Cal's 3rd Birthday!

Happy Birthday Cal!  Cal turned three November 19th, and is turning into such a big boy!  He is in 3 year old preschool, loves tractors and bobcats, and is a very goofy boy!

Here is Cal wearing his crown he got from preschool:

I stopped and got a cake for the night of his actual birthday and we did presents, but we had his party the following weekend with his cousins.

 He was excited about his cake!

 For school he wanted to bring his favorite bars... Leyton and I made these tractor and bobcat decorations to brighten them up a little:

 Party with the cousins! He picked out a tractor theme.

 He loved the tractor cake.

 Opening the presents:

 He loves all of his gifts- thanks everyone!

 Lucy gave Fiona some wrapping paper to play with and she was so happy!

Halloween!

Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I figured now was probably a good time to get my Halloween photos up!  Sorry I am a month behind, but like usual the days are flying by way too fast.  

We had a good Halloween.  Eric was gone for work and the kids and I headed out to the relatives and met up with their cousins.

Cal was the Elephant that Leyton was a couple years ago, and it might be my favorite costume ever.

 Leyton's first choice this year was Darth Vader but I waited on ordering too soon for fear he'd change his mind... Well his Halloween family fun night costume party was on the 24th and when I went to get it I could not find it in his size.  I felt terrible but thankfully he was very excited about his second choice, Captain America.

 Fiona as a little Snow White:

 Our first stop was Pat and Terri's farm.  They always have unique and fun stuff for the kids.  Aunt Terri really likes Halloween!

 So then we headed to Lindsey's.  Let me clarify that the photo below of Cal's absolutely terrified face is actually at Lindsey's neighbors!  They go all out, and this year Cal appeared to be the brave one- for a minute. :)  He was clueless what we were walking up to, so he ran right up the yard and when he finally looked up and saw a very scary guy with some type of plastic ax, he went ballistic!  It was sad and funny to see at the same time!  The photo below is actually after he'd calmed down. :)

 Lauren and Lucy being the first brave ones to go get the candy:

 Lindsey and Breck the frog:

 Grace, Lauren and Ella at Grandma Krumm's:

 Amy Krumm and Fiona:

 Captain America, loving all the sugar:

 Wonder Woman and Snow white in their coordinating colors:

 Evelyn was an adorable poodle!

 This bag of Cheetos kept her entertained a very long time!

 The 2 Snow Whites, Lauren and Fiona!

 Luca the frog hanging out:

 Love these intense smiles:

 At G&G McNamara's, attempting a photo of all three, but at this point we were tired and I was lucky to get one looking:

 Leyton, Lauren and Lucy (after a costume change ;)) with Grandma:

 And Luca and Cal who happened to be in matching pj's with their buddy:

 At school that day Leyton's class had a parade I went to. He is the Captain America to the right:

 Cal got to dress up for school and take a bus ride over to The Deer field to go trick or treating.  This photo was on the class website from his day:

 And Fiona wore a Halloween t-shirt to show her Halloween spirit:

Hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins

The boys had a lot of fun carving their pumpkins this year, and to my surprise neither of them minded digging out the guts.  We carved them the weekend before Halloween, since Eric was in LA for work over Halloween and I wasn't about to do this alone.  So we lit them that night too since I knew we wouldn't be home to light them Halloween night, and every night after Eric lit them when we would get home from daycare Cal would ask who blew out our candles and would be so upset the pumpkins weren't lit.  I guess he thought once Eric lit those candles they would keep burning forever until one of us blew them out!  And since Eric was in LA I just kept blaming him. ;)

 Leyton went on a field trip to a pumpkin patch for school and picked out this little pumpkin for Fiona.  She seemed pleased with it!

Basketball and the Park

A few weekends ago Leyton and Lucy went to a basketball drills camp together.  They both enjoyed it and had fun learning many new drills!  The photos didn't turn out the best, and I didn't get many, but here are a few.
Leyton is in the red t-shirt and black shorts shooting a basket:

 Lucy is getting back in line with the turquoise top and blue shorts:

and here she is to the right dribbling:

 Happy basketball kids:

 A couple weekends ago we also took what was likely our last trip to Mary's Park until Spring.  It was cold but the kids played as long as their hands could take it, and of course we ended up down by the water for a bit, and Cal ended up with wet feet...

 Leyton posing with the butterfly he made in the sand with his feet:

 Checking out the water and looking for shells: