Pumpkin time

The pumpkin patch is here and like every year at this time, it is one of our favorite fall activities to go look at all the different shapes, colors and textures of pumpkins at the pumpkin patch.

I took the boys after Sunday School  yesterday and let them run around for a while.

I have never seen pumpkins so big as the ones this year.  We saw a family who brought their wagon just to haul their pumpkin to the front to pay!

Crazy brothers

Sunday afternoon we were invited to the annual pumpkin carving party at Karen and Chris' house

Big Boys

These guys are growing up fast.

  Kirby went on his first sleep-over last weekend, which was actually a camping adventure.

A father/son camping trip that Kirby got invited to.

It was all the way in Fleming Island, so we were a little nervous that we may receive THE CALL that we needed to go pick him up.

Instead the other mom got the call at 11:30 to come pick up all three boys.  And then they went home and played until............. are you ready for this????

1:30am

Yikes!

He had a great time and didn't even get home the next day until 5:00 because they were having so much fun.

Do these guys look like trouble or what?

haha

In other news:

Since we have a new baby in the family Roe is on a little bit of a time crunch to move to his big boy bed.

He has done very well this week taking his naps in there.

He just looks like a big boy in that bed!

Baby Simms

Guess what?!??! 

I'm an Auntie

Catherine Simms Brent

was born yesterday at 1:30 pm

8# 4oz

Mommy and baby are doing great!

love

Planting vegetables!

Ted finally agreed to let us plant a vegetable garden. We choose a nice sunny spot in the side yard and spent two days digging and cutting all the grass, roots, and weeds out.

The boys are eager to start planting all the veggies we picked out.

These pictures are from when we just started... it has come a long way!  Don't worry, more pics to come as we progress!

1st day of school

Better late than never....eh?

So, as you can see there was plenty of brotherly love going on , on the first day of school.

 Kirby was super proud to be starting Kindergarten..... Roe did not want to be touched.

I loved looking at every one's sweet 1st day of school pics on facebook.

Unfortunately for the Alexanders, this is as good as it gets.

High Hampton 2011

We just got home from another great week at High Hampton.

We all had a wonderful time,  The boys played HARD, Ted was able to play lots of golf and i did lots of relaxing and even managed to read two books.

Now that's what i call a vacation!

Our room assignment got a little mixed up on the day that we arrived so **poor us** we were forced to stay in this beautiful 4 bedroom cabin (with a kitchen) for the first night.

We felt a little spoiled getting to stay there but loved moving a little closer to our friends and all the action.

My very brave 5 year old did sliding rock for the first time all by himself this year. And as you can imagine after going down once he went down again and again!

Roe learned to drive

The famous blue blazer picture

And on th elast day we decided to go fishing and look at this fella that snagged our worm on just the second cast.

Proud dad and boys.

Roe was proud to just scared to stand near our buddy the fish.

Feelin' Hot Hot Hot

We are having a great summer, but just like every year, I wish were spending more time outside. It is HOT around here, and that mixed with afternoon thunderstorms, and attack mosquito's, sometimes it's not so pleasant to be outside.

We have had plenty of play dates,

fun with LEGO'S

Skateboard practice

and silliness

4th of July

We had a fun fourth this year.  We started the day out at the Yacht Club with the Brent's.

Well, John, Anne and Margaret!

It was a ton of fun and we all had to come home after lunch for a nice little nap.

Good idea because we were in for a long night!

We met Baba at Timuquana for dinner around six and stayed all night for fun and fireworks.

The kids had a blast rolling and running down the hill.

We loved getting to see so many of our friends that we haven't seen since school has been out.

Kirby, Tyler and Roe.

These boys haven't see each other on a while, but it didn't take any time to pick up just where they left off.

beach week

At the beginning of this month we were lucky enough to be able to spend a week and a half at the beach.

Last year when we went my camera broke and so i was extra careful ( and a little paranoid) about taking pictures on the beach.

I did manage to get a few of the kids playing in the yard.

 One day we had some friends from California stop by to play for a few hours, Kirby and Vivianne really had a great time together and we hope next time they are in Jacksonville we can play again.

Biggie boy Roe and his new obsession

DINOSAUR

Memorial day at the beach

haha kirby writing his name in the shower... to cute not to include.

Looks like he may need to go back and add and R

For what may be the 12th year we were invited to "The Beach House" to spend Memorial Day with what can only be described as family.

It's awesome that these kiddos have had the opportunity to spend so much time at such an amazing place.

These two may be dangerous in a few years

Lee, Evan, and Kirby

Lee chillin' out

grrrr

 to  cute not to include but you may have to lay on your side to see it's cuteness

playing with LEGOS

Roe loving ever sip of his sno-cone

which was really just plain ice, but he thought was ice cream

so cute he kept going "yummmm ice cream"

brotherly love with the bubble guns

team work

sideways kite flying

and..... Drum Roll Please

the weekend ended with a game of wiffle ball which resulted in a black eye and broken nose.

sorry about your luck Mr.