Ryder's 4th Birthday

I just realized that I put Happy 5th Birthday Ryder on that sign... I'm not changing it.  😁

Annual Nipper photo.  I'll have to make a collage of all the years in the past for ya!



On his birthday morning, he wanted a cereal bar for breakfast, so we put candles in it!







He wanted a PJ Masks party!  Time to get creative!







This was great!!!!



















Big hugs for Great Grandpa Leffler after blowing out his candle!

Bitner Xmas

Guess who wasn't afraid of Santa this year!!!!!



Gonna need a bigger couch! Haha

Belated Black Friday

I like tradition.  I also like to keep things fresh.  So even though I have been SUPER crazy in the past about getting ALL of my christmas decorations up the day after Thanksgiving, this year I had no choice but to embrace change.  We were in Gatlinburg for Black Friday, so we couldn't put up the decorations until we got back. I put the tree up and decorated most of it then realized that I really wanted a new tree.  So the next day we bought a new tree and I switched them out.  Ok, I'm still SUPER crazy.  But in the end, it was worth it.

The boys helped me and they also got to make their lists to Santa.











Gizmo, our elf, usually stops out for the first time on Black Friday as well. He did not travel to Gatlinburg though, so he visited us the day we got back!




And he brought us these amazing mini donuts & mini cinnabuns!!!

The only good part about fallen leaves.  Jumping in them.  I heard a comedian say once how sick and twisted it is that we all just LOVE the fall, you know, when the leaves are all DYING.  He said to look at it from the Leaves' perspective next fall.  Haha!



We are still going to rake them up and jump in them as hard as we can.








Caden's kindergarten class Halloween Party.  Ryder got to go and was missing.  I looked for him and saw him hiding, playing with these toys.




















Such a cool experience!  I hope we do this again.  The day after we left, Gatlinburg burned down.  Our cabin stayed alive!  It was so cool!  Got to stay in this amazing cabin with aunts, uncles and cousins.

More Halloween

ps Jimmy was dressed up fro Halloween.  He doesn't normally dress like that.....or does he?

Patterson's & Pumpkins

Ryder has definitely grown since this photo was taken.  Once again, he doesn't smile for the picture, but makes a silly face instead.  HaHa   Typical Ryder.



WHOA!  An actual photo of ME AND MY KIDS!!!  That never happens.



Little Hamsters.   After hanging out at Patterson's we went to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins.  Ryder was NOT a fan of this scarecrow.  I however, thought it was so awesome!!!!  Since I'm a huge fan of The Wizard of Oz.




This looked like fun, but I had on a skirt.  Not really slide material.







Dang, my kids are cute.




Hey Dad!  Recognize that old man in the background?  It's Gary from Taborville volleyball.



Picking out the perfect pumpkins



I don't know how we lucked out with the weather we had last fall.  I really hope it's going to be like that this September!  Shorts, T-shirts & sunshine for pumpkin carving!  I was probably still wearing pants.  HaHa.








Great batch of seeds!

So, Halloween Happened....

And I took pictures, but never got around to posting them.  We took the kiddos to Sunrise Farm just like we do every year for their Halloween Costume photo shoot.

The boys were really into Ghostbusters this year.  We get to listen to the Ghostbusters' theme song and My House (by Flo Rida) on the way to school...all....of.....the.....time.....

Ryder wanted to be Slimer, oh sure, something where there isn't a costume anywhere.  Not a problem when you have a sweet ass mom like me!  I made him a legit Slimer costume.  I've seen a better one but this was perfect for him.  I even made the mouth open in case he wanted to eat and not have to take off the costume.  As for Caden, he got a cool store bought Stay Puft Marshmallow Man suit that blew up.

Molly, Riley and Carey joined us this year for our photos.




Love these kids.









Of course we can't take a nice photo without taking goofy face ones.










Every year we weigh the boys on this scale.  Caden looks like he should be a model.










This year, I really want to do a day where we pick some apples as well.

Fournado

Every room that Ryder goes in looks like a tornado went through it.  And I can't stand it.  I just constantly yell at him to clean up his mess.   He literally just throws stuff everywhere and walks away and dumps out toy bins in another room then goes upstairs and takes out all of the bath toys and they are all over my bedroom floor.  He proceeds to do this throughout the entire house.  I normally can't stand it and now I really can't stand it!!!!

I'm going crazy and I might lock him in his room for a year.

Art Helper

Ryder and I went to Caden's school yesterday to help out in the art room.  They painted with watercolors and Caden's teacher couldn't believe how advanced Ryder was.  She kept asking if he was in preschool or how old he really is!  Ha.  He did such a good job and the kids in Caden's class love him.  They all act like he is a part of their class and the same age.  Caden lights up when he sees him, too.  Which is funny because that's about the only time he is excited to see his little brother.

Right now he is just tearing up the house like a tornado went through it.  I call him Fournado!

Ryder's 1st Day of Preschool

Bonds' Birthday Party