Fun Halloween activities

Feeding Dad cookie frosting
Baby goat trying to eat Ashley's costume

Gardner Village

Charly, Garrett and Ash

Trick or Treat!

We spent last weekend doing a few fun Halloween activities. We went Saturday day to our community Trick or Treat party with our friends Charly and Garrett. The kids ate lots of candy and burned it off with a long playground session. Later that night Dave and I took Ash to Garner Village to see the animals at the petting Zoo and take pictures with the Witch decorations...as you can see we have no Witch pics...Ash was not in the mood. Perhaps next year:) The petting zoo was fabulous! The animals..goats, pigs, bunnies, Llamas, dogs , donkeys, ponies etc. are all really friendly. One baby goat in particular thought Ashley had green leaves to eat on her costume and chewed any chance he could get! I think we will try to to go again to the petting zoo when it is not so crowded.

Ashley's 2nd year pics

Look at those eyelashes..still going strong!
Classic Ashley smile

So perfectly cute!!

Well here's few pics from our professional 2 year pics taken at JC Penny at Southtowne. Can I just say that now I remember why I never went back there after Ashley's 6 week pics. We went on a a Saturday and as I showed up they were already 45 minutes behind. I happened to run into a friend of mine who is scheduled ahead of me and still is waiting. Then she tells me she wants the barn background like me and Penny's told her as she showed up to her appointment that it was only available certain days of the week....now hold on just a sec. I scheduled my appointment online and it says nothing about that background being available on certain days. Not only that, when I scheduled I very specifically told them in the comments section which back ground I wanted (the barn).. Not only that but when they called to confirm they never said one word to me about my background not being available. So those of you that know me know that this was not going to fly and now I had my friend Trish on my side to back me up...her experience was just the same. As you can see we got our background but the photographers were super annoyed at having to spend 5 extra minutes changing the background...boo hoo. So we make it in for pics one hour after our scheduled time and Ash is just about to meltdown as it is close to lunch. We then have to wait another full hour before we get someone to help us view and pick our pics. Ash is really close to losing it at any moment and is touching EVERYTHING!! Then I go to check out and I had forgotten that Portrait club members do not get portrait sheets for $3.99, you must print the coupon off at home and bring it in to get that price. So I explained that I would come back later that afternoon with my coupon to re figure my order...$130 VS. $60 with the coupon. The girl helping me looked at me when I told her this and said..."seriously???" Do they really think I want to pay full price when all I have to do is go home and print out some dumb coupon to save 60% or more?? Needless to say this is why I prefer Kiddie Kandids even though their prices are way more expensive.

It's A Girl!!

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Legs wide open...definitely a girl!

Last night we went to Fetal Studios and had an ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby. SHE was very cooperative and gave of lots of good images. Our heads are spinning a little at all the girly stuff that will overtake our home with two girls and Dave feels a little out numbered...but he is thrilled none the less! At least he still has Chaco and Riley on his side:)

Durango

Deb and Dave on the train
Train releasing some steam
Some of the beautiful Fall colors!

Dave and I took our annual Fall trip to Durango last weekend. We ride the steam train from Durango to Silverton every year, and the leaves did not disappoint. We flew into Grand Junction since there are no more direct flights into Durango and rented a Jeep. The drive is about 3 1/2 hours from GJT to Durango. You drive through gorgeous mountain most of the way. It was very cold this weekend but we were prepared and had lots of fun with just the two of us! It is amazing what 48 hours away from children can do to re-energize you:)