Note on hunting...

Holt does NOT shoot anything but a camera.  This is the first year he's been around his daddy shooting.  It's all very safe and nature is respected.  It's hard for this momma from a non-hunting family, to get it, but I have to.  & they love it! Now I just have to hope my Tiny doesn't!

Ducks & Daddy...

When I married a hunter, I knew that one day I might have a son who liked that sort of stuff...

& boy, do I!

 The serious, "I'm totally into this" face.

Whatever Daddy does is so cool!

Holt loves the outdoors just as much as his daddy does.  

Red Barn...

If you could only get two cute faces looking at the same time...

aren't they precious!!?

Ren (left) & Rex (right)

Can you tell these are the "ewww, what is this under my legs" faces?

 his cheeks jiggle!  love it!!

 Adly was a good mommy to Julie...she even brought her to see the pumpkins.

 Us & Ren

 couldn't get babies to look!

 I carried Ren a lot.  He always loves my jewelry.

 Missy, Ren (jewelry again) & Mimi

 Julie baby picked this pumpkin!

 Mimi's loves...

 Mine...

Not sure what's up w/ cool guy's shirt.  It was buttoned when we got there!

 More time w/ Ren.

He was showing me what the gator does...chomp chomp!

Holt's a collector.  He was so happy that his Mimi offered to buy him a couple gourds.  He carried them around on our tour.

 Rex & I spent some time too.

Fun outing w/ my sweet nephews. 

Thanks for taking all the pictures, Uncle "JoJo".

Cookie Fun w/ Holt's class

I got to read AND do an activity w/ Holt's class. I LOVED it!!  Every minute!  Seriously made me miss teaching.  But, maybe the part I really love is seeing him w/ his class.  It's so special to be a part of that.  Feeling so blessed by this...

Here he is at his "blue pod".

 His buds, Rylee & Brandon

 See Minyoung there in the front.  Yep, he got lucky and got her in class again! ;)

Pumpkin Painting...

We painted pumpkins w/ our cutie friends today...

Adly's was jeweled & funky!

 Avery's was a girlie witch (w/ a wart on her nose, of course!).

 Cole decided on a "buck toothed Abe Lincoln".  Don't they look like twins?

(side note: he's a really cute kid...promise!)

 & Holt's was drawn and thought out first then created.

Love to watch and hear their creativity.  All do different...so fun!

Thanks J family for sharing our pumpkin painting tradition w/ us this year!

This is how we roll...

Happy Halloween!!

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Disney Day 3...& off to L.A.!!

On the last day we did lots of things, but this was one of the highlights!!  The Disney parade is magical!  I won't bore you w/ tons of parade pics...

 but, this Tiny's expression let's you know just how magical it was!

 We left Disney & headed to our friend's home in LA.  It's beautiful there!! 

We headed straight for the beach. 

Here we are at Santa Monica beach.

 Julie baby came too...of course!

Here are our sweet friend's we came to visit (sans baby Austin, who was resting w/ his Mimi away from the sand and surf). 

Kameron, Caleb & sweetie pie, Avery (who was not a fan of the ocean).

 The water was freezing, but THEY didn't care.  I put my toes in and that was enough.  But it was beautiful!

 Here's Caleb's Daddy, PaPa.  My kids loved him!

 Here is little Austin.  Precious baby boy!!

 We all kissed and hugged him as much as we could.

Adly and Avery were fast friends...

I'll show more later.  Hopefully sooner than I have been.  Can you believe I'm still living in August in blogland!?  See you soon!  Hope you're having a good October!