pokemon night

A favorite family fun night for the Brennan brothers, Pokemon night! This year they were in full trading and playing mode decked out in their gear.

2nd class party

Keaton has such a nice class that gets along so well! They danced to the monster mash and wrapped each other like mummies.  Then it was crafting time along with giant pudding graveyards. It's always fun to get to know more of this classmates. He did so well moving to a new family group at the school this year and has adjusted to barely knowing anyone in his class really well... although he still misses his old friend he still gets to see them sometimes and I tell him that it means double the friends once he gets to third grade!

run for rocky

It was all superhero smiles from these kids that got lucky with a clear morning/afternoon to run laps to earn money for their school. This year J was out of town so he missed a chance to rock it out as Rocky the Raccoon again. Check out Aiden's teacher Mr. A nomaly rocking the top hat and round glasses checking off their laps on the superhero building windows.

spirit parade

The elementary school plans their big fundraiser Run for Rocky on the same day as the spirit parade. Aiden's class planned their class party around all the other time that day - games and Harry Potter! Hat sorting, wand painting, fortune telling, Potter fact bingo, twister, butter beer, and lotsa treats!  Keaton's class dresses up as storybook characters and he used our old wolf hat, vest, and tail to be a wolf from one of his favorite Magic Treehouse books.  Aiden's class and the rest of the 5th graders made paper hats out of a math/science/vocab concept... He made Angles out of paper towel rolls - acute, right and obtuse! The brothers were pumped to see each other during the parade!

halloween night

The block party was hopping this year at the end of the culdesac with some trees really showing off their color.  It was such a mild night everyone lingered and the kids just kept going and going from house to house - I went through tons of candy in my house covered in green light spiders crawling around ;)

pumpkin

This year it was the Triforce Eagle from Zelda and this "demon toothpick mouth" Aiden carved himself.

neighborhood party

I'm still helping with the parties for the Moms club even as my kids become the big kids... but they still had fun breaking in the dance floor, munching donuts off a string, and plenty of games and treats!  I took kitschy fun photos for everyone in front of our fun background.

bootique

Mosaic District really has grown over the last few years, and it was such a nice night we couldn't resist heading over to the Bootique to kick off some trick or treating.

little shop of horrors

Our friend's epic Halloween party was again awesome! The Little Shop of Horrors theme was fun even for our boys who hadn't seen the movie. The boys picked alternate costumes that night with the "invisible man" black suit and Harry Potter's green fuzzy pet.  Check out all the blond wigs in action!

cox

Had fun at Cox Farms with the Brennan cousins...

cox 2

Can't beat a whole slide full of Brennan's racing down the slide - Keaton slid the fastest!

natural history 2

The boys learning about different viruses at the Outbreak exhibit (not Aiden's favorite).
Liz's sour face below was when we watched a tarantula feeding - or attempted feeding since the darling didn't want to eat ;)

natural history

Cruised in to check out the Natural History Museum with the cousin buddies...

lego

Happy Early Birthday shopping spree at the Lego Store - thanks Ks!

mosaic

A little blue hair, cheesetique, and dancing cousin buddies at the Mosaic Fall Festival...

supers!

Superheroes!

cousin buddies

Cousin buddies from LB on Vimeo.
Flashbacks to a year ago and Xmas last year:
One year old Aussie Cheese Fries from LB on Vimeo.
Xmas morning 2017 from LB on Vimeo.

buddy bday

Best buddies celebrating C's bday with a really fun lego party with great games!

camp reunion

The boys were pumped to head back to Camp for the night for some Fall fun and even a Halloween costume party! We wanted Keaton to give camp a one night tryout to see if he was ready for the summer. He says it's "too dark to sleep well there" so he wants to wait before going for the full camp experience, but he's glad he tried it out and had fun!

promotion

We had a nice trip into Goergetown for J's full professor promotion ceremony. All the boys looked so sharp and proud!