Color Me Rad

The girls and I had fun participating in the 5K Color Me Rad run.  Raquel's friend Gracie and her mom ran with us and we all had a great time. We started out nice and clean and ended up with color bombs of blue, green, pink, purple and yellow all over us.  The girls even rolled in the color on the ground to get more colorful. Raquel wanted to run most of the way and Natalya was a real trooper and walked or ran most of time only needing to be carried a few times.  Mike even met up with us half way just in case Natalya needed to end early.  She ended up having too much fun and finished the run.

Nice and clean before the run.

Raquel's friend Gracie and her mom ran with us.

Stopping for a break.
Mike came and cheered us on alone the way and
brought lots of snacks to keep us going.

Raquel after she had been colored rad!

Beautiful colored hair.

After the run!

Natalya after the run.

Rescue Squad Open House

The family spent the day having lots of halloween fun.  The kids trick or treated at the first and main shopping center.  We all explored at the Blacksburg Rescue Squad open house.  The kids had fun climbing in the rescue vehicles and learning all about 911 and watching a vehicle extraction. They really liked when they broke out all the car windows.  Lastly the kids played games and ate lots of candy at the Kmart halloween party.

First & Main

Erik the dragon, Raquel the unicorn, Natalya Mini Mouse
and refusing to look at the camera is Marcus the dragon.

Doing arts and crafts

Blacksburg Rescue Squad 

Learning all about how to use 911 

Kmart Halloween Party

Eating lots of candy

Mini Mouse Natalya and her face paint

Sparkly horse shoe for the unicorn

Swim meet

Raquel did great at her first stoke school swim meet of the year.  She has lots of fun swimming and hang out with her friends.  She got 4th place in the SS-2 freestyle race and 1st in backstroke.

Our little fish Raquel

Raquel and her fellow swimmers

Freestyle

(Raquel in the pink suit, top lane)

Backstroke

(Raquel is in the top lane)

Pumpkins

Family Pumpkin Carving

Raquel & Natalya drawing their pumpkin faces

Raquel, Mike and Marcus carving pumpkins

Marcus checking out the pumpkins

Marcus, Raquel & Natalya's finished pumpkin

Scary, A bunny and happy heart eyes pumpkin

Fall Festival

The church at Natalya's preschool put on a fall festival. The kids played games, made crafts and played in a bouncy house.  We left before we were done having fun because we had to get home for our last bonfire of the year. We all enjoyed good food, friends and playing with the rabbits.

Bugs, Cousins & Pumpkins

Grandma & Papa Clinger brought the cousins to play for the weekend. The kids had a fun time swimming, going to bugfest, and the pumpkin patch with their cousins.  

Erik, Raquel, Natalya & the Hokie Bird

Raquel & Natalya

Marcus the Bee

Erik wore his bugs rule shirt to bugfest

Eating pizza with the cousins

Rabbits

Mike took our kids and their friends on a a trip up to Roanoke and came home with three rabbits.  Mike build them a wonderful outdoor pen where they have lots of room to hop around and the kids can play with them. The girls had fun naming their bunnies. We have Marcus car, he is the boy. Natalya pretty rainbow jewel and Raquel Rosie are the two girls.  

The girls holding their new pets after arriving home.

Luke with a bunny

Raquel & Natalya outside with their bunnies.

Fun @ Target

We had a little fun in the costume aisle at Target!

Cookies

Have I mentioned our kids love cookies.  Anytime the mixer starts up they come running.  

Natalya & Marcus are intently watching the mixer waiting for a bowl full of cookie dough.

Erik 6 months

Can you believe it Erik is 6 months old already.  He is a great little guy who has a great laugh and smile, loves his food and his brother and sisters. He wants to hang out where everyone is and loves being held.  He is a happy, healthy growing boy!

Erik helping me do laundry

Erik's cute smiles and giggles

His 6 month stats

Weight: 16 lbs 10.5 oz (50th%)

Length: 27 inches (75th%)

Home Depot Clinic

After making a quick stop to check out small livestock for sale at the Tractor Supply Store we headed to Home Depot for the kids clinic.  The kids all had fun building and painting a fire truck, eating and climbing around a real fire truck.  One of Raquel's best friends Luke and his brother Nick came along for the fun.

Checking out bikes
Luke & Raquel at the Tractor Supply Store

Natalya, Marcus & Nick

Natalya & Raquel building a firetruck

Marcus and his red firetruck

Helping Marcus paint his truck

Natalya, Marcus, Mike and Raquel exploring the real firetruck.

picking out pumpkins to paint

Enjoying some lunch

Fire woman Natalya

Checking out the lawnmowers at Home Depot