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october/part of november...

jeff & noah invented a backyard game involving oars and a ball

it was very fun and innovative.

the boys decorated their mini pumpkins

luke posed with his.

we had a good time with mater & the gang at at a

FREE promo event for Cars 2

luke's (awesome!) preschool teachers, shelby & kel, came over

for a home visit. he couldn't have been more excited.

noah's soccer team was the coolest soccer team ever.

(pictured: noah, sienna, gabe, julian, tristan)

luke the Artist began to emerge

i took pictures of cool toys at erika's house.

the kids participated in a doughnut-eating contest

...where noah and julian gave it their all.

sports night wouldn't be sports night without me snapping

a shot of little Olive.

halloween came...luke forgot he was being luke skywalker

and spent the morning as a western/cowboy guy.

noah (aka a sheriff) was in the annual halloween parade

at his school. (his 'girlfriend', jadyn, is behind him.)

we got to the trunk-or-treat an hour late (it was over) and

felt like losers. we did, however, manage to get a family

photo- our first in like a year.

oh wait...how can i forget this winner,

courtesy of State Farm.

back to halloween- the boys managed to get a sufficient

amount of candy. luke .. naked . . . ??

bret helped grandpa dig a trench.

noah was Star of the Week at school

he beamed with pride as he told about himself

and then took questions from the audience.

bret went to west virginia to visit his parents on their

mission (where, oddly enough, he also served his). they got him

a banjo. he was pumped.

i concluded this post with a token cute shot of my boys.

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