Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Update

Owen has had a terrible cold the last few days.  We stayed home from daycare Monday and Tuesday primarily because he was such a grouch, I hated to put the babysitter through that with 3 other kids to watch.  He is back to daycare today and was in a better mood thus far this morning.

Weather here in Iowa is getting colder.  The last two days has brought terrible winds, up to 60+ one night.  Today we had to break out Owen's warm winter coat and mittens.

We spent this past weekend tearing apart our yard.  We have wonderful friends.  The Smith's let us borrow their skidloader, truck, and trailer Saturday so that we could rework our yard so that it does not slope towards the house when it rains.  Matt did most of the work of course, but I enjoyed helping where I could.  I love to do things with my husband around the house.

Hunting season is in full swing.  Matt has not got one yet, but saw a good one this past weekend, and now has the itch.  I hope he gets one soon so that I can go out ocassionally.  Just not as much time to get out like he used to.

I don't have any recent pictures to post so thought I would compare October now to October a year ago.  Boy has he gotten big since then.
 October 2009 - 6 months
Look at those chubby cheeks! :)
October 2010 - 1 year 6 months.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Two Weekends Ago

We went back down to Kansas two weekends ago for Grandma Pat's Birthday.  We were able to pick Jason up on the way down and have a suprise birthday party for Grandma Friday night and suprise her with family pictures on Saturday.  Owen was AWFUL for pictures this time.  I am thrilled that we got as many decent pictures as we did, he screamed and squirmed for every picture until we put him down to run around.  The only time he was truly happy was riding on the tractor.  Boy is it a challenge to get a 1 year old and 9 other people ready for a photo all at the same time. 







Monday, October 4, 2010

KANSAS

Morning milk on Great-Grandma/pa's porch.
Toepfer Reunion (Great-Grandma Simpson's side)
Sack Races

And the fall hunting season begins...
Harvest #1 - Kansas Antelope

Harvest #2 - Kansas Mule Deer

Friday, October 1, 2010

This Week

Mommy got the clever idea to push him down the cellar hill on his big wheel. Boy did he love it! He did crash and burn once, when the tires made a sharp turn to the left. He was crying, but would not allow me to console him, he still wanted to go back to the top and do it again. He was half crying half laughing because it hurt to crash but he still liked going down the hill.
Ear to ear smile and giggles all the way down. I wish I had the video camera.

The weather was perfect this week to have our snack outside.

Grapes and animal crackers, two of his favorite.