Carving Pumpkins

A New Addition to The Family

I'd like you all to meet the new addition to the family. For Casey's birthday they bought him a dog. Her name is Bella. Andrea named her after Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Does anyone see a trend with how Annie names her dogs? Ariel, Bella.... Hmmm. I think someone likes Disney names. Anyway here are a bunch of random pictures from Mom and Dad's house the day that we celebrated Casey's birthday. A new puppy is rather like a child. It goes everywhere Annie and Casey go, has to have a babysitter when it can't go with them... Good practice for the future, I'd say.

Here Bella is getting to know her grandpa.


I think they are going to be good buddies.

Ah, nothing is so cozy as cuddling up with Grandpa for a little shut-eye.
Here are Riley and Adam playing with her on the floor of the living room.
I think this is my favorite picture. You have to look closely at the dog. Do you notice the tongue? Probably the cutest, funniest thing I have ever seen. All the girls want to french kiss Adam. We should probably tell her that Adam's not big on long distance dating, plus there is the whole inter-species thing. It probably won't work out. Sorry Bells.

Riley couldn't leave her alone long enough to eat so half-way through Casey's birthday brunch this is where we found them.

After a long afternoon of playing with Riley, Bella is worn out so she goes to find her favorite napping buddy. Here are Grandpa and Bella chillin' on the couch in Moms craft room.

Riley thought sleeping with a dog looked like fun so we set him up a little bed on the floor and let Bella curl up with him.

After a long day of fun, its back to Momma...

So cozy...

So snuggly...

Getting drowsy...

Ahhh.. Back to sleep.

Riley's Halloween Craft Project

Riley got ahold of the template skeleton I made for Halloween Hangman
for his preschool, glued the pieces together then glued them on a
water bottle. This is the finished prduct.

Riley's Soccer

Here are a bunch of pictures from Rileys soccer season. I know, I know, it was in September. I'm a little late in getting these up. But I hope you enjoy. Riley had a lot of fun but had a hard time keeping his hands off the ball and staying on his feet. He and a little boy from our ward had the best time playing together. Their favorite game was to bump into each other and fall down. I can imagine that the coach and Reed were probably pretty frustrated. Myself, I have a much more relaxed atttitude. Sports schmortz. (Sorry Reed.) But I still like watching him play even if I know nothing about the games. I feel a little out of my element sitting on the sidelines yelling Go Riley! Do -- something -- with the ball!?! My vernacular is a bit limited. Anyway enough of my rambling... Enjoy!









Here is a clip from their first practice, learning how to bounce balls off their head and knees, etc.

A HALLOWEEN TRADITION

Even though we went to the BIG RED BARN a couple of weeks ago with Rachel we went again this week to get our official Halloween pumpkins to carve. This is such a fun family tradition. The ride out is fun and of course picking the pumpkin requires a lot of thought and vision to get just the right one. Afterwards it was back to Grandma's house for Pizza.