Hawkeye Football time!

We love the fall around our house.  We enjoy the slightly cooler temperatures, the leaves changing and most importantly college football!  The boys have yet to share in Ryan and my enjoyment of college football, but we will keep trying.  One of the first games of the season, we actually got both boys to wear their football jerseys.  I couldn't believe it.  They had some fun running around the house playing football.  We also usually have a few friends over and this year the boys even wanted to play some yard games with us.

They boys watching football...oh wait it is horse dancing...oh well!

Braydon practicing...down, set, hut

Kellan practicing...down, set, hut

Kellan tackling Braydon

The Iowa vs Iowa State game was a 5pm start this year...Kellan had a hard time staying up for the game!

No mom, I don't need a hair cut!

Kellan playing the frisbee game

Hanging with Reid Iben

They boys haven't quite got the addiction to hawkeye football like Ryan and I yet, but they do pay attention.  After Iowa beat Northwester, Braydon decided to tell everyone that the hawks won today!  He was really excited!

September review!

September was busy as always. Kellan is changing every day and tries more and more to be like his brother.  Braydon is learning a lot at preschool and loves showing his little brother what to do and sometimes what not to do. 

First up in September was Ryan's Birthday.  This year I had both boys help me make the cake.

Kellan having a little taste

Kellan tasting the cake batter on his tip-toes

We love celebrating birthdays at our house. 

Happy Birthday Dad!

blow out the candles

Kellan is always trying to do everything you do.  Every Saturday and Sunday morning, Ryan likes to have a bowl of cereal.  It doesn't matter if Kellan has already eaten breakfast or not, he always wants to share Dad's breakfast.  Ryan has even taught him to drink the milk out of the bottom of the bowl.

I guess this works too!

We also headed to Boone for the Pufferbilly Days parade. I remember always going to the parade as a kid.  Aunt Doris was being recognized as the Boone Woman of the Year, so it gave us a good reason to go to the parade.  

The boys waiting for the parade

waiting with Jr

waving at everyone

Looking good in his beads!

Kellan even got a bomb pop

It was an awesome parade...lots of bands and lots of candy.  There was so much candy, the boys quit picking it up.  It would be really fun to go back again next year.

Aunt Doris in the parade

You never know what you will find at our house.  Kellan is an extremely opinionated 1 year old and sometimes you have to just roll with it!

Kellan looking good as usual!

By the end of the month, Kellan could drink the cereal milk all by himself

Braydon and I also headed to a Boone high school football game because my 2nd cousin was playing on the team - he is the kicker.  They were playing Perry, so we thought it would be fun.  We saw a great game and of course it ended with Tyler kicking the winning Field Goal!

The Stotts Family after the game

More to come still!

Preschool time!

 Time for preschool!  To say Braydon was excited for preschool would be an understatement.  I wasn't sure how he would do because he would not know any of the other kids in his class.  First up was a parent/kid meet the teacher day.  Braydon listened well and loved all the fun stuff in the classroom.  He couldn't remember this teachers' names, so he told me he was just going to call them Teacher.  He goes 4 days a week 9am-11:30am.  He even had homework for the first day, so we sat at the kitchen table and worked on it.  The assignment was to put pictures of things that you liked.  Braydon's included:  his halloween costume, his brother, hawkeyes, cubs, Scooby Doo, the zoo, Lightning McQueen, Angry birds, dog foot prints, ice cream and picture of him hiking!  

First homework project!

homework job well done. 

Then it was the first day of school!  How exciting!  I have never taken a first day of school picture and I couldn't figure out where to take it.  So I took about 100 because the shadows kept messing the picture up!  But I will only post a few

Braydon with his bag and Kellan

Braydon has really grown up since starting preschool.  He is excited every day to go and he even has a friend there, her name is Gabi!  He brings home lots of paintings.  He never tells us what he learns, but Linda his babysitter picks him up from school and she says he never stops talking about his day at school with her.  By the time we pick him up he usually forgets!

Fishing Day at Spring Lake

Growing up, Ryan and I both remember going to Spring Lake.  Its this fun Lake where you can camp right on the shore, swim on the beach, go fishing, rent row and paddle boats, and go to the rollerskating rink.  Ryan and his cousin Chris use to go with this Grandma Dar and I use to go camping with my family and friends. 

So one Sunday we decided to go fishing and picked Spring Lake.  It was so much fun and a beautiful day.  Although it seemed a lot smaller than we remembered, it also seemed like it hadn't changed at all.  Braydon had a new fishing pole to try out that got for his birthday from Papa and Grandma Pat. 

Kellan preferred to throw rocks

Grandma Pat and Braydon fishing together

Kellan touching the worms

Papa and Braydon fishing

Braydon looking good fishing

Papa helping Braydon figure out the pole

Braydon casting out...he got really good at it (you can see the bobber i the air)

Kellan still throwing rocks

We also thought it would be fun to have a little picnic.  So we set out a blanket and had sandwiches and chips!  The boys loved it. 

Kellan thought he needed the entire bag of chips!

Braydon's first pringles duck bill

As we were eating lunch we still had some poles in the water.  Ryan noticed one of them go under, so he went running over to get it.  Everyone has on the dock helping, Braydon was even holding on to Ryan to help him. They saw the fish and it was huge!  It ended up snapping the line...the one that got away

You can see how big the fish is in the water

Braydon and Dad fishing some more

After fishing, we headed over to the snack shack for some ice cream.  Braydon and Kellan were not shy about ordering!

2 vanilla cones please!

What a fun way to spend a Sunday.  Although we did not catch one fish...we will definitely go back!

A Perrydise reunion!

On Sunday of Labor Day weekend we were lucky enough to get together with some friends I grew up with that we haven't seen in a long time.  So we met up in Perry on Sunday for a few hours.  Fran from California and her son Henry, Sarah, Roger and little Molly from Minnesota and of course Krista and her little bun in the oven and of course the Murphy boys all got together.  We just hung out in the driveway chatting like old times.  It was so great to spend some time with such good friends and see our kids hanging out.

Kellan shooting hoops with the soccer ball

Henry chasing the basketball

Henry what a cutie!

Kellan and Henry talking some strategy

Molly staying away from the boys!

Braydon and Henry

Kellan and Molly hanging out

Group photo 1

Group photo 2

Thanks everyone for taking some time to get together.  Hopefully we can do it again soon!