Wyatt playing a drum set of his own creation...
Colter cutting and glueing his latest masterpiece...
and Zane just hanging out taking it all in! I love just being home with my boys!
Even though he had already had his party and opened presents, Colter's actual birthday didn't go by unnoticed. He enjoyed his favorite meal (hot dogs and watermelon!) and ate some leftover birthday cake. Now he's really three!
Our first snow of the year was right after Thanksgiving. Danny and Wyatt decided to go on a bike ride that afternoon. Wyatt snuggled under blankets in the trailer and enjoyed seeing snow on all of the trees!
food...
football...
and family (this is our four generation picture - Gummie, Dad, me, and the boys).
We took these pictures of Zane and Abi on Thanksgiving Day. As soon as we sat Abi beside him, Zane reached over and grabbed her hand. He's already being protective!
As everyone knows, one birthday party is just not enough! We had Colter's "family" party later that evening after all of the aunts and uncles arrived from Lubbock. He had an airplane cake and...
opened presents (this was his favorite - an airplane, of course!).
After opening his presents, Colter went back to finish his cake while everyone else...
played with (or put together) his presents! (Noni and Papa are putting together the airplane, Aunt Cathryn, Aunt Kim and Wyatt are boxing with his "socker boppers", Uncle Jerod is putting together his basketball goal, Daddy is reading his airplane book, and Aunt Megan and Uncle Craig are observing all of the action.)
We had Colter's 3rd birthday party a couple of days early this year so that we could work in around Thanksgiving. He wanted a "sharp-nose airplane" party. So...
I made airplane cookies...
he and his friends searched for airplanes hidden in the "clouds"...
ate all of Colter's favorite foods...
and opened presents. It was a fun morning!
We spent a long weekend down at Big Bend National Park. You can see more pictures of our desert adventure on Danny's blog www.griffisfamilyoutdoors.blogspot.com.
This is Colter's favorite shirt. We didn't buy it; he found it in a box of hand-me-downs someone sent us and quickly claimed it as his own. It has trains (and trucks, but he just cares about the trains!) on it, so he calls it his choo-choo shirt. He would wear it everyday if he could!
This is one of Zane's favorite toys. I actually have pictures of Wyatt and Colter playing with this same mirror!
Wyatt is spending entire afternoons outside enjoying our beautiful fall weather. He stays busy climbing trees and just exploring around our yard. He loves looking at all the different colors our leaves are turning and has learned exactly why leaves change colors and what chemicals that make them those colors!
There's a chill in the air and we have lots of wood for the fireplace! One of our favorite cold weather activities is reading bedtime stories by the fire. 
We waited as long as we could, but the need for more space finally won us over. In September we traded Jen's Honda CRV for a Honda Odyssey. The extra space has been wonderful and it has made road trips much more enjoyable! 
