ShiShi and PopPop

Carrig has given GiGi a new name and it's pretty darn cute:

Love it. Consider her name changed officially :) mom, you're cool with it right??

They came down back at the beginning of October for the Conway fall festival and we had another wonderful weekend. The boys just die for their grandparents .......and their puppies ;)

The coolest part ab this particular weekend was that my dad taught Declan how to hit a baseball. I loved watching them play outside together and I love that forever we will be able to say "Pop Pop taught you how to do that!"

They used a tennis racket and rugby ball but he finally got the timing down :) and we play almost daily now and he's getting pretty good. Again....dec, Pop Pop taught you how to do that:

The rest of the weekend we just hung out and enjoyed time together. Love love love that my boys love love love their ShiShi and PopPop... And Maddie and Chopper.































































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Halloweeny!

"Best!!! Halloween!!! Ever!!!" Says Declan as he fist pumped (no lie) walking back to our car from our Halloween adventure.

We started the night before (better late than never ok?!?!) by carving our big pumpkin. The boys had painted the little ones awhile ago....









Declan thought the jack o lantern was so cool. Side note: constantly reminded how cool life is when u watch it thru your kids eyes....


The morning of Halloween Declan had his fall festival at school which is AWESOME. They just do such a good job, face painting, musical chairs, tattoo parlor, jumpy house, animals to feed, horses to ride, carnival games etc etc etc. its just awesome. Both boys had a blast






























I made the boys a smoothie filled with lots of kale before we left
To go trick or treating bc I was not feeling good ab the amount of candy that was ab to be consumed ;)



Love themselves a smoothie. #mommytrick



We went out to barefoot landing again with kaylie, jax, Blake and Lilly and had "the best Halloween everrrrrrr". They trick or treated to all the store/restaurant owners then we had a big feast at the pizza place. It was a total sh*t show I'm not even gonna lie and all the parents......we just had a beer and laughed bc the kids were insane and loud but oh they had fun. Another awesome, successful Halloween in the books:





























Cinderella, pumpkin, dinosaur, duck, dragon, zebra. Best crew ever.








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America

So Declan just popped out with this the other day. I couldn't believe it! His school is so awesome and seriously every day he learns something new and important (I guess that's what happens at school huh) but I was so proud that's a lot to remember for a little buddy and he recites it like a champ!

Paul and I both want very much to raise strong boys who are proud to be American and I'm so glad his school has started this early and engraining it into his head.

Yesterday was Veteran's Day and we had a neighbor that came back from overseas over the weekend so Paul had the really good idea of having the boys make cookies for him and bringing them over.



Deckys a big helper when it comes to cooking so he and I had a fun afternoon making and decorating these and when carrig woke up we took them over. And it was really a cool moment ( i teared up of course) but I tried hard to explain what we were doing and why it's so impt to thank and respect members of our military so decky went over and said "thank you for fighting our country".....SO close :) but Michael (our marine neighbor) was so unbelievably nice and gracious and actually asked if he could shake Declan's hand. That's when I teared up. Here was this awesome kid (he was so young I couldn't believe he is in the marines) who had been away for 8 months in combat and he was just incredibly nice and wonderful to my little boy, thanking us when all we wanted to do was thank him.

It was a cool moment and I'm thankful to Paul for being such an awesome dad and putting together ideas that drive home the values etc we are trying to teach the boys.

Go America.

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