Celebrating 80!

My Grandfather came for a short visit a week ago. He will be celebrating his 80th Birthday this month, so we thought we had better have cake! We had a nice dinner out at Wiederholts in Miesville, it is a great old fashioned supper club that my Grandpa likes to visit when he comes to town. Then everyone came back to our place to have a slice of Oreo cake!

Hudson loves his Great-Grandpa!

We also had a big weekend for Autumn's soccer team! They had their play-offs and Autumn's team took 2nd place!! The Fire Dogs had a great game and lost the game with grace. I was very proud of the whole team. Great-Grandpa and Grandpa both came to games on Saturday.

One of the mom's even had cookies made for each of the girls!

Trip to the orchard!

This weekend was busy busy, we had the school marathon, apple orchard, Afton Alps Fall Festavel, and the Twin Cities Marathon. Here are a few pictures from the orchard. I will add the other pictures later from our other events!

Okay everyone smile and look at mom! Or not!! LOL

Cute fall babies!

Milking the "cow" Bessy!

Autumn really wanted her picture taken:)

Farmer Leighton

Farmer Hudson!

 Brecken didn't let me take many pictures this time but he had a ton of fun riding the trikes on the track. We had a great time I think we are going to go to Carpenters Nature Center next week for their Apple Fest! I love this time of year!

The little kids!

Okay so I decided after taking the Stewart twin's pictures the other day that I should maybe try and take pictures of my twins........It never works out like when I photograph other peoples kids:)

This was the only picture of all three.

This is the best one of the two of them.

 

Leighton 16 months

This is Leighton's look. This is pretty much how she looks at everyone. Kind of funny when her brother usually looks like this....

Hudson 16 months

Such a handsome little man!

My bud is 3.5 years! Such a little man:)

My sweet boys...best buds for the moment:) 

Oh well maybe family pictures will go better! LOL

My Lucky Lady takes California by Storm!

 My lucky lady took a vacation this summer with her Great-Grandpa and Cousin Sean. She flew all the way to San Diego by herself and met up the Great-Grandpa. Cousin Sean works for Sea World so she got a tour of the behind the scenes.

 Here they all are with a flamingo!

 They also made a stop at the San Diego Zoo in between all the activities at Sea World!

 Cousin Sean even set up for her to do the Dolphin Interaction!

 And of course what trip to California would be complete without taking some surf lessons!

 I think she was getting used to the California lifestyle!

 

Then they headed to DisneyLand for a couple days! 

 I think Great-Grandpa was enjoying himself too!

Thanks Grandpa and Sean for sending all the pictures and for showing Autumn such a great time in San Diego!

Summer has officially come to a end at our house...

Well this week has been pretty crazy at the home front. Autumn started 4th grade, Brecken started 2 day a week preschool and I flew in from a business trip from Colorado all before Wednesday! It was so sad sending my baby B off to preschool, but he did great. No tears were shed, by mom or Mr. B. He loves his new class. Day 2 is tomorrow so we will have to see how that goes. I think I will do okay:)

First Day of Preschool for Brecken and Autumn's second day of 4th grade

Autumn my big 4th grader. I missed her first day so we had to take 2nd day pictures:)

Self Portrait

Checking out all the new toys to play with in his classroom.

The Backyard.

The backyard has been used and abused this summer, with the babies being so tough to take to waterparks and the beach we have stayed right in our own yard a lot this summer having quite a lot of fun! (but, yes I am crazy so I have brought them to the beach and water parks pleanty this summer) As the summer is winding down I thought I would share a few pictures from all our backyard fun!

It was so hot and humid the camera took a while to stop fogging over so this one has a nice summer haze on it:) 

My going to be fourth grader in just a few weeks!

Grandma and Grandpa bought this for the grandkids at their house but today we got to have it in our yard!

B even talked Dad into going in the pool, and it must be give mom the cheesiest smile you can day! 

The babies favorite summer activity... Playing in the ROCKS!

My new prop.

Leighton 14 months

Leighton and I ran outside yesterday morning and tried out my new photography prop. She didn't like sitting in it so much but I did get a few good ones!