Pumpkins, Costumes and Carnivals OH MY!

A couple of weeks ago we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. It was a beautiful day so we met our friends the Estes' at the local pumpkin patch. We had a great time, except for the fact the Daddy was out of town, so he missed out on the fun. We did all sorts of fun stuff, a hay maze, a hay tower, tried some apple cider, the corn maze, the HUGE pumpkin sling shot and a hay ride out to pick pumpkins. There was so much to do we actually didn't do all of it. We all had a great time. Thanks to Dan, the kids were able to do all the things that I couldn't do with a baby on my back. Here are some pictures of all the fun!

Just riding along :)

Christina and I
The hay mountain
The corn maze!


Slingshot!

Pumpkins + mud = FUN!

This last Saturday we met up with our friends the Salters at the Annual Candy Corn Carnival at the church. The kids costumes had not arrived yet so we "winged" it. Noah was Peter Pan, Reyna was a "princess" and Julia went as the cutest baby in the world. The kids had a great time. There were games and lots of prizes.



The whole "herd"
Well that's all for now, we'll see you soon!

Carrot toes and other items of interest....

Well here we are. I am updating the blog as promised. This will be mostly photos of our recent activities. The "Carrot toes" title is just a little something that refers to Julia and her super cute eating habits.. Julia is full on eating "big girl food" and one of the things that she likes to do is put her toes in her mouth after each bite. So basically she has a different type of toes each night. The kids think that it is hilarious and will call her by her type of toe for the rest of the evening. Good stuff.Off to school!
Playing at home

Ballet fun!

I need to upload the pictures of Tae Kwon Do and then I will post them :)

OK I admit it.....

I am not so good with the updating of the blog.. So I will give an abstract of our life for the last month and fill in with the details later. The beginning of September marked a new chapter "Stiffler life" Noah started school. He is now attending Kindergarten and LOVING it!!!! We decided to allow him to ride the bus (Two trips to the school and back each day is a little much) He loves it! He actually gets a little upset with me when I have to drop him off or pick him up... He is learning a ton of things, his favorite being how to read and write. Last night he was able to read me a word!!! It was one of those mom moments that just brought tears to my eyes. Awesome!

With fall comes a whole host of activities. AWANA has started, and this year Reyna gets to participate. She is so excited to be a "Cubbie" with her best friend Emelia. She is really taking to memorizing her verses. It is sooo cute! Try to teach a 3 year old to say Ecclesiastes and you will understand what I mean. Noah has proceeded to the next level in AWANA, it is called Sparks. He is doing really well and has 4 verses to share this week. GO NOAH! Reyna has also started a ballet class which is soooooo precious and on Monday Noah had his first full Tae Kwon Do class. They are both doing great and LOVING it!

You may be thinking "So where does that leave Julia?" Well, miss Julia continues to be mama's little bug, patiently going from one activity to the next. She is such a good humored baby, she is so interested in everything around her and loves going from place to place. She is now SIX months old. I can't believe how time flies. She is 15lbs 9oz , 26.5 inches long and FULL of energy. We just started feeding her solid foods. She is so cute she flaps her arms and kicks her legs in anticipation of each bite. Good stuff.

It seems that around here there is a always a ton of activity. I will try and update with some photos, we will see how that goes :)