Photo Drop!

 I'm falling behind on the blog as I try to keep up with the family!

Here are some of my favorite photos from the last couple of months

Annual tradition of Golden Corral and Spirit Halloween when Jan comes to town

A murder mystery night at Aly's

When there's plumbing trouble, the Parkies kids come out to help!

Big Bounce America is one of our favorite things! And this year, Diesel joined!

Out on the town for a comedy show

Career Day for our space engineer

Birthday party fun at the Mini Grand Prix

Community Movie Night

Pumpkin Carving

Zoey's favorite spot

This was the first year Alexander carved all by himself!

We had a blast at our library and the natural history museum's Halloween events, but I'll save those to compile with pictures from Trick or Treating tonight!

Nikolai Turns SIX

 Something clicked this summer, and our little boy became a little dude! He is reading, computing mental math (he figured out 16x4 for fun in his head this week), learned how to skip, and just overall has grown and developed beyond belief. He and Alexander continue to be best friends and share a room and most of their free time together.

We had an absolute blast hosting a dodgeball, nerf gun birthday party for Nikolai.

In classic Crew fashion, Daniel took the idea and ran with it, making the day absolutely EPIC!

Niko showed pure joy with every gift he opened.

Always eager to share

Alexander's gift - a giant Creeper Lego

I credit Pokemon with Niko's amazing reading and math skills

Science fun in the form of clay and cake volcanoes!

Alexander was a leader in true fashion, letting his brother have the limelight all day, never drawing the attention to himself.

The fun started a couple weeks before, when Gammie took us to Cirque du Soleil for Nikolai's birthday. He happened to be chosen to take the class mascot, Pete the Cat, home for the weekend, so Pete changed the event to CirCAT du Soleil!