Happy Halloween!!!

 

Pizzas...and Pumpkins!  We carved pumpkins a couple weekends ago to get ready for Halloween.  Lukas's pumpkin with the goofy eyes, nose, and ears is just too cute!  Megan and I made a kitty cat with her pumpkin. 

We had alot of fun carving the pumpkins and then lighting them.  Lukas and Megan posed with their pumpkins.  Lukas was pretty proud.  Megan was not in the posing mood!  Too funny! 

 

Thanks Mom for sharing your the pictures!

 

Happy Halloween!!

Busy, Fun, and New Opportunities!

Ok so I have alot to say.  Since I have not posted in weeks I guess that happens.  Life has a way of getting busy, throwing a curve ball, and it all moves on!

A couple weeks ago I went to the Pumpkin Patch with Lukas's kindergarten class.  We had so much fun!  Lukas surprised me with how outgoing he is around his peers.  He was engaged, asked questions, talked to everyone, nice to everyone, and volunteered for things!  My little guy just blew me away!  I was extremely pleased seeing him interact with everyone so nicely!

 

All in all he had a great time!  Afterward I went to school with him and ate lunch!

 

 

So, the beginning of October I put my resume into a new place for a new job.  Well they called me that same week and asked me to come in for an interview.  I really didn't think too much of it and just thought that this would be good practice for when I get really serious about finding a job.  A half hour after I left the interview they called and offered me the job!  I can honestly say I was very shocked.  I had really not expected to get the job, but only because it was a easier version of what I do for my current company.  However, I took the job and it will be a great opportunity for our family financially and we can now maybe get a house we will all fit in a little better!  We celebrated that night with a little Perkins for our family!  (Lukas and Megan's favorite restaurant!)

Daddy has a monkey on his back!

 



So we are now gearing up for a very busy end of 2013 and an exciting 2014! 

 

I will be very busy with finishing projects at my current job and getting ready for my new job, so the blog posts will be a little more sporadic.  I hope to keep blogging after I get all settled in and get a laptop or computer to use at home!  My last day at my current job is November 6th and start right away at my new position on the 7th!  Yikes...it will all be good!

Goofy Little Girl!

 

Lukas at 2 years old never asked to go play at friend's houses, or never interacted so much older than a 2 year old does.  Megan is another thing though.  Here are a few examples...

1. She has a friend at daycare that she just loves, and last Saturday she kept asking me "Mommy, can I go play at Tenlee's house?"  I told her not today, but she kept asking over and over again.  I thought it was cute!

2. She was sitting on my lap playing the Kindle and I was watching TV.  I sneezed and she said "oh Mommy bless you!"  I said "thanks baby girl!"  She just smiled and me and said "welcome!".

3. I asked her if she wanted a cookie, but I told her first she needed a diaper change.  After a long pause she said, "what?" so I repeated myself  and she said, "no Mommy, I don't care."  I said "you don't want a diaper change or a cookie."  She then rolled her eyes and gave me a side ways look "neither Mommy" then shook her head and giggled at me and kept playing her leapster. 

She's this sweet little person with a huge attitude!  My oh my!

Lukas's First Friend's Birthday Party!

 

The picture above isn't a picture of Lukas at a birthday party.  Crazy as it seems I forgot to get one of him and his friends at the birthday party!  I wish I would have remembered!!!  Anyway Lukas got invited to our local armature hockey game for the birthday party.  They had pizza, cake, and got to watch hockey!  It was a very neat experience and he loved it!  My husband and I went as well, but let him hang at the birthday party with his friends and we went and sat with some family and friends just down from him and the party. 

After I picked him up after the party and he was so hyper!  Sugar + fun = crazy silly Lukas.  My Mom picked him up for us since we were finishing up celebrating my birthday with some of our friends.  She said he was very excited and you could tell he had alot of fun! 

Man...I am still mad at myself for not getting pictures!  Dang it!

Sunflowers and Apple Picking- Beautiful Fall

 

Well another birthday of mine and come and gone again.  It's funny how when you have children that their birthday's mean more to you than your own.  I get way more excited for Lukas and Megan's birthdays than my own.  Yeah...I am still here another year older lol.  That being said my best friend Jessie asked me and my kids to go apple picking and sunflower picking at her parent's last Sunday so she could spend some time with me for my birthday!  I must say it was very nice!  Her Mom even made some homemade pizza!  Made me feel very special! 

 

Here's a couple pictures from our sunflower picking that her daughter took of us while we were out there chopping them down! 

 

The kids had so much fun running around!

 

The actual day of my birthday I had many wonderful birthday wishes!  My husband sent me flowers, my friend Brooke treated me to lunch, and my Mom and Aunt gave me some beautiful birthday cards!  Makes a lady feel very loved!  Lukas and Megan had no idea it was my birthday.  Lukas was excited at first and then he said "awesome, Mom are we gonna have cake?"  I told him no, and he said "oh ok, it's not your birthday?"  I laughed and said "yes it is my birthday, but I don't need cake."  My husband did send me some cookies though and I did share those with them!  I think Lukas thought that was a good enough LOL! 

 



Let's Go Red! Lukas's 1st Homecoming

Last Friday was our Homecoming week and our hometown school colors are red and white.  Lukas and all the kindergarten critters were invited to march (as they are every year) in the homecoming parade.

I finally got to meet some of Lukas's friends from his class at school!  Tyler and Issac are red frogs with Lukas at the Kindergarten school.  They all had on their critter shirts and had their "class" flags!  They were so cute marching in the parade!

 

After the parade Lukas and I went and picked up some pizza and went home to eat with Daddy and Megan.  Megan hung out with my Mom that night and Lukas, Daddy, and I went to the homecoming game! 

 

We had a good time at the game and Lukas did a great job sitting with us and even paid attention in the beginning.  He was happy that we were cheering on the "red guys" because that is his favorite color!  The game brought back lots of memories of cheering there and just enjoying the fun atmosphere!  I must say I miss high school sometimes, but only briefly! 

 

After we got home Lukas and Megan got in their pajamas and I gave them both snacks.  Megan at all of hers.

 

However...Lukas didn't make it.  Between going to school all day, walking in a parade, and going to the football game Lukas was tuckered out! 

 

After Megan was done with her snack she asked to rock with Daddy instead of read stories.  This made my husband pretty happy!  She is more of a Mommy's girl, but not that night.  She wanted her Daddy! 

 

After the kids went to bed my husband and I were sitting and talking.  While it's too soon to know if our children will be into sports...we talked about the possibility of Lukas maybe playing football, baseball, or soccer someday.  Maybe even Megan doing cheerleadering or dance the same stuff I was into.  I will encourage her to try sports though if she thinks they might be fun to try!  If you ask me now I wish I would have had the guts to try sports back then.  I enjoy some of them so much now I almost wondered why I never tried them when I was younger.  However, your interests change from time to time too!  You just never know!  I just want them to know that they should try anything once, and if they like to maybe even twice or more!  

 









Our 1st Family Vacation!

 

We decided the middle of September to take our family up to our friends cabin for our first family vacation!  We invited my Mom to come with and relax aswell.  Here's a little bit of how our 1st family vacation kind of dudded out.  (Only because of weather, and vehicle problems...I must say the kids were awesome, and it was nice getting to spend time up away at the cabin!)

Now first let me start by saying our children were fantastic!  The whole vacation and both drives we had no problems with them!  I thank god everyday that they were so well behaved with the other stuff we were dealing with! 

We drove up on a Wednesday night and didn't arrive until late!  About 12:30am or so.  The kids were hyper awake by that point.  We fed them a snack and got them all wound down and off to bed by 1-1:30am.  My Mom took the loft up above the garage so she could have some nice quiet time while we were up there.  Chris and I stayed up watching and movie and just finally relaxing!  That night went well...I must say!

Woke up Thursday and it was raining.  Got all the stuff done we wanted to (groceries, boat charged) and it was raining on and off all day.  Well finally just before supper we decided the weather looked good so we should try to get out on the boat.  Needless to say...we never got out on the boat.  We did get everything working, but we ran into supper time and then bath time...so we never got back out there.

 

Kids did get to play on the boat while we messed around trying to get the motor going!  Then a big whirlpool bath!

 

Friday morning we woke up and it was super chilly!  It rained on and off again, but we decided to fair Itasca State Park anyway.  We would just dress warm!

 

Well while on our way to Itasca we noticed the back tire on my Mom's vehicle was making a grinding noise.  At first we thought...maybe it's the road.  Then it happend again on a different road.  So while we did get to make it to the headwaters of the mississippi we didn't stay at Itasca to finish our nature walk/drive.  We turned around and took the car into a local business to take a look.  They said it was the bering and that they could fix it the next day.  Sounded good to us.  We stopped got some pizza and headed back to the cabin for a movie, fish a little, rest, then supper, and a fire.

 



We decided that night that we would just take off Saturday after the car was fixed.  Things weren't really going our way and we thought it would be nice to get home around supper time and then have all day Sunday to chill and have to ourselves. 

 

So Saturday we got up had breakfast and my husband and Lukas went off to get the car fixed.  It seemed like forever.  My Mom and I got the cabin all cleaned up and everything packed so we could take off when they got back.  I am going to add that this is the nicest day we had up there too!  It was gorgeous out!  Anyway around 11:30am we got a call from Chris that the axle was bad too and that it wouldn't be fixed this weekend.  So we went on a wild goose chase trying to find a rental car.  It looked like we weren't leaving Saturday, and maybe not even Sunday.  Possibly Monday.  However, we found a rental company open until 3pm that day and we did rent a cross over vehicle to fit us all in and get us home.  We left Saturday afternoon and got home later Saturday night. 

 

The car is still up there and it should be fixed soon or at least this week and then my Mom or Chris and I will be heading up there to get it. 

 

All in all...we got to spend time together up north and do some relaxing so the trip was a success in that effect.  Some of the things that got us down (firewood at first, the boat, the weather, grill out of propane (no car to get more), my Mom's vehicle), well we learned that things don't always go as you plan.  However, things could have been much worse.  I am thankful we got to get away and have some time with our family up north.  I did my best to make some great food, drinks, and lots of fun walks with my kiddos!  If you ask Lukas about our trip up north he gets excited and he loved every minute of it.  I am going to remember our vacation through his eyes!  It's so much more fun that way!

 



(He caught around 10 sunnies that day...he was thrilled!)

 

 

Megan's first vacation ever...she had fun too!  Carrying around her "pack pack" (backpack)!