Annual Pumpkin Festival

Once again this year we took the girls to Scnepf Farm's Pumpkin and Chili Festival.  We had a great time!  This year it was just the four of us.  Excited to take them again next year!



We brought blankets for the girls just in case.  Well they insisted cuddling with them.



Face Painting

Getting a better view of the pig races!

of course we couldn't resist the petting zoo area

The girls and Shawn trying to pick out the best pumpkin

Adisyn LOVED her pumpkin!

So did Ava!

enjoying the fire from afar

 One of the best things about festivals... The yummy food!


Funnel Cake



Kettle corn that was as tall as the girls!  YUM-O!

September Photo Extravaganza

Instead of making a new blog entry for every picture I take I've decided to do a photo extravaganza!  I recently took a photography class and learned a lot!  I now know so much more about my cameras and the basics for what it takes to make a good photo a great photo.  Photography has become one of my newest passions.  I did realize that I have some shopping to do!  Eventually I need to invest in a few more items.

My Wish List:

50mm lens which I want to use for getting close up pictures with blur background (just one of the many things you can do with this lens)



70-300 lens
When Shawn and I took the girls to California we saw dolphins way out in the distance.  If you look squint or get the magnify glass out, you can see a blackish blob in the water.  Well with this lens that same photo would look like we're right next to them.  Mega zoom capabilites with this bad boy!



Flash! 
Who wants to take a photo with the flash beaming in your eyes.  Well this flash has some really cool features that allows you to capture light in your photo without seeing white spots for a few minutes. 

And... last but not least.  I learned about a new photo editing program that is much more user friendly then the current elements that we have.  Which is really exciting! 




Okay enough about that now back to the extravaganza...

Cardinal Pride

The most amazing homemade breakfast Shawn and I have ever made!  Biscuits and Gravy, fresh fruit, and french toast sandwich with eggs, bacon, drizzle of syrup and cheese.  This sandwich hit the spot.  It has the saltiness of the bacon and the sweetness of the syrup!  Uh-mazing!!!!!!!!!

just before we left Adisyn decided to bury her feet in the sand! LOL so cute!

Watching Dumbo

Cardinals Football season 2011-2012

It has finally come the Cardinals football season!  Yah!!!!!!!  We celebrated the first game visiting Molly and Shaun house with the company of family and friends.  We won to the Panthers 28 to 21!!

We taught the girls how to hold up their arms and yell "touchdown"

Cutest little cheerleaders around!

They were cheering and Adisyn fell over.. I caught it mid fall... turned out cute though

Adisyn sneaking a little nose pick

Enjoying some grub

Me and my Love

Go CARDINALS!!!!1



The first game of the season fell on Sept 11th 10th anniversary! 



LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Originally Shawn and I had plans to go hike the Grand Canyon Labor Day weekend.  We ended up changing our minds last minute due to going out of town the past two weekends and being uterly exhausted!  We had a great time just spending some quality time at home.  Sunday we had our good friends Nicki and Justin over with their two kids Gavin and Danika.  It was so nice catching up and doing something fun with them!  The girls love playing with their kids. 

Cutie Danika

Ava and Adisyn loved helping out with Danika.  They'll make great big sisters someday!

Gavin, Adisyn, Danika, and Ava

Shawn has a hard time holding other babies... none compare to his own

The little-big kid table

The girls try like to help me with laundry

Aparently Ava thinks her panties need a hanger too!  She did this all by herself!

Then she decided to put the hanger around her neck

And get it stuck

My sweet princesses



Our bbq got interupted by Rico's infactuation with cats.  He got a huge 31/2 laceration on his leg we think from chasing a cat.  So we Shawn ended up spending 2 hrs in the animal hospital waiting for an evaluation and then 2 more hrs for his surgery.  It ended up being a fun, exhausting, expensive night. 

2 hour surgery and a drain later!