Halloween

Sorry, for the lack of updates.  We had the hard drive that we store all our pictures on go bad (Thankfully, I had purchased a backup machine to save everything.)

Carter had a couple of choices for his costume.  He tried on his sister's minion outfit for fun and also a dragon costume that Gigi got for him.

He ultimately decided on being Elmo along with Avery repeating her performance as a Minion from last year.  The kids ended up having a blast running around the neighborhood and collecting at least 3 gallons worth of candy.  I am not sure if that is the proper measurement, but let's go with it.

 "Strike a pose"  I think this is Avery's go to sassy pose.

We met our neighbor Max very shortly after we started.

 We had to remind Carter about the concept of trick or treating with some starter candy, but it didn't take him long to pick the concept up.  Later on in the week he asked if we could go trick or treating again.

Football Season (so far)

Sorry for the lack of posts, but I think this upcoming weekend will be the last of a 15 out of 17 weekends on the road stretch dating back to early August including 2 trips out of the country (more to come).  The good news is that we have lots of pics to post.  

These are from the first few football games.  Avery of course has been reading "The Wolfpacker" magazines very closely and has our football schedule memorized.  She knows the names and dates of all of our opponents, so not bringing her to a game is not an option.

She even made the highlights show.  You can see her reading the plaque in front of the fountain.  We are off to the side (I promise) waiting to go back to the tailgate, but our little girl loves her Wolfpack.

We even decided to take Carter to a game.  I am not sure if he was quite as stoked as Avery was for her first game (go back and take a look at these pics), but he had a great time.

Still working on the Wolfpack hand sign.

 Family at the game!

Carter loved the fireworks, the flyover, and the players running out of the tunnel; but spent most of the second half being a crazy little boy.  Climbing the seats, using a pom-pom to sweep, etc.

They did enjoy going down lower at the end of the game and a closer view.  Yes, Carter did try to climb over the wall and get onto the field, but we didn't get a picture.  

Avery of course has been to a few more games and always loves getting pictures with the cheerleaders.  However, when you ask; she would rather be in the band than a cheerleader.

 
 Meeting the players and Mr. Wuf!

Of course, being spoiled by Uncle David with funnel cakes.

Random September Stuff

I am not sure what weekend exactly this was, but Carter is starting to have birthday party invites.  Yay.....This one was at least at Monkey Joe's so he got to run around full speed jumping, climbing, and sliding.

 I was at a football game, so Avery got to come with him and help him climb up and off all the tall stuff.

Playing nicely together!

We also decided one day to climb Crowder's mountain.  Avery was really excited about it.

 Avery was running out on her own.  Laura was regretting not doing a few more exercises in the morning.  Carter climbed pretty much 80% of the mountain except for these stairs right at the end.

The view on the top was pretty awesome and there were some good rocks for the kids to climb on.

 We made it to the top!  It was however very stressful on the top as there were some sharp drop offs and Carter being Carter wanted to climb everything. 

Carter got a ride down for about the first half of the mountain with Laura over the steep parts.  However, as you can see in the second picture, he jogged down a good bit of the mountain.  He also did not take a nap that day....Thank goodness he is over that spell of fighting his naps. 

First Day of School

 So the hard part of doing a beach trip in late August is that school is right around the corner.  Avery was pretty excited about it though.

 Carter also got a new classroom at daycare.  He could hardly contain his excitement...

The walk into her first day of first grade.  When did she get so big?

Lily was there to meet her, but they didn't end up in the same class.  (Probably good for the teacher)

 One last hug for Mommy

 Avery in her desk, right in the middle of the room.

 Getting started on her work already!

Beach Trip

So in August we actually took a full week's vacation at the Beach with my family.  We have done a lot of things the past few weeks of which blogging is not one of them.

Carter of course had a blast playing in the sand.  Here he is getting buried.

 The eclipse happened while we were at the beach.  We all had funny looking glasses to watch the eclipse.  We only got 99.3% coverage, which you would think would have been good enough, but it was not.

 The kids has blast on the beach all week.  Avery mastered boogie boarding and I mastered pulling her out into the waves.  Carter mastered playing in the sand and getting himself buried again.

Gigi brought some random toys, so the kids formed a superhero group and fought crime after dinner.

It was so much fun to watch these two play together all week.  There were fights of course, but they really do love each other.

 Doing their beach yoga while keeping an eye on birds to chase.

Did I mention that Carter really really enjoyed the sand?

 The motley crew for the week.