Birthday Boy Weekend!

This weekend we celebrated the birthdays of the boys in our family.  Allen's birthday was on Saturday and Leo's was on Sunday.  On Saturday some friends invited us up to a lake house.  It was amazing!  It was beautiful outside, it was big and beautiful inside and we just spend the day away relaxing.  The boys watched a lot of football.  We ate, we visited, we watched movies, I wish we could go back!  I think it was a great day for Allen's birthday.  

 Allie and Leo relaxing watching a show.  

Allen and I were able to slip away for a little bit and go on a little mini date down at the lake.  

Leo loved all the rooms to play in 

Allen's conducting his own birthday song 

I love this guy so much! 

Bath time?  Swim time in a big bath?  Same thing!  

Relaxing watching football!  

 Most of the kids all snuggled up watching up.  

Love this little girl! 

On Sunday, we surprised Leo with balloons for his birthday.  

 Sunday evening we got together with some friends to have dinner and celebrate Leo's big birthday.  

I can't believe this little boy is 3 years old!  

All day this little boy was practicing blowing out candles.  He would ask us to sing him Happy Birthday and then he would pretend to blow out the candles.  He was a pro after all that practice.  He was pretty proud it was his birthday.  All during church he walked around the building telling everyone it was his birthday!  "It my birday!"  

Oh my goodness I love this little boy so much.  He is a handful at times, but he is the sweetest most fun boy I know.  We love you Leo B!  

The Happenings as of Late

So I mostly like to post pictures with a little commentary... so here is what we have been up to recently.  

Allen's MFT cohort recently got together for a a visit.  The three boys all still live near by, but the three girls live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.  They all came down and I am pretty sure that they all had a pretty good time together reminiscing.  

 When Allen got back from Oregon and from his week long training, he had grown out a little beard... I wasn't the biggest fan.   

A couple of weeks ago Allen had an Ultimate Tournament here in Auburn.  Leo loved cheering on Daddy.  

 I am pretty in love with both of these Ultimate players.  

 

This is Allen's team... It was right around Halloween so they wore costumes.  

Their team ended up winning the entire tournament.  At the tournament,

there was a dog that Leo fell in love with.  He kept it on its leash and walked it all around.  

Here he is lounging with the dog all tied up!   

 Leo and his bestie Elsie out on a walk.  

 We made a gratitude tree for thanksgiving. Leo has done really well thinking about being thankful and he has put up a lot of leafs on to our tree.  

 Sometimes I find Lucy in unusual places.  And since Lucy got her picture taken in the ball basket, Leo needed his picture taken too.  

 We kept our Thanksgiving tradition and made our family of hand turkeys.  We recently read a book about creating hand turkeys so Leo was especially excited this year.  We have them hanging up in our living room and Leo loves to talk about his turkeys.  

 Someone really loved the lasagna.  

 Leo really likes dressing up.  This day he was a cowboy with his cowboy boots and his trusted horse!  

 On Saturday we went to a tailgate on campus for the big Georgia vs Auburn game.  War Eagle!  

It was a beautiful fall day and a fun tailgate... not to mention it was a pretty exciting game with an even more exciting ending.  

 Sometimes we like to surprise Daddy on Campus.  This was yesterday's surprise.  Good times :)  

Yesterday was also a special day because it was Miss Ashley B's Birthday!  Happy Birthday Ashley B... I wish I could come sit on your desks and eat a bow of cold cereal!  

Today Lucy was being pretty quiet in the kitchen.  I went to go check on her and found her on top of the table. What? How did she even get up there? She looks pretty happy up there.

 We are having fun and staying busy.  We are especially looking forward to Thanksgiving with our cousins!

We can't wait!  

Halloween

Ever since we got back from Chicago our week has been filled with everything Halloween.  On Saturday our stake had a fall festival, On Sunday we carved our pumpkin, on Tuesday we had a Halloween preschool at our house, in our free time we were making Halloween Costumes, on Wednesday we went to our Ward Halloween Party and last night we went trick or treating downtown.  Leo picked out the costumes this year.  I was planning on making us "smore costumes" but Leo saw a picture of a kid football player and it was all over from there.  He got so excited talking about Halloween all week.  He loved telling everybody he was going to be a Football player and Lucy was going to be a football and mommy was going to be a cheerleader and daddy was going to be a coach.  I think it all turned out pretty cute!  

 At the fall festival Leo couldn't get enough of the blow up jump house maze... and he couldn't get enough of Stewart... he is always telling us that Stewart is his best friend.  Luckily Stewart doesn't seem to mind too much.  

 A little family fun carving our pumpkin.  Leo named him, "Pumpkin the Pumpkin!"  

This is Leo's "bestie"  Elsie.  We have been neighbors and best friends the last two years.  The picture below was taken on Halloween two years ago.  Oh I love these kiddos!  

Leo's friends from church... Henry and Stewart!  

Gandolf and the Elf Princess... Their kids were the hobbits.  So awesome

I love how all the costumes turned out!  It was a lot of fun making them.  

Leo was pretty excited about his treats!  

One of my favorite young women!  

My little Mummy

cutest little football I have ever seen!