Happy Halloween 2012

So this year I decided to make a tradition start. The Sunday before Halloween is when our family will carve our pumpkins. We can get them before that time of course but since pumpkins tend to get yucky quick after carving and or people or animals destroy them then why not do something with them just before the holiday season really starts. I let Brianna pick out 3 pumpkins. 2 to carve, and one to color on. For getting them the saturday before Halloween I'd say we got some very good decent looking ones. And when it comes to the carving, I must say I am very pleased with myself on how I did because this was my first year actually doing the carving.

 

 

Brianna had such concentration when it came to doodling on her pumpkin. Mainly because she wrote her name on it. Just learning how to write your name and doing it on a pumkpin is very tricky, but she was a pro at doing it and it came out awesome. Poor little Preston was just stuck in his swing while mommy played with a knife and gooey stuff and sissy colored.

 

 

The day of Halloween came. 2 days of lack sleep finally crept up to me as I got a headache and felt like poo, so I tried relaxing for the most part. I had to get the house back to being clean (amazing that I can clean house spick and span and then have it looking like I never did anything to it in about 5 minutes) since Clayton comes home this evening. Of course my wanting to make cookies didnt help my cause for not making a mess because if you know me and how I cook/bake I'm a very messy cook, I dont tend to clean as I go, I just wait until the end to clean. But I had my helper with me :)

 

 

 My headache went away around the time I had to start getting Brianna and Preston ready to trick or treat. For 2 weeks Brianna has talked about being Belle for Halloween, so she was. Luckily I knew Preston wasnt going to really care about trick or treating being only 3 months old so I didnt get him a costume but Clayton bought him a cute "hunting" outfit and I put him in that, so if anybody asked I could say he was a hunter (no one did ask but they did say awww cute baby... well duuuhhh)

 

 

After only 2 blocks Brianna decided she was done with trick or treating. The blocks that we got to didnt have very many houses that had candy either, unless they just didnt have their lights on yet but one stretch had multiple doors with signs saying no candy. So we made our way back home. Bri took her Belle dress off and once Preston was done eating she used my nursing apron as a cape and became a super hero for Halloween. She did seem to have more fun handing out the candy then she did getting it.

 

 

 

Well Happy Halloween everyone!!

 

 

 



Little man

He's growing up to fast. Sure he doesn't quite roll over yet, he did rollover alot during his first 2 weeks, but his favorite thing to do is stand. Once he learns to push up and grab things I'm gonna be in trouble. He laughs little laughs and loves to talk. He sleeps most of the night in his big crib and is slowly sleeping through the night. It's hard to let him grow up but he's getting to big for his bassinets he almost has no room to move. Today he turned 3 months old, and I can't wait to see what this next month is going to have in store for us.

First snow day

We woke up to about 6 inches of snow on the ground. Which I must say was kinda a bummer since I now have a sidewalk and no shovel. But I knew the sun would be out and would prob have it melted off by the afternoon (which happened). But I figured heck lets make the most of it and get some fresh air really quick before the snow melted. So I fed Preston, bundled Brianna up got my coat and gloves on and bundled Preston up as best I could since we don't have a snow suit for him yet. At first it didn't look like good snowman snow. But one corner of the yard cooperated with us. I built up some snow as best as possible and grabbed some sticks and berries and a leaf from the tree next to me. Got a couple pictures of Brianna before she decided to become her destructive self and knock it over.
We also had a bit of a snow fight :) we were only outside for a little bit before my headache decided to make its presence and Preston started fussing and well as getting a cold nose. So back in the house it is to have some lunch.

THE BIG FOUR

 

Her big day started with getting to see Grandma B and Grandpa Scott right off the bat. They came the night before but it was after bed time that they got there. I can't believe that my baby girl is 4. Seems like yesterday she was as small as Preston is now. It was a good day for her, people who we didnt expect to see showed up and helped celebrate her big day with us. She got wonderfully spoiled with so many gifts. I would like to thank everyone who came.

For the longest time I have been looking for a toy doctor set for Bri. She is always using straws or her baby rattles to check heart beats and check lungs. She usually hates the doctor so when she started showing interest in playing doctor I wanted to help her along. She watches Doc McStuffins on the Disney channel and almost has the theme song down. Luckily for her birthday she got not just one set but two doctor sets! And if you ask her she can tell you that the thing around her neck is a stethoscope. Its so amazing to watch her grow and see what she gets interested in. If she becomes a doctor when she grows up I will be so proud of her (not that I wouldn't be otherwise). I  always thought being a doctor would be awesome but cannot stand to have to deal with so much blood and hearing peoples stories of how things happened to them. She will be my hero is all I can say.

 

 

Of course thats not all she likes to do. She loves to be a princess and even pretend shes Cinderella lately. Her favorite thing to is dance with someone and then run off leaving a shoe HAHA. She had no dress up outfits until this birthday, good thing they can double as Halloween costumes. Now she has Cinderella, Belle, Snow White, and Ariel. She has all the shoes even except instead of Ariel she had Sleeping Beauty aka Aruora. We are getting to the point though of where I'm going to have to start telling her no changing costumes so much. One princess dress a day.

 

 

One thing that she got for her birthday was from Clayton. She has been telling a bunch of hunting stories lately. The first one was about her friends duck that she shot with her pink princess gun because it bit her. Another one that she just told us about recently was when she went bow hunting with her brother. They were 16 and Preston killed a momma bear. The momma bear had a cub and a daddy bear with her though so she came back to life. Brianna took out her bow and shot it again and the momma bear just came back as a ghost. Can you guess what Clayton got her? A BB gun, a pink BB gun. She is only allowed to shoot it with his supervision and help. Not even mommy, only reason because we have two kids and someone needs to watch Preston while Brianna is using it. He make shifted a couple boxes as a target, had her put on safety goggles and with his help Clayton let her shoot it. She actually did pretty well. Didn't shoot the target but hit the paper it was on. It only makes since with Clayton being a hunter that she got one, she got a fishing pole last year.

 

 

I also decided since shes been making alot of forts lately in the living room, that she should get a hideout of some sort. So I got her a princess tent with tunnel, but instead of it being in the living room its in her room. She has used it to hide from Papa Will and she has played in it with Taylour her cousin. I'm waiting for the time when I go in there and shes cuddled up with a stuffed animal sleeping in there..

 

 

The best part (I know for me) was just having so much family with us this year to celebrate. That is probably the best part of us moving down to Montana. Is just having the family support again near us and them being able to celebrate our kids with us. I know my mom enjoys being able to see Brianna alot more than she got to last year. Breaks my parents heart when she has to go back to her dads, but thats a story for a different day.

 

 

Brianna is getting so big and even though she is a big pain sometimes, those little moments when she tells me I'm the best mom in the universe is completely worth having moment that I can with her. She starting to right her name even. It takes a bit to get her motivated and even though she says she can't do it she knows she can. I'm hoping next year that I can get her into some kind of preschool. As much as I dont want her to grow up I have no choice in that matter.

Well my three year old who looks like a 5 year old is no longer 3. Now I have a big 4 year old and pretty soon I'm sure she'll look like she's 6, everyone knows she already has the attitude of a 16 year old, but I love her no matter what. Happy Birthday Brianna

 

 

 

 



A week in Missoula

The kids and I went to Missoula for a couple weeks while Clayton was at work. First to get my hair done, next to celebrate Grandpa Scotts birthday and last to house sit for them and take care of my own cat and theirs while they were in Germany. We enjoyed ourselves for the most part. We only had one non-fun event and that was Brianna's doctor appointment. She is 41 inches tall and 39 lbs. Doctor said she is in the 80th percantile. I have one big girl :) I also wieghed Preston on his two month birthday. According to the grandparents scale he weighs 11 lbs 6 oz. on that date at least. I looked at Brianna's baby book and he is bigger than she was at his age. Which doesnt surprise me since it took her awhile to latch on and eat when she was born because she had some infections and he is one hungry boy all the time.

 

 

We went to the homecoming parade for the Grizzlies, and helped grandpa get some candy. Afterwards grandma and grandpa got us ice cream. But while while they were gone we colored Bri's house, I sent a text to grandma saying I vaccumed the house and then helped Bri color the walls, hoping to get a bit of a shock out of her but she only laughed and then awwed when I sent a picture of her play house with color on it.

Brianna started riding her big girl bike finally. I had to bribe her to keep going longer than 30 seconds which is what she normally does. Grandpa lost some m&ms to her bike riding, but once she got the hang of it she didnt want to stop. The only problem was that since grandma and grandpa live on the hill we had to go down to Chief Charlo (elementary school on their block) to be able to have a good flat riding area. Before we did though we practiced in the driveway and in the street, which Bri was skeptical about doing (good girl) so mommy persuaded her by telling her since I was there it was okay. When she got to the end of the driveway I would push her back and have her go again. After having her go about 5 times I finally pulled out the camera.

 

The end of our stay in Missoula we hung out with Shonna, Stephanie and Shonna's boys, Kellan, Merrick, and Ryker. We met up with them at the mall, it was a short visit since it was almost 8 by the time they got there and Brianna and Preston bedtime is 830. So we made plans for the next day. WE went down to Caras park for the farmers market. That ended up being a walk around and mainly just trying to keep the kids under control. So we let them go to the park there and then got a ride on the carousel since Shonna had some tokens. We then ended up going to McDonalds since it is kid friendly and we were all hungry.

 

Over all it was a nice week and a half. It was nice to see our kitty and our friends but it was time to go home.