AZ

Well................ Brin, Brooke, and I made a little escape the last two weeks and went to AZ. It has been a while since I have been able to help with shipping, which is they reason why we headed out. It was so fun to be there. It was sad not to get to round up in Alpine, but it was still fun and interesting, especially with two little girls. I think GrandDan, Virginia, Grammy, and Poppop got the raw end of the deal since they were the ones mostly watching the girls anytime they couldn't ride with us. Brindi's favorite part was riding the four wheeler with GrandDan and Brooke ABSOLUTELY loved the cows, horses, Jag and Sadie (the dogs), she would laugh and squeal every time she saw them and if she was crying all we had to do was ask her where Jag and Sadie were. Brindi had a ball playing with Taryn and Bryant and wasn't sure what to do with herself after they left. Uncle Sterling spoiled her the whole time by watching whatever she wanted and taking for her on a ride on the four wheeler. Brin also got pretty good at riding Shorty by herself and when she rode with me she didn't really complain except she did say after riding for a couple of hours that her legs and bum hurt. She also spent two days at school with Grammy. She had so much fun and the kids in the class were so nice, especially the little boys that have little sisters. They made sure she had fun and that no one hurt her :)

Brooke and Shorty

Sterling and Brooke

Brin and the cattle truck

Brin at Grammy's School drawing a bat for Halloween

Brin and the boys at recess

Brin and Shorty

Brin and the new baby calf

Bry, Brin and Taryn eating lunch on the horse trailer

Brin and Bry playing in the water

Taryn and Brin playing Rapunzel

Bry, Brooke, Brin, and Taryn playing in the bath

Brooke at the park

Brin, Brooke, and I with our haunted gingerbread house

Brin and her "scary" face

Grammy and Brin

LU Homecoming

It was homecoming week at Lindenwood this past weekend. We ventured out for the parade and Brindi was sure happy we did.

The theme was "blazing the trail west," so all the floats had a western theme.

This is the Campus Y float. I am the faculty advisor for this student organization.

Check out that basket of candy!

We were at the beginning of the parade and so Brindi was spoiled. It also helped I knew several of the students but either way, Brindi was a happy child!

Counting out all her candy. She only had a couple pieces of gum and said she couldn't eat anymore until she counted all her candy. I think we are going to pass on Halloween this year...she obviously has enough candy. However, I doubt think she will let us skip it. She has been talking about Halloween for a couple months now.

Pumpkin Patch

Friday afternoon we decided to take a trip to the pumpkin patch in Chesterfield. We went with our neighbors who have a little boy about the same age as Brindi. Most of the big pumpkins were not picked yet and they had a lot of rows but apparently no where near as many as they will later in October. It was a fun day for the kids though as they ran all over the place looking at pumpkins of multiple colors, gourds, scarecrows, old tractors and fire engines, corn mazes, a haunted shop, farm animals, and what Brindi was probably more excited for three playgrounds.

Our cute little scarecrow.

Playing on the old tractor.

Pumpkins as big as Brooke.

Playing on the old fire truck.

Livin the life in St. Louis.

Brindi picking out her pumpkin.

Brindi taking a picture of her weird dad.

Brindi running with the other kids.

Ride that pumpkin!

Fitting in with all the other baby pumpkins.

Wishing she was back on the farm.

Not fitting in with all the gourds.

Scarecrow Bob and Brindi.

Children of the Korn.

Our sweet skeleton.

The mastermind, Death.

Peaches

Right before one of my great friends/running partner Rachel moved we decided to do one last play date together. Out in New Melle there is a little farm that has a few different orchards. So the last week they were doing peaches we headed on over. The people were so nice and gave all of the girls a peach to eat (just to get them hooked I think). Brin had a great time picking and had to have her own box. Lucky for me she was more interested in all the "good ones" on the ground and not on the trees. They were some of the best peaches I've ever tasted, so I was glad we had enough left over to get a few jars of peaches.

Brin picking/eating peaches

Brin and I

Kami, Kayla, and Brindi

Brooke and the peach tree

Brooke finally getting to eat some...she absolutely loved them

My little canning helper

Labor Day

Labor day was pretty laid back for the most part. There really is not a lot of festivities for the weekend. Everyone seems to go to the lake! There was a parade downtown but we decided not to go. We did however spend a couple hours at the park.

Brindi walked the whole way to the park while pushing her baby in the stroller.

Brooklyn loved swinging as you can tell by the smile.

Girls swinging together.

Brindi loves this camelback ripoff and always wants to pack it around while sucking on the water tube. I keep telling her it is a little big but that does not seem to matter to her:)

Brooke's Stats....

We went to the Doctor this week and this is what we learned....

Brooke....

Weighs 15.5 lbs (14th%)

Is....

25 1/2 inches long(14th%)

Has a Head circumference of...

42.6 cm(30th%)

Brooke has become quite the grabber and loves food, as long as it isn't baby food. She really loves peas and hates bananas. She cries if you leave her alone in a room and loves to laugh when Brindi chases her around the house or plays peek a boo with her. We love her more and more each day especially since she finally started sleeping through the night :)

A visit from Adam

Our nephew Adam came to visit us as he was promised he would see the Red Sox in person as his Christmas present. Luckily for us the only dates that worked for him were when the Red Sox were playing Kansas City. So he flew out and we took him to the arch and around St. Charles and the Lewis and Clark landmarks. We then spent the rest of the weekend in Kansas City. We saw two great games and in between games we saw the church sites in Independence and Liberty. Sad to say we only took a couple pictures and didn't even get one with Adam in it. But we do promise he did come:) He did have a lot of pictures taken.

Pictures Part 6...Utah

Pictures of my beautiful wife taken by Brindi.

Another pictures by Brindi. Quite the cute little Brooke.

Brindi and her baby.

Her first mutton.

Going it alone.

She did a great job riding even though we think we scarred her for life:(