happy halloween weekend!

we're looking forward to celebrating halloween this weekend with noah.  he has a cute little halloween party at school today that i will be going to, and then we will be trick-or-treating tomorrow.

happy halloween weekend!

love, laurie

i spy with my little eye . . .

. . . us!  we attended our town's trunk-or-treat this weekend and someone took several drone photos.  i spy the tiger family in line for treats.

love, laurie

getting ready for halloween

noah's getting ready for halloween.  he has already worn his costume 3 times and will have it on 2 more times this season.  (so, at least i got my money's worth out of that!)

at school the students carved a pumpkin.  i was shocked to see noah willing to scoop out the insides of the pumpkin!

love, laurie

 

always cheesin'

say "cheese" for the camera, noah!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

 a few recent photos of mr. noah at school!

love, laurie

noah in a big truck!

we rented a uhaul truck to help move our friend into her new home and noah was really excited to get a chance to get dropped off at school in it.

it's not every day that mom and dad drop you off in a big truck!

love, laurie

driving a real excavator

we are surrounded by construction 24/7.  houses are being built on both sides of us currently.  needless to say, noah is in heaven.

recently, the developer pulled up with an excavator on the back of a trailer.  he had noah get up into the cab with him and drive it off the back of the trailer and onto the lot that needed it.  

i can't even imagine what that experience meant to noah.

love, laurie

what has mr. noah been up to lately?

late-season apple picking, lots of time on the inflatable slide in the basement, and lots of time outside in the yard practicing his tractor driving skills.

love, laurie

noah the artist

it was family week at school and noah had to draw a family portrait.  he drew "baby noah, daddy, mommy, and leko" . . . "and mommy has a fire extinguisher!"

not sure why mommy needs a fire extinguisher.

this is by far the best thing he has ever drawn.

and he traced his hands really nicely too!

love, laurie

recent preschool snapshots

recent snapshots of mr. noah at school.

love, laurie

happy 46th wedding anniversary, mom and dad!

this has always been one of my favorite pictures of my mom and dad (taken back in 1979, one year before they were married).  

today is their 46th wedding anniversary!  i'm blessed to have two amazing parents who are such wonderful role models, and i'm so grateful that noah has them as such incredible grandparents!

happy anniversary, mom and dad!

love, laurie

two boys in the backseat

i had to take leko to the vet for his annual checkup so i put leko in the carrier in the backset next to noah.  the entire drive, noah was telling leko how he was going to be okay at the doctor.  it was cute.

noah was really excited to have leko in the car with him!

love, laurie

meeting a "real" unicorn

one of our neighbors had her 6th birthday party and noah and i attended.  it was a magical unicorn theme, and the highlight for everyone was meeting the "real" unicorn that visited the party.

noah was brave enough to stand next to the unicorn and take a photo to show daddy.

he did have a lot of fun at the party!

love, laurie

silly guy

mr. noah being silly as per usual.

love, laurie

some recent photos of mr. noah

new lego builds, sharing pizza with mom outside at a fall fair, so excited to put up the pumpkin in the front yard, turning a cardboard box into a tractor, and standing near the humongous scoop of a real excavator.

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few photos of mr. noah at school recently.

love, laurie

fall at roba family farms

after going to the pumpkin walk on saturday, we headed to roba family farms.  we haven't been there in a few weeks, so noah was happy to go back.

love, laurie

the pumpkin walk

when noah was only a few weeks old, we went to visit the pumpkin walk at creekside gardens.  we haven't been back since, so it was nice to explore it again this past weekend.

this time noah was big enough to walk through the pumpkin walk on his own and he sure enjoyed seeing all of the pumpkins everywhere.

love, laurie

the best view

noah was thrilled to find out that the open lot next door to us was being excavated last week.  we discovered it when we came home from school and immediately ran outside to check it out.

noah positioned himself in the side yard on a tiny chair to supervise the workers.

later, he decided to get his own mini excavator out and drive around our yard just like the workers next door.

needless to say, the workers really got a kick out of seeing him!

love, laurie

happy birthday, little blog!

today this little blog of mine turns 15 years old.  i'm not sure how it has been 15 years since i started this adventure back in 2011 on a whim.  i'm grateful for my little corner of the internet as a virtual scrapbook to chronicle the highlights of our lives.

happy birthday, little blog!

love, laurie

we're in a magazine!

happenings magazine featured our family ice cream cone halloween costumes from last year in their october 2026 issue.  those were some good costumes!

we're so grateful that they featured our design.  i had fun making those costumes for us!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few recent snapshots of mr. noah from preschool.

love, laurie

some random photos

noah waiting for his speech lesson,

noah in the car with mom waiting for a friend's birthday party to start,

noah and mom enjoying freshly baked banana nut muffins that we made together,

and me being stuck because leko decided to curl up on my back.

love, laurie