September and October Fun

September and October were a little crazy busy with me starting back to work part time, Cassidy starting a new school and all of us adjusting to a new schedule where it feels like Chad and I are two ships passing in the driveway!  Chad gets home and I'm off to work while he watches the girls in the morning and when I get home he's off to bed and then up and back to work.  It's worth it though being able to keep the girls with us and me getting a little balance in my life.

Here are some of the highlights...

Cassidy's first day of pre-school

Cleaning up some of our garden harvest

A special visit from Aunt Sue and Uncle Wayne

Cassidy still finds time to ride Ziggy and her new favorite is to drive the 4-wheeler....look out, she's a speed demon!  She also has mastered the hula hoop...much better then both me and Chad! It's amazing she learned with us as her teachers!

Some of the girls' antics have been quite entertaining...I swear what one doesn't think of the other does and they are great cheerleaders for eachother

What I get thinking putting the baby gate up to make it easier to unload the
costco run...I guess they didn't like that idea much!

Rylee thinks it's great to scale Cassidy's bunk bed ladder

Rylee pushes one of the chairs over to be able to climb up and get into the
great stuff on Cassidy's red table

Pretty sure Sawyer led the charge on this one...front and center

Teamwork!  Sawyer pushing Rylee

Cass and Rylee

We got to go up to a horse expo and Cassidy was in haven...she loved watching the vaulting and I finally had to pry her away from the cowboy challenge race as it was 8:30 pm and every one else was done.  It was really fun watching her and dreaming of all our horse adventures to come!

Brady's birthday up north and the twins provided the entertainment

Aunt Mary teaching Rylee bad habits!

Cassidy and I got very into using the apples up over at the barn and got pretty good at making "Horse Barn" applesauce.  I have to say the peeler/corer that I bought was some of the best money I've spent lately.  Cass could get an apple ready for the pot in about 30 seconds, grinning the whole time, and it's pretty funny seeing the horses with spaghetti apple peels hanging out of their mouths!

Another great adventure was G'ma Kit treating us to Disney Princess's on Ice.  Cassidy was so excited and was spellbound by all the costumes and skating, not to mention getting to be with her cousins and G'ma...oh yeah, and Mom

It did seem like we battled colds most of October which did lead to some nice snuggle time with our other wise way too busy girls.  Here's Chad taking advantage of Sawyer needing some quiet time