Pumpkin Patch and Clay's Birthday

The second weekend in October, we celebrated Clay's birthday at the Cochran's and went to the pumpkin patch at Mathew's Manor.  We all had such a great time and the boys loved it!  Here is Hank, Chase, and George at the entrance...

Hank in Daddy's arms (where he prefers to be :) laughing with Mama Zo on the hayride...

Chase with Wes on the hayride (Chase loves his Uncle Wes and tractors, so it was a great day for him!)

Hank and Chase with Daddy, Mama Zo, and Pops on the tractor...

Chase immediately ran to pick out a pumpkin as soon as he got off the hayride!

The boys with their pumpkins...

Hank never smiles when everyone else does, so I thought I would also put one of him smiling :)

All the boys at the tractor...Chase was in the corn maze with Mama Zo :)

The hayride back, after getting our pumpkins...

After the hayride, Chase enjoyed playing on the inflatable slide!  George and Hank enjoyed playing at the entrance of it!

This picture cracks me up....especially Hank's face!  He is always trying to eat anything that comes near his mouth! 

After the pumpkin patch, we went back to Mama Zo and Pops' house and celebrated Clay's birthday!  Happy Birthday Clay!

Russell's Wedding

The first weekend in October, we all went to Charlotte, NC for the wedding of Russell Cornelius (one of Drew's best friends from childhood).  Several of our friends went too and we had such a great time!  Chase was very excited about "Russell's wedding" and the fact that there would be "birthday cake" there :)  This picture was taken at the rehearsal dinner...all of the boys that went to the wedding with Russell.  I thought everyone was looking, but I was wrong :)

Chase and Hank in the hotel...Chase loves hotels and Hank had a lot of fun too!  He has been to several with all of Drew's interviews last year...

This was at the wedding...the wedding was at the neatest place.  It was called The Dairy Barn and it was right outside of Charlotte.  Chase and Hank were definitely fans of the location....it gave Hank a great place to hang out outside during the wedding (he didn't even make it past the seating of the mothers:) and Chase loved it because there were horses and cows everywhere!

Here is Chase looking at the horses...Drew was busy with pictures, so the boys were so great to help entertain Chase!  He is with Elliott here, Geoffie took him to see the cows, and he got to sit with Wes for the whole wedding...it was a great day for Chase!

This is where the wedding was...

Wes and Hank at the reception...

Drew with his boys at the reception...

Drew and Hank with Chief and Russell...longtime childhood friends..

Happy First Birthday George!

On September 19, our nephew George turned one and a little over a week later we celebrated!  He had a great party and we all had so much fun!  It is so hard to believe that he is already one, and we look forward to so many great years to come!  Here he is with Clay- checking out his party...

Here is Hank with Mama Zo and Julie....he is good to go with some attention and a snack!

I love George's face here!

This was the day after our slumber party with Alex, so Alex got to come to the party!  Here is Chase and Alex playing with George...

George and Chase and Hank ....they love being with each other!....I am pretty sure this is right after Hank took George's goldfish out of his mouth and put them in his mouth!

Hank, Chase, and Alex....and now Hank is trying to get Chase's juice!

Happy Birthday sweet George!

He dove right in!

They all had so much fun on the jump jump!  Hank wasn't afraid of anything or anyone!

Chase digging in to his cupcake!

Mama Zo and Hank...

More jump jump pics...

Chase and Granny...we were all so glad that Granny got to come to the party!

Hank "helping" unwrap gifts...he is just practicing for his special day :)

George unwrapping gifts...Happy Birthday George!  We love you, are so thankful for you, and look forward to many fun years to come!

Slumber Party!

We had our first slumber party a few weeks ago and it was so much fun!  We have been wanting for Alex to come spend the night, so he got to, and it went great!  Chase was sooo excited leading up to it...I went to pick Alex up from school that Friday (Drew had already gotten Chase and Hank since we cannot fit 3 carseats in our car), and Chase and Alex's teachers said they had been talking about the spend the night party all day!  They love getting to be with each other, and Hank had just as much fun as anyone!
Here they are in the bathtub!

Please excuse Hank's little bottom, but I had to put this in...it represents how active sweet little Hank is these days!  No more sitting still to get bathed in the tub!

Sorry....more nakedness!  This picture cracks me up, though, because Chase had to stand on the chair to brush his teeth so he could reach just like Alex.  Usually, we would hold them, but when he saw Alex didn't have to be held, that wasn't working for Chase either!  I went that weekend and bought Chase a stool for the bathroom, and now he stands on that when he brushes his teeth.  Now, when he stands on his stool to brush his teeth, he says "Mommy, go somewhere else, please."

 Here they are in bed....so excited!!!  We wondered how they would do sleeping in Chase's bed together, but they really did well!

They loved Drew reading to them...

Hank was so happy when he got to join the big boys!!!

I think they finally fell asleep around about 9:30 or 10:00.  They talked and we listened to Alex read books to Chase...it was so sweet.  Drew finally had to go in the room around 9:00 and tell them to stop jumping on the bed and lay down and go to sleep.  I really wanted to take a picture of them once they fell asleep, but we didn't want to risk it!

They woke up the next morning at about 6:00...we heard them in there talking to each other.  Here they are eating breakfast.  They both had cereal...Alex changed his mind a few times with what cereal he wanted, and everytime he changed his mind, Chase did too :)

They wanted to go play in the sandbox at 7:00 in the morning, so here they are...sorry this one is blurry!  We cannot wait for our next slumber party with Alex...and Jackson in a few years too!  I know they will have so much fun growing up together!