Renaissance Festival

I have such fun memories of going to the Renaissance Festival when I was a kid.  Face painting, hair flowers, mud wrestlers, jousting.  We were so excited to take the boys for the first time this year and I think they really enjoyed it too (minus the face painting, hair flowers and mud wrestlers… but don’t fear – there was jousting!).  Half the time you can’t tell if the people you’re talking to actually work there or just dressed up like that to visit!

The biggest score of the entire day: we finally FINALLY FINALLY found a knight helmet with “a face mask that goes up and down” for Sean.  Let me tell you, we’ve been searching high and low for this for over a year (since he was a knight for Halloween 2012) and it’s next to impossible to find.  You can tell by the overwhelming excitement in his face how happy he was to find it. I just tell myself the he was smiling ear to ear when the mask was down ;)

Oh.  And Dylan got to hold a goose.  Isn’t this totally Dylan’s style?  He’ll try anything once. 

Lord help us.

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So Grown Up

Sean’s fall Preschool pictures are absolutely adorable.  How this photographer can get him to laugh so hard I’ll never know.  I can’t decide which one I like best so I’m posting them all!

With his classmates and teachers, Miss Kathy and Miss Meghan

Random October iPhone Pictures

Halloween tattoos // Silly glasses from Aunt Michelle (oh, they were meant for the boys?) // making pizza // silly noses // Sean’s Fall Festival where we went thru a corn maze and on a tractor ride // watching movies in sleeping bags // silly Daddy wearing Mommy’s stocking on his ears (yeah – this one is even more strange after typing it out ;)

Reading back over what I just wrote I realize I wrote the word ‘silly’ 3 times.  Guess this was our silly month!

Halloween 2013

We do love some Halloween in this house.  Unfortunately Dylan was pretty sick this year but that didn’t stop him from going with us up and down the street to fill our bags.  The boys had their costumes planned out months in advance and continued to wear them well into September.  Sean was Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots and fierce enemy of the Decepticons) and Dylan was is Superman.

We all know that Sean’s had a big noggin since birth.  Case in point – his mask was supposed to go down around his face but wouldn’t fit and kept getting stuck on his nose, pulling it up like a little piggy.  I laugh every time I look at this picture.Home relaxing on the couch with their candy…And one more breathing treatment before bed.  This kid was one tough little guy.

Please tell me that’s not us

Seriously.  How embarrassing.

It’s Pumpkin Time!

We found a fun new pumpkin place this year, south of us into South Carolina. There were all kinds of activities for this kids, a band, an old general store and railroad car, animals, tree houses… you name it.

Pumpkin “owners” from left to right –> Sean, Dylan, Polly, Mommy, Daddy
Phew! That was exhausting. You can’t see it but Dylan’s right hand still had a kung fu grip on his lollipop.  Sleep is no time to mess with lollipops.
Now time to wash our pumpkins…
… and start decorating!

Random September Pics

The rest of September looks pretty random as far as I can tell from my pictures.  No rhyme or reason but it looks like we had a good time!!