Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween

Wow, look at all of that. Which one should I choose?

Oooh this looks good.

Mom, check it out. A lollipop.

Yumm.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

MAC love.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Pumpkin Patch

Every year across the street of our church, there is a pumpkin patch which opens up for the entire month of October. For some reason, I have never checked it out until this year. Since my brother was in town, I thought it would be a perfect day to take Ayden. It was a great afternoon fall activity for free (err, besides the cute 2$ pumpkin Ayden picked out!).

Headed to the patch. Those two have so much fun together!

Oh look mommy, a man is stuck in the hay!

Ayden checks out the rabbit.

And attempts to feed him.

*Laughter*

Look at all that corn! How fun!

Scooping it up.

He had just dumped it on his head.

Let's get buried.

Covered in corn!

There is nothing sweeter than watching the pure joy and laughter of innocent fun your own son is having.

Now it's time to find that perfect pumpkin.

Picking out the best.

Hey, I found one!

What a great afternoon!

Saturday, October 4, 2008

2nd birthday and fall festival.

Happy 2nd birthday Ayden!
This week has been a crazy work week for me so I never got a chance to post some pictures up of Ayden's 2nd birthday weekend. His birthday was on Sunday so the Saturday night before, Corey and I spent the majority of our evening putting together Ayden's kitchen set. These first cheezing shots of Ayden is him about to get slap happy awaiting to play with it. He loves to try to take pictures of himself with the camera.






THREE hours later, we had it up and ready for play.


His actual party was low key with just our family and who I call my second family, the Balls. Unfortunately, all the shots I had of them too turned out really dark and blurry. The party was Elmo themed because that, along with Pooh, is Ayden's character obsession for, um, this month (last month it was curious George). I attempted to make Elmo cupcakes that turned out nothing like I had imagined. Thankfully I had my mother come in for the rescue at the end to fix my decorating. Apparently I need more practice on going outside of the box in art projects.








Grace EP Annual Fall Festival.
Since Ayden was literally 2 days old, we have gone to our church's fall festival. This year it didn't fall on his birthday weekend so we ventured without Corey. It ended up sad for me because it had become a tradition for us, but Ayden really enjoyed it (and that's all that matters anyways, right?). Plus the weather could not have been more beautiful.

My mom was at the face painting station and I thought Ayden would jump at a chance to have a football painted on but he couldn't stop squirming when my mom would touch him with the paint brush. So I got a football instead, which made him just as happy.

Ayden LOVES his pop pops. And balloons.

A determined child, and thankfully a chicken that didn't bite.

Slide.

Maze.

Jamming to the bluegrass band playing in the background.

Inside the ambulance, Ayden attempts to open one of the cabinets. This is the look I get every day when Ayden is doing something he is not supposed to be doing. That child wears his guilt on his sleeve.

Driving the firetruck!

Ayden is offically all TWO.