We had a great Halloween

We had a lot of fun with our old small group on Halloween. Ky and Anthony hosted a little trick-or-treating/guitar hero shin-dig. Caleb was so excited to go trick-or-treating with his friend Spiderman (Peyton). They ran from house to house like mad men - but were very polite and made sure to say THANK YOU at each house. Here's a couple pics of Robin Hood and GI JOE:

and then Caleb attacking our friend Heather with his very manly pink vampire teeth:

Pumpkin Patch

Well, we've had 2 decent snows already. Needless to say, the outdoor pumpkin patches are a little muddy and not doing so well. One of the local garden centers had an indoor pumpkin patch with games, snacks, face painting, pumpkin painting, and photo ops. Here are a few pics from our time there:

October 5th and it snowing!!

Ethan tackling Jon in the snowEthan having a little taste
Throwing snowballs
Caleb showing off the snowball he just made
Caleb throwing snowballs at daddy
Ethan throwing snowballs at daddy
Ethan making a snow pile on the table
Our front yard
Our neighbor's tree fell down while we were playing outside
My boys
Caleb and Gavin

misc pics from the summer

We went to the county fair and Caleb and Ethan both had a great time feeding the goats.

And Caleb loved the rides with his friends Hailey and Abby
Caleb and friend Gavin had taken a bath together then ran out yelling "Nakey boys, nakey boys!!" and danced all around. But then we made them put towels on for the picture:
Nothin' like a good 'ol swim in the lake in your undies.

We're having a baby....

that's right. At least one more Gross baby in the mix. I'm barely pregnant, but you know Jon and I....too excited not to share the news with everyone. My best guess is that I'm due end of April....right before it gets too hot ;)

Ethan's first haircut

My baby looks like such a big boy now!!

Boys First Camping Trip

We just got back from taking the boys on their first camping trip. It was a success!! We went with 5 other couples from our small group. Caleb had so much fun finding sticks (of course), playing with his best pal Peyton, hiking, sleeping in the tent with daddy and just getting plain old dirty for 3 days straight. Ethan did pretty good too - much better than I had thought. Here are a few pics of our adventures:

Gotta love boys!

Here's our little anecdote for the day, enjoy:

Caleb totally flashed our elderly neighbor out for her morning walk. I pulled his pants back up and told him that wasn't ok. He pulled them back down and said "I want to show her this!" Gotta love kids :)

Our new diner

Cheers!

I can't believe it's been so long....

I just realized it's been 2 months since I've posted anything. Guess it's been pretty crazy around here. Caleb got pretty sick again, and now Ethan is teething. This round of teething is much harder than any other has been. I don't know what his deal is. He just cries all the time. So we're outside a lot...that's the one thing that seems to consistently distract him. But it was COLD yeserday and is not supposed to be very warm the next couple of days either. Guess we can't put those winter coats away quite yet. Here's a few picks from Easter and the park this last month: