My Birthday and Halloween Oct 30 & 31

Since my hubby was gone my family threw me a Birthday party, it was so nice.

Cheesing for the camera

All lit up!

Blowing them out

Owen eating a ice cream cone, he loved it!

Dug in to, looks so good, wish I could go back! :-p

Halloween was busy, party at work, Grandma and Grandpa Diekers (Lynn and Jerry's) Aunt Cecily's and picking Nate up from the airport that night!

Baby Phillip wearing Owen's pea pod!

Mike, Fanja and Muget (Fanja's mom from Madagascar)

Little Jazz spider getting ready to hit the neighborhood!

carrying his own bucket

grabbing the candy with his little glove

Helping himself, lol

More candy

The little girls were saying how cute he was and talking to him so he thought he'd go in and play!

Making our way back to G & G's house

Checking out all his candy he got

Getting ready to go out a 2nd time with Claire in aunt Cecily's neighborhood

Riding around w/ Claire in the wagon, what a life

Wanting to take over the steering

2 Kiddos in a basket

Detroit and Chicago Trip! Oct 22-29

October 22 Owen and I flew out to Detroit to visit the Sandahls and drive from there to Chicago to visit Nate!

Uncle Scott playing keep away

Owen was so excited to be with his cousins again!

He was swimming on the kitchen floor

Chelle was giving the babies a ride around the house

Owen wasn't sure what to think about all this! lol

On the road to Chicago (not looking so hot)!

Kiddos enjoying the ride and Chelle passed out in the back

CHICAGO, awesome bridge and river I saw and went under last time I was there when I was in high school

Stacked parking garage

On our way to our adventure in Chicago

Looking at some fishies with daddy

Field Museum (and segway gang), I went to this museum when I was in high school and I regret not going there that day!!

Chicago city line

On the way to dinner, Rory cheesing for me!

The Schweizers

The Sandahl girls

Back in Detroit, Owen (with spiky hair) playing in the girls room with his favorite thing, Blocks!

Getting ready to carve the pumpkin we all picked out together

The kids watching

Owen helping with the seeds from the pumpkin

Slimy

ALL DONE

The kids wanted to touch it

So we let them check it out

showing off our hard work

On our way back to Wichita being a big boy sitting next to mommy

He loves to buckle everything, he was really concentrating

Back in Wichita, taking it easy reading a book in Wally's bed!

Another trip to Illinois, Chicago! Oct 19-31

My first plane trip in like forever! My new job at Flextronics sent me to Chicago for training, I was pretty pumped to go, it was like a vacation almost.

St. Louis... i think, i had to connect there to get to Chicago.

They put me up in this SUITE room (get it...)

yep, Sox game

Chicago fog

Da Bears (Soldier Field)

Shedd Aquarium. we thought it was going to be amazing, so we waited outside for like and hour and then when we finally got inside, we waited for like 30 more minutes... then we found out AFTER we paid that half the aquarium was closed for remodeling. oh well, it was still pretty sweet. Owen loved it.

on our way past the Field Museum, through the entrance to Soldier Field to the aquaruim. this whole wall was a waterfall, it was really cool.

Aqua Sunroof

GIANT snake, not a toy... Owen

HUGE catfish thing.

after we got out the fog lifted. Chicago Bay. (i like this picture even though the whole bottom of this photo isnt water, its the ledge i set the camera on. oops.

SEARS TOWER!! never got to go to the top though...

All in all i was in training there for 2 weeks, it was really fun.