baseball boy

Bryce's fall ball season ended on Saturday with donuts, trophies, and some great plays!

He loves having his daddy as coach.

We had a donut celebration before the game and the boys got their trophies.  

Bryce hit the first pitch at his first at bat and got on base.

His second at bat didn't disappoint either!

I don't have a video of it, but Bryce made a stellar play in the field that shocked everyone!  He caught a pop up at short stop and turned a double play on the runner leaving first.  It was AMAZING!  

emmy gets her ears pierced

When conversations about getting her ears pierced first started, Emmy wanted to wait until she was 11.  Over the last month, she has talked about it more and said she was ready to get them pierced.  

She was so excited for this day.  We waited for a day Jason was home because she wanted him to be there too.

She did an awesome job.  She never flinched or shed a tear!

She picked out pretty little flowers made up of different color stones.  

That face says it all.

We're doing a great job taking care of them and she's doing great so far!

harvest festival

Emmy had her harvest festival at school on Tuesday.  I came to watch her class rotate through stations and then we had a party in her classroom.  She decided her Ana costume from last year would be a better choice for moving around instead of her Sofia costume.  Smart girl.

A class full of girls.  Those poor boys!

It takes supreme concentration to balance a ping pong ball on a spoon!  Hers probably fell off 20 times, ha!

One of the moms read Spookley the Square Pumpkin and then they made their own Spookleys.

Emmy and her friends Lily and Emily.  She has enjoyed two play dates with Lily already.  They can't get enough of each other.

halloween

We waited until the last minute, but we finally got our pumpkin carved on Sunday morning before church.  Bryce said he wanted to go old school for the pumpkin this year.  I had to ask what he meant by that.  He said he wanted to design his own face instead of an elaborate design they usually go with.

This made for a quicker carving time and it turned out great!  Bryce did the eyes and nose and Emmy and Jason did the mouth.

We had our annual Trunk-or-Treat event at church last night.

Kelly made a fun photo booth for pictures.

We have done elaborate themes in the past, but because Emmy has a peanut allergy, I've decided to use the Teal Pumpkin Project theme each year.  We handed out prizes for the kids instead of candy!

Our new associate minister went all out for his debut at Trunk-or-Treat.  The kids were a big fan of his pirate ship!

This event is always a fun time for the kiddos!  

field trip

Bryce's class just started learning about the Powhatan Indians.  They went on a field trip yesterday to Henricus park where they recreate the life of the Indians for the kids to see.  

Here they were pretending to make fire and then scraping out the tree with shells to mimic the way Indians made their canoes.

It was quite fitting that Bryce was chosen to demonstrate how the Indians hunted.  

The bow and arrow was one way of hunting but they also use the tomahawk.  

You have to be the deer to get the deer!

Where's Bryce?

Later they used shells to remove the fur from the deer skin.

After the guided tour, we were able to explore around the James River.  This view with the Varina-Enon bridge in the background was pretty!

I enjoyed tagging along with Bryce for his fun day!

it's emmy's world

With Bryce in school and Emmy home with me two days a week and after preschool, we have a lot of time together!  I'm cherishing every minute because next year is going to be a hard reality when she goes to kindergarten.  

The week before last, Emmy finished up her last session of Big Dipper gymnastics class.  She moved up to the Shining Stars class that will hopefully help her progress as a gymnast!

We found ourselves at Target one day and she talked me into a cake pop from Starbucks! 

Emmy went to Taylor's school on Friday to see her receive an award.  Matching outfits were a must! 

We had a girls day on Friday and Emmy talked me into a train ride at the mall.  Turns out, she's never been on the train.  If she has, she was young enough that neither of us remember it!

We headed to Taylor's 7th birthday party that night at the SPCA.

The kittens were the cutest (even though I don't like cats), but luckily the kids didn't talk us into coming home with a new dog even though they are working hard on us!

We went to a Halloween themed birthday party for our friend Avery who turned 5 on Saturday!

My pretty little Sofia the First.

And you can't be that cute and have this much fun without getting your beauty sleep.  She curled up with me in Jason's chair on Saturday night and fell right to sleep.  These are the moments I cherish most.  

Bryce is staying busy with school and baseball and watching every second of the world series and every football game he can.  I'll work on getting some pictures of him soon!

pumpkin patch

Emmy had her school field trip to the pumpkin patch yesterday! Here she is with some of her sweet friends riding the covered wagon to the field.

Nana joined us for the fun!

It was a warm day for pumpkin picking so we opted for shorts rather than fun fall outfits!

She got to plant a pumpkin seed.  We'll see if it turns into anything!

Some of the kids from her class. 

We pet the cows and felt them our apple cores after snack.

The corn maze was my favorite part.

The corn kernel pit was Emmy's favorite part! 

One more attempt at a class photo!  

apple pickin'

One of our favorite things to do as a family is pick apples in the fall.  The orchard we normally go to has gotten so popular and over crowded.  We visited their sister orchard a few years back and fell in love with it!  It has all the things we love of the other orchard, but not as many people.  WIN!

Because it's smaller and a little later in the season, there weren't many apples in reach, but the kids had a blast climbing to find a few good ones!

Thank goodness for daddy!

The boys are a bit more adventurous!

Bryce's favorite part was climbing to get the apples.  

Granny smith for daddy and fuji for me and the kids!

Emmy and I took a picture similar to this a few years back and Jason thought to recreate it this year.  Love him!  And her!

Perfection!

Sweet girl.

Boo!

A rare photo of us!

We had the most perfect fall day!

And while the apples and the picking are fun, we really go for the apple cider donuts!  And over the years, the orchards have built tasting rooms for my favorite hard cider!  This year I also got pumpkin dump cake with vanilla soft serve.  Oh my was it good!

Happy Fall, Y'all!