It's ALL about FALL!

The leaves have begun to fall and so Brian headed out to rake them up.  He didn't get very far before the munchkins realized what he was doing and decided it would be fun to run and jump in the leaves.   That must be an ingrained child feature that every child is born with, because these kids needed NO help jumping and frolicking in that crunchy goodness. :)

Top left of this picture is where Ian ended up with some leaves in his mouth.  He wasn't too happy about that. 

Ian decided it would be fun to through leaves at me while I was playing with Kenya.  In the end it turned into a leaf throwing fight.  I'm not sure who won, but we were both covered in leaves.  :)

Final Contest Video

Well, here it is.  I picked this for my final contest video.  Guess it's just time to wait.  :)

Watch Kenya dancing in the bottom left corner of the video, she cracks me up.  Also, Ian knows the chorus to this song and jumped up to sing with me.  Too funny!  Love that little man!   He makes his departure memorable by acting like he is falling off the bench we were on.  Quite the little actor, that one is.  It took everything in me to not laugh at him when he did that because it was just too funny!

Trains, Planes and ....

.... Okay, maybe just Trains!

Aren't these two just darling??!!  They LOVE their trains.  Until last weekend it was the only toy they actually fought over.   Ian's really good at sharing his trains with Kenya but sometimes it just gets a little too tight in there.  Lucky for them we decided it's time to get Kenya her own set of Trains to play with.  (shh, it's for her birthday in 4 weeks.) 

I'm really excited to give her the set because I'm painting her set pink and then also giving the kids about 50 more pieces each for Christmas.  Imagine what they'll be able to create with that. :)  Ian's will be painted blue and Kenya's pink so that they can play separately or if they want to dream bigger they can combine them.  How fun, right?!

Airshow

Dobbins ARB hosted an Airshow to the residents of Georgia.  It was much fun to attend and best of all, FREE!   The kids love planes, so we figured it would be an exciting occasion for them. 

Here are the kids watching some of the smaller planes do stunts.  They really enjoyed that, but hated the sun in their eyes, so we spent a good portion of time blocking the sun.   

Kenya and I sitting in the C-5 aircraft.  That thing is MASSIVE.

Brian and Ian in the C-5. 

Brian and I really enjoy when the Jets do their stunts and fly-by's.  The kids, not so much.  We bought earplugs for the kids and they worked well, but Ian hates noise, so he buried his head in Brian's chest till the F-18 Rhino was done.  Kenya was fine as long as I was holding her.  I put her down when the jet wasn't near and she went about her business for a few seconds but came running back as soon as the jet came flying back.  It was quite hilarious!

By 1 pm the kids were done and ready to go.  Ian kept telling Brian, "Daddy, it's time to go home".  I think he knew if was nap time and was tired. :)  Brian I were reluctant to go because we really wanted to see the F-16 Blue Angels do their stunts, but knew that Ian wasn't gonna hold up much longer.  That sweet boy is so patient with us.  :)  As we were leaving we got to watch the Canadian Snowbirds (smaller planes but about 9 of them) do formation flying which is always fun to watch.  Maybe when the kids are older they'll enjoy it more.  :)

A Hero's Party

Ian's best friend, GaVen, had his 3rd birthday recently and we were all invited to his party.  His birthday falls in October and evidently that is reason enough to have a costume party.   The theme was heroes and Brian immediately came up with his "perfect" costume.  It cracked me up. 

I don't know if any of you remember the cartoon "Doug" but I do.  I loved it as a kid and this is where Brian pulled his costume from.  We decided that since Brian was going to be Quailman that Ian would have to be Quailboy.  :)  They looked AWESOME!  Kenya went as the cheerleader from the recent show "Heroes" since I already had her cheerleader outfit.  (See the red blood looking paint on the side of her head).  I of course went as Super mom, cause it was easy.  :)  I do have to say though, I'm pretty happy with the way the costumes turned out.  Brian and I came up with the design for the Quailman headbands and I mad them and the capes about 2 hours before we went to the party.  It's fun having a time crunch on a project sometimes. :)

Fall

Don't ya love it when you can look outside and see these beautiful colors?  What about that nice, clear, cool breeze that winds it's way through your open windows and around your house?  I sure LOVE it!  How 'bout you?

Atlanta Zoo

My friend had extra tickets to the Atlanta Zoo, so off to the Zoo we went.  The kids LOVED it!   Ian kept saying, "More animals" everytime we stopped for more than a couple of seconds.  He was too funny.

Look at my big kids looking at those strange birds.  I can't believe they are getting so big already. :(

Ian stuck his cute face in this Lion poster but I couldn't get Kenya to do it.  Ian was absolutely adorable though.  Makes for a really cute cat, don't ya think?

Kenya was in love with the little monkey's.  My friend, Angie, had to pry her away from the window just so I could get a picture.  She just kept watching the little lemurs so intently.  It cracked me up. 

It was a fun day with my little munchkins!



Annual Frogtown Trail Challange

I started October off with not only General Conference (Which sadly I heard very little of due to little ones) but I also ran my second annual Frogtown Challange. It's an awesome race that I enjoyed so much last year that I thought I would do again this year. I guess I just like getting down and dirty when I race. :)

This is 2010's tech shirt that I got after my race.

This is the beginning of the race.  There were three wonderful women ( a mother and two daughters) that I met before the run and hung out with until it was time.  I was on my own, so it was really great to have someone so kind to chat with while we all waited. 

Just some of the fun stuff we ran through.  I actually slipped on a rock right as they took this picture.  Luckily I caught myself and didn't end up soaked to the bone.

Coming in at the finish line I was actually a little disappointed.  While I was running the trail I kept thinking how good I felt and good I thought I was doing.  I kept telling myself that I was gonna come in at a better time than last year but when I crossed the finish line I was 2 minutes later.  Come to find out that they added .35 miles to the trail that we didn't have last year.  So I actually didn't do too bad at all.  :)  Race stats are below.  I came in 120 out of about 350 runners who rane the 4 mile trail.  I felt that wasn't too bad.  :)



Make it a VOTE

Hey Ya'll!  I'm trying to figure out which song is best to submit for a contest this week.   I have to submit by Friday so help me decided which one to polish and send!

#1: Vanilla Twilight by Owl City

n#2:  Fallin For You by Colbie Caillat

 

#3:  Stuck Like Glue by Sugarland

Tell me what ya think!