Carving Pumpkins

Lexi and Hunter's pumpkins all lit up!
Hunter looking in his pumpkin, he kept wanting to blow out the candle. His smile looks like the one on the pumpkin!

Hunter, Lexi, and Emma digging the goop out.

Lexi and Emma digging goop out. Lexi didn't really want to get dirty so she didn't put her hands in it but a couple of times. We had fun!

More Colors!

Big area-the color is a tan shade of color. It is not a great picture.
Our bathroom

The kids bathroom

Hunter's room-this is a better picture of his color.
Lexi's room- this is a better picture of the color-still not a great picture.

We have color and a garage door!

Below are some of the colors we have got done in the rooms so far. I will post more of the rooms with color as we get them done. We are painting them ourselves so it is not going as fast as we would like it. Only so many hours in a day...

We now have a garage door. From the outside the house looks done... until spring and we landscape the yard, and finish the porch railing, and put up more lighting.

We have the ceilings done with all coats of paint..the walls are primed for color in the kitchen, dining room, and living room area. Let me tell you with this high ceiling the sprayer we got was a big help!!
Hunter's room is an orange color. It is a little bright so we might tone it down on the next coat.


Lexi's room is a cute purple. She will love it!!

Hunter and the potty!

Well it has been a chore to get Hunter potty trained! He hated sitting on the kiddy potty so Daddy taught him how to stand up at the big potty. He has been doing this off and on for a while now with no luck to getting him to do it without getting in/out of the shower (which the warm water was helping him go). WELL this weekend he started going to the bathroom all on his own and no accidents so far!! He even did good at daycare today! So now we are finally in big boy underwear!!! Hopefully Lexi doesn't take as long to get trained as Hunter did.

Oh and now we have a garage door on the house! We are getting closer!!

New house update!!

Well the house is coming along ok. Dirk and I just finished painting the first coat on the cathedral ceiling tonight. That was a chore let me tell you! We have also put the first coat on the two bathrooms, and hallway ceilings. Our bedroom ceiling is all done, two coats!! We still have lots of work to do but it is getting there. Next up getting the first coat on the kids bedroom ceilings.... more to come..

Hunter helping dirk clean off the driveway. Hunter is like his mini-me.

Lexi's Ears

Lexi has had several ear infections in the past months. We took her to the ear doctor again today and he told us she needs tubes put in her ears. They will call us to schedule it soon. The doctor said it only takes about 10 minutes for the whole process, wow is that fast. He said the whole thing should only take about 1 hour and we can leave the same day. With all that said now instead of being worried about the ear problems I am terrified that they have to put our little angel to sleep, even for that short amount of time. She is just so tiny it scares me. Hopefully this whole process will help with her being sick all the time. Keep your fingers crossed...

Lexi's funny faces

My daughter has started to make the funniest faces. I am so glad I had the camera to catch a few of them.

This one she is looking at us like Emma just did something shocking..
I don't even know why she made this face. I think she was yelling because she found the pumkins. What a goofy little girl.

Our Visit to Country Corners

We went to Country Corners today! They have a ton of stuff. They have a playground, pumpkin patch, moon bounce, corn maze, petting zoo, food, cow train ride, and much more. As you can tell by the many pictures below we did alot for one day. The weather was nice and the kids had fun. It was our first trip and we will go back next year for sure! By the end of the trip the kids were tired and sleep before we got out of the parking lot. I would recomend it for people with kids. They would especially love the pumpkin patch were they can pick out their own pumpkins! Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed our day.

This is a picture of the pumpkins they had scattered about (this is not the pumpkin patch though). The childrens corn maze is behind them. They also have a corn maze that is bigger for older kids. I read on certain days they have the haunted maze and also a maze you go through with a flash light because they keep it dark, no lights or scary monsters for that one! That is my kind. I hate haunted things.
Out of many trys this is the best family photo we could get. Lexi was getting tired and cried in the rest of them. Of course I had to be looking at the other camera taking the picture too. Go figure.

Tina, Ryan, and Emma

Grandma wanted to take a picture with the kids. This is the best we could do.

Petting Zoo Time!

Well the patch had a little Petting Zoo. Hunter thought it was ok but he has been to the big zoo's so much it was no big deal to him. Lexi on the other hand was finally old enough to appreciate it.

She found a friend in the pig. She even pet it which I caught with this picture. She loved them. When she turned away and looked at something else the pig started nibbling at her butt. Then when we walked away it followed her along the fence. Too cute! We might have to try and see if Cousin Addy can show her some animals at her daddy's farm some time.
Hunter loved the ducks. Go figure my kid to like the simple animal. They said they will bite and not to put your hands in the fence or try to feed them. He actually listened to them! That was a surprise.

Lexi looking at the goat. She didn't know what to think at first. When we got to the pigs she loosened up.

Uncle Dirk and Emma

Cow Train Ride

They had a bunch of these cow cars hooked together and they were pulled by a tractor. They guy went kind of fast so Hunter couldn't ride by himself. I wasn't sure how Lexi would like it but she laughed the whole ride and Hunter did too!! The cars were pretty small so Daddy has his knees up to his chest. It was funny to watch him squeeze into it!

Dirk, Hunter, Me, and Lexi

Emma and Ryan

Playing at the playground near the Pumpkin Patch

The kids had a blast on the playground near the patch.

Hunter kept hanging from the bar and then made Daddy let him go and he would hang for a minute then drop. He loved this.
Hunter on the swing.

Lexi loved the swings. She didn't like going very high but when she got to swinging she laughed the whole time!


Emma laughing the whole time she was on the swing.

Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

We had such a fun day today!! We went to the Pumpkin Patch near Alpha. This kids got to walk through tons of pumpkins and actually pick theirs. Hunter had to pick a big one, although not too big because there were HUGE ones there. Lexi picked a little one that was perfect. We ended up getting out of there with I think 4 pumpkins!

This was one of the pics I took of the patch. Look at all those pumpkins! There were sooo many to choose from.


Hunter sitting on one of the giant pumpkins!

Lexi was so excited to see the pumpkins! She thought is was funny they were shorter than her. Well some of them were anyway! She did try to climb on one of the big ones but had no luck.

Emma with her pumpkins. Isn't she just cute.

We pulled them in the wagon out to the patch. Then we had a wagon that they provided to put the pumpkins in. Of course we let them out to find ones that they liked! They had so much fun.

Cousin Jonathan with the pumpkins.

House Update

Well the drywallers have been busy. They are almost done! Hopefully next week we can start painting!! The pictures below are of the living room, Kitchen, Dining room area. All one big open space. I love the high ceilings.

This is standing in the dining room corner looking at the living room area.
This is the view standing in the corner of the living room. To the left (which you can't see) is the kitchen area. We are looking at the dining room, by the sliding door. The hallway to the bedrooms and on the right of the picture are the stairs going to the basement.

Feeding the baby

Emma was over for playtime again! We kept telling Lexi to feed her baby, meaning her babydoll. Emma took this as feed Lexi (since she is smaller she thinks Lexi is the baby). She kept sharing her bottle but wouldn't tip it back to let Lexi get anything. It was funny to watch.

Feeding Lexi with the bottle.
They looked at us like "what we aren't doing anything wrong". What a goofy face my daughter is making:)

Dinner Time!

Lexi enjoyed her Ravioli tonight. As you can tell by the pictures below she is a messy eater and gets down to buisness!

Lexi before she really dug in!

Lexi after she was done eating. Needless to say she needed a bath after this dinner!

Update

Well the driveway is done and we have a front sidewalk with steps to the porch. Like I said before we will finish the railing in the spring for the porch. My goal is to get us in by Xmas, hopefully before that! Carl has been spreading the dirt around the yard and it looks better because it is not all that clay crap. We will still have to get more dirt later. All in all it is looking like a home and we can't wait to get in it!!!

Swanson Cookout

We had the annual Swanson Cookout at the farm. The weather was nice for it tonight but lots of bugs out (poor Tessa). Hunter rode around on his 4-wheeler and loved it. He also was impressed with all of Aaron's corn! We used Grandpa and Grandmas lantern and were going to take a walk but once we started down the dark road Hunter didn't like the dark so much, which was ok because I didn't either but I wasn't going to tell him that. We got an update on Tiger aka Freddie from Diane. Hunter felt better knowing he was ok. (Tiger was the kitten we had hanging around our new house and we fed him because someone had dumped him. Diane took him in and he is getting bigger) All in all it was a good night and the kids were exhausted when we got home and went right to bed!!

Lexi snuggling with Tabby.
Lexi's hair afte her pigtails were taken out. She reminds me of Barf from Spaceballs! Ha Ha!

Family Photo

Tessa and Lexi

Hunter and Lexi on the 4-wheeler. Hunter kept wanting to drive it with her but we wouldn't let him.

House Cleaning/progress update

This weekend I got to clean the new house for the first time. We had to clean all the mess from the builders/electricians in order for the insulation to be blown in today. We didn't want the shavings from the wood in the walls. Let me tell you that was a chore to get cleaned up, but I loved every minute of it. (It means we are getting closer to moving in) They should blow the insulation in today and put the fiber glass insulation in tomorrow. Wednesday and Thursday the drywall should be put up and hopefully next weekend Dirk and I can paint it! If anyone is just dying to paint a whole house come and join us! Oh also the driveway should be poured this week , can't wait to get rid of some of the mud. Dirk's words of wisdom were to leave the mud because then we wouldn't have to mow the yard. Of course he was joking, I hope!

New house pics!

Below are some of the pics that I took of the inside of the house.

Picture of the front door and the stairs going down to the basement. My favorite thing in the house so far is the front door.
I am standing in the corner of the dining room area looking at the living room (which is on the left of the door going into the garage. The kitchen will be on the right.

More of the living room area.

I now have stairs instead of a ladder to get down to the basement.

Tina standing on the stairs. The opening is going to be cut more but right now they need it closed to work around it. It will look like Carl and Cheryl's stairs for those of you who know what theirs looks like. I also love the cathedral ceilings!