Woo Pig Sooie

Braxton Cole's personality continues to emerge and it is now obvious that he is all boy!! He loves construction equipment (snorts), sword fights (ah-yahs), dirt, bugs, and all things related to balls. Football has pushed its way up the rankings and currently seems to be at the top of the list. 

You cannot live in Arkansas and love football without loving the Razorbacks or Piggie Sooie as they are known in our house!!! Braxton loves clapping and giving an encouraging "go Piggie sooie" throughout the games! We decided that we couldn't let the season pass by without giving Braxton the opportunity to watch Piggie sooie live! 

Watching intently with daddy!

Homecoming was our best option even though  kickoff was at nap time and we had family pictures scheduled that evening. Braxton did great. He stood and quietly watched the crowd and the field. He clapped on cue and threw out his famous, "go Piggie sooie" on occasion. Of course our seats were conveniently near the fireworks and homecoming was a high scoring game for our piggies. This scenario=lots of boom booms and Braxton was not a fan of the noise. He kept pleading "no more boom booms please!" Eventually he had enough and politely asked "all done Piggie sooie? Go home now?" We obliged our sweet boy and headed home right before halftime! 

Overall it was fun!! I think next year will be really exciting and Braxton will finally be old enough to make it through a whole game!!

Pumpkin patch 2014

I LOVE FALL!! October is my very favorite month of the year. I love the chill in the air, the colorful landscapes, pumpkins, and all the festivities that signal the changing of seasons!!!

The pumpkin patch is one of my very favorite traditions with Braxton. I love it so much that this year we went twice!!

Trip #1 was with Jagger on a Friday afternoon when we had some spare time. The boys rode the "train" and enjoyed the hayride to the patch!! We had a photo shoot with the giant piles of pumpkins and they each brought home a small souvenir!! It is so fun watching these boys grow up together and peeking in as an inseparable bond, that only cousins have, forms!

Trip #2 was on a Friday afternoon with our bestie, Ansley! We went to Mcgarrah farms in Pea Ridge and practically had the place to ourselves. We of course took the token patch pictures with all the backdrops provided, rode the "train", went on the hayride, and let the littles run until they reached a point near exhaustion! They had a blast!!! 

The next week we invited Ansley over for dinner so that the kiddos could paint their pumpkin masterpieces, decorate their pumpkin cookies like Picasso, and partake in a few crafts to memorialize how small or big (depends how you look at it) their hands and feet are. They loved all the crafts and neither kiddo minded messy hands a bit. The cookies were their favorite but sadly they tasted terrible and had to be thrown away! Ha

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