Happy Halloween!

Brex dressed up in his Cookie Monster costume 6 times in October.  It literally felt like the Halloween celebration was an entire month long.  He got pretty good at asking for cookies and screaming cow-a-bung-a, but we need to work on taking just 1 piece of candy (rather than 2 giant handfuls) at every house we trick or treated.

Carving Pumpkins

Brex makes every day better, but especially the holidays. Watching the simplest traditions through his eyes brings complete joy to our life.

Mean Daddy wouldn't let Brex hold the super sharp Cutco knife:

Schwalm's & Timbo visit

Some of our favorite people came to visit for the weekend of the Penn State v. Northwestern football game.  It was great to catch up with Scott, Ali and Timbo and so much fun to see Brandon and Brex together. 

Hugs and fist pumps:

Didier Farms with the Pieroni Family

We spent the afternoon with our old friend Guy and his family at Didier Farms.  I was so great to see them (Ryan is 1 month older than Brex).  Guy was Mike's roommate back in the Andersen days when we lived in Detroit/Cali/Phoenix.

So much to do, this place was GREAT!

Petting Zoo

Rides

White Tiger

Brex's 1st horse ride

Brex 1 and 1/2 years old

Our friend Karen took some awesome photos to document Brex at one and one half years old...

ta-tee bur-day mommy

A few of my favorite birthday gifts this year were:
1.) Brex helping me blow out my candles
2.) Mike teaching Brex to sing Happy Birthday (ta-tee bur-day)

REMINDER: the best things in life are Free!