Happy Halloween

Its been a week since we were out in OR and boy we sure do miss everyone!!! We had such a great time out there, spending time just Jill and I hanging out during the day and then time spent at the cabin in Lake Owyhee! It was all just awesome and we had a great time. The kids did great....except for the plane ride home:-) We won't talk about that!

So now Halloween has come and will soon be gone.....a few hours left in the night. Mom came out today and we took the kids to the mall...a great place to trick or treat!! Madeline was a princess much to the disgust of her father:-) and Oscar was a little rooster. Both absolutely adorable. Madeline and I had fun carving pumpkins yesterday and she was so excited when we lit them tonight. Monday night we also went to Heidi's 15th birthday party!! Lots of fun!

Oscar had his nine month check up yesterday. He weighs in at 22lbs, 29in. long and his head is pretty much off the charts:-) In fact percentile wise he's off:-) Has a large head:-) Gotta keep all his smarts in with something. :-) Then I took the kids to the mall and we went to the play area. Had a great time as always playing in the skid steer. Well its off to bed for me...where I should have been hours ago. So with mom here this week I'm sure we'll have lots of fun!!! Til next time!!

Unkie's 25th Birthday

Last night Christina invited us down to celebrate Unkie's birthday. We had an awesome dinner...some excellent coconut shrimp, homeade by Christina...not just the ones that come in the box:-) It was all delicious! And Nancy made a raspberry pie requested by the birthday boy:-) Also had a lot of fun watching the wedding video which was special since we missed out on that! Thanks dave for recording it! Loved all the comments from the guests!

Also in the news, a new camera for me:-) George bought me a Canon Powershot SD1000 so I've been having fun using all the fun features on that and the video camera, which our other ones doesn't have. We're looking forward to heading to a baby shower tonight. And them tomorrow sometime down to the Watkins for a short trip to see them all. And Tuesday to OREGON!!! Can't wait. Till next time!

Almost a month

Since my last blog:-) so figured I better update this thing sometime, what better time to do it than at 10:30 p.m. and almost falling asleep. Lets see what have we done in that time....ummmm its been so long I can't remember. We did go to Grandpa and Grandma's out in Freedom for some fun filled days. We went to the Arcade park with Molly and Grandma Sue, then went to Pumpkinville, located in Great Valley. One would definately need an ENTIRE day there:-) They did have this really cute ride with a tractor, pulling these little cow cars around in a circle.......which cost $3.50 for two times around the circle:-) Most def. worth it:-) hahaha, just ask mom! We did find some cute pumpkins, they had good cider and great pumpkin donuts!! Freshly tossed in the sugar.

Then on Thursday we took off and headed to the Buffalo Zoo. It had been beautiful all week and of course it would have to start raining as we got closer to Buffalo. But we braved the weather and eventually it stopped. After the four to five bus loads of high schoolers left we had the zoo pretty much to ourselves!! That seemed to be the theme of the week!! No one at the park, Pumpkinville and then the zoo, but we weren't complaining!

Then on Friday the kids and I headed for home. I have also become quite the farm girl lately. Learning how to run the skid steer, fill manure wagon then proceed to spread it. And just tonight I learned how to use the corn picker. Not sure if all that I am learning is going to be a help to me, it looks like it could mean trouble, now that I know how to do all these great farm things! Nancy has been watching the little ones while I'm out with daddy learning:-)

Tomorrow night the workers come for a few nights, then in less than a week we are headed to Oregon to meet our new niece and cousin Cora Rae McKerrow. We can't wait!!! Oscar is now 8 1/2 months and has started crawling this past week so nothing is safe anymore!:-) And we also reached another milestone, Madeline literally gave her bottles to the piglets!!! So she has been a whole week bottle free. She only had it at nap time and at night but it has made a great difference!! We have found out she likes to eat:-) Hopefully it won't be another month before I post again, then there won't have to be as much writing:-) and remembering!! Til next time!