cute bubs!

just a great photo of our lil bubs! :)

safety first

even office work can be dangerous...be prepared!

sweet sleeper

just thought that claire looked so cute with her leg propped up on the bumper! :)

reading time

Super Halloween!

Wonder Red and Super Why!!!
(aka: claire and wyatt :) )

if you haven't heard of Super Why, especially if you have little ones, and you do have PBS (we don't anymore :( ), it's a wonderful, educational and fun show! wyatt has learned so much from it and he and claire both love the characters. so, that is who they were for halloween...Super Why and Wonder Red! :)

we've gone to the fall festival at our neighbor's church the past 3 years and it has been so fun that we were so excited to go again this year! in fact, the first 4 houses in our neighborhood were there! these are wyatt and claire's neighbor friends (notice how many boys!!!)!
(from left to right, back row: audrey, lily, hannah, mackenzie, rachel, madelyn and hayden.
front row: wyatt and claire)

home after the fun. wyatt has been eating something and claire looks a little tired!

full view of the cutest little Super Why you'll find!! ;)
(would have one of claire, but i couldn't get her to stand still long enough!!)

photo by wyatt

wyatt's picture taking skills are getting better! here is the most recent: a super cute picture of grandma with his mini-excavator. :)

chocolate animal crackers

it's amazing how messy a couple chocolate animal crackers can be!!

...some messier than others ;)

Eakright Family Annual Camping Trip

wyatt, claire and eli standing by our site number sign. this is the picture that has to be taken whenever we go camping. we started it with wyatt when he stood by the site sign on the first camping trip! this was claire and eli's first camping experience!

we had such a great time camping!! the weather was PERFECT and the kiddos did great! all 3 of them just LOVED being outside so much...i think that we all did! we didn't go hiking like we did the last time, but we did get to go canoeing! unfortunately the canoeing didn't last long since it was close to nap time...meltdowns were starting to set in. enjoy some of the memories of our weekend! :)

jason cooking breakfast our first morning.

matt cooking bacon.

vati/grandpa and the kids playing and picking up acorns. the acorns will be one of the things that we will remember about this trip...our site was full of chestnut oak trees and they were dropping all around us the entire weekend. it made things funny, exciting and a little scary. matt got hit on the head, mutti on the leg, and vati and mutti's car and our car each received a dent. (there may have been other casualties, but those are the only ones i can remember.) if there was ever a slight breeze everyone would take cover! thankfully they didn't fall too to much at night because they were loud when they hit the tents!! :)

claire collecting acorns!

a view of our site at breakfast time...every one's hungry!

wyatt loves finding big sticks. he probably loved it even more that lucy (our sweet and funny black lab) wasn't around to steal them from him like she does at home.

"look mama, more acorns!"

surprise, surprise!

mutti/grandma and eli resting comfortably in the wonderful shade of the acorn dropping chestnut trees!

claire napping. does she look comfortable or what! :)

peeking through the tent window at the sleeping beauty!

wyatt looks pretty comfortable too! i wish i would have taken a nap!

when claire and wyatt weren't collecting acorns, they were peeling the bark off of the pine trees!

cooking breakfast the second morning. it was pretty chilly, but it warmed up fairly quickly.

my sis, my mutti and me! :)

the gwinns! :)

the eakrights! :)

awww!!

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the renfrows!!! :)

new bike and trailer!!

first time in the trailer!!

the kids and i carpooled with my sis and eli to their house for the rest of the week. we are excited to get to spend some time with them at their house and explore the state park that they live in with my new bike and bike trailer!! it's my birthday present that i have finally...barely...had time to purchase–that's a whole other story!!

eli, claire and wyatt watching a "show".

we started today playing inside and watching a "show". we wanted to wait until jason got home from work before we went on our bike excursion in the park. we also went to a couple of stores because i still had to get wyatt a helmet.

ready to load up!!

every one's excited!!
(well, except eli...he's been on quite a few bike rides, so he knows what to expect!)

here we go!! :)

we had a fun ride, and my legs were burning when we got back!!! there are some hills in that park and i was pulling my weight plus about 60 more. if i can get into some sort of routine with this, maybe i can get into shape...we'll see!! the kids were a bit squished in the trailer. we had to come back sooner than we wanted because they started pushing and bonking heads a bit. so i may be getting a seat for the bike as well. it was really fun aside from that! ;) looking forward to riding again tomorrow!!!

two too cute in blue

even though i have no photo proof, my sis (ree) and nephew (eli) are here! they have come to visit us for a couple of days and then we are heading to their house for the rest of the week and then hopefully camping the coming up weekend!


this morning ree, the 3 kids and i went to church. i didn't purposely put them in blue, but when i noticed how cute they looked together (and how "eastery" for the end of september...oh well! that's what happens when it's still near 90 degrees!!!), i felt i should take their picture. claire does actually have her easter dress on–that her nana made her!! (love it!)

phone talker

depending on his mood, wyatt enjoys talking on the phone. matt left today for a canada hunting trip with his dad. he called around bedtime in order to get to talk with the kids before they went to bed, in hopes that wyatt would be in a phone talking mood!! thankfully i had talked the phone call up and he was ready and excited to get the call. he looks so grownie talking on the phone!!

our cuties

just thought that they both looked so cute in this picture! :)

claire (20 months old)

horsie mama

horsin' around with my munchkins!
(for the record, claire was smiling,
she and wyatt bonked heads just before this was taken!)

mutti's pre-birthday celebration

happy birthday mutti!! we were so glad that we were all around to be able to get together for your birthday! hope that you have a great day tomorrow, on the actual day! we love you!!! :)

mutti getting ready to blow out the candle on her delicious
molasses cookie with ice cream!

"fort crib"
while we were visiting, all 3 kiddos needed to take naps. since eli had been here a night already, the pack-n-play was spoken for. we didn't bring one, ours doesn't work very well, so we had to compromise...we made her a pillow surrounded area covered by a sheet on the floor...believe it or not, it worked!! she didn't climb out! :) it took her a bit of whining to finally relax and lay down in it, but she did and took a decent nap too! good girl.

"fort toy box"
eli in the most popular fort of their grandparents house! they all like to get in this thing. this one also requires some supervision when they have first mastered the entry...the exit takes a little more practice (a smooth one anyway), which is why his pretty mommy is on stand-by! :)

yellow "monstert" hands!

claire and wyatt found nana's cleaning gloves!!

today the kids and i arrived at matt's parent's (papa and nana) to visit for about a week. we wanted to do this last summer, during judy's (nana) summer break, but last year was busy enough as it was with fun things like a wedding (john and ash) and a baby (eli)! this year had ended up being much busier than we had thought it would be, but we were still able to make this work! yay! thanks so much for having us!!

watch out for the yellow "monstert" hands!!

Happy Birthday Matt!

happy birthday hubs!! i love you so much! i hope that you had a nice relaxing birthday...the kind you like. (no tricks from me this year! ;) )

Thomas the Tank Engine

wyatt and claire were able to see one of their (mainly wyatt's) favorite characters at the delaware state fair.