Exploring Charlotte

Has life been crazy for everyone lately??  I am so behind and I have a lot of catching up to do...but what's new? haha.

This happened the first week in November when the weather was still warm and wonderful.  We took the babies on a bike ride through Uptown Charlotte. Yes, it's called "uptown" and not "downtown."

There's a great paved greenway for about 6 miles.

Here's some pictures.

Nels and the babies.

Charlotte's skyline in the background.

Cheese. :)

Charlotte.

Some of the trees are just turning color.

All along the trail there is art work, sculptures, fountains, shops, parks and a canal (or man made stream).

Isak tuckered out and snoozed for a bit.

Me, Charlotte and the babies.

This was my view. :)

They had a cloud gazer that reminded me of the bean shaped one in Chicago...just a lot smaller.

Nels is pretending to be Atlas with the world on his shoulders.  Ah!  Don't shrug Nels!  (Nels's favorite book of all times is Atlas Shrugged)

After our bike ride we spent some time at Freedom Park.  Oh the babies were so cute and loved the swings.

I LOVE this picture.

We took turns pushing the babies.

Then we sat on a bench and watched people.

And tried to get a picture with all four of us.

Isak explored this tunnel.

He pretended to be Superman flying in the swing!

When we got home, Kira and I took a nap.

It was a perfect day.

October Wrap Up

Here's the wrap up for October!

We went to another subdivision party and got some pumpkins and caramel apples.  It was at the beginning of October.  My babies are still wearing summer clothes!  Love the weather here.

Oh Isak,  always causing mischief.

Dad and Kira relaxing together.

Isak doing a downward facing dog on my mat.  haha!  He does it better than me!

Helping with the laundry.

Eating with the bottle cleaner...whatever works.  Notice how big he is....his feet hang over the end of the bouncy seat.

Big difference from when he was first born.  Oh!!!!

Me and Kira.

We bought a bike trailer off of Craigslist.  While the weather was nice we went on a couple of bike rides.

We went to Red Robin to eat Nels's free birthday burger.  Look how cute my boys are!

 Me and Nels at Red Robin.

That's all for October!

Happy Halloween!

Honestly, Halloween is not my favorite holiday, but we tried to have fun with it this year.  We bought the kids costumes at Costco.  We buy 90% of our stuff from that place!  So our first costume debut was the ward Trunk or Treat party.  Traffic was crazy and we were a half our late.  We barely got some soup. Then it was dark.  We just went around and said "hi" to all of the people with trunks and asked for no candy.  I didn't want to be tempted all week.  So here are a few pictures:

Nels went as "casual batman."  :)

I actually made a dessert...brownies with oreos and marshmallows on top.

Isak is a dinosaur or dragon...not sure.  and Kira is a mouse.

Our cute babies!

Our subdivision also had a Halloween shindig.  It was in the afternoon and fairly warm, so we walked to it.
Babies are ready to roll.  Kira always holds on to the cup holder.

Isak holds onto it sometimes.

My cute little mouse.

There was a petting zoo with llamas.  The kids just stared at those animals.  So funny.

Isak got tuckered out and took a short snooze in the stroller.

Then we came home and took these adorable pictures.

This is my absolute favorite picture!!!

Kira is really into clapping.  I love how she is on one knee.  Mmmm, she is soooo cute!!!  Of course, I am biased.  

And they are on the move again.

Isak's face cracks me up in this one!!

Far Mor gave the kids some Halloween clothes.  Kira got this cute pumpkin dress.

And sweet Isak got this "Little Terror" shirt.  hahaha.

We did not get a lot of trick or treaters this year...probably because we turned the lights out at 7:30 p.m. so the kids could go to sleep without the doorbell waking them up.  Maybe next year we'll stay up later.

Happy Birthday to Nels!

Nels had a birthday, shout hooray!  Although we celebrate the whole month for his birthday...:) His actual birthday was a fun day.

I took pictures of the babies for his present from the babies.  I took a ton, but these are my favorites.  Yes, I know I have a lot of favorites. : )

Here's commentary for what the babies are thinking. heehee.

"Yes, Dad, turning another year old is serious business."

"Check out this sign.  It's on Paper.  We love paper."

Kira claps, Isak "holds" the sign.

I love Isak's smile here and how they are carefully holding the sign.

Kira, "Isak always steals my stuff"  Isak, "Yah! I don't have to share the sign!"

Isak smiling and Kira not so much.

Kira clapping and I don't know what Isak is trying to do.

Both smiling, Yah!

Isak clobbers Kira....poor girl.

We met Nels for lunch at Jim and Nick's BBQ.  They have the best cheddar cheese muffins.  I ate way too many.  For dinner, Nels asked for brauts and potato salad.  For dessert he didn't want a cake; instead, he asked for pretzel peanut butter chocolate chip cookies (pinterest).  We are happy Nels was born.  And now that I know what pregnancy is like and taking care of a baby....Thank you Nels's Mom and Dad!