Cutie cousins

Here's a few pics of Henry and Gabe playing together when Dan, Sara, Gabe and my mom came to visit a few weekends ago. I love the boys in their matching outfits...they're wearing them from their pictures taken earlier in the day.

A Beautiful Bride

Yesterday our good friend from college, Leann got married. It was so great to see her...it had been almost 2 years! She's the same sweet and fun girl. Her wedding was beautiful and the reception was really pretty and elegant. We had a lot of fun...we all loved the food!

Henry had a sleepover at his Grandma and Grandpa Vance's. It sounds like he had lots of fun and was a good boy. His cousins Isaac, Caleb and Hannah also went over to play so he had lots of friends to play with. They wore him out, too...he slept really well last night and napped well today! It's always hard to leave him, but I do feel like I worry less and less when we're away. I am able to rest and trust that he is in good hands.

Henry running on the beach

This video is from our vacation to Florida. Henry was warming up to the water and getting braver around it. Although he still wasn't too brave...he would wait just long enough to see the tide washing in and then run away from it as fast as he could! I find myself a bit irritating on this one...one thing "run"!!

New Blog

I changed my blog to beta (?). I have NO clue what it means or what it did, but it makes me be able to upload pictures super fast! Before blogger used to time-out a lot when I was uploading pics. Also, I changed my template for fun just to mix it up! The pictures below uploaded speedy quick.

Sneak Peek...

Dan, Sara, Gabe and my Mom came down last weekend. While they were here we took the boys to get their pictures taken together. They both were perfect during the pics and they turned out really cute.

More to come on the Christmas cards...

Trick-or-treat!

Happy Halloween! Henry dressed up as a dinosaur and we did some trick-or-treating with Brandon, Emily and baby Charlie. Charlie was dressed as Curious George and Brandon dressed as the man in the yellow hat. It was hilarious to see everyone in costume. And poor Brandon, despite his great costume,no one could quite guess what he was dressed as! We rode in their van together and made a few stops at friend's houses then we went to get pizza. Both babies did really well. I wasn't sure how Henry would do with getting in and out of his carseat several times, but he had lots of fun. And it helped that there were doggies at all of the houses we went to!

He is loving dogs lately. We might have to see what we can do about that for Christmas?? Patrick's heart is softening...I overheard him say to Henry, "we need to get you an outside dog"..he didn't know I could hear him! That's a step! I'm wondering if there is a battery powered dog that might walk and bark and do other dog things. I would settle for that for now! Far less work.

Anyway, it was a fun night and Patrick and I ended up with some yummy candy to share!

Fall Fun!

The weather has been beautiful here for the past few days so we've been able to get outside and enjoy some nice Fall fun. On Sunday Patrick and Henry did some raking. It's funny because even though we don't have any trees in our yard, we get lots of leaves from the wind blowing them all our way. Henry loved driving his truck in the leaves the most.

Monday night we brought our pumpkins inside and Henry helped carve his first jack-o-lantern! At first he wasn't sure what to think when we cut it open and starting scooping it out. But he quickly became interested and helped with the scooping out of seeds and pumpkin goo (does anyone know what this stringy stuff is called?). He would scoop some out and then scoop it right back in! He lost interest after a while, but he was fascinated once he saw the finished jack-o-lanterns all lit up!