Pumpkin Patch

 In October, we headed to the pumpkin with the kiddos and Sonya.  Lyla loved having Sonya there and I think Sonya enjoyed hanging out with us too!  I had shirts made for the kiddos and LOVED how they turned out! So cute!

This is by far the best family picture we've taken minus our professional family pics. It normally doesn't look like this! Ha!

 He enjoyed playing in the dirt!

 This year she rode the tram by herself. Made me kinda sad! :( She's getting to big!

 Off to get our pumpkins!

We had such a good time and a beautiful day to go! Later on, we went and ate with Sonya and Nana in Russell!! Love family time!

Trick or Treat night ::Halloween 2012 ::

 This year, Lyla was excited for Halloween in September. It was quite a long month! They day of Halloween, when she came home from the sitters, she goes, is TODAY the day we go trick or treating? :) She's been slightly excited! 

She had been asking to be Spiderman for Halloween. Well, I'm to much of a girly girl to allow such nonsense, so after much deliberation, we settled on Spider girl.  She's got her spider part of it and I got the pink! :) 

Abi and Avery came over before they went to their church party so we could get some pictures and see them in their costumes. Obviously, Cohen isn't in his costume, but this year we had Clark Kent, a dancer, Spider girl and Spider woman (per Avery).

 Silly girls!

 In their costumes. Cohen's costume was by far my favorite! I loved how it turned out, just wish he would have kept the glasses on! It made the costume!

 This girl loved trick or treating and "got" it this year. She kept pointing to houses she wanted to go to and would have gone to every house if we would have let her. We stopped by a few friends in town and even went to our old neighbors and the old house! 

I wish I would have gotten a picture of their buckets. They tuned out super cute!

So yeah...

It's been entirely way to long since I've blogged. Way longer than any other break I've ever taken. So I have LOTS of catching up to do. I still have Cohen's party to blog, his 14 month post, KU game, etc. The list goes on!

Here's quick updates:

Me, myself and I: I'm extremely busy with clients this fall and definitely the busiest I've ever been. And I may not be so great at managing that and being a wife and momma. Struggling majority of the time, but the busy season is slowly winding down and hopefully a new normal will start soon. 

Sean: His knee is getting better everyday and he's feeling good. He even said he felt like he could run on it, which the doctor said he would think that. But NOT to run on it! So he's riding his bike (a tri bike he recently bought) and enjoys doing that! He's super sad that KU and the Chiefs are playing horribly this year!

Lyla: She's a little spitfire these days and is becoming sassier by the day. She's testing her boundaries which is always interesting. She still LOVES dance class and loves her preschool class as well! She'd must rather be at 1 of those 2 places than at home! 

Cohen: Oh my, the best way to summarize him is: a hot mess. We may call him that to often as Lyla has picked up on that and likes to play mom with him and tells him he's a hot mess when he gets in trouble! :) He's into everything and anything and tires me out daily. I have no idea where he gets his energy! No words yet, though we did finally get the m sound out of him! He had a speech eval (more on that later) so hopefully he'll start talking soon!

And that's it as of now! :)

Lately

I really haven't had much to blog lately as we really haven't done much! Sean's ACL has kept us at home for the most part. We did have a bowling night with some friends of ours. Lyla had lots of fun!  I forgot my shoes and had to buy some awesome socks at the bowling alley with bowling pins on them! Ha! Other than that, I've been swamped with photographing weds and families as fall is always the busiest time!

Sean's knee is doing better but it is a slow process. He's slowly getting off his crutches (hopefully by tomorrow) and so that will be nice - for him and me! He is a huge asset around the house so I definitely miss his help! I'm pretty sure he's going to have a HUGE honey do list for when he is better! He gets to ride his bike for short amounts of time - which is great for him as he doesn't like to sit still.

Lyla is so funny right now! She is just a sponge, soaking up so much stuff! She is doing great with preschool and is becoming quite the dancer. Tap is her favorite and we hear clickity clack quite often. She's also picking up on things we say. Example: When our dog does something bad and Sean complains about it and I always say "Calm down she is just a puppy". Well the other day I yelled at Piper for something she did and Lyla pipes in with, Calm down mom, she's just a puppy! :) Oh, I love her. If only I was better at writing down the cute, funny things she says. Add that to my to-do list. She's also midly confused as to which football team she loves. It depends who is her best friend that day or if she wants something.  If she wants something from me, she likes to tell me I'm her best friend and that she loves the Steelers. It changes often. Hopefully she'll grow up cheering for the better team. That would of course be the Steelers!

Cohen is quite the climber these days. Still no talking but will be starting speech here soon. He's smart as can be though and follows directions so well. He loves his sister to pieces and is just a little ham! Life is never dull with him around. His new favorite thing is to try and take the halloween clings off the door. He also loves to throw things away especially things that do not need to be thrown away! :)

So our lives our full and we are blessed! :)

Loves/likes

 One of the first things I ever pinned on pinterest was something similar to this. I finally did. Mark that pin off of the 1300 other pins on there I still haven't completed. Darn pinterest.

Anywho, since they both had birthdays - it was the best time to finally do this. 

Enjoy :) (You can click on them to get them bigger)

Birthday Zoo trip

 Still catching up on birthday posts! On Lyla's birthday, we headed to Rolling Hills for the morning! We packed a lunch and had a picnic there before heading in to see the animals! Lyla loved it and all she wanted to see were elephants, which they have non of. But if you ask her what her favorite animal was there, she said the monkeys! The kids did so good with the trip and we all had fun!

 He's so big! :(

 If you know me at all, I'm freakishly scared of turtles. They give me chills, my heart races, uck - not a fan of them at all. Apparently that goes for statue turtles as well! I don't like ANY type of amphibian, for the record.

 Family picture! I think we all had the most fun feeding the animals in the kid part of the zoo! Or maybe, that was me! :)

 After the zoo, we headed to Salina and did a little shopping and then ate dinner with Ty and KK! Sushi, of course! :) 

When we got home late that night, but woke up the kids to open Lyla's presents and eat some birthday cupcakes! Lyla got a FHSU shirt, a toy that teaches you to write your letters, fake food for her kitchen (Melissa and Doug toys are the best!) and a few books.

We also hung balloons from each of their doors on the night of their birthdays. We hung Lyla's on the eve of her birthday and during the night she came to our room and never even noticed them!

 

 The birthday boy on the morning of his birthday (the next day).

 Saturday morning was Cohen's present time! He got a toy ipad thing, a turtle roller thing (that Lyla's plays with more!), a 4 wheeler toy, books, and a toy shape sorter!

 My girl and I in the morning! We are blessed with such great kids!

That night we had cake, went out to eat at Applebee's (1st birthday tradition) and then went to the FHSU soccer game! :) 

Happy Birthday to my kiddos! Mommy and Daddy LOVE you!

Birthday!

 The evening of Cohen's birthday, we went and did a few pictures so I could get a pose similar to Lyla's from her 1st birthday. Same spot. Same pose! Yes, I'm that mom!

Oh, I just love him!

Birthday wishes!!

Happy Birthday to my sweet niece, Abi!! :) Love you to the moon back!!!

Cake smashing

 So I've yet to have a smash cake session with Cohen! I had plans to - even had the cake, but then he was fighting a cold and ear infection so I didn't figure it would go over well.  So, we let him just eat a little of his smash cake on his birthday! Isn't it the cutest cake. Our cake lady does an awesome, awesome job! And they taste super yummy!

 Cake, please!

Needless to say, he loved it! :) He's got a bit of a sweeth tooth! :)