Happy Halloween

SO I was planning on doing a Rilee 7 month update, with a picture and a Birthday boy update, but I went into my pictures to upload everything and remembered that I just had my hard drive put on an external hard drive and now there is no pictures :( Anyways I will update with these few pictures I took yesterday.

Carson had a wonderful Birthday. It was a busy fun filled weekend with lots of family and friends. I think he is finally getting to the age where he knows whats going on, gets excited for it, and enjoys participating. I can hardly wait for Christmas :) Carson wanted a choo choo train birthday, so that just what he got. I wish I had the pictures cause this cake seriously took me 3 hours to decorate if not a little more. It was well worth it. He loved it. He could stop getting on the counter to look at it and tell me how well I did. I wont know Carson's stats will his apt in Jan....ya Jan. that's how far booked out they are, wow, but when he went in a few weeks ago when he had a double ear infection he was 37 lbs and last time Brison and I measured him he was 43 inches.


This speaks for his personality :)




Rilee is doing great. She has had her 2 bottom teeth pop through already. Carson didn't get his 1st one till 8 months old. She is trying so hard to crawl. I can prop her up and she will move her hands while I do her feet but that's about it. She can go from the sitting position to the crawling position and back to sitting. She also has this funny little hop/scoot. Its hilarius to watch, but it gets her to where she needs to go. Everything else is still pretty much the same...still sleeps through the night, loves to feed herself, pretty laid back but definitely has a temper when she is not getting what she wants when she wants, still has that ear piercing squeal that she uses when she is on her tummy or in the car seat(she hates both of those things) Other than that we are looking forward to this weekend (Halloween) and the upcoming holidays :)

Our new toy all finished

For those of you who don't know, Brison bought a burnt jeep about 6 months ago with plans of totally restoring it and making it our new family toy. There were many times throughout this process where Brison had his doubts of it ever running. Yesterday was the 1st day we took it out and put it to the test. We trailered it out to 21 road and took it through one of Colorado's top rated trails for being the most vicious I would have to say it did very well. The only thing that had an issue was the power steering line breaking and we lost all our fluid. Carson absolutely loved it. Anytime Brison would go any bit fast he would just start laughing hysterically. Rilee was that big of a fan only because she was buckled up in her car seat for an extended amount of time and she hates her car seat.


Before




After (YAY)






Ashley and the kidos

Killer deals :)

I'm a sucker for free things. If I see something on the side of the road by golly Ill pick it up. For a couple of weeks I had been driving past this house that had a playhouse/swing set that was knocked over in these peoples yard, so of course when Brison was with me I said "you should just go and knock on their door and see if they want to sell it." I cant express how much Brison hates to do this kind of stuff. His theory is that if he can afford it then he'll buy it. So he looks at me with a face of " are you serious." I told him, "just do it, its not a big deal." So he goes up to the door and asks the man " hey, do you want me to take that off your hands" and what does the man say? "Yes, I would love you to." Brison offered him $50 and he took it. Carson and I were so dang excited. Then today I was on a walk with the kids and sitting on the curb was a ton of toys, so I knocked on the ladies door and asked her if she was throwing it out and she said yep, so I ran home, cause I didn't want someone else to stop and get it, got the truck and headed back. Makes for a good start to the day. Some other things I have picked up are little tykes jungle climbing gym for outside, slide, bike, pool, kids car with wheels ect... I know its not for everyone but its something I cant pass up.


Here is the playhouse we got for $50



The rest of this stuff is the things I picked up today

We go to storytime every week and carson loves these same trains that they have there. He was so excited when he found them in the bag of stuff

Oh ya and everything that talks, moves or makes noise works :)