Pumpkin Patch and a picnic

This morning Roman and I headed out to meet some of our MOPS friends.  First we played at the park and had a picnic lunch.  We then headed over to the pumpkin patch for pumpkins and pictures.  I took so many fun pictures of the kids today it is daunting to try and only pick a few.  I'll do my best to keep it to less than 100 10.

Baby Bear splashing drinking in the water fountain.  

Griff's girl, Emma, making a move on Baby Bear.  

No wonder my boys are ga-ga over this one!  

Next up.... the pumpkin patch.

We hurried up and took a group shot of the kid.
You know before the wheels fell off!  

This little beauty was with us too.
 She was catching up on a little beauty rest during the group shot. 

Hummm.... desicions, decisions.

You say pay per pound?  I'll pick the BIGGEST one.  Pretty please?

Claiming their prize as we headed out.

He fell asleep moments later on the ride home.  Sucker still in hand.

A House Divided

I am a graduate of Louisiana State University.  He is a graduate of West Virginia University.  Needless to say it is great fun when our teams match up for a game of football!  There is so much build up in our home leading up to this game.  Satch works himself up and spews out "facts" about his team vs. my team.  A boy can dream, right?  

Last year the game was at Tiger Stadium.  We went to the game and did it BIG.  We drove the RV down and made a weekend out of it.  We had the pleasure of joining some of our favorite Tiger fans, Craig and Jenni,  in their awesome seats.  This year Satch had class on game day.  Because of his school schedule we were not able to make it to Morgantown, WV so had to settle on the next best thing.  The big screen at our house.  Satch and Craig have been having a "healthy" debate over whose team would reign supreme over the past few weeks.  

The Vicknair family arrived at our house before Satch got home from school.  Craig had just enough time to display Mike the Tiger in our yard to greet the incoming Mountaineer.  It was so much fun!  

Here we are in front of Mike the Tiger.

Considering that Griff and Baby Bear belong 50% to their Daddy I felt it was only fair to make LSU/WVU shirts for them to wear.  I think Satch was quite surprised that I played fair on this.  I am sure he thought he would get home to his boys in head to toe LSU gear!  

  

Here we are with our favorite Tiger Family.
Needless to say Satch was seriously outnumbered!

Baby Bear enjoying a little swing time.

Pre-game fun in the back yard.
These 2 are so competitive.
They were competing on the Lil Tikes basketball goal.

These 2 right here.  T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!!

Half-time munchies!

 After it was all said and done.  The Tigers won 47-21.  The Mountaineers fought the good fight, but just couldn't hang with the mighty Tigers.  Sorry Satch!  At least you went down to the team that you cheer for every other day out of the year!  Geaux Tigers!

Satch, the ultimate team player!

Life with friends~ Waiting on a Princess

A few days ago some friends asked our family to join in on very special celebration.  They have been waiting for 1 year on the adoption of their African princess, Zoe.  The celebration included 12.5 boys 7 years and under and 1 baby girl.  Even better we blew it out at a semi-fancy and romantic fondue restaurant.  13.5 kids, fire, hot cheese and chocolate?  AWESOME and count us in!

I brought along an arsenal of goodies.  Coloring books, colors, cars, paper, games on the phone, and candy.  Believe it or not the night went entirely too smoothly!  Next time we take on Commander's Palace!

The boys just realized that they were being handed skewers swords.

Nate and Brian, the birthday boy :)

Parker, the only baby girl of the evening.
Crazy huh?!?

Me and Roman.

Ms. Ana, Jonah, and Micah.

Micah blowing out his birthday candle.
Oh yeah, we also celebrated 3 very special birthdays too!

Can.Not.Get.Enough.Chocolate.

Griff

Chocolate 'stache

Fo'real! 

Baby Bear modeling his new shirt.

The happiest baby that I know.  Nothing but smiles and giggles!

As we were wrapping up the evening.

Thanks friends for a wonderful evening.  We love doing life with all of you!  Looking forward to the next big celebration when you bring Zoe home!    

Luck of the Irish?

I am Cajun

and Satch is German.

Irish???

Not so much, 

but that did not stop us from 

getting our green on 

at the St Patty's Day parade.

We went out and waited over 2 hours. 

I guess there was too much "kissing" along the way.

We bailed before the parade reached us.

:(

Oh well...

It was fun anyway!

And we wait...

It was a beautiful afternoon,

to spend with the family.

We met up with this cutie along the way!

Irish... nope.  Cute...yeap.

That smile melts me every time!

G and his girl Emma sharing chips. Awww.....

Thanks Emma for sharing your snacks with us. 

 PS~ Cristina is awesome at a parade.  She comes prepared like a Girl Scout.  

Me... not so much!