The first of many!

Today Mahlon and Sara Beth got to wear their costumes to school! Saturday we have a Halloween Party in our neighborhood, Sunday is the fall festival at church and Monday is Halloween and Trick-or-Treating! So there are about to be a lot of pictures on this blog with these precious costumes! Doc and Cheri brought these special surprises back from their trip to New York! And Aunt Lani found the shield and princess wand to match!
ATTACK! The cutest Knight in shining armor EVER!

Adorable little princess...She keeps changing her mind who she is...Rapunzal, Jasmine, Cinderella, Aurora...She can play the part perfectly in her royal ball gown!


I know I am partial, but aren't these the cutest trick-or-treaters you have EVER seen!
Sara Beth may never wear anything else again and we are going to have to watch Mahlon to make sure he doesn't take anyone out with his shield and sword!!

Bday Weekend!

Lani and Brian came to Madison to celebrate their birthdays this year! On Saturday we went to Starkville for the football game...child free!!! Thanks to Cheri! We had so much fun and got home just in time for Birthday Cake before the twins bedtime! They were sooooo excited to help blowout candles and Sara Beth was so proud the cake was pink!




It was a busy weekend that went by too quickly but we had fun and were so glad to finally get to see Aunt Lani's baby bump....
meet Braden Tyler!!


Thanks Cheri for keeping the twins busy all day so mommy and daddy could play in Starkville!

Pumpkin Decorating!

It didn't take too long to start decorating once we got home with our pumpkins. This year instead of carving pumpkins we painted them. Mahlon's is mostly red with a few splashes of Sissy's pink paint and Sara Beth's is pink with a little red mixed in! We added 4 green handprints at the top to look like leaves! These kiddos love to paint! I love watching them...they are so cute concentrating!

Pumpkin Patch!

We had so much fun at the pumpkin patch this year! This was our second year to go with our friends from Madison Heights! And Cheri got to go this year so I had a little extra help! We went on a long hayride and saw lots of cows, goats, donkeys, the catfish pond, sunflowers and of course lots of PUMPKINS!

Time for Fall!

It's cooling off and time to decorate! We had a big day of decorating and made our first scarecrow! Sara Beth named him "scarecrow, scarecrow" how orignal! Mahlon calls him "daddy" because he has on daddy's shoes and shirt! They Love him and talk to him daily, knock his head off, steal his hat...
They were big helpers stuffing his belly and sprinkling straw EVERYWHERE!


Then I made a few little signs for our yard!

Day in the Country

Day in the Country is the 1st Saturday in October every year and I think we have been the last 3 years! It is so much and this year was the most fun! Mahlon and Sara Beth really enjoyed all of the activities! And half of our neighborhood was there for us to play with!
A train ride with the Brabhams!
Sweet treats with daddy!

Bounce house with Kaden and Brycen!

Petting zoo!
Pony rides!

They had a blast and were worn out when we got home!

We headed to Soso for the weekend to visit Doc and Cheri and let daddy help Doc on the farm(lots of tractor riding.) The weather was great so most of our weekend was spent outside talking to cows, feeding the cows, and fishing!
Sara Beth thought she wanted to milk a cow until she saw it in real life...not quite like the cow at the children's museum...this one smelled and was pretty muddy!!!
She did LOVE playing in the hay with daddy! Something I did almost every Sunday afternoon growing up!

And the trip to Soso is never complete until we've riden the tractor and fed the cows!


Mahlon, Sara Beth and daddy filling up 12 sacks of feed to help Doc feed!
Helping Doc carry the bag of feed...what a good helper!
This girl is the animal whisperer...she can get just about any animal to do whatever she wants them to do!

I think Sara Beth is talking to Mater in this pic...They have their own cows named...Mahlon's are Lightening McQueen and Mater and Sara Beth's are Snow White, Cinderella and Princess!
I finally got a few updated family photos!

Random Pictures

Just catching up on a few random pics from my cell phone...not really in any order, but too cute to not post!
Wesley was in a 7 hour adventure race Labor Day weekend in Memphis...yes 7 HOURS!! Running, biking, navigating with a map and compass and a few surprise twists for 7 HOURS!!!

We managed to track daddy down a couple of times and this was at the end of the race...Mahlon and Sara Beth were "trail running" just like daddy! They were having a blast!
And here is daddy at the finish line!



We love playing with our sweet friend Kaden...what a cute little trio!



Mahlon and Sara Beth LOVE painting! This was one of my painting days that turned into one of their painting days! They wanted to paint on wood just like mommy! Mahlon painted lots of orange for Aunt Maggie since that is her favorite color and S.B. painted lots of pink for Doc and Cheri since that is S.B.'s favorite color!



Cheri and Doc brought Sara Beth a tea set from their vacation in New York. And now we have weekly tea themed tea parties. Sometimes they have dolls, or trucks or animals...this one was a Royal Tea Party with Briar Rose(Sleeping Beauty) and prince Phillip(her prince.) I just love their little imaginations!

This little princess loves bathtime...but she really loves wearing mommy's bath robe and hair towel afterwards!

First Day of School!

September 6th was a big day at our house!Sara Beth and Mahlon started a new school this year! They are going to Broadmoor Baptist Church and they LOVE it!! In fact they are sad on the days they don't go to school! It usually takes a few days to get out of them what they actually do at school but they are learning so much! They sing me the songs they learn and they come home with some of the cutest art projects! Something new for us is that they are in separate classes for the first time!! I think is was more difficult for me that first week than it was for them!

They were so excited to have new lunchboxes and backpacks for their new school!