Turnpike Teen Reunion

These two dudes are the ones who made our church youth group so awesome. Bobby Moore and Paul Dalton. I have nothing but great memories of these two. I recently arranged a youth group reunion and it was a great success! Bobby was already at our church preaching about his newest ministry called Bread for a Hungry World( http://www.breadforahungryworld.org/ ). We had lunch after church, looked at old pictures and scrapbooks, and just reminisced about old times. It was great. I will plan another one so people who couldn't make this one can come.

The old gang all together again!

The girl in purple is Cindy, Paul's wife. The blonde in the black shirt with the white collar is Jennifer, Bobby's wife. These ladies were both also very instrumental in our lives.

Of course, these two are still inseparable. That's Scotty-B.

Jeremy Kaps, Paul, and Jana Peden.

Wendy Ramirez (Willett), Candice Hankins (Brown), Jamie Mills (Peden), and Meredith Olivera (Walker).

We tried to get a group shot of the kiddos. You can imagine how that went!

Bobby, Mondo, and Eric.

It was nice to have Hank and Cindy Smith there with us too since they are now the ones leading our group.

The kids had a great time playing together. Ethan was red faced and sweating the entire time.

Scott, Brandon, Kim, and Izabella checking out some old pics from Camp Yaga.

Maggie (Summer's kiddo) made instant friends with Paul's youngest boy. They were hilarious.

Hank, Jeremy, April, and their baby.

We had a great turnout!

Wendy with her daughter Claudia holding Candice's tiny baby.

What a great group. Brandon High, Bobby, Dave Dosier and his wife, and Paul.

I snuck up on the girls with food in their mouth. Sarah Argo, Jennifer, and Kim High.

Our current gang...I think you know these people.

Brandon led a nice prayer before lunch.

The group of momma's with their kids. Kinda weird to think how much we've all grown up!

Just the momma's.

Happy Halloween!

...and a happy Halloween it was! It was nice to not worry about working this Halloween since it fell on a Sunday. We went to our church's carnival which was a lot of fun. I think I only took two pictures there. All Ethan wanted to do was the bounce houses and the cake walk. Caleb just wanted to eat a hot dog and get balloon animals. After that we ran to our house for trick-or-treating. We had a large group of families from our church join us. We made it around the block then back to our house to pass out candy. Ethan always loves to do that and this year Caleb joined in too. Unfortunantly it was a school night so we didn't pass out candy very long before bedtime snuck up on us.

This was the best pic I could get of the two of them. Ethan is Iron Man and Caleb is Captain America.

Ethan kept this perfectly laid out all day just in case he needed to jump into it fast!

The hat was my favorite part of the costume. Of course he wouldn't wear it out of the house.

The Iron Man pose.

Sweet little Captain America.

Being Iron Man is very serious business!

Trick-or-treating at Mr. Lynn's house (our across the street neighbor).

Poor little critters. I realized after they got back from trick-or-treating that they hadn't had dinner! They had a picnic on the dining room floor while waiting to pass out candy.

Waiting on the front porch to pass out candy...or eat some candy.

Caleb eating his hot dog at the carnival.

Ethan doing the cake walk. He won twice!

Pumpkin Patch

The kids were so excited to go to the pumpkin patch this year. Last year Ethan broke his arm the week of Halloween so we didn't get to go. It was a beautiful day and Mondo was able to take off early. We had a great family evening there then took the kids to Chilis for dinner. Who needs the weekends to have fun? :-)

If there is a bouncy house Ethan is going to be in it! He LOVES these things.

Ethan was such a good big brother. Caleb was getting upset and saying "I stuck!" and Ethan came to his rescue and pushed him up the ladder so he could slide.

Ethan also helped Caleb on the merry-go-round. I didn't want Caleb to go on it because the big kids were spinning it really fast. Caleb hopped right on and Ethan put his arms around him and held on for dear life...but they loved it.

Pretending to drive a tractor.

This was a pretend tractor.

My favorite part of the whole place is all of these cute cut outs. They are great for photo ops...if your kid actually looks at the camera and smiles.

Ethan's newest thing he is into is Star Wars.

Caleb was actually yelling in this picture and Ethan was holding onto him by the shirt.

Caleb refused to pose behind this pumpkin. It would've been a cute picture.

I'm making this a yearly picture so I can compare.

Suprise...Caleb didn't want to pose.

Phineas and Ferb!

No kids in this pic but I liked the cut outs. Someone has some great talent!

Giving Woody a high five. This is where Caleb spent most of his time.

Hugging Jessie.

There were even some superheroes!