this weekend was the pitts ;)

we spent this past weekend in st. george with the pitts. by pitts, i mean mark's parents, his brother, jeff, and his wife, kristen, and their 3 babies.  mark, his dad, and his brother were playing in a golf tournament  there on friday and saturday so we all made a little, mini family vacation out of it.  we always love going down there but it was especially fun to be able to hang out with family and chitchat and watch the kiddos play together.  thanks mom and dad!! 

we did a lot of this...

the guys did a lot of this...

 {markus & jeffrey decked out in some of their attire from their giant gift bag of nike stuff that they got for playing in the tournament.=P}

{they made a huge mistake when they told us to come out and wave when they passed by the house, the kids couldn't stop yelling while they were trying to hit the ball.;)}

mark did a lot of this....

{he's such a good sport when a new taylor cd comes out. it's all i can listen to for like a month.=)}

we ate a lot of this....

 {well, only twice...in 3 days which i don't find excessive. it's the best cafe rio, i can't resist.}

{and neither can avery.;)}

 together we did this...

 {mad: "i love st. george." me:"why don't you just marry it then?" mad: "i could never marry st. george cause it doesn't even have lips! how am i gonna kiss it if it doesn't have lips?" =)}

 {=) max and his 75 ticket fake teeth that he couldn't quite fit under his enormous, gorgeous lips.}

 {thankfully mad is a pretty good gamer and got lots of tickets.}

 {miss jensen rae who prefers to be called sista and not sister.;)}

and together we cried over this....

{to quote sadie rose "yesterday we was playing awful!" (it's her version of the line "yesterday was plain awful." from the song "i don't need anything but you" from annie. =)) you can say that again, rosie! i am just saying that it could have been my absence that caused this loss. we were so sad that we missed it, if only i had been there.;) we still waved our flag proudly though, no fair-weathered  fans here! as jo would say, "ain't nothin gonna shake my pride.";)}

haunted.

every year we have a small, little "family" party for halloween. this year felt a little strange because we were missing the padgetts and the friddles. (get back here, both of yous!;)) i was feeling like they were missing out until i looked at taylor's blog and realized that i was missing out. (you have surpassed me, tay!=)) anyway, here it is again, just in 2010.....

{the table...i got in a baking mood.=) and this was minus tim's peanut butter bars (which would have most certainly been absent if y'all had come, dunns.;)) and all of jake's deliciousness.}

 {jacob's AMAZING pizza with basil crust! <3 it!!}

 {party favors for the "gremlins" aka the kids.}

 {and for the "ogres" or adults some zucchini bread and kind words.;)}

 {the vamps that crashed the party.}

 {they were thirsty here.;)}

 {fat boy makin' his daddy proud!}

 {danielson, pinkalicious, barbie, and the crazies}

 {the lovelaces...they're practically family.=}
{i'm not sure what happen to the sitakes?? no picture? que?}

 {it's all part of the festivities;)}

 {k and keke}

{"don't tell auntie we're eating candy upstairs." says rosie girl=)}

{tim and the first man down=)}

"now that we're men...."

 {love these two sea creatures<3}

 {spongebob, patrick, mermaid man and barnacle boy....}

{..straight out of bikini bottom!}

 {the adventures of mermaid {wo}man and barnacle boy!!}

{and then it was over. and we were tired. the end.=)}

to trick or to treat?

[the start of the cuteness] 

 ["look mom, i already have spongebob's teeth." -maxer=)]

 [trick or treating with the dunns! we loved every second. thanks!]

 [before the freezing came.]

 [she'll put a spell on you.]

 [candy, hot dogs, hot cocoa, cookies..these kids were in trick or treating heaven.]

 [the gang and the "halloween mountain"]

 [our very own mary poppins, practically perfect in every way.=)]

 [strawberry and spongebob]

 [you've never seen a child so happy about a pixie stick..let's hope he wins this fight.;)]

[it's haunted;)] 

 [patrick <3's candy]

[deann's husband did this. so cool, ben!]

halloween fun and such=)

halloween festival at the gym that the boys HAD to go to...

fun at school for max baby...

 [parade]

 [doesn't max look like a little doll here?<3]

[and the rocket launch max was so looking forward to.]