Pumpkin Carving Time!

Last night, we carved pumpkins in the garage! We hauled out Dawson's highchair and pulled out the card table and chairs and we had a jolly ol' time carving pumpkins. Dawson had a great time eating the pumpkin guts (not much as he wasn't to fond of it) and a few seeds...lol. Again, another great family night -- it was soo much fun and the kids just laughed and played and were happy, which makes it SOO much more enjoyable :)

Our trip to the Pumpkin Patch

This years pumpkin patch was soo much fun! It was really great family time! The kids are at that age, where they are just soo much fun and funny!! Kylie is such a great big sister to her brother and its so nice that they are so close!

Kylie and Dawson

Dawson loved the pumpkins!



He was SOO happy and had so much fun!! :)

Off in the corn maze we go!

Dave wanted Kylie to join him in eating this pumpkin! :)

Kylie's Halloween Party at Dance!

On Tuesday, October 28, Kylie got to wear her Halloween costume to dance class! The first half of the class was their normal routine and the second half they had a Halloween party. Here are a couple photos of her dance friends. :)

Kylie's Dance Friends (left to right)

Rose, Kristen, Madison and Kylie

Singing Dawson...

Our weekend in Wisconsin

This weekend, we went to Wisconsin for my cousin Angela's wedding (my dad's side of the family). We got up early on Sat. a.m. and the wedding was at noon, so we left our house a little after 7 a.m. to get Kirby to the kennels (his favorite place to go, seriously!) and then headed down to my parents house to follow them. Kylie stayed the night at Grandma and Grandpa's on Friday night so it was easier for us to get out the door on Sat. a.m. It worked out really well.

(Dawson pretending to drive -- it was quite hilarious)

We got to Wisconsin around 10:40 and checked into our hotel in Ladysmith and then unloaded a bit and headed to the church in Sheldon (about 20 mins. away). It was really nice to see all the family -- we see them a couple times a year and that's usually when they come to MN.

There was quite a gap in between the wedding and the reception, so we went to the local bar and picked up a pizza to go and went back to our hotel room and ate some lunch and Dave and Kylie went swimming, while Dawson and I took a snoozer. When Dawson and Kylie got back from swimming, they ended up falling asleep too and we didn't get up until 4:40 and the reception was at 5 p.m. Good thing its only a couple miles away.

(The kids were having a blast dancing - before the band even started)

(My Cousin Angela (the bride) and Dawson dancing)

(My cousin Doug and Dawson dancing)

(Kylie and Cheyan - Eva's Daughter)

(Paige and Kylie dancing their hearts away)

(Dave, Kylie and Uncle Ryan dancing some more - it's a bit foggy as they had a fog machine going)!

We left the reception around 9:30ish and went home and we all took showers and headed to bed. We were just exhausted from traveling out there and having a long day!

Dawson got up at 5 a.m. -- woofta, that was early! We tried to ignore him, while he kept saying, Dada, Dada! LOL! Dave kept waiving to him and finally he laid back down and fell back to sleep until 830 a.m. :) We all got up, got ready for the day, had breakfast and visited with family for a bit longer and actually headed out around 9:45 a.m.

On our way home, as we were passing through the border, it started snowing -- YES SNOWING! Our first snowfall of the year! We also discovered that Dawson loves to eat his feet like his big sister!!

A few funny photos...

Tonight, Dawson found a new place to play/hide! Check it out :)

Finally, the video of Dawson's crawling up the steps!

Kylie, Kylie, Kylie...

came home from daycare yesterday and said "Mom, guess what I did today?" Of course, I'm like "what, what? What did you do?" She says, "Declan and I kissed!!" I said, "WHAT? Where did you kiss each other at? On the lips?" She says, "no on the cheeks!!"

So this morning Dave asks Kylie, "Kylie, what are you not going to do today? And she says, "kiss Declan!" Dave tells her that kissing isn't for little kids and only for grown ups (sometimes!)...LOL! :)

So that's our new news with her...she's a little ham!

Lydia's Baptism 10-19-08

On Sunday, October 19, 2008, we were honored to share Lydia's special day with her. :) We were also very honored to be her godparents!! Lydia did great throughout the entire church service (she slept, hehe!). She was soo pretty too -- her dress was made out of Jamie's wedding dress!

After the service, we went back to Jamie and Brian's house and had lunch and visited with lots of friends and family to Lydia. Kylie of course, met a new friend (as she does everywhere she goes) and I tell you there two girls were two peas in a pod! They were soo darn cute!

Showing off their tattoos!

Just flat out being goofy -- they were prancing around like no tomorrow!!

Dawson also spent some time outside...he was crawling up and down the steps! :) I was then throwing him up in the air and he thought that was soo hilarious....

.....until who know what happened...he was not happy at all! He just let it all out...you will probably never see this little guy cry this hard...lol.

We also got some super cute photos of all of us girls :) Lydia is still soo little -- she barely weighs 8 lbs. -- it's like holding a little doll.

A couple accomplishments of Dawson over the weekend!

This weekend, we tried the fork thing -- he doesn't fork the food real well, but if we fork the food, he'll for sure put the fork in his mouth!! :)

Dawson also learned to climb the steps!!!! WOOHOO!! I was upstairs and Dave was downstairs...all of a sudden I heard pounding on the entry way floor, I look down and little Dawson had climbed up the bottom steps to the entry way. He looks at me and laughs! I said, what are you doing? and he just laughs! So of course, he "attempted" to go back down, but that doesn't work to well yet, so Dave had to run after him before he fell. I will actually post a video of him climbing the steps a little later (I just haven't uploaded it yet)! :)

The rest of our weekend!!

On Saturday, the kids went to Grandma and Grandpa's in the afternoon/evening and Dave and I went to a couple showers for a friend of mine. It was fun -- we didn't know nearly anyone, but it was still fun! :)

The on Sunday, Dave got a couple Vikings tickets free, so him and Mike (Jodi's husband), went to the Vikings game, while Jodi and I took the kids to the Mall (yah, they didn't have much fun)! A funny story, while at the Mall...Kylie had to go to the bathroom and so I figured I'd change Dawson at the same time. When I was done changing Dawson's diaper, Kylie was standing quite close to the garbage and I threw the diaper into the garbage -- Kylie, very naturally, put her hand on her chest and jumped back and says, "Mom, you scared the s--t out of me!!" I laughed soo hard, but then tried to tell her she shouldn't say that word. So I definitely have to work on my language, I figured she probably caught that from me! It's a well known word out of my mouth.

On our way to the Mall -- they already look tired! :)

Then after the Mall, the kids were getting antsy...but we took them to Chuck E Cheese's! They had a blast -- we had lunch and played games. Miss Katelyn LOVED running around and checking everything out! Here are a few photos of the kids having TONS of fun! :)

Dawson and Katelyn have their "pre" lunch - O's!!!

Katelyn!

Dawson!

IT'S RIDE TIME!!!!

Kylie riding the horse (take a look at her hair -- she was totally into it) :)

Katelyn and Dawson with Barney - of course, girls in control with driving! :)

Dawson with Chuck E Cheese!!

And last but not least of our day with the kiddos -- they were all very very tired and crashed quite quickly :)

We got back to Jodi's house and we all relaxed on the couch until the boys came home and then decided to get something to eat, so we all went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner!

Kylie and Katelyn were buds!! Miss Kylie LOVED spending time with Katelyn!

Katelyn wasn't too fond of the hat :)

Rascal Flatts Concert!!

I went to the Rascal Flatts concert last Friday with my friend Alicia and we had a blast!! We drove to St. Paul and hung out at Alary's for a little over an hour prior to the show. It was nice, they had a shuttle that took us and picked us up -- PLUS, we got free parking, thanks to Alicia's connections!

Taylor Swift started out the concert and was definitely good -- she's one heck of a country rocker ;) I can say one thing, her dress she was wearing, I definitely did not find to appealing, I've seen her look much much better!

BUT, Rascal Flatts put on a phenominal show!!! It was probably one of the better shows I've ever been too! It was awesome! It was SOOO much fun!!!

Here is a video of them coming onto stage -- yes, when you see the camera shake -- it really did shake -- the fireworks scared me a little bit.

Also, here are some photos that I also took during the show! :)

This was the encore! Then they came back out and dropped tons of balloons and confetti! It was really awesome!