Fall in Phoenix

It has been beautiful here in Phoenix now that the sun has calmed itself down. It's a nice time to have visitors and spend some time outside.

Here is Olive in her ladybug costume.


Jackson was a dragon - he is demonstrating the "trick" in "trick-or-treat".


Joss was Snow White. She could not wait!


We finally were able to carve pumpkins on Halloween day. Joss drew all the faces and Shawn cut them out. They turned out so cute~


Joss' preschool group took a field trip to a pumpkin patch. Here are the babies on a haystack.


This is the tractor at the pumpkin patch.


Shawn's grandparents came for a visit and brought their Billy Bass Fish. Joss and Jackson loved to sing along!


Mom made these pajamas for them when we visited earlier this year. Olive is finally big enough to wear them, so we had to get a shot.


We went to visit Brandon and Jessica in Safford and went to the Graham County Fair. The kids loved the animals:


...but they really loved the Kettlecorn!

U2 and the Black Eyed Peas!

In the midst of one of Shawn's busiest weeks ever, our friends, the Whitmores called us up and invited us to go to the U2 concert with them last night. They gave us a screaming deal on the tickets and, honestly, who can pass up U2? Not us! We rushed to find a babysitter (thanks Shia) and off we went. It was awesome. The Black Eyed Peas opened and seriously have to be one of the best openers of all time. They are so fun! It didn't hurt that we were with the Whitmores- and Sarah, all pregnant, can really shake her groove thing! It was a blast and we are now sleep deprived and Shawn has a lot of catching up to do, but it was worth it!

Vegas Baby

It's been awhile since we went to Vegas - for some reason I kind of forgot to put up our Vegas pictures. I guess it's true what they say - What happens in Vegas...

We went to Shawn's cousin, Patrick Fleming's wedding at the Tropicana. It was a beautiful, sweet, simple wedding and we got to see a lot of Shawn's family. Shawn's parents kept Joss and Jackson for the weekend, so we only had Olive to wrestle with.

This is the last few moments we were there - probably a good thing...


We didn't bring Olive's shades, so Uncle Kevin let her borrow his. They look better on her anyway!


In front of New York New York. You forget how amazing the buildings are there.


Hey Kevin, can you take our picture?

(aren't Kevin and Lexi the cutest couple?!)


Shawn and Olive after the wedding. She was soo good. Didn't make a peep!


It was fun to get together with everyone from Butte. We got there Friday and left Saturday. It was quick, but it was fun!

Phoenix Children's Museum

For some reason, even though all our kids are 3 and under, we still have a hard time getting all our schedules to mesh. We finally had a Saturday that we were all together long enough to do something and it was so fun! Thanks to the Culture Pass which made the price nice!
We went to the Phoenix Children's Museum and it was so fun. Joss and Jackson were in heaven and it was nice that we didn't have anything to rush off to - we could just be together as a family and hundreds of strangers.

Here is the entrance to the Museum.


They have this great craft room where the kids can paint this house - it's been painted over and over and over again - the museum loses square footage every day!


I have this same picture (pose) taken just over a year ago -


Cruising around - I don't know who has the better seat:


Olive got to get out and play a bit too.


Joss loved this area - she got to pick out whatever she wanted:


You can see in Jackson's eyes that they were ready to go at this point.


It was a lot of fun - how great is it to be a family?!
Special thanks to Ampy Paige for supplying the clothing for the O'Leary kids.