Fall Fun at Grandma and Grandpa Mendenhall's House

Happy 1st Birthday Sadie Ryan!

Sadie Ryan Mendenhall turned 1 on October 7th....Here she is trying to be sweet for the camera..but, after 5hrs in the car i think all she wants is..CAKE!

Uncle Jason made Sadie's First Birthday cake with lots of love and sweetness...
She wasn't afraid....after one lick she dove right in....as did her cousins....(as you can tell from the cake)!
Oh yeah...cake is good! My daddy said i ate so much sweet stuff at my other birthday party that i got a "sweet sore" on my tongue!

What is this...Birthday Girl Tackle?!
Taylor 9, Ben 2, Sadie 1, Noah 2, and Gracie 3...look out world............

Oh How Taylor loves spending time with her cousins...

Everyone looking but Great-Grandpa, who is trying to console the worn out birthday girl...Thank you Grandpa for hosting yet another Birthday party :-)

Happy Campers!

Happy Halloweekend at Lake Rudolph in Santa Claus, Indiana

Lake Rudolph in Santa Claus, Indiana...This is where we spent our fall break...We rented an RV, played at the playground, took some hayrides, went to the festival and did some serious trick or treating...These people go all out on Decorations for their sites and their golf carts...
O Funny Jace.....

The forecast was for a tornado..but we knew we were going to have a great weekend when we saw this!

We only had one neighbor and the other side was woods with a great path for the gator, tractor, (mini) four wheeler and bikes!

Aunt Heather decided we needed a fort to entertain the kiddies while the dads played golf! Could we find some trees without the roots??

Aunt Heather, Tay, Gracie and Nolan
Hailey taking Kate a ride...

Ben was so proud of his pumpkin

What a beautiful day for a fall festival!

Tay (Hannah Montana), Kate (butterfly), Hailey (Belle), Gracie (Cinderella), Ben (Dumbo) and Nolan (The Mummy)

Gracie (Cinderella) and Kate (butterfly) riding in style for the candy!

Andrew, Nolan and Heather...here we go again on the Hayride to see all the cool decorations!
John, Melanie, Hailey and Katelyn...
Happy First Birthday Kate Kate!

Hello and Goodbye....We plan on making more trips to this relaxing, fun park in the summer and fall... www.lakerudolph.com Join us?

Fall Fast Pitch ends with a Bang!

Taylor and Lexi..they had so much fun this weekend!
Daddy (Coach Jason), Taylor and Gracie

-The Pink Panthers ended their season in First Place!! They took 2nd in the season ending single elimination tournament...The game was a barn burner lasting over 3hrs (it went a record 8 innings..usually they go 1hr 15 mins and 3 innings..)...The girls had a blast and can't wait till the spring...if the coaches have anything to say about it they won't have to...Indoor competition is popping up everywhere :-)

Dad and Ben get to have some fun riding around on the tractors and helping grandpa jeff pull/cut down some trees

Saturday...Saturday...Saturday...

Keeping Gracie happy at the ballpark...a pushpop and some water for dipping...
Kyla, Kaylee and Samantha...
Mary, team mom, handing out treats from Coach Craig wishing the girls luck... They miss you...

Ben and Gracie helping Daddy make Chili and Banana Split Cake for dinner...Yummy!!

The girls are 6-2 with one more Saturday to go...Taylor got three strike outs in the inning that she pitched....She finally got the bat on the ball instead of walking.....:-)

Congratulations Lorinda and Aaron Gibbs!

My cousin Lorinda married Aaron Gibbs...this week they are enjoying the Bahamas ...Appears there will be a new little Gibbs come next Spring :-) CONGRATS!
Aunt Toni and Uncle Gary... parents of the bride
Dad and Tracy..they actually made their way to Brownsburg :-)
Cousin Scott and his wife Bridget

DOUBLE TROUBLE! Andrew and Nolan Jason and Blake
Dad (with Rylee), Aunt Toni and Uncle Mike

Payton (my sister), The Twins, Hannah and Hailey and Gracie

Madison... Good Luck with Soccer and your Running Club. Keep us posted on

how things are going :-)

Christian and 3rd daughter... 11 week old Rylee. She joins Madison 13 and Morgan 16.

Dad and Andrew....

Uncle Mike and Aunt Diana..... Visiting us from Royal Palm Beach...

Cousin Christian and wife, Jen. Back to Sarasota they go.....

Taylor...after two hard played games...she even got to pitch one inning and struck someone out...She is doing well with the contacts...Jason is now the "head coach" of her team. YIKES.