December fun

My nieces and nephew came over and we made some yummy sugar cookies. The kids were so messy, but they had so much fun .....

This month we got to go to Bentley's Christmas recital. We weren't sure if she would actually dance at all, since she just stood there scared out of her mind at the rehearsal, but she totally surprised us and did her routine full on. She was so cute, just smiling and having fun! Josh and I were so proud of her watching her up on that big stage in front of lots of people.

Me and Bentley before her performance. They did their dance to a Cinderella Christmas song.

Bentley and Great grandma Ludwig.

She's the one on the very right. Looks like she's doing her own thing.

The kids all sat at the front and did a cute finale for the parents. Then a surprise visitor came..... Santa and Mrs Clause. I wish I had a close up picture of her face. She was beyond excited when she saw santa walk in!!!

Waiting patiently to see santa.

Telling santa what she wants for Christmas....... A baby and a bike!!

We celebrated my moms birthday! My dad asked me to make her a cake! I'm still very amateur, but I think it turned out pretty good!

My cute mom and her birthday cake!

Me, my mom, and my sister got together to make our neighbor gifts. We made some cake pops and some "SANTA"tizer. We had fun doing this together!

November

We took some family pictures... Nothing special, just set up a tripod and snapped a picture. These will have to do for this year!!

Cute Bentley! Almost three!

Bentley loved holding the ducks that daddy shot after his hunting trip! They had a very successful hunt, getting lots of ducks, some pheasants, and a couple geese!

One of Josh's new hobby's is trapping pigeons. He traps them and uses them to train his hunting dog! It's actually pretty fun to watch the dog find and point the birds! Bentley thinks they are her pets. Of course, they stay outside:)

Our friends from Arizona came to visit. Bentley loved holding the new baby!

We made these fun turkeys this year for Thanksgiving. We spent Thanksgiving at my grandparents house! It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun.

Playing red rover with some cousins at Thanksgiving.

Bentley loved helping us get out the Christmas decorations this year!

Bentley and the Christmas tree!

October/ Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year! We started out by having some homemade chili and some witch broom breadsticks. The weather was so perfect....

Bentley is very into anything princess right now. I let her choose her costume at the store and she knew exactly what she wanted to be... Cinderella.

We went trick or treating with some of Bentley's best buds, Zeke and Ezra!

They had the time of their life running from house to house to get more candy. They kept saying, "this is so much fun!!"

While trick or treating we saw another little girl dressed up as cinderella and Bentley ran to me crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said,"Mom, I am Cinderella. I don't want anymore cinderella's." Me and Josh were laughing so hard and had to explain to her that other little girls like princesses too!

The kids looking at some decor at one of the houses!

This is about as much as me and Josh dress up....

Bob the builder kissing cinderella.

The kids looking at all their candy! They got way too much!!!

These were our pumpkins we carved....

Getting the seeds out of our pumpkins to bake them. Eating the pumpkin seeds reminds me of when I was a kid.

Bentley's painted pumpkin.

We went to a fun trick or treat village at our park!

We went to the zoo this month. Bentley had never been. It was so fun walking around seeing all the animals. Bentley loved it.

Giraffe's are so amazing...

Looking at the big Gorilla.

Coloring with cousins!

We also had a fun cousin halloween party with the Ludwig side. The kids dressed up, painted pumpkins, made fun crafts, had dinner and yummy dessert. Thanks Julie for the fun night.

Holding their ghost suckers they got for prizes for their pumpkins

Grandma Julie helping Bentley put a face on her ghost.

Painting her pumpkin.

The pretty princesses!

Visiting daddy at the fire station.

We recently started Bentley in dance! She is so shy and the first few times have been hard, because I have to pry her off my leg to even get her to go into class. But she is starting to feel comfortable and she's having fun. I think she looks adorable in her dance outfit....

We made some yummy caramel apples...

And of course you have to have pumpkin chocolate chip cookies in October....