OCTOBER!!!

We've been celebrating a lot this month! Gary turned 30 on the 14th and Brayden turned 4 on the 23rd. We went to Watermans to get pumpkins and we just got back from a family vacation to the mountains in Tennessee! We had a great time - Brayden and Brianna did awesome in the car - despite the horrible traffic. We visited Nascar speedpark (Brayden took a ride in a go cart), Ripley's aquarium (we met the Hassingers there), Dixie Stampede dinner show (the kids LOVED this), Laurel Falls (a 2.5 mile walk to a water fall), and Wonderworks (similar to Science Central - this was very entertaining for all of us). It's been a great month!
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What have we been up to...

Brianna loves to have her picture taken (actually she just loves to see herself in the picture after it's taken) - so here she is posing in front of the fireplace! Brianna actually seems better today (first day in about 3 weeks) - no more fever. She had 2 teeth poke through this week but her mouth is definitely still bothering her.
Brianna loves holding Brayden's hand - it's so cute! Brayden had a good week at school!

Boston's got football on his mind - Go Buckeyes and Colts!!!
Brianna showing off her legs next to her doggy. She loves to crawl around and bark like Boston!

New picures...

Here is a picture of Brayden before school on picture day! Gary took him outside to practice posing! The Brayden and daddy twins!
Here's Brianna next to her new favorite place - the couch... All she wants to do is get on the couch so she stands there and says up repeatedly. She asked Brayden to put her up there the other day so he picked her up and pushed her on the couch - it was really cute! Brianna has been sick for a while now - one thing after another (fever, stomach probs., rash - again, diaper rash, teething, vaccines, runny nose, sneezing, sleeping difficulties... to name just a few!!!) Please pray that she can finally get better so she can get back to learning more new words!

Alex...

This is "Alex" the dalmation puppy!!! Gary took the kids to Chic-fil-a the other night for family night and as you can see Brayden got his face painted. He was so proud of it he wanted to share it with all of you. For those of you who know Brianna - you understand why her face isn't painted... Washing it off would be pure misery - for all!!!

Sneak preview...

Here is a sneak preview of Brayden and Brianna's Halloween costumes...

Sky Concert and more...

We took the kids to the sky concert downtown. They loved the fireworks! Brayden keeps telling everyone his story about how the fire alarm was going off in the parking garage and it was so loud and he was so scared. It took a while for him to get over that one! Here is Brayden actually meeting Toby our toad. Usually he's only out at night but Gary disturbed his home!

Boston is back to his old self...

For those of you who didn't hear, Boston had to spend some time in the doggy hospital... We think he may have licked a small amount of Raid (we had sprayed some under our kitchen sink to kill some ants.) Anyway, his stomach was torn up! But after lots of medication and specially cooked food he is back to his old self!
This is Brayden's picture of his Raccoon RJ! He was trying to explain to RJ that he was going to go to school with him for a class safari and for some reason RJ didn't understand what Brayden was saying to him, so Brayden decided to draw it on the chalkboard for him. We LOVE this picture and want to share it with everyone! He's gonna be an artist like his daddy!