Fall Catch-Up

September

Jade's 11th B-Day

A new chandelier for her room adds the finishing touch.

October

Celebrating TWO years in our new home!

Making brew at Nani's Halloween party. An annual tradition!

Jade, Me, & Nate's beautiful mother at the Witchapalooza dinner show, The Taming of the Brew. The food was fantastic and the show was absolutely hilarious! What a fun Girl's Night Out!

Cheerleader Aeris posing with her "scary face" pumpkin. We're SO glad it was warm enough for this costume.

Draco Malfoy, AKA Logan. He felt the need to fully get into the role, so the lack of smile is no indicator of his excitemen.

He had a total blast trick-or-treating with his friend Harry Potter, AKA Braden.

Jade, "Luna Lovegood" and her happy faced pumpkin.

Jade and her colorful trick-or-treating buddies.

November

Logan's crazy hair the day after Halloween. He'd been begging to be shaved completely bald. We put it off so he'd better pull off the Malfoy costume. As soon as that was over, his hair went too.

Easter Photos

I look forward to taking photos of the kids every Easter. I'm not sure they quite feel the same, but the above shots don't show it. Beautiful kids on a beautiful spring day! You can't beat that!

I'm behind...

You know it's been too long when I look at my blogroll and find that practically everyone has updated their blog several times since my last post. Yes. Life has been busy, so once again this is a post that will be mostly photo evidence of what's new with us. The first of that news is our basement bedrooms project. We're thrilled to be past the dusty messy sheetrock phase, though we aren't finished with the clean-up of that yet. That will take YEARS. Closet shelves, doors, casings, and baseboards are on the schedule for Saturday.

There will be double doors here, separating the living section of the basement from the entertainment section. It will also close off the cold right now since we're not finishing the entertainment area yet. To the right is the staircase, hallway leading to the utility room, and door to the storage room. Through the double doors to the left is the doorway to Jade's bedroom and the bathroom. Aeris's room is the one straight ahead.

This is Jade's bedroom. The light from the window makes the photo a little dark, but she has a cool shelf on both sides of the window and a set of spot lights on the wall that will be over her bed.

Deep bathroom with lots of space for our girls to primp.

Aeris's future bedroom. We'll wait at least a year before moving her down.

View of the doorway to Aeris's room. She'll have a built-it desk in the corner by the door.

This is the view from Aeris's room down the hallway and into the entertainment space.

In other news, Logan celebrated his birthday on the 28th again this year. He loves football, so we invited 10 of his friends over for spring training. Coach Nate led them in calisthenics, hits, throwing, receiving, and the ever-important touchdown dance.

Mom and Dad, this is for you!

October

Trip to Pumpkinland.

Seeing the witches at Gardner Village.

Making brew at preschool.

Costumes.

Ready to brave the rain on trick-or-treat night.

November

Thanksgiving feast at preschool.

December

Christmas morning happiness.