hard to get us all together. We started planning a trip so hopefully we will actually pull it all together because I think it would be super fun!