Photo Dump - Baseball Style

ugh. why do i suck at blogging so much? i'm sorry to my tens of readers. true story.

Connor is playing baseball again and being adorable while doing it. Since he's only 4 he's supposed to be doing tee ball for another year but he really wanted to move on to coach pitch. We lied and said he was 5 when we registered him this year. Amazing Parents party of 2? Yes.

We're playing with a few of the kids from his tee ball team, Aidan (the bff), Kaitlyn, and Elias so that is nice. There are a bunch of new kids too and although there are 14 of them, I swear it feels like there are 50 of them. herding cats. Jeff is assistant coach again which I find adorable. I agreed to be team mom. I mean why not? Like I have a ton of other commitments? Like I have control issues? yes to both.

Their team name is Cool Awesome Cats - hilarious. so uncomfortable to say. Some of the kids wanted Cool Cats and some wanted Awesome Cats so we combined. Kids are crazy.

Here are a bunch of pics from the first 6 games.

playing catch with Aidan
getting a talk from Coach Jeff

One of our fans made us this great sign!

chillaxin with crackers

bear bear

LOVE the concentration

the kids LOVE the parent tunnel at the end of the games!

the one requirement for Noah at games...carbs

the other team showing Noah how to hold the bat :)

Coach Jeff pitching to the kids during the game

bear wants to play so badly

A Very Happy Halloween 2011

ugh. i just realized this was never posted. fml.

Buzz Lightyear & Charlie Brown!

Addison, Kaden, Jacob, Connor, Madison and Noah

Madison throwing a fit when Noah stole her chair

completely unfazed and enjoying stolen chair

Buzz & Jessie (Connor & Bella) with Kaden

The Blums busted out the Halloween train again this year. It was a hit again!

this was the ONLY time Noah carried his pumpkin by the handle - he carried it like a hunny pot all night!

it only took Noah one house to learn the ropes. He was great and loved it. He'd just keep taking candy out of the bowl until someone stopped him!

Rapunzel

Connor's wings were constantly in the way and whacking kids in the face

some of the scary decoration

sometimes they even got drive thru service!

evaluating his loot!

Happy Halloween!!

Love,

The Barnes Family :)

Art Fair 2011

We aren't really artsy people and we don't really tend to buy artsy stuff, but every November you bet your ass we'll be at the huge Fountain Hills Art Fair. Why you ask would we go to a fair full of homemade clothing, organic soaps and beauties like this?

Well for fair food of course silly! Oh man, we go every year. Carly and Bobby joined us last year and I was thrilled when I got a text yesterday asking if we were planning on going again this year. OF COURSE! was our response so we all headed that way Sunday morning. Sunday is football day for all of us, so you can see this is quite a sacrifice. Totally worth it.

my turkey leg. it's a tradition. don't judge me.

being classy with fair food is way, way tougher than it sounds. clearly, we nailed it.

this is exactly what most of our photo attempts look like. one smiling adorb but looking somewhere else, one smiling creepily and looking directly at the camera, and one rando McD toy photo bombing our picture. #perfect

some sprinkles in the morning but a gorgeous day outside

Colton being super cool and adorable

another typical pic for us :) One smiling like an angel and the other passed out with food on his shirt.