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Guess who had two teeth break through over the weekend?

Last Game Of The Season

Baylee's last soccer game was on Saturday. Since I didn't seem to get any pictures, with the exception of on her first game., here are some from her last game:

Kicking her sparkly pink soccer ball through the hula hoops during practice. Ben started helping coach about halfway through the season, and he had to go get a yellow hula hoop to get her out on the field. Yellow is her favorite color for the week. After that, she played the rest of the practice time.

Ben says Baylee and the coach's son Cohen are the trouble makers of the team. Don't tell Trey, but Baylee may be playing the field a little....

A little pow-wow? I guess they needed a break.

Last pre-game huddle.

Baylee actually got on the field and played a little, after taking about 2 or 3 weeks off. She did pretty good, but wouldn't stay on too long. Look at her go! She dribbled the ball all the way across the field, but when she got there I guess another kid got the ball from her before she could score. So she ran back to daddy until the other team scored on our goal again and she could run the ball again. She did that a few times. At least she got on the field!

Last cheer for the other team.

Enjoying the snack, and loving her medal!

We really enjoyed this soccer season, and loved Baylee's coach. We were glad she got to be a part of the Lemon Phresh team, and hope we can get her to play again in February!

Surprise Girls Weekend (With Payton)

Ben's sister turned 30 and wanted a surprise party. So, Ben's mom and all the sister and sister-in-laws headed to the beach in Aptos for a girls weekend. Payton had to crash the party. We had fun at one of Laura's friend's family beach house, which was so cute decked out in 60/70s decor. Friday we "surprised" Wendy, then drove to the beach house after stopping for dinner. We had cake, s'mores, and plenty of talking. Saturday we did a 2 mile walk to Starbucks for Steamers, and stopped in a store to shop and for pizza on the 2 mile (or more) walk back. We followed that with a little walk on the beach time. We had a cooking "contest" (we were all winners!), a craft, and more bonding time. Sunday morning Payton and I watched dolphins and seals swimming in the ocean before we all packed up to go home. It was a fun, relaxing weekend, but went by so fast! Here's some pictures from the weekend:

The view from the backyard. All the rooms also had this view.

Missy went all out for this! Goodie bags (which included the cutest necklaces), a pinata, water bottles with cute labels she made, and a snowball cake she also made. Kathy also had sweatshirts made for us.

Wendy, the birthday girl!

Some more of us- me, Anna, Laura, Kathy, and Payton.

Payton loving Aunt Jenny.

Payton and I his first time at the beach.

Group photo in our matching sweatshirts-Wendy, Missy, Laura, Kathy, Payton, me, Jenny, and Anna.

For the cooking contest we all had to use pears. Jenny and Anna made a delicious salad and cheese spread.

Laura and I made our own version of one of my favorite sandwiches from one of my favorite places to eat in AZ.

Missy and Wendy with their yummy pear cake with ginger caramel sauce.

Missy watched Payton for me while I finished cleaning up our room on Sunday morning.

Payton snuggling up to Jenny (Wendy in the background) before it was time to go.

Payton getting last minute goodbye kisses from his Grandma Hall.

Thanks to my sister-in-laws and mother-in-law for a fun weekend! Laura and I are the next ones to turn 30 (and the last ones, but no one turns 40 before then either) in about 2 1/2 years! See you all then?

Play Time With Some Of Our Favorite Friends

We love hanging out with our friends, Mike and Heather and their boys. Here's a couple of fun times we've had with them this month.

A few weeks ago they introduced us to Amazing Jakes. It's got a buffet, games, rides, and things like bowling, bumper cars, and a climbing wall.

Baylee and Trey posing for a picture- Heather had to bribe them by letting them climb up and touch the glass on the ski-ball game behind them after.

Ok, you know how everytime you go to an arcade place you kinda laugh at the people playing the dancing game? Yeah, we became those people (but only one time each-don't worry, we didn't become intensely addicted). Baylee and Trey started it off for us.

Ben and Mike are starting a new boy band. Contact them if interested:

Check out how NSYNC they were.

Heather and I also took the kids bowling one day. Baylee and Trey were the only ones bowling, but it was so stinking cute to watch, and they were so excited.

Baylee protecting her ball while Trey bowled. They had to have the same color ball, and still fought over whose was whose.

Trey was so cute bowling. He would sit on the floor like this, and just push the ball.

I had Baylee granny bowl (which is what I still do), and she always ended in this pose. Love the 4th of July socks? They are the only socks she owns that fit.

Heather and I also took the kids to a free day at the farm on Memorial Day. One of her friends came along too.

About four baby cows were born while we were at the farm. I'm pretty sure these two baby cows were born just while we were standing there. It's pretty interesting. A bunch of cows were gathered around, then all the sudden they would move and be licking off a baby cow.

And it's not a trip to the dairy farm without some free chocolate milk!

We love our adventures with Heather and her boys, especially when Mike and Ben get to come too! (Don't worry, they get their man-dates too.) We can't wait for more!

Little Chefs In Training

Baylee did a free little demo cooking class on Monday with her friend Trey. It was the cutest thing to see and I loved how they decorated the place for kids!

We couldn't get them both to look, but they looked so big on their stools. Baylee had to have a yellow one and Trey got his green. We are lucky that those two colors were next to each other.

Listening to their teacher.

Flattening the dough.

Getting some help rolling the dough out.

Food is ready! I missed some steps, but they made cheese bread things.

I had to get a picture of the Baylee and Trey by this wall. It was too cute! Baylee had a ton of fun, and I'm sure we will be going back!

Halloween Weekend Parties

We had quite the busy Halloween weekend, full of plenty of party time! Here's what we were up to:

Pumpkin Carving:

My Aunt Patti and Uncle Warren do a pumpkin carving party every year. This year it was the Thursday before Halloween. We had yummy food and lots of fun!

Baylee in front of her pumpkin (post potty incident :( which explains the pajama pants). She helped Ben scoop it out, but I think there was so much going on that she couldn't focus enough to help carve.

Ben getting our pumpkin ready for carving, which he also did....

Baylee wanted an Ariel pumpkin this year. I'm sure Ben was so thrilled to carve Ariel.

My cousin Brooke made sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. Baylee's favorite part is always the frosting. In fact, at one point she grabbed a knife full of frosting and just stuck it straight into her mouth. Don't worry, I grabbed the knife before it went back into the frosting cup and it was a plastic knife.

Baylee and Payton originally had matching shirts and brown pants.... It was cold that night!!!! We had a great night though-thank you Warren and Patti for having us!

Trunk or Treat Party:

Ben and I were asked to be on the activities committee at church. So Friday night we helped out with a Trunk or Treat Party. We had nachos, games/haunted alley, and then trunk or treat (where the kids trick or treat to cars).

Payton and Baylee ready to go to the party. Baylee wanted to be Jasmine and for Payton to be Raja this year. We had a really hard time finding a Jasmine costume this year. I went to two Disney Stores and also called 2 stores, everyone was sold out of her size or anything close to it. I finally found a cheap and cheesy one that was still too big, but hey it worked, right? Baylee also kept doing weird things with the headband. Funny that we didn't see any other Jasmines this year.....

Ben cut my head off, but here is Baylee and a bundled Payton in the costume parade before trunk or treating. Baylee didn't last too long getting candy, but we still enjoyed the night.

Halloween:

We had a very busy day on Halloween. Baylee had a soccer game in the morning, and we did a little grocery shopping before meeting up with friends at Chick-fil-a. The kids got a coupon for a free kids meal. Baylee and Trey both still had on their soccer uniforms from their games.

Chick-fila had a bounce house for the kids to play in. They also gave out little sundaes, and had crafts (which we didn't get to), and even had the Chick-fila cow. It was a cute little Halloween lunch.

Next, we went to my Aunt Melissa and Uncle Doug's for Halloween night. Every year the have Halloween night there. Everyone brings food, and we all sit outside and watch movies they project onto the garage and pass out candy. Whoever trick or treats to their house makes out pretty well in the candy department.

Last year Ben made Dead Man's Meatloaf. This year he made this cute Mummy Meatloaf.

Here's this years crowd (minus Ben and Doug who escaped the camera):

Baylee and Payton with their Grandma Higgins.

A sleepy looking me with my little Jasmine. I don't know why I can't ever seem to keep my eyes open all the way in pictures...

Baylee told Ryan the she was Jasmine for her costume and that he was just "Scary" for his. Not that his costume looked scary or scared her, but that's what it was called.

Scotty, Chandler, Paige, Alice, and Patti.

Hayden and Warren the pirate.

Grandpa and Grandma Higgins, Kelly, and my dad in the background grabbing some grub.

This picture of Melissa was taken by Baylee. Sorry it's not the best, Melissa! But really not bad for a three year old! Thanks for having us-we had a great time!

We had such a fun Halloween season! Ben says he's glad Halloween is over, but I can't wait for all the fun again next year!