Wade's World

October 11--Oktoberfest in Hickory. The Geiko Gecko grew!!

Facepainting!

Unicorn

Cheesing while we made prayer books!

October 26--Josh and Shelly were over to carve pumpkins. Josh told me to come outside. When I did, we saw deer in my neighbor's yard! Could not BELIEVE they were in town and so close!!

Then the pumpkin carving began!

Someone had to know exactly what was going on!

My pumpkin got a little sick...

Josh made a VERY intricate Grim Reaper. It was AMAZING lit up!

In retrospect, I cannot believe I let my 6 year old use the pumpkin knife!! She did a great job on her black cat tho!

Halloween at the Donleys--We celebrated our 3rd Annual Donley Halloween Dinner and Hayride.
"The Old Man" Paul with his walker and his father.

The old perv and Dorothy

Add a kitten

And the pirate and we are ready to trick-or-treat!

So were the kids!!

Not sure what we will find!
Oh! This is from Carrie's camera card in May when we took the kiddos to the new Conover Splash Pad!

Swimming sometime in May!

More Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC

We were lucky to see penguin feeding time!

Petting a bearded lizard or some reptile.

The mama koala and her baby

Animal Garden...appropriate with its three little visitors...

Yea, we can milk a (fake) cow!! Now for the real thing...

Llama, llama, where are your red pajamas??

Lunch picnic in the trunk!

VBS June 25-ish

Dinner with the Cadwallers June 26--Matching Mermaid Balloons

July 1--Logan's 11th Birthday

This was THE BEST ice cream cake I have EVER had!!! Utterly Delicious Moo-Moo More Chocolate. The icing about sent me into sugar shock!!

Logan got a slip and slide. We had some technical difficulties meaning Shelly got a face full of water!

Lauren had a hard time getting the groove of going on her belly.

Logan tried to give her lessons.

Shelly had a go! Then she remembered that being fully clothed makes slipping and sliding extremely difficult!

OOPS!!

July 2--Logan's actual 11th birthday at Dave and Busters.

July 4th--Celebrating with Sweet Frog yogurt! Notice the patriotic kids!

July 5--Lauren and I were bored so we went to Chuck E. Cheese.

July 11--Poor Harrison had his tonsils and adenoids taken out so we went to see Despicable Me 2...and it was HYSTERICAL!!!

July 12--Carrie found this water park in Statesville and it was AWESOME!!

The kids were not allowed to ride the slide without having passed a swim test. No one was brave enough to try.

Carrie and Chatham at Baskin Robins for a sweet treat after the water!

July 13--We did a Lowes Build and Grow. The kids had to make a pit stop before we started to build!

Bath-time!!

Lauren was pretty independent with this activity. It was the Pizza Planet truck from the Toy Story movies.

Chatham FINALLY got his apron!!

July 17--Grandma and Papa Bernosky came for their annual July trek. Lauren suckered them into building puzzles!

August 3--For Lauren's birthday, Carrie bought Lauren a ticket to the Disney Pirates and Princess show. The kiddos dressed up!

Sophia the first!

ARG!!!

The happy Donley family

Us Crazy Wades

Harper and Seesa were having fun dancing.

SMEE!!!!

August 6--The annual Conover Night Out took place the first Tuesday of August. Lauren helped Harper up and down the slide. Harper squealed with happiness.

Officers had a bb range set up. Lauren was ALL about shooting!!

Old Soldiers Reunion Car Show and Cruising Night

OOH-OOH!!

This was an old VW bus. VERY interesting decor. There was a full service bar in the back...

August 14--We had dinner with the Donleys and Cadwalladers to celebrate our three birthdays. Lauren asked for a unicorn...

And as a birthday girl, got a special hat!

Thursday--Parade Day. Lauren enjoyed cotton candy and Paul got his funnel cake.

Harper enjoyed the cotton candy more than Lauren. Lauren enjoyed feeding Harper (and counting to make sure she had all of her fingers~!).

August 16--Happy Birthday, Lauren!!

A new hibiscus dress!

A new movie...

And a DISCO BALL!!! (We bought it in March or April and told Lauren it was for Chatham for Christmas. She was SHOCKED she got it!!)

And Catlyn, looking irritable as always...

More of Lauren's Birthday Party!

We made fruit skewers. They were the hit of the party! When we ran out, the kids begged for us to make more. I kept spearing fruit on the skewer and we had lots of happy kids!

Zachary was even happy!

September 2--We celebrated Labor Day with Gram, Poppy, and the Donleys. The kiddos played in the sprinkler and pool.

September 15--The Cadwalladers and Wades did a bowling party the Sunday prior to this outing. We decided to try our hands at putt-putt. Cara and Lauren were excited to start!

Cara, Lauren, Harris, and Nick. This was probably the happiest they were at the same time. Everyone had a mini-meltdown at some point in the game!

October 4--I got a wild hair to see a football game. What better night than when the Red Devils were to play their ultimate rivals, Maiden? We made it till half time. Lauren was thrilled to watch the cheerleaders but we were late to the game so the stands were full, blocking our view.

October 5--Claremont Days. We were late due to dance and some other festivities, but Lauren and Chatham were able to ride the burlap bag slide. This was one of my FAVORITE fair rides when I was younger!