Nolan at our neighbors Halloween party. 
Nolan trick or treating with the girls in his 1st grade class, Fallon & Lily.
Ben and Nathan Goode...the things!
Neighbors Halloween bash! It was a ton of fun with perfect weather.
Nolan creating a caramel popcorn skeleton hand
For the fall festival at school, Nolan decorated black cat cupcakes! Here is his finished project.
I made 42 owl lollipops for the 4th graders. They turned out pretty cute & was easy! I took a moon pie for the face, added oreo cookie eyes with m&m's, a candy corn beak, and sprinkles for the head feathers. I skewered them, bagged them, and added a ribbon! 
My little Benjamin BumbleBee! (watch out, he has a wicked stinger though)
Ahoy there matey! Nolan was a pirate.
Baylie is the color blue. Baylie, Annie (yellow), and Delaney(red), decided to be the primary colors for the school's fall festival, Monster Mash.
Mrs Setford & Mr McMahon's 4th grade classes on state fair field trip.
Nolan's 1st grade class had to come up with a mode of transportation for the future. Here is his E3000 Flying Disc that holds hundreds of people and uses grass instead of gasoline. 
I was 'lucky' & got to go on Nolan's 1st grade transportation field trip. I took bunches of pictures and could not find Nolan in any of them. I started thinking maybe he was standing by my side while I was snapping away and did not even notice. (you can click on the photo to enlarge it) But I finally found him! He had taken his 3D glasses from the movie theatre and popped out the lenses and wore them around the whole day. He sure does look different with 'glasses' on! ;) In his parent teacher conference the teacher asked me if I was constantly laughing with him. Um, yep! Yesterday Chris, Ben & Nolan were talking about a man that had been in a coma. Chris was explaining that he was still alive but couldn't move or talk etc. 
Chris and Nate at the Harris County High School football game in Georgia.
Uncle Sean, Katie our niece, and Christian
Sean and Virgina
Nate and Christian
Nate, Chris, Jill, Sean Jr, Virgina, Sean Sr, DeeAnn, Bill & Holly (Sean's neighbors)
back view
Jill & Nate 
We stopped at Sonic to get a drink and boys hopped out onto the hood and put their mouths on the yucky bug-smashed infested windshield. It is amazing that they have not contracted swine flu yet. gross.
Ice cream in town square with the Ricketts! After this photo Hannah got swine flu and did not even lick the windshield. Poor Hannah.
The boys wanted to play something different this year, soccer. (I miss watching them play baseball.) 
My kids, and all the neighborhood kids, fought over this poor frog for over an hour.
Don't let Nolan's cuteness fool you. He promptly got out of the pool, walked over to the stone wall in the backyard which backs up to a pond, and throws the frog as hard and as high as he could over the wall. 
bEN IN mRS. sETFoRD's 4tH gRAdE CLaSS
nOLAN IN mRS. dEmOSS' 1sT gRAdE CLaSS
nOALN & mATTHEW bIG 1st gRAdERS!
bEN IN 4TH gRADE....yIKES.
aNNIE, bAYLIE & dELANEY. tHE cUTiE 7TH gRAdERS
I hate that there isn't enough time - not enough hours in the day, weeks in the year, years in my life - to spend with these amazing little beings who I have the privilege of parenting. I love to watch them grow, but I hate how quickly the time passes and how these incredible days of their youth are going to be gone before I know it. For all the frustrations I have as a parent, the thing I hate the most is that there will never be enough time to love them.
With the last week of summer before the kids went back to school we visited the DFW Zoo with our neighbors the Stoltenberg's.
