Warm weekend (75 degrees)

Kelsi on the tire swing at "Daddy's Park"

Kelsi is way to big for the baby swing, but she insisted on swinging next to her brother.
Kole loves his grandma!

Doug took Kelsi "hunting"~when I asked Doug if she was quite he said yah quiet as a freight train! That's our Kelsi!

Kelsi as Snow White~Kole as a Monkey!

Tuckered out!

See 2 more fake smiles...

Great-Grandma Aldora, Kelsi, Kole, Nancy, Gage and Taryn

My favorite season...Fall!

Kelsi is into this fake smile thing, then when you tell her to smile good she says I am!

Halloween Party at Daycare

Kelsi's cowboy friend, Brodi

Kelsi and all her friends. She is far right as Snow White with her mouth wide open!

Kole with his pumpkin. T-shirt from grandma that said Baby's 1st BOO!

Kole is 9 months!

Practicing to walk with his "mailbox" as Kelsi calls it. I think it must help to open his mouth!

Swinging at Horace Mann Park-look at that smile! We don't see it too much...

End of October and still at the park with no coat on...

October

Kole 9 months

Gage 4 months
Kelsi in the spider hat she made at preschool

Kole helping daddy

Bear Country Fall Festival

Kelsi and Mommy

Kelsi and Daddy

First time mommy let her get her face painted...

Shriner's Hat

We took Kole to see the a Shriner Doc that came to town from Minneapolis to double check his hips were OK. They were very kind, gave him his own Shriner hat and the best news of all is he is just fine! That was a ton of relief since he pediatrician dropped the "his hips are tight and that may mean he has cerebral palsy" bomb on us at his 6 month well child. We have worried for 3 months for nothing. Wonderful docs we have right?

Random October shots

Kole saying hi to Ciara and Kiah outside!
Kole eating his first biter biscuit

Kelsi got to sleep in my bed with me for a few weeks while we "taught" Kole to cry it out at night. They share a room and I didn't want Kole to keep Kelsi up. So each night I went to bed to read my PEOPLE magazine she would ask for hers to read too!

Loves to crawl outside and eat leaves!

Daddy reading after bath

Annual Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

Kelsi
Kole

My 2 favorite kids!

Kole 8 months

Kelsi 3 1/2 years

Cousin Taryn's 3rd Birthday!

Kelsi
Kelsi and the birthday girl, Taryn!

Kole fell asleep on the living room floor. This is a very rare sight, him sleeping...

My mom's surprise 60th birthday party!

Siblings: Carol, mom and Steve

Renee, Asher and mom

Ella

Carol and Asher
We decided to have a surprise birthday party for mom this year! Her birthday is on October 7th so we decided to have the party the weekend before so she wouldn't suspect anything. Andy and Erin told her they were coming the weekend after her birthday to celebrate. Little did she know what we were planning. Andy, Erin and the kids came Friday night and stayed at our house. We had them park their van behind our neighbor's garage so in case mom came over she wouldn't see their van. Saturday we got up and started getting ready for the big party. I had to call mom and tell her that Kelsi and Doug were sick with the flu (lie)so she shouldn't come over (she stops by frequently) since we were worried she would come over and the surprise would be ruined. She told me she would still come over and borrow my carpet scrubber so I could just leave it out front. I told her it was broke and I would bring it to her when Doug fixes it. (lie) So around party time I called her and said I was now sick and if she could come and get Kole. Of course she agreed and when she pulled up I met her outside and opened up the garage and SURPRISE! There was all of her immediate family waiting for her arrival! She was very shocked! She ended up having to run home since she left something cooking in the oven (go figure!). We had a nice night with good food and great family. Andy had made a video of her first 60 years so we all squished in my living room to watch it. It turned out amazing (thanks Andy). Oh yah, I had to go to her house without her knowing and go through about 20 of her photo albums to get pictures for the video. After she kept wondering why I wanted to know what she was doing every night after school. Hope you enjoyed your birthday, mom! We love you!

Lyndee and Kole
Mom with her cake and the granddaughters patiently waiting!

Andy decided we needed to put 60 candles on her cake! Glad we were in my garage!

Birthday Girl!

Mom with her 5 grandchildren. Not the best picture, but you get what you get with 5 kids under the age of 5!

Mom with her 2 kids who are very lucky to have such a great mom! Love ya mom!

Genevieve-4

Kelsi-3 1/2

Ella-3
Dress up time

Mom trying not to cry!

Renee with Kole and Lyndee in the background

Ella and Genevieve at the Pumpkin Festival downtown. Kelsi didn't want to ride the train with the girls.