Family Picture Outtakes

My talented sister, Robin, took some family pictures for us this week. We drove all over Springfield and snapped away! The pictures turned out fabulous and we are super excited about them. These pictures are some of the outtakes. I thought they were funny!

We were trying to peek out from our column on the count of three. Zachary would come running out every time. He never did get that one down.

Aidan started telling Robin a long detailed story about his classmates at school.

Zachary gave me a big kiss!

Cohick Half Marathon

A little Bass Pro animal hunt before the race day!

We got to the race early so we wouldn't miss a thing!

Our matching tattoos to support Jake's race!

About the finish the 13.1 miles-no problem!

I am so proud of Jake and what he accomplished. Doesn't he look so happy?!

We found out the night before the race that our precious friends from Lincoln, Nebraska would be at the race! We were trying so hard to find them among the 2000 participants and many more fans. We found them and were able to catch up a little bit. I actually know Amy from high school and Jake and Marty were roommates in Lincoln before we got married. We miss those guys! We have four kids now between us!

Halloween 2010

For Halloween night we went to the Bunch's house for treat or treating. We have actually never been trick or treating (we have always been to some sort of Halloween event). There was a certain level of excitement about this Halloween because of the trick or treating. Zachary walked around the house all weekend saying, "twick or tweet!"

Aidan was pumped to dress up as Luigi!

Our pirate!

On our way!

Aidan and Ethan! They had the perfect costumes for the two boys that they are!

Our Halloween parade down the street.

They can't get enough of each other! This is like a dream for these two!

Halloween Eve

Since last year Aidan has been asking to be Dash from The Incredibles. I am not how this started. Dash is not even one of the characters that he is obsessed with (like Lightning McQueen, for example). One of Jake's coworkers graciously let us borrow the costume. Her son was Dash last year and has since been sleeping with the black gloves on every night. Needless to say, we did not get the gloves, but Aidan has no idea! But...last week, our friend Nancy told us we could borrow a Luigi costume (and her son is going to be Mario). Oh the dilemma! Since Aidan's birthday last month he has a new obsession...playing Mario on the Wii. So, we are Dash on Halloween Eve and Luigi on Halloween night! Two costumes and no money!

Every time Aidan put the suit on he felt the need to run laps really really fast!

Zachary was a pirate. His recent love is playing with a Veggie Tales pirate ship and all of the "heroes" on the ship. He is in love with his pirate costume!

Today we went to the All Star Sports Arena Halloween event. It was an indoor miniature golf type thing. We went a few years ago and it was lovely and perfect for young kids. Apparently, the word must have spread and today there was about 5 times the number of people there. Oh well, the kids still had fun.

Do you see the strong resemblance?!

Vanzant Fruit Farms

We took a little trip to the Vanzant Fruit Farms in Lowell the other day. We went there last year and got some great pictures. The boys loved it.

This is my favorite picture! Silly boy!

I told the boys that the turtle could be of the snapping variety!

They could hardly handle anymore pictures by this point! They just wanted to play on the tractor that you were not allowed to sit on!

Dickey Farms

We took the boys to Dickey Farms today. The weather was gorgeous (almost a bit warm) and the pumpkin patch was perfect!

This picture is to prove that I (the usual photographer) was actually there!