Pumpkins!!!

Here are a few shots of our Halloween spirit! These are the ones that the boys painted at Church.

Here are the boys carving pumpkins in the barn...

Here is Cole's finished product. He designed, scooped and carved all by himself. It is very scary!

Here is Ross's finished product. I helped him carve it, but he did the dirty work. They are both very scary!


Here is Luke. He couldn't take Ross's scary face!

It Has been 10 Years!!!

October 24th, 1998

I can't believe it has been ten years. Time really does fly when you are having fun.

When we scanned this picture we found some really great ones of all our friends. We plan to post a few of those, so if you were in our wedding.....beware. And if some of you don't remember who was in our wedding, I will tell you: Sarah Diel-Kinkade, Cherilea Jackson-Pitcher, Karla Brooks-Koebele, Mollie Matson-Hart, Emily Clark-Allen, Tim Farley, Hank Baltzell, Evan Bunton, Will Fritchley, and Michael Weber. (I bet you all can't wait to see some pics.) We had a really great time on our wedding day.

Daddy's Team

Luke has his gear on and he ready to play on my team. Thought I would share a few pictures of the little guy since the last post was about the big boys. Everything has to be fair at our house.

It's no big deal - Caddyshack (1980)

The swimming season is about over, so it's time to think about closing the pool. Last weekend, we swam with Uncle Bob and Papaw David. The outside air temperature and the water temperature were both about 80. But, with these cool nights, the temps are falling fast. Time to move our party to the hot tub. For some reason, Uncle Bob won't swim in our hot tub. Something about the the funk. I told him that I pee in the big pool, too, but that doesn't seem to help.

Oh, they grow up so fast!

I love Alco. It is the only place that I know where you can buy facial hair. I wish we had more coins cause I would have liked to get a goatee. Anyway, Cole has a silver mustache that he thinks makes him look old, so in that one picture, he is dying. I am not really sure why Ross is doing the same thing. Maybe he is choking on his lamb chops. Personally, I think Ross looks like a hippie.

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Yesterday, we went to The Great Pumpkin Patch in Arthur, Illinois, where they raise over 300 varieties of pumpkins, squash and gourds. The boys are pictured above with a monster 1000-pound pumkin. They had a really good time running in the mazes and checking everything out. We even saw Josh & Betsy Riedle at the patch. They must really like pumkin patches. If it weren't for their post and Granny's advice, we would have went to Pumkin Works in Paris.

Pumpkin Carving Game

The boys love this game where you can carve pumpkins over and over again. Hope you enjoy!

http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf

Cub Scouts

You may have noticed from my prior posts that Cole is in the Cub Scouts. Well, they have their own blog. So, on a lighter note, here is a link to them...

http://www.newtoncubscoutpack67.blogspot.com/

Uncle Bob's Take

After constantly receiving entirely too mainly e-mails from my brother regarding his political take, I encouraged him to start his own blog. In fact, I offered to help him. That way we can either read his propaganda or not. The choice is now up to us and my inbox will finally receive some relief. So, for those of you Republicans, Democrats and Communists, hear is a shout out to my home-boy, Uncle Bob...

http://unclebobstake.blogspot.com/

Funny Pictures

Just some assorted pictures of the boys. Most of the pictures of Cole involve Luke and Ross isn't big on getting his picture taken right now. These pictures crack me up, so thought I would share them.

Bus Ride

The big boys have always rode the bus to Susie's after school, but they have never rode it to school from home or even to our house after school. Well, they have been bugging me and bugging me to let them ride the bus to school. So, I finally let them last week when I had Luke for the day. Here they are waiting on the bus. They loved riding it to and from school. Apparently, you can learn a lot on the bus.