Family pictures gone crazy

On Saturday we went to Lucy park and took our yearly family pictures. We have never hired a photographer. David's pretty good at it finding a good spot. The kids are getting used to smiling at a timed camera. Ashlee's not, but she won't smile even with someone there trying to get her to smile. I decided to post some out takes. We had one goofy picture and sometimes David forgot to set the time and it just took when we weren't ready, one was pretty funny. Here you go....


























The good pictures are going out in our Christmas card. If you don't normally get a Christmas card from us, email us and we'll get you one.

birthday surpise

I have a great husband!!! He decided throw me a surprise party for my big 30th! He told me he was going to surprise me for our date the Saturday before my birthday. He didn't tell me what we were going to do, but I figured part of it was going out to dinner and I thought maybe to a local play or something. After we left dinner I had to be blind folded. We ended up going back to our house full of people that sang "happy birthday" to me. He invited all my friends(and their husbands) by a inviation a couple a weeks ago. It was a blast, we talked and played games. Everyone got babysitters for their kids. So it was adults only. I had a great time. The only complaint was it was too short, but thats life. Here's a picture of me next to my birthday sign.

Pumpkins away!

Halloween
The kids and their cousins had a blast trick or treating. Our neighborhood is the spot to go trick or treating so there are a lot of people out. Alden (David's brother in law) commented that it reminded him of the trick or treating on "E.T."

Here is a pictures of the kids in their costume....except I forgot Ashlee's cat ears. She wouldn't keep them on.





Pumpkin Bombing
On Saturday, we went to one of the airports in town to watch their annual pumpkin bombing competition. David's boss flew his Russian airplane (a Yak for those who are familiar). One of our neighbors had a contraption set up that dropped multiple pumpkins along with a few smoke bombs of different colors. The kids had a blast cheering when a pumpkin made it on the target.

Ben liked how the pumpkins"blew up."



Ashlee clapping


Ben took some pictures too.

Aubrey with an airplane taxiing by

David, Elaine & Mara