A fun sleepover adventure!

My Boo Bear had a big bump on her wrist. She was pretty excited to get out of school for an hour and go to Grandma's office. We talk about bones a lot, so she though the skeleton was very interesting!

It's a ganglion cyst. It comes from overuse (I'm thinking coloring 15 pages a day), and it should be gone by Thanksgiving. Weird, huh?

Carter has been having a lot of fun drawing up football plays lately!

One of her thousands of pictures!

One night they were being bums and asked me to put on their pajamas for them. How do they look?

Liam turned 3! He was super cute at his party and did a good job opening every present.

We all thought his big truck cake was pretty awesome.

Diane and Art brought Josh and Luke in for the party. All the cousins had a good time there!

We left after the party to go to Bozeman for a sleepover. Right in the middle of our trip, this happened.

I've never had a tire blow out before. Kyle handled it nicely though.

While we waited for the Les Schwab guy to arrive, me and the monkeys took a very careful walk around Milligan Canyon Road.

Kyle and I drove back to Butte to rent a car (his other tires were pretty thin). We met Mom and Dad in Cardwell, and they brought the kids to Bozeman. When we arrived, they were having a wonderful time playing together.

Teague was a big fan of the witch's hat. He was yelling that he was a wizard though.

Their dog Ruby is so cute and nice. She just loves to be pet. Carter enjoyed her kisses.

Sleeping time!

The next morning Carter had a blast on the "green machine".

Teague enjoyed the Big Wheel.

Their cat Champ is an outdoor cat. She let Ave give her a few pets though.

Kyle and Josh played some football in the gorgeous weather.

Luke and Ave (the two 5 year olds) were enjoying themselves too!

Off to the dinosaur park!

She enjoys relaxing :)

These three got along so well. Carter had a blast with them.

A real Carter smile!

She is a pro at these!

Kyle bringing them back from the climbing rock.

Now we are in the hay maze. It is huge! It was shaped like a tractor this year. You go in and find four different colored crayons to fill out your card before you are done. Kyle went in a different direction with the boys. Me, Ave, Teague, Mom, Dad, Art, and Diane stuck together. Here they are finding the orange crayon!

We ran into the boys toward the end. The started the opposite way from us and were in there a good 20 minutes longer!

Ave is always good for taking pictures!

Teagie Pie got in there too. It was almost 70 degrees so the sun was very bright!

They loved these big tubs of corn!

Avery especially!

Who knows what is going on here?

They made it! See their happy hands!

3 big boys again.

They discovered the corn was pretty fun also.

Filling their socks with corn was a brilliant idea!

Waiting for the hay ride.

My babies! I just love them :)

All 5 together. What a fun day!

Me and boy on the hay ride. Papa and Art were next to us.

The sisters!

Daddy and his girl.

One last shot of the three boys and a beautiful blue sky. Thanks for letting us crash your house Kathi! Thanks for the great idea Aunt Diane! It was a lot of fun!

A lovely fall week!

Teague has a wide variety of awesome Halloween shirts that have been passed down from Landon and Carter. He really enjoys wearing them!

Emerson has a program to teach kids about exotic fruits and vegetable. Ave brought home a rambutan last week. She said not all the kids wanted to take one, but she was excited.

It looks like a little sea urchin, but it didn't have painful spikes.

There's the inside. The white jelly part is the edible part. Ave and I tried some. It was very sweet. That's a cool program they have.

Poor Teagie Pie has been exhausted lately. I think he might be growing again. This is him sleeping in the ball carrier at volleyball practice. It was super cute!

I hardly have any pictures of Carter this week because he got to go to his first overnight birthday party at Fairmont! We also had 5 others last week. I said it made me think about homeschooling (totally joking of course). Two of them were for Connor and Austin. I was in Missoula for volleyball, but the kids had tons of fun there!

Grandma and Grandpa Barsness were in this weekend. We had lots of fun just hanging out with them. We also had some tasty food (thanks again!) This is poor Teague passed out on a chair at The Derby!

Then again the next night, he was passed out at Mackenzie River. Carter did a nice photobomb here with his mouth full of Mac n Cheese!

Grandma and Grandpa Barsness got them some pretty great stuff at Walmart too. Toys, clothes, and winter hats and gloves. This is Ave before school this morning. She was having a lot of fun with her "Beados"!

Carter had a really fun football game tonight. Both teams scored 3 times, and it was cool to watch. I didn't get any good pictures of him, but I got a few from the playground. This is Teague's new fox hat. It is super cute!

We always have to do the swings before the game.

That is her new hat! She picked it just for the big yellow poofball on the head!

You can't really tell, but Carterman lost a tooth at school on Friday. This was right before Facetime with Erica and Landon.

We always love to visit with them. Baby is almost ready to arrive! Landon gave us a birthday list! Lots of exciting stuff happening!

Sports related

Arie Grey, the head football coach at Butte High, gave Kyle this shirt for Avery. It's way too big right now, but she loves it. It says, "Butte High Girls Work Harder." She has worn it to bed a couple times in the last week.

This is an average day when Teague doesn't go to preschool. He has 500 different toys out that I get to organize for him. Luckily he's pretty cute, so I can't get too annoyed with him.

We left volleyball practice a little early last Wednesday so we could get to Carter's football game on time. We even had 15 minutes to play at the playground. These two had a blast. I was freezing! Luckily I did think to pack hats and gloves. Copper Mountain has to be the windiest spot in Butte.

The boys have trouble sitting still. Sometimes they like to have a little scrimmage on the sidelines!

Kyle isn't listed as a coach, but he helps with the practices when he can. The kids all really like to talk to him. I think this picture is super cute.

I love this picture of Teague running home from Emerson. I know I have a lot of these, but they make me laugh. He had a good day. He got to be in the homecoming parade, which of course I forgot my camera for, and then had some DQ.

They look so cute in their purple and white. It brought the football team some good luck - they won 51-0!

Kyle and the kiddos came to the game that night. Carter found his buddy Colby at the football game. They came over and said hi to me while I sold 50/50 tickets. It was a beautiful night! No wind luckily!

Someone named Teague was super excited that his Wolverine costume came in the mail! Kyle even got him some stuffed claws. He loves them!

Everytime I think it's safe to possibly get rid of some toys, these guys start playing with them again. They've had the best time with this track the last week.

We watched the longest game in MLB postseason history the other night - 6 and a half hours! Luckily it turned out the way we wanted it to. Go Giants (I love these smiles too)! They lost tonight, but hopefully they can finish the series tomorrow.

Quiet, Rainy Week

We had a very quiet week here. Not too many pictures were taken. A bath picture is always cute though. These guys still usually have lots of fun together. I like Teague's washcloth/ascot here. It's quite a dashing look.

I made some homemade peppermint oil. It will be ready to try out in a month. We had a ton of peppermint in the garden, and I read that peppermint oil is a wonderful spider repellent. Why not try it right?

Lando, Sean, and Erica were in for the weekend. Erica and Sean had a wedding to attend. It was a quick trip, but these two got to spend a ton of time together. I think they enjoyed it as usual!

Callie came in for a visit also. I'm glad she did - the kids had lots of fun with her (especially my Boo Bear)! Hopefully we can visit her in a couple weeks in Missoula. I felt bad because I was in Dillon most of the day Saturday. We all won - yay!

Teague was being a booger for pictures for pictures. He does that sometimes! He was quite hilarious though on Saturday night. He had Callie and Alex quite entertained!

A balloon in the shirt can make him smile like a crazy person I guess!

Mom, Terri, and I did a lovely puzzle (they did a lot more work than me). We enjoy puzzles on a rainy day, and this one was a very colorful 2000 piece beauty!

Carterman would like everyone to know that he has great hair. He truly believes he has the best hair in the family :) He's a little odd, but I love him!

A stressful 49ers win must have made this guy pass out.

Lastly, my girl getting ready for her Sunday bath. I just found out today that she is Student of the Month! Yay for Avers!