tHis iS HalLoWEeN...

Happy Halloween 2011

Cole's 3rd and final year of being batman

...unless we get a bigger costume!

Carter showing his impressive wingspan.

If you ask Caroline if she is a cowgirl she responds, "Yeehaw". So cute.

Carter's Pre-school Party!

Caroline just blends right in...

She was so happy when I let her out of her stroller to join in the cupcake eating.

Carter decorated the cupcakes for his party!

Pumpkin Pizza!

The Race is On...

Carter's 5th Birthday Party

For Carter's Birthday he wanted a Hot Wheels Party.

So we set up a race course at one of our favorite parks and had all the kids bring their scooters and bikes. Carter had such a great time with his friends.

Eating Pizza

Caroline getting in on the "Road Rally".

Carter sportin' his new Hot Wheel scooter on the course.

Gotta love the Texas sheet cake!

Carter's Birthday with the Family:

For dinner Carter picked his favorite: Homemade waffles and bacon...lots of bacon!

Can't contain his excitement!

On the day of Carter's Birthday I took Carter to his favorite place..."The Speed Zone".

You pay a flat fee for 2 hours and get all the go-cart racing, miniature golfing, and bouncing you can handle. We had a blast. We only saw one other kid there the whole time so it felt like we had the place to ourselves.

Caroline likes to putt-putt.

The boys in the bounce house.

Carter's favorite part!

Only another year Caroline and you can go.

Fruit Loops! Breakfast of Champions...and 5 year olds!

So you think you can camp...

September was here and gone in a blink. Here are some happenings of the Bernhisel crew:

BOYS ONLY

Preston took the boys off to the YMCA Camp Grady Spruce for their 2nd annual campout. Unfortunately no tarantulas this year...but they still had a good time.

Carter was so excited to see his bullet hole in the paper.

This is the reason Caroline and I don't go to camp.

Rock throwing at it's finest.

Horse back riding...

Archery...

Cooling off by the lake...(no fishing poles this year)

After the hike. (Preston did you really let them stand that close to the edge?)

This is how we do smores...good ole forman grill style!

JUST A BUNCH OF HOT AIR

Our yearly hot air balloon festival (Preston's favorite!)

You know you got up too early when you get there before the balloons.

This is the 3rd year the balloons didn't take off...because of weather issues.

Maybe we should start a new tradition.

Take it all in kids.

Carter's favorite part was getting a free bible from a church group handing them out.

GETTING OUT

Finally after a terribly hot summer we have returned to our backyard to play.

I love this picture.

DADDY'S B-DAY

Preston turns 33! The kids waited all day for him to come home from work. So when he walked in the door we got right to it. It's is hard to stare at chocolate pudding cake all day.

FIRST PATTERN

Finally, I have attempted to sew something real.

Too bad that the pattern I bought was from Germany.

I think I'll stick to buying clothes from Target for now :)

First Day...First Day!!!

This part of the year always gets me excited....school starting, Holidays getting closer, weather cooling down (we might get out of the triple digits by Friday!!!).

Caroline caught on quick and posed for her "First Day" pic.

Carter's first day of his last year at preschool.

Wow...I hate this picture. Cole is getting so big.

Caroline wearing her "Jessie" cowgirl jammies. She says "yeehaw".

Carter is on the Tornadoes soccer team. There is a reason we have no action photos...that is because there was no action...unless you call standing on the field crying action. Poor kid just lost it...was it the 105* heat or is he going for "Most Improved"? Let's just hope next game is better...at least for his parents sanity.