Cruising and sleeping

Blake is cruising and crawling everywhere now. He also took a nap after a big Thanksgiving day meal (even though he didn't eat any of the traditional food - he wanted to practice for his future turkey-day food coma's).

Eating, laughing and deer heads

I'm smiling and laughing and having a good time because of A) Blake's mean face saying he'll eat however he wants and make a big mess; B) because of the great fall weather in November has allowed me to play alot on my swing set; or C) because daddy actually thinks he can put his deer head on the wall above the fireplace.

Halloween

Blake had a fun time for his first Halloween. I showed him how to play golf in the morning...

He got to snuggle with Abuela and Grandpa...

Then my cousins came over and we dressed up for trick or treating...

Here I am with Mommy (she's a party pooper and didn't dress up) and Blake as a lion.

Blake and I with some of our cousins and Sadie's friend Kyle

This one you can see Blake's face (a little)

And here I am with my Mickey Mouse pumpkin

And at the first house trick or treating (Blake stayed home with Grandpa and Abuela while the rest of us went out to get some candy, he's too little to have candy anyway).

Lauren really wanted to try on some hand-me-down costumes for Blake (for future years). Here she is in a bear costume a few sizes too small. And below that she is showing some love for Blake. We took a long weekend in Branson recently and visited the Butterfly Palace - Lauren loved it along with the go-karts and putt-putt golf.

Nana and Papa sent some gifts - Blake's are laying around him and Lauren is holding one of hers. Thanks Nana and Papa! We'll send pictures of the kids in their costumes. Blake has officially crawled (not much but some) and is pulling up on lots of things.

Backyard Camping

A week and-a-half ago, Lauren wanted to go camping. So I found the tent and put it up while she was napping. She was very excited - we weren't sure she'd stay the whole night since it was her first time and it got down to the upper 30's. She had a blast and never mentioned the cold or wanting to come inside. Before camping we cooked marshmallow's and made smore's over a fire.

The backyard project that was started in April for the swingset and play area is now done. And Blake is getting closer to crawling......

Crawling!

Blake has been able to get anywhere he wants for quite some time now with his army crawl. He did recently start getting up on his hands and knees, here are some pictures of him crawling from Aunt Heather today.

Me and my friend Ben

Hi everyone!!