November

 November started out with us getting to attend Casen's very first orchestra concert.  It was kind of crazy to see how much they had learned in such a short amount of time. 

Then we of course celebrated the Marine's birthday and veterans day.  Caleb enjoys those days so much more than even his own birthday so we try to go all out.  I forgot to take more pictures, but we were able to get the house all decorated while he was at work and gift him with I think all of his favorite things.

And we finished out the month celebrating Thanksgiving.  Caleb unfortunately had to work so it got pushed back, but it was well worth the wait.

We cooked our turkey in the air fryer this year for the first time and we will never cook it another way.  It was hands down the best Thanksgiving dinner we've had.

And Caleb has become an expert at making the perfect pecan pie.

Now I suppose we should decorate for Christmas.

October

October was a really fun month for us.  

My parents came down for a visit.  We love having company!

I always stink at having pictures, but we got to spend mom's birthday with her this year.

We enjoyed some late night brewery food truck goodies

And the kids got wayy too much candy trick or treating.  We were a little late to the game as far as costume buying, so homemade was where it was at this year.

August

 August started out with lots of fun.  The kids were so so excited they got to spend a week with cousins.  We can't say thank you enough!

Caleb and I celebrated 12 years...for real he somehow gets better looking every year!

Thanks to grandparents, they enjoyed a Bruster's trip before school started

And on the 23rd they started their first day of school.  Casen is in middle school this year so they are in different schools and on separate busses and schedules (unfortunately, Jo's day begins almost 2 hours before Arya.)  Casen is loving getting to choose some of his own classes and getting to switch in between each one.  Arya loves her third grade teacher and, as always, loves school in general.

July

 July seems like a blur.  How are we already in the month the kids go back to school

July we got to see more family :)

We're so glad they moved back closer to us and our visits will be more frequent

I think only at uncle pat's house does bamboo cutting into cool drinkware happen

May/June

 Our computer bit the dust so the updates have been non existent.

May was pretty uneventful for us but June was our best month in a long while.  It was so nice to have celebrations and spend time with family we dont see often.

First I have to throw in some pictures of my hottie of a husband 

Mother's Day

Bomba and Monki came for a visit...I always stink at getting pictures 

The kids finished school the first week of June.

Aryas teacher asked if she could be tested for the gifted program and ended up testing 2 grade levels above so she gets to be part of something pretty special next year.

And casen is officially off to middle school!  He got all a's all year long and gets to take advanced classes next year as well.  He even already got to choose his classes for this coming school year and it has been crazy to think about how grown up he is.  Caleb and I got him some complete book sets for a small graduation gift and he has already blown through them all this summer.  Hes completing book number ten right now.

We then got to enjoy more family time.  We had an awesome visit with the other Geiger fam :)

This year it worked out that Caleb and I got to share the same day.  Caleb was the sweetest and made the day special for me.

He had the bakery make this cake for me :p

And even got all the cheesy decorations I love 

I'm pretty thankful to get to spend my days with the best

And lastly but definitely not least, we got to celebrate casen turning 11!

This year when I asked him what he'd like his birthday theme to be, he asked if he could skip a theme and just have the color blue.  I think thats a sign hes officially too grown up.

Caleb took him to a surprise laser tag and arcade day

And this year he got a pretty significant gift.  A tv for his room and an Xbox to go with it.

...a comfier chair will probably be coming for Christmas 

He requested brownie sundaes for his dessert.

Just the beginning 11 years ago...