Cornbelly's.......?

If you haven't been to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point you have got to go! We went with our friends the Tuckett's and had a blast! This is Andie with the Pumpkin Princess. Andie got to dress up like a princess and take a picture.

Us in the kids corn maze.

The kids just chillin on a giant rocking chair.

How cute is that?

Cornbelly's.......?

This is a creature that will be haunted starting in October, but was not haunted when we were there. Warning-this was scary enough not haunted, I don't recommend taking young children to it. Jason would not go in it at all! But Cydnee did and she is only 4. I'm thinking when it is haunted it will be for older kids like 10 and up or something.

Waiting for the cow train to come back.

Riding on the cow train.

These were called jumping pillows. They had one for little kids and one for everyone else. Don't you love Andie's face in this picture? She actually really like it.

Kev and Jace on the jumping pillow catching some air!

Andie's hair cut!

Andie before (notice the nice long pigtails)....

Andie after (well, a few days after actually).....
Not exactly long enough to do pigtails anymore. I didn't want or ask for her hair to be cut this short, but I do think she looks darling. This is after she has gotten out of the tub and just let her hair air dry, so no oomph right now. At Cookie Cutters they round brushed her hair afterward and it really looked cute! Of course we couldn't get a good picture at that time. I am so envious of her straight hair. How I wish I could get out of the shower and let my hair air dry and it would look like hers. Anyway, I think she looks older and it is a good thing her hair grows fast, soon enough I will be doing pigtails again.

We've made it 7 years!

Kevan and I celebrated our 7th anniversary on September 26!

We didn't do anything real special this year because we are going to Cincinnati this week so we are saving all of our money for that, but Kevan did surprise me with these flowers that were delivered to our house. That was the first time he has ever had flowers delivered, usually he just brings home a bouquet that he has made. Just in case you're wondering, he makes wonderful bouquets! We've honestly thought about opening a flower shop because he's really good at arranging flowers. He claims his passion is music, not flowers though. Thanks for the past 7 years Kevan, hope the next 7 are just as good! Love you!

A Cardboard box, a Friday afternoon and a five year old...

Jason and I got creative Friday afternoon. He had been asking us to save a cardboard box so that he could make a house for his lego dudes and we just happened to get the perfect box. So I set out with my very limited architectural skills to make him a house he would approve of. This is what we came up with. I have to say that I am pretty impressed with my self on this one.

Jason picked out all the colors for the house. He hasn't yet learned that red and blue should go nowhere near each other. He is a pretty darn easy child to please - I was trying to convince him that he needed 2 coats of paint on the parts where there was tape and the paint wasn't staying very well and after a few minutes of persuasion he finally said, "Mom, I don't want to paint it again so quit arguing with me. I don't care if my house looks crappy." Okay, then. Yes, that is the lego dudes personal jet parked next to their house.

The bed that Jason created all by himself!

And the stairs that I created all by myself! And I only cut myself once during this whole process. Yeah for me! Yeah for my creative little boy.

Our little angel/devil!

We had Andie's 2 year pictures done yesterday and it is a good thing we did them a little early this year. Less than an hour after we got home, Andie crashed and got a big goose egg on her forehead and then woke up this morning with a cold. Who knows when we would have been able to get her pictures done after that. Isn't she so cute? This was the only good picture we got because she was being a little stinker and she hated the flash from the camera so she would get mad after every picture and then just not cooperate because she knew what was coming. How this beautiful little girl can be so devilish, I'll never know. She just entered the stage where everything is "no", but she doesn't say it meanly (yet), she says it so sweetly and it sounds like she is saying, "noa". She talks like crazy but not to anyone but her family. She's taking after Jason with singing and will sing "Twinkle, twinkle little star", "We will rock you", "Elmo's world" and "ABC's". I'm not sure many people would know that she was singing any of these when they hear her, but I can understand pretty much anything she says or sings. Our sweet baby girl is getting too big, I'm getting way too baby hungry! For now, I'll go satisfy my need for a baby with my sister's 2 week old baby girl.

My wonderful son!

Okay, so I have to take a moment to brag about Jason. On Sunday I had one of the proudest moments of my motherhood career. My sweet Jason (remember he's only 5) was asked to sing a solo for the Primary Program this year. He stumbled a little at first, trying to remember which verse he was to sing but once he got going he did an incredible job! Not only did he have me, Kevan and my mom crying, but numerous members of the congregation also told me they were crying. We did record it on Kevan's phone and are trying to put it on the computer so I can post it and make all of you cry also! Jason may look like me, but he is all Kevan, right down to the no-fear of speaking, talking or acting in front of large audiences. He is such a natural performer! He continues to amaze me every day. He memorized that song in a few days and memorized his speaking part in about 10 minutes. Just so you don't think I have a perfect angel - after he sang his song so sweetly, he sat down and messed around the rest of the program. I seriously don't think he sat still or sang another song. Anyway- I love that kid and will really try to get that recording on here.

My handsome little boy!

Doesn't he look so handsome on his first day of school? Poor kid got sick that night and couldn't go to school the next 2 days. He's doing much better now and was very excited to go today with his buddy Finn. Jason really is a good kid and a great big brother. One day last week I had a migraine when I woke up so I asked Jason if he would babysit Andie while I took some medicine and lay down. I was half-awake this whole time, so I could listen for any screams. When I got up, not only had Jason entertained Andie for a good hour and a half, he had gotten her a sippy cup and filled it with milk and gave her some dry cereal so she wouldn't starve. Granted, the house was a disaster, but who cares? My kids were alive and my headache was gone. I am very thankful for my little man!