Halloween

Saturday we had a Halloween party with some friends.  The kiddos all wore their costumes and we attempted to get a picture of all them...Kaleb is missing but it's quite possible he might have gotten trampled in the process.  We had a mad cow.  He didn't want to sit still.

Runaway cow and a runaway farmer...notice the orange spit-up by the grate?  Yeah that was Brecken.  Steve and Steph aren't trying to sell their house or anything..

Griffin had asked earlier if he could "hold that guy that looked like a cow" and never got a chance to.  Well he took advantage of the duck/chicken and he held on to her the whole time we were taking pictures..surprisingly she didn't mind!  So cute

The mad cow

The duck got angry but Griffin popped that paci right back in and she calmed down :)

Eric and I took the kids trick-or-treating tonight and Adelyn had such a blast.  Earlier today I was asking Adelyn what she was in anticipation of everybody asking her that tonight.  She kept telling me "I'm two and a half!"  I finally got her to say a farmer!  I told her when we walked up to the door she had to say "trick-or treat!"   It came out more like "tick-o-teat!"  She said it in a super high pitched voice every time.  We have no idea why but it was too funny :)  After we were done with one house she would say "we go to another one's people's house?!"  Love that silly girl!

The kids on the porch before we left..Eric was terrified someone was going to fall off the step..

My happy little farmer!

A super cute duck!

The cutest cow ever!

My babies and I..don't ask me why Adelyn looks so scared

 LOVE

"Tick-O-Teat!"

Auntie joined us for a little bit and got in on the trick-or-treating :)

Ha :)

 

We all had a blast.  Brecken and Joelle lost it at the end but let's be honest, it was freezing out.  Their poor little hands were like popsicles.  It's a good thing their costumes were so padded!  Can't wait until next year when Brecken and Joelle will be trick-or-treating with us!!

This boy makes me laugh..a lot.

While I was nursing Joelle, Brecken was crawling through the door, up the vegetable garden, purposely falling over the edge, smashing head first into the ground and repeating.  He did this probably 15-20 times and was laughing hysterically the whole time.  And then he stood up by the side and ran 7-10 steps.  Oh my.

 

What a little ham :)

Momma's 50th "Surprise" Party

My Mom turned 50 on October 4 and we had a surprise party planned for her on October 22.  She was very adamant on not having a party but we had one for my Dad so we had to have one for her ;)  We had about 25 friends/family over to help celebrate.  Turns out she guessed the surprise as you can see from the pictures she's not very surprised..  She said no one told her just a couple weird things added up..and then she blew it for herself by setting my Dad and me up.  The "weird things" were my aunt and grandma normally give her a present and they didn't give her one..and that we threw my Dad a party.  We asked her to babysit the night of the 22nd to get her over here and the night before she said to my Dad "I'm going to go over to Nichole's early because I haven't seen the kids in a while."  My dad called me all in a panic while she was in the shower that night so I called her Saturday morning to tell her we had plans..  Then she tells me at night she told my Dad that on purpose just to see if I would call!  She spoiled it for herself..but she did say she didn't want a surprise party  ;)

Surprise..ha!

The birthday girl and her MANY candles!  Yes, there were 50.

 Adelyn helping Nana blow out ALLL the candles

Finally!  

All the black frosting tends to give you black lips and teeth..this picture is a small example of that, although it doesn't really do it justice :)

 

Happy Birthday Momma!  Luckily you only turn 50 once ;)

Brecken and Joelle::10 months

Only 2 more months before I have to start saying years..yikes.  My little babies are becoming little people.  I go between hating it and loving it.  They are quickly losing their baby and quickly gaining a personality.  Hate/Love.

Brecken:

aka: B, B-man, B-diddy, Brecken boy, Breck, little B, handsome

-you weigh 22.2lbs

-you wear 12 month clothes and i just got the 12-18 month clothes out

-you wear a size 3 shoe (and hate them!)

-a size 3 diaper during the day, a 4 at night

-you are officially (6 weeks officially) an excellent sleeper.  you rock out 12 hours no problem.  i don't think you have woken once in the past 6 weeks..now that i said that, you will tonight.

-you take 2 naps.  if you dont get your naps you are an angry boy.

-you love to put yourself to sleep for naptime.  i read to you, rock you, sing you a song and then you start whining until i put you in your bed.  once in bed, you stop whining and wiggle around until you fall asleep.

-nurse 2.5 times a day.  the ".5" time is at lunchtime and you only nurse once instead of twice.  you show zero interest in giving that up..

-we started sippy cups this past month (i've been lazy, i know).  you know how to but could take it or leave it.

-you.love.to.eat.  you could eat. and eat. and eat...and eat.

-you also poop more than anyone i know..probably due to all that eating.

-you are such a boy.  fall/run into things/get plowed over all the time and rarely cry from it.

-have the cutest little giggles.  nobody makes you laugh more than adelyn.

-you just cruise around anything stationary.  you also love to walk behind anything.  you have started to get pretty daring with switching from the table to the couch by kind of letting go, stepping and grabbing back on.  yikes.  i think you would be walking if you didn't have your crooked little legs/feet...have asked the doctor about them a couple different times and she has always said they will straighten out after walking for 6ish months.  she said it is from being so cramped in-utero.  hmm. wonder why.
-you can go UP the stairs
-you can wave hi/bye

-still have the two teeth.  i am a-ok with that.

-love to pull joelle's bows out.  and she hates it.

-wiggle all the time.  

Adelyn at 10 months

 

Joelle:

aka: J, Jojo, Jo, Jojo-B

-you weigh 21.8lbs

-you wear size 12 months clothes and i got the 12-18 month stuff out yesterday

-wear a size 3 diaper during the day and a size 4 at night

-wear a size 3 shoe

-are officially an excellent sleeper.  for 6 weeks now.  you sleep 12 hours. we love it.  you don't like to burp at night after i feed you and sometimes you wake up around 10/11 to burp but you go right back to sleep..after someone comes to burp you ;)

-nurse 2.5 times a day.  you also show no signs of giving up the lunchtime nursing..

-you were quite the t-rex this past month with biting me (while nursing, ouch) but i think, for the most part, we have cleared that hurdle.

-you are an excellent eater,  although you do have a stop button.  you LOVE to do it yourself.
-you LOVE your sippy cup.  anytime you see a cup laying around you go for it.  love water just like your big sister.

-still are so, so dramatic.  we don't cater to your dramatic-ness so you have let up a little bit.

-make the silliest noises.  always.  and they are always different.

-you are becoming an excellent walker around furniture.  you are becoming less of a chicken about letting go too.

-you still love, love, love your momma.  you are becoming slightly less dependent though.  if you crawl up to someone else (other than daddy, papa, nana or auntie rach, they can hold you anytime) they are allowed to hold you.  you have become pretty lenient with papa and grandma too.  you are getting there!

-love to have a bow in your hair.  you always get so mad when someone takes it out.  particularly when your brother takes it out because he has a tendency to pull it and let it snap back in your face.
-you can go UP the stairs
-you can clap on command
-you have the cheesiest ears of anyone i know.  gross but true.  i, seriously, never ever clean adelyn's and every time i do there is nothing on the q-tip.  when i clean brecken's there is a little bit and when i clean yours..i could make a candle.
-when you cry you will sometimes say ma, ma, ma.
-still have 2 teeth.


I took these pictures myself and it definitely wasn't easy.  I didn't get any that I love but that's just where we are right now ;)

A couple halfway decent ones..

New "Sming" Set!

10/6/11

My dad and Eric got the house part of the swing set erect.  There still wasn't board surrounding the top or a deck on so poor Adelyn just had to stare at it.

10/12/11

The house is finished!  My dad and I finished the walls and put the slide on last night..finishing in the dark.  We turned the light on by the deck and let Adelyn go down a couple times but didn't really play on it until today (10/13)

 We got donuts from Post Family Farm this morning and Adelyn wanted to have her snack in her new house

 10/15/11

It's FINALLY! all done.  So exciting!!!  It was a super long project.  My dad and Eric worked on it at night so working on it an hour or two at a time is not easy.  We also switched all the sides around to accommodate for the fence on the side and the fence in the back.  That changed all the plans that came with the swing set so they were constantly having to discuss how changing this was going to effect that.  Everyone is happy it's done.  I had 3 long weeks of putting all 3 kids to bed by myself (most nights), Eric and my dad had three longs weeks of working on something to not see much progress and poor Adelyn had 3 long weeks of an unfinished "sming set."  Adelyn LOVES it and is always asking to play on it.  She can't wait to have her friends over to play on it and asks everyday when they are coming :)  Hopefully we still have a couple decent days left this year!

It's even rated for Papa's!

The worker bee and his super happy grand-daughter!

Kisses for Papa!

I'm not going to lie..it's pretty impressive.  I didn't realize it was going to be so tall..