What do you do??

Shea hates going to bed in his own bed. He goes like a super star if we're letting him go down in our bed, but his own bed? That's a whole different story. Tonight after Chris put him down I finished the dishes and was walking by his bedroom door to find this:



I'm convinced that there's almost NOTHING more pathetic than those sad little fingers waving at me from under the door. It breaks my heart!! What do I do? Leave him there to eventually fall asleep or go in? After a while I couldn't stand it anymore so I went in to cuddle with him, but I had to let him know that he was being naughty right? One look at my face and he says, "Mommy are your eyes and face mad at me?" I almost cried!!! And I thought the waving fingers were pathetic!! I swear baby, I will never look at you like that again. I promise!!!!

Apparently he has said this to Chris before and when he was sure that Daddy was no longer upset he asked, "Daddy is your face nice at me now?"

I can not even stand how much I love him!!!!!!! (We cuddled for a good long time after I went in his room tonight. Heaven! I choose that over sad waving fingers and mad eyes ANY DAY!!!)

Clare's Bows

My newest obsession? All things baby girl! Especially bows and hair clips. Here are some of the bows that I made today. Yum, Yum!! I can't wait to slip them on that soft, sweet, teeny, little head. I hope she has as much gorgeous dark hair as Shea did!

Pink and Brown

Pink and Green

Red, Orange and Pink

Blessing Bow

Talking bellys

Seriously, where do they come up with this stuff?? I was trying to tuck Shea's jammies in last night and he wouldn't let me until he made his belly talk. What did his belly have to say you might ask?
I love you! :-)

And a Merry Christmas to All!

Merry Merry Christmas!
We hope everyone's was as wonderful as ours was. We had such a nice day yesterday and Monday. I love the traditions of Christmas. One of my family's longest running Christmas traditions is to enjoy chili and donuts (thanks Grandma Hansen) on Christmas eve, and as you know from previous posts (how does chili come up so much on our blog? :-) I do not enjoy chili! So I was excited that I'm the mom now and if we're not having Christmas with my family I get to decide what we eat on Christmas eve right? Wrong! Chris was loathe to give up this family tradition and was very stubborn that we continue it (yes, he loves chili!) So Christmas Eve saw us having chili and donuts and watching Joy to the World and reading Luke 2. It was such a nice evening. Then Shea went to bed and Chris and I wrapped and put things together, while watching Christmas movies. Being the parents is fun, the anticipation is almost as great as it is when you're the kid! I didn't sleep well at all, I was so excited for Shea to wake up and see what Santa had delivered. My favorite thing when I woke Shea up at 8 was his first comment. "Mommy, I heard Santa and the real reindeer and the bells on my roof last night." Wow! He was so excited, he's absolutely convinced he heard them. I love it!

Christmas morning was so much fun!! Shea loved everything and had a blast, except for this little slip up. A week or so ago, Chris and I took Shea to the Guitar Store where he got to play the...(drum roll please) DRUMS! He wants nothing more in life than to be a drummer, and it was heaven for him to play a bunch of different sets that day. Well, we were there to get him some drum sticks as my wooden spoons are never available to cook with because he is constantly spreading all the couch pillows out around him and "playing the drums." So we thought real drum sticks would be better than wooden spoons and that he'd love them. So, they are the first thing he pulls out of his stocking and he looks around and gets a really sad look on his face and says, "But where are the drums? I'm sad that no drums came." Oh, we didn't anticipate that at all! We SUCK!! Happily, he quickly got over it when he saw all the other great stuff, including the "cool, big boy bike" that he'd been asking for.

That afternoon we were able to go up to Ventura to have Christmas Dinner with Aunt Dee, Uncle Greg and Cam and Cole. They spoiled us rotten and dinner was amazing!!! We had such a great Christmas and hope you all did too. We love you!

Merry TUBA Christmas!

For those ignorant to the workings of the Tuba world (like myself, before marrying a tubist) every year since 1971, the tubists the country over gather in hundreds of different cities to celebrate Christmas and the Tuba. This year there was a Tuba Christmas is 233 cities and L.A. broke the record this year with 627 tubists playing at Downtown Disney, Chris being one of the them as (you may remember from August) he is the VERY proud owner of a georgous new tuba.
We really had a blast. First of all, it was at Disneyland, which of course, is the best and second, 627 tubas playing Christmas carols for an hour is pretty spectacular. Chris made a brief (very brief, and you couldn't see his head as it was blocked by the bell of his tuba) appearance on the evening news and the front page of the L.A. Times. It was a really fun day.

12 Days of Christmas Update

I've gotten behind in sharing my fun Christmas Season. Here's an update:

On the 6th Day of Christmas:

Mom sent this soft, succulent yarn to crochet (one of my favorite relaxing past times) a throw for Clare.

7th Day:

New PJs. I have only taken them off to go to church and work since I opened them. I love a soft, new, comfy pair of PJs!!!

8th Day:

Grandma sent a darling blanket and musical toy for our new little muffin.

9th Day:

What better way to relax than with a nice cup of hot cocoa and some peppermint malt balls. Yum!

10th Day:
On the 10th Day of Christmas my mommy sent to me, something for my all time favorite relaxing past time! A Borders Gift Card. Can't wait to redeem this baby!

11th Day:
Some yummy apple lotion and the "world's best emery board" to make my hard, scratchy hands nice and soft.

Wow Mom, you've outdone yourself!! I love you!

Merry Christmas!!!

Check out this little holiday video

(ok - Shea and I just got home from some errands and saw Daddy's little video. Shea has watched it non-stop for 15 minutes!! "I want to watch it again! Again! Again!" Is the mantra. He laughs and laughs. It's pretty funny. Just wait a few seconds for it to load before pressing play.

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The 5th Day

Today I get to take a seat and pamper my feet. (But of course, since I can barely reach them, Chris has been enlisted to do the pampering. He can't wait. :-)

Christmas Candy

I realized again this week that there's a reason I only do Christmas goody plates once a year and it's not because Christmas only comes once! It's because I hate to bake, and these goody plates are A LOT of baking. Chris made it worth it this year though, when he said, as he was devouring the plethora of candies, that he loves Christmas, not for the presents or the tree or the festive atmosphere, nope, he loves Christmas because of my Christmas candy! Aww.

Thanks Dad, holiday candy maker extraordinaire, for all your recipes (which everyone here loved!) and for instilling in me this Christmas tradition. I can't remember a Holiday season without goody plates!!

Shopping for mommy's present

Last night Shea and I went looking for his present for Jenna, but it turned out to be a little more difficult than I had expected. After I (very lovingly) vetoed his first couple ideas, a big girl bike and Legos, it became a lot less fun for him. I tried to steer him toward clothes, but he didn't like anything. For some reason, he decided it was a good opportunity to try out all his different ways of saying no. There was the usual "No way, Jose." But then he started getting more creative. "Umm... probably no," and my favorite, "I was all like, 'no!'" Of course, in his little kid voice it was more like, "I was aah yike, 'no!'" Unfortunately, when he did finally decide on something, I had to say no again (Jenna can thank me that she's not getting a bright blue muumuu with a pattern of pink cupcakes, or as Shea called it, "food clothes"). We came to a consensus in the end and got mommy something nice, but for a while it was more like hostage negotiations than Christmas shopping. Honestly, how stubborn can a two year old be???

4th Day of Christmas

This is so fun! Thanks so much again, mom. I get so excited about the next package under my tree. Today I had to force myself to wait to open the 4th day until after my visiting teachers left. It was torture. I feel like a kid again!! Today there was this adorable little baby girl outfit to help me remember that a little person really is coming!

Third Day of Christmas

Today I opened a wonderful little bag of aromatherapy goodness with a relaxation CD. Can't wait to take a long bath!

Shea's new favorite past-time

Helping mommy "cub" (scrub, that is) the dishes. He can't get enough. I would LOVE it, if only he didn't make a bigger mess than he was supposed to be cleaning up. No, I do love it. He gets such a thrill out of being mommy's big helper!!

On the second day of Christmas

My mommy sent to me a darling new maternity shirt for the holidays.
Adorable!!! I'll be wearing it on Sunday! :-)

The Twelve Days of Christmas

I don't recall that anyone's ever done the 12 Days of Christmas just for me, until this year that is!! :-) My wonderful, sweet, thoughtful mother decided to do them for me this year as I wait out the end of this pregnancy. She's dedicating all 12 days to easing the nastiness of the last two months. Wow, I can't wait!! I already have 5 or 6 packages under my tree with their dates on them, just waiting for me to find the fun goodies inside. I thought I'd share my exciting 12 days with you all. So, today was the First Day of Christmas and my "mommy sent to me, a heat pack for my sore back!" It's a beautiful, lavender scented set with an eye pack and a pack for your back. I love it. Thanks mommy! I'll be using it tonight!!!

Christmas Secrets

Shea and I sat down today to wrap daddy's Christmas gifts. We had a blast and got them all wrapped up and under the tree. We also had a serious discussion about secrets and how we don't tell daddy what's in his presents, he waits until Christmas to unwrap them and find out what we got him. What is the absolute FIRST thing Shea does when daddy walks in the door? Yep, says as fast as he can so I can't cut him off, "Daddy come look! We wrapped your basketball, shirt, legos and book!" Good job buddy, way to keep a secret. :-)

Wicked Nursery

It is SOOOO hard to teach your child appropriate behavior when you just CANNOT stop laughing! Chris and I both knelt down with Shea to say his prayers tonight. Sometimes he doesn't want to do it himself so I was prompting him tonight. All was normal until from somewhere he started putting this random adjective in front of everything:

Mommy: We're thankful we could go to church today.
Shea: We're thankful we could go to wicked church today.
(I peer over his head at Chris who looks as puzzled as I feel.)

Mommy: I'm thankful I could go to nursery.
Shea: I'm thankful I could go to wicked nursery.
(Chris & I are starting to giggle discreetly - where is wicked coming from?)

Mommy: Please bless President Hinkley.
Shea: Please bless wicked President Hinkley.
(I know, it's so irreverent but Chris and I were totally loosing it by now.)

Mommy: Please bless the missionaries.
Shea: Please bless the wicked missionaries.

We were laughing so hard that I just ended his prayer at this point. When he sat up he said, "There is a wicked witch in Sleeping Beauty hun mom?" Apparently you can't pray at our house until you've thoroughly discussed what you're thinking about first.

Am I a teenager now?

Yesterday Shea's very first Children's Friend came in the mail. I was so excited for him to sit down and look at the magazine with me. I showed it to him as I was opening it and Chris and I were telling him it was a magazine just for him. When I handed it to him, he cocked his little head to the side and in total seriousness and a little confusion asked, "Am I a teenager now?"

Chris and I were DYING!! How on earth did he make a connection between teenagers and magazines and think that only teenagers could have them? We cannot figure it out, but we think our little 2 year old teenager is THE FUNNIEST little thing ever!

Potty Training Update

Yesterday Shea was in the same pull-up from 8am to 8pm!! He is getting so good at going to the potty! He didn't have a single accident yesterday! Although mommy and daddy are sometimes wishing (ok, not really) that he would. He is so fastidious about it that he'll want to go 4-5 times in a 1/2 hour period sometimes. (Although this could also be blamed on the fact that he's still getting 2 spicy bears every time he goes - maybe he's just working us over!!) We're now working on the concept of holding it until there's more than 2 drops. But he's doing soo good and we're so proud of him. And mommy's so relieved that this is easy now!! Halleluiah.

To add to my list...

Of my FAVORITE things about living in southern California is

Disneyland Season Passes!!!!
For the price of TWO days at the park, I can go w/ Shea (cause he's still free) to Disneyland and California Adventure 170 days this year!!

Our wonderful, incredible, terrific friend Morgan encouraged us to get some passes so we can go with her and Shea's little buddy Henry as much as we want. So on Wed we just hopped in the car and 40 minutes later climbed out at the Happiest Place on Earth! My favorite thing about having a pass - we don't have to stay 16 hours to get our money's worth, and you can only ride 3 rides and sit and watch the ducks (or people) or whatever for the rest of the time if you want, because you can come back anytime!! It was so much fun!!!

Shea got to see Santa and his reindeer at Disneyland this week!!! It was precious. He sat right on his lap and when Santa asked, he said, "I want a bike for Christmas." (Which he's been asking for since Sep.) Then Santa asked him what color and he said, "I want a cool bike!!" And then my sweet little guy looked into Santa's eyes and said, "I've been a really good little boy!" It was so cute. I guess all our, "You better be a good boy or else..." is working. :-)

Trying to peek in on Santa-


Mommy, Shea and Santa!!-



"Mommy, the Reindeer are real!!"-


Goofing around on Santa's sleigh-


His two other favorite things turned out to be watching the little Jedi Training School while we were waiting for Morgan to get our chicken and fries. Next time we'll definitely let him participate because he's been saying NON STOP since we got home that we wants to fight Darth Vader!!! He also ADORES the Buzz Light Year ride. He cried when we were done because he wanted to do it again. Hooray for Disneyland!!

He did NOT just say that!!!

Shea has been having a really hard time sleeping through the night lately. He wakes up a couple times every night and wants to come in mom and dad's bed. Some nights I let him because it's easier, and other nights I end up in his bed for a while or I sing him songs or something to keep him in his bed. Last night was terrible! He woke up twice, and both times I laid down by him to coax him back to sleep, but the second time I was so tired I fell asleep for an hour. An hour on the edge of an IKEA toddler bed is not a pretty thing, in case you were wondering. So I manage to haul my exhausted, hugely pregnant, cramped up self out of his bed and back to mine. The second I fall asleep he starts crying again. I know I should just let him cry, but if I do then he'll get out of his big boy bed and I don't want to start a pattern of that, at least now he stays in it no matter what (or so I thought.) So, practically crying at this point, I'm so tired and frustrated, I go back into his room and sit on his floor and try to talk to him. The second I'm sitting he LEAPS out of bed, bolts around me and tears into our room. I jump up and follow him just in time to see him launch himself into the bed where he grabs the covers and snuggles right up. I can't believe it, but I'm so tired and bugged I don't even care. So I crawl in and the little turkey worms his way into the middle of my pillow, squashing himself against me until I'm barely clinging to the edge of the bed and snuggles up to sleep. I am seriously crying at this point (I know it sounds like I need professional help, but I'd been up for hours, was sooo tired, am 7 months pregnant and he was being such a turkey!) Then that little devil half turns around to look at me and has the gall to say, "Stop crying mommy, I'm trying to sleep."


You little TURD! :-) :-)

Awww

I love walking in on moments like this. Chris was reclined watching football and Shea crawled up and leaned in to watch with his daddy. Awww.

Playdough Joy

We have discovered playdough! Shea can not get enough of it!!! This day he sat at the kitchen table for a little over an hour!!!! He LOVES sitting there creating and it's just a bonus if mom or dad comes to play with him. He uses every kitchen gadget I'll give him and loves it. My favorite photos are the ones where he's cracking himself up over the "funny" animals he made.

The finished product:
(He tells us it's an eagle and he made it all by himself!!)

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope you all had a great holiday. We enjoyed ourselves down in San Diego with Chris' grandmother and aunt and uncle.

Things I'm particularly grateful for this year: (not really in any order)

- A smart, loving, hard-working, funny husband who is also a fantastic dad. (Except when he lets my son watch the Simpsons!!) :-)
- THE most incredible little boy ever to walk the earth.
- A house that only takes an hour to scrub from top to bottom.
-The gospel in my life: family scripture study and family prayers. Watching scripture videos for movie night, hearing Shea say his nightly prayers and the knowledge that we're a family forever!
-When I get a parking spot right by the gate. (Esp. when I've just been to Costco.)
-Two new jobs that will let me pay the bills and still be a stay-at-home mom! What a blessing.
-Only 91 days until this pregnancy's over and I get to hold and love and kiss my baby girl. (Ok, that still seems like a lot, but at least it's not 191!)
-Seeing the spectacular LA Temple almost every time I run an errand.
-A mom who always wants to talk to me even when I've already called her 16 times that week and it's only to tell her that Shea pooped on the potty.

Little parrot

As I'm catching up on some emails at the desk, I hear this little conversation in the background. I look behind me and Shea is nestled into daddy's lap watching basketball and repeating everything he says.

Daddy: The Phoenix Suns are lame.
Shea: The Pemix Suns are yame.

Daddy: Stoudemire's a thug.
Shea: Stotemire's a sug. Hee hee

Daddy: Rajabel is a ghetto rat.
Shea: Raja's a ghetto rat. Hee hee hee (by this time he thinks he's really funny as Chris and I are both cracking up.)

Mommy thinks it's bedtime!

Grateful Turkey

Today in preschool they made these adorable Grateful Turkeys and then got to take turns telling what they're thankful for. When I got there to pick Shea up the teacher made sure to tell me that when it was Shea's turn that he said he was thankful for his baby in mommy's tummy. Awwww!!! :-)

Wicked

I had such a fun birthday this year. Chris took me to see Wicked down in Hollywood. We had such a fun afternoon/evening. I had forgotten how much fun it is to date. We didn't have Shea with us, we held hands, he opened car doors.... :-) The show was super fun. Nothing compares to Les Mis (alas) but it was really enjoyable and then he took me to dinner at PF Chang, my ALL TIME favorite restaurant. Yesterday on my birthday he called and invited over a bunch of friends for cake and ice cream and we had a really good time. So, 33's starting out pretty good. Thanks for all your Happy Birthday wishes.

Jenna's Birthday

Today is Jenna's birthday! So don't forget to call her.

I'm sure she'll get on here to recount what we did for her birthday.

Irritated????

Shea and I were having story time today before his nap , oh how I love cuddling with my warm, sweet little angel and reading stories!!! Anyway, I pick the next book off the stack he had chosen and it happened to be an Eric Carle board book that I'd never read him. He got it shortly before we moved and it got put directly into a box. So I pick it up and Shea looks at it then takes it gently away from me and puts it on the floor and he says, "Not that one mommy, that one irritates you."

Really? Interesting. I didn't realize I was "irritated" by that book and I certainly didn't realize that I say I'm irritated that much. I hope I don't, let it just be a word he heard me say once and thought was cool enough to repeat!

Prayers

I meant to log on to share a couple of great recipes, but then my little guy rendered me speechless and I had to share. After prayers I was kissing my baby and telling him how much I loved him and I reminded him of things he could think about if he woke up in the night. (He has been waking up and crying and calling for mommy, who would really like a bit of uninterrupted sleep before the baby comes, so we're trying to nip the night waking/crying in the bud.) So I said that he could think about how much fun he'd have in preschool tomorrow with all his friends. So he names the 5 other kids, but I said, no, Logan won't be there tomorrow because he doesn't feel well. (He had surgery today.) Then I asked Shea if he would like to say a prayer for Logan. He said yes and jumped out of bed and asked Heavenly Father to help Logan to feel better. As he jumped back into bed he said, "Mommy, now Logan will be at preschool with us tomorrow." I don't know how a 2 year old knows that his prayers will be answered, but what a good example for mommy. I love this little man.

A few good recipes

I hate chili. Always have. I blame Grandma Hansen for starting the chili and donuts on Christmas Eve tradition. Sometimes I'm tempted by all the cheese and sour cream that you get to put on it, so I'll eat it, but I never like it. Well, it's getting a little chilly here and feels like fall and Chris has been begging me to make this chili recipe he found on Better Homes and Gardens. I finally relented and all I can say is WOW! I ate and ENJOYED chili, multiple times. If you're looking for an EASY, yummy fall, cold weather meal, this was really delicious. Next time I'll make it a day in advance and let it sit, it was divine on day 2.

Beefsteak Chili

1 1/2 pounds boneless beef top round steak
1 T cooking oil
1-2 medium onions, chopped (1 cup)
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 14 oz cans diced tomatoes, undrained
1 cup beef broth
1 4oz can diced green chilies
1 T brown sugar
2 T chili powder
2 t dried oregano
1 t salt
1 t ground cumin
2 15 oz cans pinto or kidney beans, rinsed and drained
cheese and sour cream to top

Partially freeze beef. Slice across the grain into small, thin strips. Brown half the meat in hot oil. Remove meat, brown remaining meat with onion and garlic (add more oil if necessary) drain fat and return mixture to pan.

Add all remaining ingredients except beans and toppers. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 1 hour. Stir in beans, cook 5 minutes. Top with cheese and sour cream and serve with corn bread.


Another great one I just tried tonight and really loved is an oven fried chicken that came from Megan although I modified it a tiny bit. I have about 5 of these so I'd never tried this one, but I think this one is better than all my others. We loved it!

Oven Fried Ritz Chicken

4-6 chicken breasts
2 tubes Ritz crackers
6 T Parmesan cheese (I LOVE using the shredded not grated, for breadings, it adds a lot of texture to the breading and tastes delicious as it crisps up.)
1-2 cups sour cream
1/3-1/2 cup melted butter

Crush Ritz crackers in a Ziploc bag and add the Parmesan cheese. Coat chicken generously in sour cream then roll in crackers and cheese mix. Place in a baking dish and drizzle with melted butter. Bake uncovered for 1 hour or until chicken is cooked through.

Served with mashed potatoes, gravy and a salad, it's a delicious dinner. Enjoy!

"Look mom!"

So I turn around a few minutes ago and Shea is standing there like this. He says to me, "Look mom, I'm Lehi!" Then he says, "And mommy, you are Nephi and daddy is Laman." (Uh, oh daddy, have you been naughty?) I guess he's listening to something during family scripture study and he's definitely looking at the pictures! :-)

My CRAPPY day

So my Halloween started out fantastic. Shea and I slept in, then made toast, eggs and bacon for daddy and then went to the library for story time. It was great. Then we went to Target to get some more Halloween candy as "the Dad tax" is apparently higher in California than it was in Utah and most of the candy I bought a few days ago was gone. That's when it started to go downhill. Sometime in the 30 minutes I was in the store, my wallet and checkbook were stolen out of my purse, which was sitting in the cart with Shea. So I spent the rest of the day at the police station making a report and then calling everywhere canceling credit cards and all that crap. UUGGHH. It's the most enormous hassle!!!!! I just got that California DL, brand new insurance cards, all my gift cards, etc. etc. etc. And I'm mad!! It's so much work and inconvenience! What makes someone think they have the right to reach in your cart, your purse and take your wallet? It ticks me off sooo bad! I would have just given you the crappy $26 bucks. So ladies, don't turn your backs on your shopping carts EVER!

We did have fun trick or treating later though. Napoleon was a bit hit!! Although, that candy I had to go to Target to get... we got 1 trick or treater!!! Course, that's because we both went out with Shea, but still, the irony. Aggh.

There's a good boy.

I'm convinced that they really do hear and internalize virtually everything we say to them, and you don't realize until you hear your exact words parroted back to you. Yesterday I asked Shea not to stand on the couch. He looked at me for a minute and didn't get down. So I asked him again, still nothing. I gave him the "mom look" and started to walk over. As soon as I started moving he jumped down and said, "There's a good boy!"

Time Out

So we came home this afternoon from a little walk on the beach and I walked in Shea's room to run a bath and encountered this....




In case you can't tell what this is, it's Shea's time out wall. When he's naughty, which thankfully is still pretty rare, we sit him here where he looks at the wall and is not allowed to talk or play for 2 minutes. Apparently this has really made an impact on him, as he's now putting his Tiggers in time out! I looked at Tigger, and trying not to laugh, said, "Uh oh Shea, what happened?" He looked at me and said, "Tigger was being naughty mommy, so I put him in time out. But Tigger was talking in time out, so he had to stay longer." Then he loving picked up Tigger, gave him hugs and kisses and told him he loved him. The things they pick up!!

THE costume 2007!

Ok, I have to say, I am more proud of this baby than I was of Fat Elvis and the Smurf combined! After three straight days, 16 hours and more money than I expected, my masterpiece...
NAPOLEON

is complete!!!

Shea loves it and can't wait to be Napoleon "the nice soldier." We think the fact that we're calling him the nice soldier is pretty funny considering the Spanish and the Russians and the British and the Germans and all the rest of the countries he robbed, plundered and conquered didn't think so. But hey, I guess you have to do what you have to do so your 2 year old, the ruthless dictator, won't go around hitting all his friends with his sword. :-)



I made all of it except the tee-shirt (and I have to give props to Chris who is the hat designing master! His design was genius, totally true to the original and easy for me to make!) but the jacket is the best!

Halloween Cookies

Okay so I'm a pretty good cook, but I DO NOT bake. I'm not sure what it is I hate so much about making treats, I just don't like it. Especially cookies, you make the dough and then you have to stand there for hours cooking batch after batch. Ughh! So, for the first time in Shea's life we made sugar cookies together. It was soooo much fun!!! He loved it! He had flour up to his eyeballs, but he loved making our ghosty ghosts, bats, witches and pumpkins. They even tasted yummy!

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins!

Last Monday we went to a pumpkin farm with our friends the Moore's. We had sooo much fun! It even felt like fall with a nip in the air and everything. We had a delicious picnic lunch of baguettes, French cheeses and grapes then we did a tractor ride, saw all the animals, played on trains and hay stacks and got to pick pumpkins and gourds for the house. We had such a fun day, especially Shea!!

My handsome man with his pumpkins.

Shea got to ride Rosebud all by himself!

Playing on a train with his friend Henry

Checking out the chickens with daddy

King of the hay!

Totally lost in the corn maze