A Quick Recap

Lots and lots of things have been happening.  I have a ton of pictures to share and stories to tell.  The kids are both changing and learning new things every day.  Ryder is talking so much now... he is finally communicating in a way we can understand (most of the time, anyhow).  Oh and Savannah, she is excelling in school.  Her enthusiasm for school makes me so happy and pushes me to work even harder with her and her studies.  These last few months have been some of the craziest of my life, and some of the best.  

Savannah brought home this masterpiece from her art class at school.  I am in love with it.  It is a self portrait and I think she nailed it.  Beautiful Savannah.

We also had our first major homework assignment of the year... a community diorama.  Each kid had to choose an establishment in their community that they wanted to build a diorama of.  Little miss chose the library... and not just any library, a rainbow library where princess go to read.  Perfection.

We somehow managed to squeeze a trip to the State Fair in.  Same ol', same ol'... rides, fried food, animals, and lots of tractors.  Ryder loved all the tractors, especially the little ones that he got to ride on. Happy happy boy.

There hasn't been a whole lot of time for new house stuff.  The only two rooms I managed to get done are the kids' rooms.  Ryder's was easy... we just did a light grey, nothing fancy.  Savannah's was not so easy.  She wanted a whole new color scheme than her old room and I wanted something that was bright and bold.  This is what we ended up with.  It turned out fantastic!

Savannah before school one morning.  Every day I swear she looks older and older.  She is also getting better with the whole dressing yourself thing.

Post family pictures... a quick snapshot of the kids.  We haven't done pictures as a family since Ryder was born, so I was very excited about this session.  I can't wait to see the proofs.  

He is still doing well in his big boy bed.  As you can see he brings everything he possibly can to bed with him.  Boy loves his stuffed friends.

One of my favorite parts of Halloween... the carving of the pumpkins.  Savannah was a huge help cleaning out the pumpkins and choosing what we should carve.  Ryder had no interest at all.

Did You Miss Us??

It has been nearly two months since my last post... I could list all the things that have kept me from blogging, but that would take forever.  I will just say that we have been BUSY... to the extreme.  Things are calming down a bit, and I really missed posting our day to day on here, so I am making my best effort to get back into it.  What better way to start, then our trip to the pumpkin patch this past weekend.  Savannah is just about too old to pose at the pumpkin patch and Ryder is too crazy to pose at the pumpkin patch, so I am not sure that these types of pictures will be happening again next year.  They were both waaaaaaaay more interested in touching every single pumpkin there.

Pumpkins!

Eric thinks that Savannah is too old for pumpkin patch pictures... I totally disagree.  I plan to drag both kids out to the pumpkin patch for pictures every year until they are 18.  For reals.  This trip was especially fun because we did not have to actually pick out any pumpkins.  A few weeks back the kids went with their papaw and grandma to the patch and picked out several pumpkins for the house.  So this trip was strictly for the smiles.  Ryder had no interest in any of that, though.  Boy was all over the place... touching every pumpkin in sight.  Savannah on the other hand was all smiles.  First year that she actually wanted to sit and have her picture taken.  Maybe next year both kids will cooperate for momma.