Asleep

I guess Packer was tired!  He was playing in his room and then things got quiet.  This is what I found when I checked on him.  So cute!

Sweet Hailey Mae

Packer is now in Nursery with Hailey.  One of the nursery workers sent these pictures to us of Hailey comforting Packer when he was sad in nursery.  

These pictures are so sweet!  Just melts my heart.  I'm grateful for Hailey's sweetness and kindness to her brother and I'm grateful that Packer knew he could come to her for comfort.

Leaves

10/18

We helped rake Great Grandpa Carters leaves and get his house ready for winter.

The kids were so helpful!  They worked hard helping us.

Packer, tried to do what we were doing.  He would take his broom (the rake was too heavy and would get stuck in the grass) and push the leaves out of the pile, thinking we were just spreading leaves.  Although it was more work to rake them back up, it was so cute to watch that we let him.

Here are some action shots of the girls tossing leaves in the air.

If you scroll fast, you can see them in action :)

The next week we went with Grandpa and Grandma Sorensen to the Pumpkin walk.  We had a BBQ at their house before we went.  The kids had fun playing in the leaves and even burying Daddy in the leaves.  What a good sport!

Black Island Farms

We went to Black Island Farms to go on the hayride to get our pumpkins.  We enjoy that place and all the memories we have of when we lived across the street from it.

Packer loved that we got to ride behind the tractor!

Packer picking out his pumpkin.  It was cute, he had to find the right one.  He kept walking around to the pumpkins, trying to lift one and then would say "nope" and move onto the next one.  He's a natural farmer!

Pointing out the tractor and wanting to ride it.

We had a great time!

Anniversary Inn

For Christmas, Jeff's parents gave us a night at Anniversary Inn.  We were so excited!  Because we went to NYC for our anniversary, we decided to use it in October - which worked out great because they have deals going on in October on their rooms.  

We were treated to the roof for dinner - yum!

Then we spent the night in the Anniversary Suite.  It was fancy!

Thanks Mom and Dad!  It was a great getaway!

Playground

Sometimes when we drop Aliyah off at school, the kids ask to play on the school playground.  Here are some pictures of them one morning.

(Hailey wanted to wear her backpack just like her sister)

They are putting in a new, bigger playground next to an older, smaller one at one of our city parks.  So right now they are doing construction.  As soon as we got to the park, the girls ran straight to the slides and Packer ran straight to the fence to watch the tractors and stayed there the whole time!