Way behind this Fall . . .

I am so desperately behind for this blog, so this will be a "catch up" post:)  (I think most of my post are actually "catch up" posts!)  Anyway . . . last weekend we made a super fast trip to St. Louis so celebrate my grandpa's (the kid's great grandpa's) 97th birthday.  I didn't mange to take enough pics -- ugh.  But, we stopped by on Friday night before going to the hotel and got to 

spend a bit of time with him!

 Joshua and grandma super cozy in the chair -- I believe Joshua was 

sending texts from Gma's phone . . .

Bryan and Westin

Tyler and Lena -- it was fun to not on see immediate cousins from Indiana, but my cousins and their kids as well . . . so crazy how the family just keeps getting bigger!

We were determined to get a picture with Grandpa and Grandma with all of the grandkids since we had somehow managed to forget that since Jordy had been born.  Here they are . . .all NINE of them, seven and under!

Grandpa and the three daughters . . . 

 Changing subjects . . . last night was the Fall Fest that our church gets to attend . . . and the kids just love it!  It was definitely on the cooler side, but lots of fun!  The kids were especially psyched about the jumping pits .  .

 Tyler just hopped right on -- it was nice to have one area for "big" kids, and one are for the little guys . . .Do you recognize the girl in the background in purple?  That would be Kayla running for help after she got hurt on the trampoline.  She ended up being fine, but I had no idea Bryan had captured that image:)

 Daddy and Tyler watching the pig races . . .

Aunt Bem joined us for a bit . . . not sure this will have a super huge impact on Jordy, but it was fun to have them there . . .

 Grandma and Tyler in the corn pit . . .

Kayla's grand exodus from the big slide . . .

 That's Joshua on top there . . .the kids definitely did not feel the need to have Mommy or Daddy at their side this year . . . we spent most of the time just trying to remember where they said they were going next:)

 Those are really tall tires for little guys!

The group swing . . .

 Grandma and Tyler checking out the old tractor . . .

This was my Monday morning discovery when cleaning up . . .not sure when Kayla wrote this note during the weekend, but it was cute:)

"I love Mom and Dad and Miss Patton (her Kind. teacher).  (yes, notice the period on the end of the sentence . . that's my girl!)  We went to Wendys.

Mom, Dad, Miss Patton, Wendys -- life is good!