Fall Pictures

Gearing up for Halloween

Becca and I took the kids over to Burlington today. We have kind of started a little tradition of carving pumpkins and decorating sugar cookies at Mom's every year for Halloween. We are doing it today since my mom will be gone all weekend to go to state volleyball. I am not sure why we carve pumpkins because we all just pretty much do them for the kids at this point. They enjoy seeing them when they are finished though and hopefully we'll be able to keep up the "tradition" until the kids are old enough to enjoy carving the pumpkins themselves!! Anyway, Becca and I came over early this afternoon and tried to take some pictures of the girls... They weren't real cooperative, but we got a few good ones. I've included one and will put more on when I get a chance.

We have had a very busy past couple of weeks! Craig's grandpa Vic passed away on Oct. 8, so we had a very busy week that week. Craig had already planned to take some time off before that so it was very nice to have him around so much. We really enjoyed spending time and visiting with family that we don't normally get to see. I really enjoyed listening to everyone sit around and reminisce, they really had some great memories. Vic was a great man! The services were really nice. We will really miss Papa Vic, but we are happy that he is in a better place. Hailee got to spend lots of time with the Winterholler's and did so good with all of the "strangers." I was really worried about it because she normally doesn't handle that kind of thing very well, so I am glad that everything went so well! Between all of that and volleyball I feel like we haven't been home in two weeks! There were a lot of volleyball tournaments and regular games going on these last few weeks so everyone was busy. I made some good money though so that was nice... except for the part where I had to get new tags and registration for the car and pickup, so I didn't get to spend any of it :( Oh well, I am glad to have that out of the way.
We are ready for life to slow down. I just hope we don't go crazy being home so much!! I am really a "goer" and Hailee seems to do well "going" with me. It will be nice to have some down time and have a chance to catch up at home though.

Billings...

Becca, Mom, all of the kids, and I went to Billings today. It was the grand opening at Kohls so we figured we would go check it out... Well, we didn't go there until very last, so we were pretty much all toast by then. We went to Target and then the mall and had lunch. Hailee fell asleep in the mall, so I packed her around. Needless to say it wasn't too much fun. Good thing I wasn't looking to do any shopping. So, we got out of there and went to the car auction place to see the suburban that Eric got for Becca to drive and headed to Costco after that. I went to get Hailee out of her seat and decided I should change her pants before we went in there and decided to do it at the suburban real quick... well, she had pooped out of her diaper. I am not talking just a little seepage there was poop everywhere! I pulled her pants of and it was all down her legs, on her socks, and before I knew it all over the front of me. Oh the joys of motherhood! Being the treasure that she is to change lately it took the three of us like 20 minutes to get her cleaned up. Poor kid. I had to run into Shopko and buy myself a new shirt. Once we got out of Costco I rode out to Montana Muffler with Eric (he didn't know where is was) and mom and Becca headed for Old Navy and Kohls. Once Eric dropped me off at Kohls both of the girls were asleep, so we wandered around for a little while and decided to just hit the road. What a day!! Never a dull moment. I swear Hailee always waits until she is sitting in her seat to poop, it never fails!! It's a good thing she is so cute.

Lazy!

Okay, so Hailee is finally sleeping and I should be doing something productive, but I am really lacking in the ambition department today for some reason. I got my bathroom cleaned and my dishes done, but not much else. It seems like we have been really busy again. I have been doing a little more officiating than I had planned. Craig got off call and has been out looking for deer almost every night so we don't usually see him until at least dark.

Hailee is still growing like a weed... she is all over the house and into everything. She is such a little bathroom dweller! I try to keep the door shut, but that doesn't always happen. She loves to take baths so she usually just stands next to the bath tub, but she has discovered the toilet paper and loves to unroll it... She is teething too. She got her first two teeth at 6 mo. and 2 more at 8 mo. and they just keep coming. I am glad that we are pretty much done with the whole nursing thing... I started weaning her a little over a month ago because she basically lost interest. We are both much happier being done though.

So ya, that is about all we are up to... Have lots of reffing to do at the end of the week, so that should be interesting. Thank goodness for Cailee and that Hailee likes her or we would be in trouble! Speaking of, Cailee is going to be turning the big 18 tomorrow! I can't believe it. She is such a neat, talented girl!! She is turning out to be one of my best friends. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAILEE!!

Photo Tagged!

The rules: go to your pictures folder and take the fourth picture from the fourth file and post it. That's it. Then tag four friends:)

Okay, Michelle tagged me. This is Craig on the 30th of August, I don't remember how big this fish was, but as you can see it was pretty good sized one. Craig LOVES to fish!! Okay, the four friends I am tagging are: Becca W., Camie O'Barr, Sue, and Kelly.

Getting So BIG!

Hailee is already nine months old! We went to the Dr. on Thursday for her check-up. She weighs 20 pounds and is 29 5/8 inches long!! Yes, she is a big girl! Dr. J said "she's about as big as they make em." We love watching her grow. She is crawling all over the place and pulling herself up to things, so she is busy busy all of the time. Time is just flying, is seems like just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital.

We feel like we haven't been up to much, but we haven't been home a whole lot either. Craig is mostly fishing or golfing as usual and I have been doing a little bit of volleyball officiating. Needless to say it all keeps us pretty busy.