The Piepers... Typical and Anything but Ordinary :): October 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

You Arrrre 4, Isaac!

I always say this, but I can't believe Ike is already... 4! He is such a great little boy. I know I'm biased, but he's pretty special in our eyes. We had a Pirate Party this year at the park (something we may not always be able to enjoy at the end of October, so we thought we better take advantage)! We made candy skeleton necklaces, went on a pirate treasure hunt and ate skeleton cupcakes. Oh, and of course, played Pirates- there was lots of "ARRRRGGHH!" going on! It was a great day with LOTS for friends and fun! Thanks, everyone!

Notice Ben Walker's face in the background:)

Not all the kids, but some of the Pirate Posse

Who Is That??

Yep, Kanye West and Taylor Swift... I think our babysitter thought we were the coolest people ever!

FYI- it took 30 mins to paint on, including taping off the hair line... It took over an hour to wash out and another hour to clean the shower! I guess it was worth it:)

Poor Taylor, once again, Kanye stole her thunder!

For the record, I'm sitting on a old lady walker with a bench... I just thought it was a good pic of the rest of the girls!

Old Geezers:) I think they've been hanging out in Sun City too much!

Some of our friends threw a halloween party this weekend and there was a competition involved... If you know me, you know what that means... I spent way too many nights lying awake trying to decide what to be and spent a little too much time trying to convince Ben to do it... The results... We came home $100 richer and we had a GREAT time! There were some FABULOUS ideas for halloween costumes that I will be using in the future:) I think MY favorite was the Human Pinata and a Little Birthday Boy. What a fun night!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Idaho Modge Podge... the last in the series:)

You would think I was busy or something the way this blogging is going... I am finding that this fall is flying by! I need to start reporting on our day to day, preferably before Christmas! Anyway, on to Idaho... We had the most fortunate opportunity to spend our last couple of weeks in Idaho not traveling at all, but instead indulging in raspberries and green beans everyday. With warm days and cool nights and GREAT company, who wouldn't fall in love??

Richard Pieper Family 2010

Quite the babysitters:)

Best Friends:)

Welcome back Paul!

I have to admit that part of my nervous self was nervous to spend an extended amount of time with the Piepers. That doesn't sound right.... What I mean is, I still wanted them to LIKE us or even LOVE us after our trip was over. I know my kids aren't ALWAYS on their best behavior:) ok, neither am I. As luck would have it, we had THE BEST TIME EVER in Idaho! I LOVE LOVE LOVE spending time with our families and my kids are in LOVE too! Even Zach has learned to say "Nanna" for Hannah and "Pauo" for Paul. The kids were most entertained with all the aunts, uncles and cousins, not to mention two very loving, helpful, spoil-rottening Grandparents. I love you all to pieces and we had a WONDERFUL time!

I should also mention we had our first ever Richard Pieper family reunion. What a lucky time. It just so happened all nine siblings could be there. Paul came home from his mission the first day and we just had a blast! As you can imagine, we kept busy as ever! We also we able to catch up with Casey, Rach and Zaya before they began their Las Vegas adventure and Beck, Michael and Jacob before their Wisconsin adventure. What a lovely time to be together. I can't say enough good stuff.

Finally, we were able to spend lots of time outdoors hiking, biking, running and climbing. Oh, and we even tried out the new hottub while projecting a moving onto the side of the house. Yep, take a sec to re read that one... The brothers were at it with crazy shinanigans the whole time!

All in all, the summer was just wonderful. It makes me sad to post all this b/c I've been trying to forget how fun it was:) and get back to life "in the big apple (desert style)!" We feel very fortunate to have had this time together and to have shared it with so many of you!