We like leaves

OHHHH how I love fall. I love watching the girls play in the leaves, picking them up one by one and examining them or grabbing them by the fist-full. I love that fall-y smell in the air, I love that it is cooler, I love going to walks in the woods, I love and thank God for creating such BEAUTY!

Mid air shot.

Pumpkin Carving time!

Brookie was a lady bug for Halloween. Complete with ready-made antennas.

Geneva was a monkey. Most little girls are princesses, fairies, etc. My child was a monkey. A bit more true to nature perhaps? :0) These are her friends Jacob and Kaelyn who came trick or treating with us. Along with Rueben, Anneka, Isaac, Hannah, Isaiah, Judah, and Asher. It was a bit crazy here on Wednesday night! Lotsa fun though.

Deep in thought.

"Oooooh"

OHHHH how I love fall. I love watching the girls play in the leaves, picking them up one by one and examining them or grabbing them by the fist-full.

Reading

Geneva is trying to teach Brookie how to read these days. Brookie has actually been sitting still long enough to look at books recently, so that's fun.

I think Geneva's going to love school next fall, she's so eager to learn and loves to look and listen to books, stories, and songs. She loves to colour and wants to learn how to write her name.

Some of the letters are the right idea. She's getting good at Gs. She says the middle thing is a moon. "I know how draw moons now!" I think it started off as an e. :)

Then she added a sun too. She said "Grandma (will) say 'WOW! Look at that sun and moon!"

Some pics... all clumped together in one entry.

I think I'm going to cave in and get the girls professionally photographed. WAY too hard for this momma to get a cute shot of both of them. Here's what I came up with in this photo shoot.

MOMMY!!! Brookie's biting me!


Opa and Nana came up a few weeks ago for a visit. We went to Hanes' Corn Maze. We were in that sucker for almost 2 hours. But we were persistent and got every single clue! Very fun. The girls didn't get a ton out of it, but they were rather patient with the whole thing.

Nice face G

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Hope Homecoming weekend! I left the girls at my Mom's on Saturday and drove up to Grand Rapids to see Kirra Ann, my friend Megs and Al's new arrival! What a dolly. It was sooooo nice to see Megs and Al, Sar and Matt and hang out and act weird and have things feel pretty much just the way they were 5 years ago! It was totally and completely worth the total 9 hours of driving. I actually enjoyed the drive. Spent some quality time with God and got to crank my new Caedmans' Call and Shane and Shane cds. I think I over-listened to the same music a bit though... I'll retire them for a while.

Missing you Cheli!

Kirra sweetie-Ann

Yes, I do know how to hold a baby. I had just been staring at her intentely and had to turn her around for a quick pic. I didn't really want to hand her back to her momma. She's rather full of cuteness.


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Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving parade yesterday.

Checking out Nana's pretty display.

MMMMM. Fake gourds. Tasty.

Let's see now, I'll put this one here, and this one there....

I guess you can have one too, Brookie

I love my spoon!

Brooke's latest obsession is spoons. Take it away, and watch out world. Ok, we really do realize that it really isn't the safest thing to let a baby crawl around with a spoon. But when it keeps her occupied for hours? Such a debate. It's good for banging on things, it's good for chewing on, good for making noise while crawling, and most importantly, it's good for putting FOOD into one's mouth!

Doing a fine job of feeding herself some yogurt.

mmmmm

See this? Yup, that's my spoon. I like it.

Labour Day Weekend

Well, it already seems like it was a looooong time ago. But on Labour Day weekend we had our annual swordswomen retreat! We went to Megs and Al's new house in GR. Sar and Matt couldn't come :0( We missed you guys! More extensive pics are up on Cheli's site, since we had some camera issues. But here are couple from when our batteries were cooperating. :) Chel brought her man, Greg with. What a cool guy. So glad we got to meet him!

At a really neat "sprayground" at Millenium park in Grand Rapids.
This was a few runs before Geneva ran smack into into a little boy.... So hard not to walk...

I think they're laughing because they thought they might look like an 'alternative couple.'

Boy Brookie sure looks like she's having tons of fun.

Proud parents to be!

Watch out Al! There's a bucket just about to....

...dump on your head!

Taste this Daddy...

But Dad, I like the taste of sand, why don't you?

Fun with sand.

Greg and Michelle. Notice the tile thingy behind them. Don't know how she spotted that one... there were hundreds of them!