9 Months Old!

Yeah, this is super out of order and should have been posted in Oct, but I just found these and couldn't resist posting them. He's so dang sweet!!!

Just Riding Horses

We live right next to a horse pasture out here (which is totally freaky when taking out the trash late at night only to be whinnied at by a horse standing a foot away!) Anyway, the nice girl who owns the horses lets the kids ride occasionally. They LOVE it!! We really need to take a trip to ID to visit Aunt Andy's horses!

Goo

I'm gearing up to get all caught up on posts, but in the mean time - at FHE tonight we were talking about keeping our bodies clean and pure and Chris asked what were some things that we shouldn't put into our bodies. Shea's immediate answer was alchohol, poison and goo. :-)

Happy Halloween 2011

I guess better late than never.
This year we didn't do a theme Halloween. I was a little bummed I didn't do it - I'll have to really make up for it next year - all I did this year was make Clare's dress. It did turn out adorable and she's worn it at least 4 or 5 days a week since Halloween. Here's pics of my cute Harry Potter, my darling Rapunzel and our sweetest cheeky monkey.

Carving Pumpkins
(How they really feel about gross pumpkin guts)
(And when I made them smile)


His first pumpkin!
Annual Halloween stew
Annual Halloween jammies
Our Vampire Pumpkins! How cute are these??!!
Harry Potter, Rapunzel, Cheeky Monkey!

My favorite thing Shea said today:

Shea: "That play they made us watch at school today was so boring. Seriously! So boring!"
Dad: "What was it?"
Shea: "It was like A Muppet Christmas Carol but with people."

11 months!

My sweetness

Hospital Trip 2011

We haven't been to the hospital yet this year. And here I was thinking we'd make it through this year without a trip!! Alas...

It's cold here and my kids are bored, so I promised them yesterday we'd go to this awesome indoor play place this afternoon. They have tons of trampolines and foam pits. A huge rock wall, etc. etc. We were having a great time when Shea fell off a platform while climbing up to trapeze into one of the pits.
He didn't loose consciousness, but I knew he was really hurt. I mean he's a pretty big wimp, but he was being even wimpier than normal and thankfully mom's know when things just aren't right! I was pretty sure he had a concussion so we headed up to the doctor's. So glad we did, he threw up right when we got there and a few more times after that - definite sign of a concussion. The Dr. confirmed it and sent us to the ER for a CT scan. (Anybody know how much one of those is going to cost?? - Yikes!!!) Thankfully the scan came out good. Concussion, but no serious brain injury.

Things Shea learned today: A liquid diet for 12 hrs rocks - milkshakes, milkshakes, milkshakes! A concussion is called a brain shake in German and Dutch (this is now his preferred term) and a concussion gets you out of school the next day (awesome) and out of PE for 2 weeks (not awesome).

Poor kid at home afterward clutching his hospital vomit bag and waiting for the Tylenol to kick in:

Three!!!

I can't get enough of pictures of all three of them. I love them so much and am so grateful they're mine.
(In no particular order -because it'll take me too long to order them.

Family Bowling

Bowling was the clear choice for us when we wanted to celebrate the end of the first week of school. We love to bowl.

We're perfecting three different styles -
Roll it:

Throw it:

And bowl it!


Thanks for coming to play Aunt Courtney!

Trampoline Time