Catching Up

It's been awhile since the blog has been updated! We've been busy with work, taking the kids to school and getting ready for Baby Spencer (which is any day now) to arrive!

Today we ventured to a pumpkin patch. The kids had fun picking out all kinds of different sized pumpkins and made sure that Baby Spencer will have one too!

Happy Birthday Luke!

Cousin Tinley

Katie and Tim welcomed Tinley Marie on September 29th. The kids were so excited to meet her and want to hold her whenever they see her! Congrats Katie and Tim...she is beautiful!

Sisters

First Day of School

Wade and Lila started school the end of August. They are both loving school this year. Wade goes three days a week this year and his favorite thing is gym (imagine that!). He also gets to go to music and computer class and check out a library book each week. He is learning lots and keeps much of it a secret so he's always surprising us with what he actually knows!

Lila goes to school twice a week and loves her teacher. She also has two friends, Iris and Audrey, that she talks about a lot. She loves to show and talk about what she makes at school and is sad when she has to leave it there. We can't wait until I-680 is re-opened so the school will be even closer!

Fairs

At the Iowa State Fair we took the kids when there wasn't a cattle show so we could venture past the cattle barns :) We had fun going down the big yellow slide, enjoying root beer, toffee, watermelon in a cup and fresh ice cream.

The kids also had fun at the Little Hands on the Farm where they got to be farmers and picked out a prize at the grocery store when they got money from selling their crop at the farmer's market (trying to teach kids where their actually comes from!).

Wade got 2nd place at the West Pott County Fair tractor pull. Luke already has big plans for next year as far as training goes :)