Pumpkin Carving Party!

Three fairly big pumpkins and three excited kids = pumpkin carving party!

Grammie scooping out the guts!
Jonathan scooping out the guts... and playing with them...we couldn't get him out of the gunk!

Mommy "helping" Joe with his ghost pattern

Caroline playing in all the seeds!

TA-DAH! Daddy finally agreed to get his hands a little dirty and carved the spider for Jonathan, and Mommy carved the happy face for Caroline and ghost for Joe.

Pumpkin Picking at the Cider Mill

We LOVE Louisburg Cider Mill and their cider donuts. As fall is somewhat settling in, we have been wanting to go. AND, we needed pumkins to carve for Halloween, so we headed south to the cider mill!
Daddy making sure the pumpkin is "just right."

Joe between bites of some yummy cider donuts!

Jonathan

Caroline, always happy to stop for a picture!

Halloween Part 1

Thursday, Oct. 27th, the kids got to go to Daddy's work and have some Pre-Halloween fun!

Story-teller and Magician show.

Hanging out in Daddy's cube.

Trick-or-treating around Sprint

Decorating Cookies....

and eating, said cookies....Joe would NOT move until his very large, green cookies was in his tummy! We had a blast!

Update in Pictures

Now that school is in full swing for the kids and myself (I work 20 hours at KS State School for the Deaf), we have been busy but getting into a groove with our routine. Here is what we have been up to since August:

CROWN CENTER JUNGLE EXPERIENCE

RIDING OUR BIKES:

The kids ALL learned to ride WITHOUT training wheels on Oct. 1st! SO proud of them. I took video on THomas' phone and haven't downloaded it yet.

PAINTING OURSELVES :-/

BIG GIRL BIRTHDAY PARTY:

Caroline LOVES our neighbors, the "big girls." We "happened" by their house one afternoon and they invited her to participate in the arts and crafts part of one of the girls birthday party. She was in Heaven!

ACORN COLLECTING:

Name Change

So, I guess we will have to change the name of the blog. I went with the J and T plus 3 as a spin on Jon and Kate plus 8 because at the time it was a positive and happy show (we all know what happened there), and because it rhymed. J and T plus 4 does not. I don't know... any ideas?

Happy 5th Birthday Jonathan!

This year for Jonathan's birthday, we did a "big kid" party. He invited a few of his buddies from school, the gym and the neighborhood and we celebrated at Ernie Miller Nature Center with a SNAKE party. One of the naturalists there came to the party room and gave a wonderful presentation to the kids with 3 real snakes. It was super! Along with a snake cake and exploring the animals there, all the kids (and parents) had a blast!

She even put the snakes on the floor so the kids could see how they move!

Jonathan in HEAVEN with live snakes!

So you think you can dance?

On one of our adventures into Boston, we ate at a restaurant named, "NO NAME" right on the docks. After we ate, we went out to watch the boats and planes land across the harbor at Logan. The following images were the attempts to take a picture of the three kids.... in the first picture... Look at Joe on his toes! Too funny!

Michael Jackson moves!

Not sure what they see here... probably a plane landing.

Power twins!