Soooo hungry!

We are having Vacation Bible School this week at church. Since it goes until noon each day, we are all pretty hungry by the time we get done. Today the boys were being so good during our errands afterward that I decided to take them to one of their favorite places...Pei Wei! You can see that they are enjoying it!

The love edamame and have so much fun squeezing them out of the little bean pods. Today was especially good because Andrew shot one out that actually came flying across the table and hit Mommy in the cheek. I have to admit it was a pretty good shot, although accidental. I laughed a lot but then had to explain that it was only funny once...

Madeline was, of course, blissfully sleeping through all of it. Restaurants are just about her favorite place to nap.

Just couldn't resist

This was just too cute not to post. No event or outing to tell about...just hanging out at home taking random pictures.

Blue is not just for boys

We have gone a little pink crazy with Madeline being the only girl, but do have a few things that aren't just pink...so it's fun dressing her in something different every now and then. She was digging the bow today! I'm still trying to figure out hair accessories, but glad she has some hair to put them in. : )

Trip to the Aquarium

We took a trip to the Downtown Aquarium today! The boys had so much fun. It was our second trip and they loved it just as much the second time. But we need Daddy to go back with us and take them on all the rides. With Maddie along, I couldn't do the whole ride thing. Regardless, we had a fantastic time. Of course, I dressed Madeline in her finest aquarium-viewing attire...yes, that is a goldfish on her romper...

Here are Davis and Andrew at the entrance to the Aquarium:

Finding treasures inside...

...and trying to touch the stingrays!

We ate lunch there, including dessert, which for the boys was a shark-shaped rice crispy treat they could "paint" and then eat. So fun!!

This is Davis's new shark that he got on the trip. He is aptly named "Sharky"!

M is for Madeline

Here are a couple of shots of Madeline this morning. She couldn't quite stay up by herself...but managed to keep her balance long enough to get the shot! She seemed pretty proud of herself! What a cutie!!

Sand Art

Daddy brought home some awesome craft projects for us to work on last night, so about 7:00 am today we had to start the first one...sand art bottles! As a mom who proudly had the sand box carried away earlier this year, sand can be a little stressful. Luckily, our newspaper was put to good use and the boys were extremely careful, so it went well.


They're looking a little sleepy, but so excited about making these bottles. They loved pouring in the different colors of sand and stirring it all up.

Davis finished first, so he started working on some Halloween sticker books while Andrew kept stirring his sand.

Here's our finished products! Tomorrow, painting dinosaur sun-catchers!

Lakeside UMC Fall Festival

Our church, Lakeside UMC, had it's first fall festival today and the boys were so excited to go. They talked about it all week and luckily we had perfect weather on Saturday morning for a great time.

We started with decorating pumpkins:

There were several booths outside, and of course they really liked the ring toss where they won lots of candy.

Here's the train that took them for rides all around the parking lot. Andrew was especially excited about the train.

Here is the fishing booth...more candy!

We finally burned off some of the candy excitement on the moonwalk.

And just to make sure we got enough sugar, we decorated cupcakes then sat down here to eat them. So fun!

We finished things off by doing some apple-stamping with paints.

They had so much fun and can't wait for the next one! Too bad it's so far off...luckily October seems to be full of fun activities they can look foward to.