Fun Week!

We started off the week with Mother/Son date Knight at Chick Fil-a with some friends from church and of course Asher and Micaiah. There are so many boys at our church. I really have to watch Chase after church on Sundays because he thinks he can run around with the big boys. 

Then my friend Laura was in town visiting several friends. We got to hang out a few times. Last time we saw them we were pregnant with Reese and Chase. Now they are big 3 year olds. They were cute to watch play.

Jacob and Kate are about 4 months apart. Hopefully we will be stationed with them again!

Then on Thursday we went about an hour away to a pumpkin patch. Thanks to my blog stalking, I knew a friend from KSU (we were in the same sorority) lived about an hour away. I've been trying to meet up with her since early this summer and this was the first chance. We had a great time catching up. It was a beautiful day and the place was a lot of fun.

The train ride was extra but of course we had to go on it for Chase.

 Our attempt at a family picture. Chase was not having it. 

Inspecting all the pumpkins.

This is the perfect one, mom!

Getting buried in the corn.

Chase and Isaac are only about a week apart.

So glad Brad was able to take off and join us. It was a great day out with the family (topped off with Chipotle!!).

Grandpop

We've had grandpop here for the past 10ish days. He's been helping us get our yard ready to plant grass, taking down tress and trimming all (and there are lots) of bushes. We also snuck away to Cheesecake factory with just one kid, went on a motorcyle ride and went out to dinner with friends after seeing Courageous last night. Very good movie by the way. I would recommend it - just bring some tissues! We've also watched a lot of football. How about KSU being 4-0??? Go Cats!

Thanks grandpop for everything. We will miss you!

Here are the guys getting the yard ready to seed.

Hoping for grass in the spring!

Great picture of grandpop and his buds!

Fair

We went to the county fair on Friday night with grandpop and some good friends. Chase loved all the animals. Just not smiling by them.

Chase and Abigail getting restless during the acrobatics.

At the 4-H exhibit.

We decided Chase could do one thing. He wanted to ride the horse. 

Watching the pig races before the rain started coming down and we had to run out to the van.

Eating popcorn and relaxing after a fun evening.

Bubbles

Both my boys were blowing some good bubbles this afternoon.

We are ready to spend more time outside. Just wish the humidity would go down

Old

Thanks for all the birthday calls, texts and messages on facebook. The exciting part of the day was K-State's big win over Miami. We are so pessimistic here. Up until the last minute we had no faith in our team. What a game though! We actually had plane tickets to go down to the game in Miami with the boys. We cancelled the tickets earlier in the week and it worked out since Brad didn't get his evaluation ride done we couldn't have gone anyway. It would have been fun, just maybe not with a 3 year old and 3 month old!

I started the day with a 5K run with a friend from church. I've been running a little bit lately and was curious how I would do. It was awful! Ran it in over 30 minutes and it was hard!

My cheering crew.

My dad came down last night to help us get our yard ready to seed. A big project was taking down a tree that has been leaning since hurricane Irene. After a week of off and on rain it was leaning some more. Figured it was time to take it down before it fell down.

Watching the KSU game!

For dessert, instead of cake I asked to try out the new frozen yogurt place in town. It was pretty cool, you could pick your own yogurt and topping then pay based on the weight.

Special Visitor

For the past few days we've had a very special visitor. Bryony is a friend from England who is going to college here in the states. She found time in her schedule to come down for a few days. She is very brave and took the greyhound bus here! Her family took care of all of us military wives in England so we were so excited that we could (in a very small way) return the favor.

One day we went out to Cliffs of the Neuse state park. Had a great time besides getting eaten alive by mosquito's. 

One night we went over to the Strohmeyers pizza and fire. The kids weren't too interested in it but the adults enjoyed it. The guys even put the kids to bed and us girls stayed up talking.

Jacob and his friend James, who is 2 months younger.

Bryony is an art major in college so we took her to help us paint some pottery. Julie was super brave and made some Christmas gifts for the grandparents.

 I just had Chase paint a few ornaments.

The little boys under the table during lunch.

Thank you so much for coming! Hope to see you again before too long!

3 Months

A few days ago Jacob turned 3 months! I am a little late with pictures but here are a few. 

I had to try to get a couple of pictures in their big brother little brother t-shirts.
Thanks grandmom for the shirts!

Finally, I needed a couple pictures of me with my boys. We need to get some family pictures done one of these days. I am already starting to think about Christmas cards. Will the post office be around to mail them out?? I don't know what I would do without Christmas cards :)

I almost didn't want to post these because I feel like this blog is so boring now. Now that we are back in America and in a routine there isn't much to write about. Brad is almost done with the I course and we have some trips planned this fall. Hopefully that will give me something to blog about. Otherwise if I don't post, its because not much is going on!