Tyler is 3!

We can't believe that our little boy is 3 years old!  All he wanted was to go to Chuck E. Cheese, so that we did!  On his actually birthday we went with the neighbors and Uncle Kyle and ate pizza and played.  Then back to the house for cupcakes.  We next celebrated in Stanton with a CARS theme with the Newman/Perkins clan.  Last, when we were in Louisville for Thanksgiving, we hit up Chuck E. Cheese with the Hallquist/Hensley/Moline's.  All were great fun!!

 

Casey and Ashton Port (neighbors)

Ashton, Abby, and Tyler

 

 

Cousin Mason and Tyler

 

I was pretty impressed I coul make this myself!

Uncle  Zach and Aunt Val watching Ty shoot baskets, his favorite game!

Tyler and Emma on a ride simulation.

Cousin Emma and Papa Knute.

Chase vs Tyler in fooze ball.

Tyler and Papa Knute ride the horse.

Thank you Grandma Denise for our new PJ's!

Pumpkin Patch & Halloween

This year Tyler wanted to be "Itsy Bitsy Spider".....so Spider Man it was!  He enjoyed trick-or-treating with neighbor Ashton again.  We also went to a Pumpkin Patch and a year makes such a difference!  His favorite was the duck race, where you pumped water into gutters to race plastic ducks!  He wants to go back next year already!

 

Omaha trip

In mid-October we took a trip to Omaha to visit Aunt Carrie and Uncle Josh.  We celebrated both Josh and Tyler's birthday with a Cardinals ice cream cake.  Tyler now thinks that Josh can make such a cake and needs to make him a 'bird' cake for his birthday in November.  We mostly hung out playing games and watching sports on tv.  We did let Ty 'paint' with shaving cream and food coloring on the deck - he thought this was great!  Thanks for a great weekend guys!

 

Cabin Fever

The Newman clan spent a long weekend at a cabin in Thayer, IA the first of October.  It had a very pretty veiw of a tiny lake and great fall color.  Too bad it was VERY cold - we were stuck inside quite a bit of time.  And, Tyler got sick.  But we still had a good time together as a family, eating and playing games and watching movies!

 

Tyler throwing rocks into the lake.

He liked the hammock!

Belle, Inky, Julie, and John watching the fisherman!

Andrew taking Tyler and Mason on a boat ride.

Fall Fun!

 Late August and September brought our annual trip to the Iowa State Fair, football, and fall fun.

Ty enjoyes the Little Farm - here he is planing something in the field with Dad.

He wasn't so sure about driving his own tractor for some reason. 

Tyler eating popcorn at a football game with his friend Pete Flora. 

We recently found a love of legos, and this was a robot we built.  Our favorite is normally tunnels and bridges for our cars.

 

 

Tyler had really never seen leaves before since our neighborhood is too new to have large trees.  He really had a great time playing with cousin Johnathan jumping and getting buried in the leaves.