Becoming Big

Connor lost his first tooth today. Hopefully the tooth fairy will pay a visit. Connor has been very careful to not express disbelief in the tooth fairy since when Dillon did, the tooth fairy left him monopoly money under his pillow. Other signs that my little boy is growing up....he bowed his head and said grace without being reminded and he left the marshmellows to be eaten last in his bowl of Lucky Charms.

Finally!

Baby Andrew...We can't stand it that we had to wait so long to see you. Prepare to be very spoiled soon!

We spent a few hours with Alyssa, Barry, and boys before they flew home on Friday. Thank you Bob and Ruth!

Halle had lots of hugs for Carson.

Finally, Finally, Finally, I get to hold my new nephew. He is a very sweet baby! (and cute...did I mention cute?)

Thanksgiving Day

Halle and Grandpa Pow

The cousins putting a puzzle together

Our Thanksgiving group minus the photographer(Uncle Al)

Beautiful girls

Grandpa Ron and Connor

Halle getting a bath in Aunt Joyce's laundry sink

Happy Halloween

Getting ready to go trick or treating

Dillon and friends during the Halloween parade at school

Connor and his good friend, Chase

Frenemies

I love this picture of Dillon and Connor because it captures the joy of having a brother. They had spent the morning digging in the woods by our house, laughing hysterically together and fighting over the shovel. They have reached the age where they have more inside jokes together than we have with them. They can have a two hour conversation about Pokemon and Trevor and I don't understand a thing they are saying. Their bedroom is way too small for both of them now but I love hearing them laugh together with the lights out, talking about their day.

A Perfect Fall Day

We hiked through the West Bloomfield Nature Conservatory on Sunday. It was full of wonderful trails with many wooden bridges and stone stairways. The boys had a great time with hiking sticks and Halle experienced the trail everyway possible. She walked and ran for over a mile.

Aunt Net, Uncle Al, and Henry Ford

My Aunt Net and Uncle Al from Wisconsin came to see us this past weekend. We had a great time with them! They brought their 5th Wheel and amazingly Uncle Al was able to back it perfectly into our driveway around our neighbor's five cars and our enormous pine trees. On Saturday we went to the Henry Ford Museum. Trevor and the boys in front of some old fire engines

Connor loved the picture rubbing stations.

This is suppose to be a lego ramp. Halle thought it made a great slide.

Here the boys are enjoying the paper airplane targets.

Uncle Al, Dillon and Aunt Net are checking out the historic trains.

Happy Trails to the Integra

It's goodbye to our faithful old car- the only car we
ever bought new and probably the only car we will ever buy.
175,000 miles of adventures!(at warp speed of course)

The Bermuda Triangle & Morning Snuggles

Ice Cream Kid

The Schmidts

The Schmidts came to see us on their way home from NewYork. It was great to see them! As you can see the kids are all huge now. It was fun to watch them and envision our own family in about 10 years- minus one kid of course!:) If our kids turn out to be this nice we will be thrilled! Tim, Andrea, Taylor, Estee, Austin, and Logan

Cousins

School Days

Connor's first day of Kindergarten

Connor, Dillon, Halle, Mariah and Leah (neighbors)

Happy 6th Connor

Our sweet "middle of the sandwich"

Ready for the party

Silly Picture

AI AI AI AI

Transformer Cake

Sand Baby

Halle loves to play in the sandbox. We usually go play in it everyday for an hour before Trevor gets home. It gives me a chance to sit down and go through the mail and everybody is happy.

A Wonderful Week with Grandma Marie and Grandpa Pow

A Day at the Beach

Grandpa and Halle

Who needs a computer, We've got a bat and sprinkler!

Grandma and Halle cooling off

Making Pancakes with Grandma

Reading stories with Grandpa, (Backwards of course!)

Brenda Little Miss Sunshine

Dillon crocheted a headband for Halle:)