Oh, how I love fall!

We had a lot of fall fun this weekend!  Last night we went to our friends Jami, Brandon, and Hunter's house to grill out, roast marshmallows and make s'mores.  The kids had the best time!  After supper and s'mores, the boys ran around the back yard and played on the swing set, while the grown ups stayed close to the fire and tried to keep the girls from falling into it!  Ella loved running after the bigger kids and pretending she was big like them.  :)

Emma and Ella holding hands... precious!

Cooper and Miller roasting marshmallows!

Miss Ella getting some help from Daddy to roast her marshmallow.

Today Chris and I took Cooper and Ella to the pumpkin patch.  They picked out their pumpkins, petted the animals, played on the neat playground, and tried to make getting a good picture of both of them together practically impossible.  :)  We had a lot of fun just being together as a family.  Cooper took the job of pumpkin-picker very seriously, and Ella tried her best, to no avail, to pick up every pumpkin in the patch. 

 

Then when we got home, we carved a jack-o-lantern.  After we took it outside and lit it up, Ella kept going, "Oooh.  Pump-tin.  Oooh.  Happy!"

The Fair!

This week we went to the fair, like we do every year.  We had so much fun!  Any time we take our kids somewhere, Chris and I always talk about how easy going they both are (usually!).  Cooper rode a lot of rides; he is not afraid of anything!  Miss Ella rode the merry go round and had a death grip on Chris the whole time.  :)  She is not a daredevil at all!  She still doesn't like to swing.  Poor baby.  She was such a trooper though.  She rode in her stroller most of the time, only fussing to get out when we stopped, and she wanted to watch Cooper on a ride.  Both kids loved looking at the animals.  We just had the best time being together and watching them enjoy themselves.

See the nervousness...

And the death grip?  :)

This picture makes me laugh.  Cooper's like, "Who are you?"

The stuffed animals they paid for won picking up ducks.

Ears, eyes... what's the difference?