Winter Mornings

Pumpkin Pancakes!
Skip Bo!
Coffee!
Christmas Music!
PJ's!

Oh, Calder...

This kid can just not catch a break.  This year we had Thanksgiving at our house with our friends Alan and Kara and their baby Sienna.  My mom and Nick and Caitlin.  We missed Kadene, Madalin and Levi! 

We had tons of fun!  Yummy food (Kara helped me cook) and fun company!  After dinner Shane and I were doing the dishes and we hear, "WHAM"  "WHAAA"!  Oh, Calder.  The little sucker fell of his unsteady feet right into the coffee table.  So, Mom and Dad headed straight to the emergency room.  What is this Calds?  Trip number 4?  He split his bottom lip and needed two stitches in that.  He also sliced his frenulum which is the flap of skin that holds your upper lip to your jaw.  So, he needed 4 or 5 stitches there too.  Poor little chubster.  Shane had several visits to the emergency room on Thanksgiving each year due to the yearly Turkey Bowl.  Let's hope this is not a family trait!
 
These pictures are a few days post fall. 

Tayler is 13!

Oh, boy is this a late post.
Tayler requested to go to Spokane for her Birthday.  So, we did that and also had a small family party at home.  She had a fun time.  We ate chili and stuffed our bocas with Apple Pie (the requested birthday dessert).  She got super special Ugg boots for her Birthday (her feet have officially stopped growing) from me and Shane and Calder gave her some fun lotion that he picked out himself.   On her actually birthday she requested going out for frozen yogurt.

Fall Visit

We had another 24 hour visit to Spokane this fall.
Tayler's birthday request was to invite a friend to Spokane to Harvest.  How can you say no to that?
Despite it being so short we had a ton of fun!  We did two corn mazes. One at night that was super scary and fun.  Ate tons of donuts and caramel apples, chili.  Picked apples and pumpkins.

 Going through the corn maze!

Volleyball!!

At the last minute Tayler decided she wanted to play volleyball.   So, she tried out and made the team!  She worked hard, had fun and improved her skill and confidence throughout the season.  Can't wait to see what you do next year, T!

1st Day of Middle School

Tayler is officially a 7th grader.  The same age as my students!  She had a great 1st day.  We started the day off right with eggs and toast and hot chocolate.  The only complaint she has had is that the boy who has the locker next to her accidentally closes her locker with his butt several times a day.  Ha.

We love you Tayler and are so proud of how hard you have worked in middle school so far!

Camping Part 2

So...I stopped writing on this blog for a while.  But, hopefully, I'll be a little more motivated in the future.  The start of the school year kicked my butt this year!

So, after our trial camping run we went on a 4 day/3 night camping trip.  It was fun!  It actually went pretty well.  Calder is a great sleeper at night so that is a huge huge blessing.  He does not do so well with napping in a pack and play in a tent but we were expecting that.  So, he took a couple of stroller naps and one day Shane and I (Tayler stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Westby who were camping with us) actually drove home so Calds could take a good nap in his crib.  Because of the lack of naps Calder fell asleep with no problems in the evening.  But, here's where things got weird...Calder who had NEVER soaked through his diaper at night before...ever.  Soaked through his diaper every. single. night.  And, when you soak through your diaper camping it is kind of hard to be settle back down due to the cold temps and multiple layers of clothes that have to be changed.  After that the baby is wide awake.  WIDE AWAKE.   After that first night Tayler decided it might be fun to sleep with grandma and grandpa in their trailer.  Ha! 

Calder has not wet through his diaper since.  So, this is apparently a camping thing.