While I was away with girls for a shopping trip Gary carved pumpkins with the girls. Dad of the year!!! haha Last year our days were so crazy we never ended up carving pumpkins. This is the first time that they did some of the carving themselves. 

They really had fun with it & their pumpkins turned out so cute!

Top Left- Maeve {Gary helped carve}

Bottom Left- Margaux

Top Right- Marin's emoji pumpkin

Gary even tried out a new cinnamon toast flavored pumpkin seed that was pretty good. 

Love how Marin posed behind the pumpkins. Too funny! Halloween is just around the corner! xo

Yesterday was Fall 50 day!!! The weather was a big chilly for us spectators but perfect for Gary. 

As always, we had a great day together & the fall leaves were beautiful!!! We all enjoyed looking at all the colors along the course. The girls each made a sign for Gary to hold throughout the day. Margaux was so proud of her "May the Course Be With You" Star Wars themed poster & Maeve's read "Just Keep Running" {instead of swimming}with Dory.

We never got a picture of Marin with her poop emoji poster that said "Don't Poop Yourself!" 

It was pretty funny! They were so excited to see Gary at each of the stops along the 50 mile run.

Gary rocked it of course. Smiling the entire way! It is absolutely crazy!!!

 A few of our friends came up for the day to cheer him on & even bike/run along side him throughout the race. Totally appreciated that, as I am sure it made the run a little easier. The girls even joined in a bit & ran along side him.

 He did it!!! {Not that we thought he wouldn't!}

Not only did he finish he was done 1.5 hours faster than his last 50 mile race two years ago. Again, just so crazy!!! The day went by so fast with him just clipping along all day. We are definitely proud of him & all his hard work!!!! Surprisingly he is in great shape today too... he actually said this morning that he could go out & run. Yup, he's nuts!!! xoxo

Happy 11th Anniversary to us yesterday! 

The years go by too fast, although I love the life we have made together. We are so incredibly fortunate for all we have. Each year gets better & I love our time together with our family & friends.

We spent the morning with the girls at a little fall festival in town. In the afternoon we headed over to my parents house for anniversary & birthday dinner {for Katie}. Fun evening together & very low key. Perfect because we spent the whole day today at Lambeau tailgating & going to the game.

Super fun afternoon with friends tailgating in the parking lot for a few hours.

And even more fun for Gary & I to go to a game together. It has been so long since we've gone to a game together... just the two of us. The outcome of the game was not what we had hoped, but we had fun together in the blazing hot sun! Our seats were great as well... 9th row!

Fun day & a great way to celebrate an anniversary weekend. Cheers to 11 and many more!! xoxo

Here are a few pics from our trip to the apple orchard yesterday. It was a perfect day to pick apples...  not too cool or too hot. It is hard when it's warm because of the bees. The girls loved being there with Sloane & helping her find apples, although, the group photo did not go as planned! We had them all dressed in their green & gold, matching so well too!

Sloane keeps us all laughing all the time! She is such a happy little girl, just doesn't have time for photos. Cute smiles from two of our three, Marin posing & a kiss face.

Margaux climbed the tree this year. I was picking apples & I could hear her yelling for us. When I went over to her she was up in the tree finding the "best apples!"

Once Margaux was up there, Marin had to try as well. Maeve stayed down below picking/eating apples the entire time. Not surprised...

As we were leaving Margaux found a little friend. This cat was even in my Aunt Amy's car when we walked up {her windows were open}. He jumped out & was following Margaux all over. We had to keep him from jumping into our vehicle.

Made us all laugh. Take it all in girls, we won't be getting a cat... ever! xoxo

60 Years
21,914 Days
525,949 Hours
31,556,940 Minutes
1 Wonderful Husband
2 Loving Daughters {and Son-in-laws}
4 Amazing Grandchicks
1 Blessed Family

Happy 60th Birthday to the best mom/grandma we could ask for.
We hope you had a great weekend & enjoyed the celebrations.

We started the celebration Friday night at our house for dinner with family/friends.

Gary & I made a few yummy soups and we all enjoyed the awesome cake. 

Another attempt at a photo with the four girls... one doesn't cooperate {guess who!}

Today we went apple picking & are having another dinner together for one last celebration before we head into the week of Katie {her bday is next & our anniversary!}

We love you so much mom! We hope you had a great weekend xoxoxo

Yesterday myself & a few great friends decided to take a trip to Milwaukee to be a part of a filming of the show The Bachelor {our favorite!!!} It was a last minute thing that we saw on the internet & we decided to go for it. We left at 3:30, didn't even have time to see the kids after school. We heard

from friends that the girls were going around the neighborhood telling people "Our moms are in Milwaukee trying to be on The Bachelor!" haha Made us laugh like we were down there trying to find husbands!!!

After a fun road trip we made it there & all four were accepted to attend the filming of the show. We headed to a restaurant downtown near the venue & had dinner/drinks before the real fun began.

We had such a fun time. It was all not planned & such a last minute decision to go... that is what made it so enjoyable. We got into the theater at 9pm & the filming was done at midnight. I sooooooo wish we could have had our phones for the cameras. I would have taken so many photos but the phones were not allowed because of the filming. Country singer Chris Lane was there & did a whole concert for us before the taping began. {There were about 600 people in the theater for the show. Seems like a lot but a small amount of people for a concert.} He rocked it & we had a blast! We are all four new Chris Lane fans & it was totally worth the drive there! It was so fun for us all to see the show happening live in front of the cameras. I cannot wait to see the show air in January. I will definitely be having a house full of girls here for that episode!!! Tired today though.. we got home at 2:15am. Worth every minute of lost sleep. So much fun!