Fall

 For Labor day we went to a splash pad in Wellington.  Maverick and Autumn were having too much fun on the playground for any pictures.

 We started a renovation project on our fireplace: BEFORE

 the start of AFTER

 Eating on the porch waiting for Autumn to get home from the bus.

 These are the best pictures I could get of Violet and Maverick's first day of Joy School.

 My cousin painted the "OLIVE" letters for her room and the nursery finally feels complete.

 Lark gave herself a haircut

 Autumn is playing soccer again this year and loves it.  Most of the kids were on her team last year, but this year the team is "Dynamo" and her coaches were Colleen and Coach Rose.

 Autumn and I went on a date to find shoes for family pictures.  She really wanted these but I thought they looked more like something a 15 year old would wear so I vetoed them.

 We hung out by the "girls on the run" tent and cheered on the Marathon runners.

 part two of  "After" for the fireplace.

 Jordan and I put together a baby shower for Rachel.

 Mom trimmed up the back of Lark's hair.

 We painted  letters to take with us to Kira's swim meet.

 Olive ate the paint.

Violet playing Barbie's in her Halloween costume.

 Cheering on Kira a.k.a Kiki at her swim meet.

 Lark playing with flour in the backyard...naked

 One of our bucket list items was to go to a football game.  We tried to go early in the season so it wouldn't be too cold.  It wasn't too cold, but there was lighting in the distance and we left after the first quarter, just about when the kids started to complain and they started the delay.

 Lark joined a "play school" group.  the first week we learned about the letter "A" and apples.

 Maverick is great at coming up with lots of designs with the magnets.

 This is what Lark decided to wear to Autumn's soccer practice.

 Another bucket list item, family bike ride.

 Lark last a few hundred feet.  Then we walked back to the car.

 bucket list: Hot cider and donuts.  We invited several of Autumn's school friends over for pizza, donuts, cider and a Halloween movie "Nightmare before Christmas"

 Lark at play school

 The kids are always taking my phone and taking random pictures.  I like to call this one "give me my phone back right now"

 the kids separating the marshmallow in their Lucky Charms.

 Aunt Deb came to visit for a day.  She played lots of rounds of scavenger hunt and we took her on a boot tour.

 Evan and I started taking a curling class.

 Lark and her best friend Dixie

 Olive at one of Autumn's soccer games.

 We babysat the Davidson's while Nicole and Nate had a work engagement.  We checked off another bucket list item "Monster Mash" dance party.

 We played "5 little monkeys" at Joy School. Maverick was the "alligator".

 Lark enjoying a yoga class at the library

 Maverick "enjoying" a yoga class at the library

 Olive enjoying a yoga class at the library

Violet  enjoying a yoga class at the library

 Lark enjoying a yoga class at the library

 Maverick "enjoying" a yoga class at the library

 some of the first snow of the season

 We had a family night about the Armor of God

 bucket list: Eat squash.  I made several types of squash and this pizza one was my favorite.

 Olive got a bruise on her head when she banged into the wall after her siblings were chasing her around because her new jammies glow in the dark.

 Fort Collins museum.

 I went all by myself to my college friend's wedding in Utah county. My med school friend Liz came as my date.

 Maverick being creative with recycling.

 Olive loves to walk to the bus stop with me and Autumn.  Once the bus leaves she starts waving and blowing kisses.

 We made many trips to Hobby Lobby to prepare for Halloween.

 Matchy-Matchy for church

The snow froze our pumpkins so instead of carving mushy pumpkins we painted them.  Just as messy as carving them though.

 Maverick and Lark decided to mix their colors and proceeded to make lots of "poop" jokes.

 Bucket List: Eat mummy dogs.  I don't think any of them ate the crescent roll hot dogs, except me.

 Maverick got a stomach virus and I found him on the bathroom floor one morning.

 It's  really dry here.

 SNOW

 Autumn came to me and said "Violet has a loose tooth".  I didn't really believe her but sure enough it was pretty much hanging by a thread. Five minutes later Violet had one less tooth.

Flu shot time! The kids love the flavored tongue depressors at the pediatrician's office.

 Olive is constantly climbing onto the table.

 Dia De Los Muertos.  Decorating sugar skulls.

 Face Painting

 Violet Dancing

 "Twinning for Church"

 Sugar skulls

 Lark climbed up on the counter to get some brown sugar.  I was downstairs making the kids beds.  Lark somehow put her hair into my three wick candle and burned a significant portion of her hair and a tiny spot on her forehead.

 This is what Autumn's nighstand always looks like, full of books.

 Lark was at a playdate one morning and Olive took a marathon nap. These two played Avenger's training camp for a couple hours.

 We took a Sunday walk to the park one day.

Lark at Twin Silos park...with her new hair do post a few self hair cuts and the burnt hair.

Olive loves to dance and climb on dad.