Soccer

Here's a few pictures of the kids from soccer. They both had fun and played hard. Ethan is getting a little better at being more aggressive and paying attention. He had a good coach that taught them a lot. Madelyn played hard. She also tried out the goalie position for the first time and loved it. She did a great job at it too. I didn't like her playing goalie...it made me a nervous wreck. Yes I'm one of those parents who get into the game (in a good yelling way :) )

Punkinaze

Here's our annual trip to the local corn maze. The kids had been dying to go to the Punkinaze since it opened in Sept. It was pretty cold so we didn't take Emma. Maddie and Ethan had a good time trying to constantly hide and scare us in the corn. What is it about walking around in corn that instantly creeps you out. I guess I just have to think more Field of Dreams and not Children of the Corn (or crazy nanny for you OTH fans). Although Field of Dreams is still dead people walking in the corn....

Sorry about the blurry pics!

Cute Little Red Chair

Here is my new photography prop to play around with. Isn't it cute!

P.S. I'm talking about the chair, although Emma is cute too!

More Photos

Here are the latest two pictures I did for my assignment for my photography class. It took me awhile but I really like Ethan in these two pictures. These are straight out of the camera. I definitely have the photography bug. I think I'm a little obsessed!

Photos

I'm taking an online photography class and I am slowly learning how to shoot in manual. It's frustrating and exciting all at the same time. This has been a great class and I've learned a lot. I took Emma and Maddie to Jenna's (Chad's grandpa's place) and played around with the camera there. Here is a fun picture that I've played with in Photoshop afterwards.

Fall

A few weekends ago we took drive up the canyon to look at leaves and take some pictures. It was fun hanging out with the family. We went on a little hike. The kids were loving every minute of it especially Emma. Here are a few of my favorite pictures. I'll add a few more later.

Staple Drama

Just an update on the staples. After a week of having them in we went back to the doctors office to have them removed -no big deal. Wrong! One staple came out just fine but the other one was stuck. I mean really stuck. They pulled and pulled and pulled all the while Ethan was crying like I've never seen him cry before. He usually has a high tolerance for pain. They could not get it out. They numbed it a few times, tried to cut it in the middle, and numbed again. The scissors and tools they had in the office couldn't get under the staple and cut it. After almost two hours in the office, lots of tears, two doctors, numerous nurses, numbing the head three times including litocane and one dollar store wire cutters they got it out. Yes they had to run to the dollar store and buy some wire cutters! Turns out when the staple went in the ends turned out instead of slightly inward. During all of this Emma was there running around, pulling things out, crying for Ethan, getting shots, crying for herself, getting in the garbage, etc. etc. etc. I was exhausted by the time we left. All is well now and healing nicely but not a fun time! The doctor felt awful and called the next day asking about Ethan. She said it stressed her out that whole day! Here is a picture I took with my cell phone.