Latest Happenings

If you follow me on instagram (jens871) then you've probably seen most of these, but Max has been a busy boy with birthday parties lately.

 

 Last week was very much fall weather and this week it's definitely winter weather. Max had fun playing in the leaves with his neighbor friends one afternoon.

 

His BFF next door gave him some really nice outer wear and clothes that he has out grown. I just love this warm vest.  Yes, I realize Max needs some new shoes as crocs just don't cut it in the fall/winter although I know a few people who would disagree (you know who you are). 

 

We went for a hayride at our nephew Ian's 8th birthday party. It was a bit cold for the ride, but all the kids really enjoyed it. Gina's neighbors must have either thought we were all crazy or really smart to be drinking and enjoying a nice hay ride through the neighborhood. 

 

I made this yummy sandwich of hummus, avocado and roasted tomatoes for lunch this weekend. It's a bit time consuming waiting on the tomatoes to roast, but it was very yummy and filling. Recipe is on my pinterest under plant based foods. 

 

Max went to Eiden's 2nd birthday party Sunday and had a great time at an indoor bouncy place. I always thought he was too young to go to one of these places, but he had a blast. I would venture to say, the best time out of any kid. They had specific areas for kids under 3, which most of the time people abided by, I did get annoyed when bigger kids would come because it would get dangerous with all them bouncing around Max.  He would run up to those punching bag looking people and wave and say HI, it was funny.

 

He seriously had a blast, just look at his face. 

There was this slide area in between the small kid area and bigger kid area that Max followed some kids into and they had steps that led up to this slide and I was unsure that he should/could go on it. Well, he started slowly up the steps and kept climbing. If I could have taken my shoes off and easily gotten in there with out all the parents thinking I'm kookoo I would have went with him or tried to stop him (yup, way over protective mother here). He made it to the top and I was nervous he would face plant, but he came ZOOMING down. You can see how fast he was going in this picture. He was so excited though and went down so many times. Such a big boy, I'm glad I didn't stop him.

Max and the birthday boy in his shirt that I made him. It came out really cute.

Here is a video of him sliding down the big boy slide. He by accident flipped to his stomach, but it was cute. Love this little boy who is now 21 months old. Only 3 more months till he is 2! I better start thinking of his party theme.

Happy Birthday Hadley Boo!

Happy Veterans day to all the military and their families who give up so much for our freedom! 

Also today is a very important day because my precious little niece HADLEY is turning ONE!!! She is just a doll and I can not wait to see her for Thanksgiving and celebrate! We will sing for you tonight or call Max and he will try his rendition of Happy Birthday for you. That little face hasn't changed a bit!

Halloween Wrap Up & Weekend Fixings

I wanted to officially document Max's 2nd Halloween with photos. I told you that I didn't think he would wear his costume. Well, the neighborhood kids were out early posing for pics so I took Max out there in his regular clothes to see them. He was in awe of all of them dressed up. I then asked him if he wanted to go put his on and he said yes. We quickly finished eating dinner and I put his costume on. I asked if he wanted to wear the head part and he assured me that he did.

 

He was the cutest little penguin I ever saw! 

My neighbor, Megan got this one of me and my mom walking him up the street to meet the rest of the kids.

This is Max's bff Noah from next door. He is 4 and Max just walks around asking about Noah all day long.

 

They are 2 peas in a pod with their all boy behaviors. 

These are all the kids in our little culdesac area plus a few extra from up the road which we've adopted as our culdesac.

I love our neighborhood and all the kids. Even though they are a bit older than him they all play so nicely together. Max also found kids his own age that are boys so he is going to have lots of fun growing up here I think. Can't wait to see them all grow each year.

Our deck is dirty and has green mold on certain areas so David's first project post studying was to pressure wash the decks and the upper soffets on the house. I don't have a picture of his contraption he rigged up to get his bleach/water mixture up that high but it was entertaining to watch.

I love the pretty fall colors our foliage is displaying in the background.  He still has to finish some of the upper deck and the bottom deck.

We will re-stain at a later time (prob. spring), just want to get the mold and dirty all cleaned up.

The underneath of the gutters had all this black all over and David has cleaned that all up from around the whole house. That took a day in itself. The list is now never ending and I'll keep you updated on our latest house happenings. Hope you had a great weekend. I did go to Hobby Lobby and took advantage of 50% off Christmas decor since we have a very large tree and some new wreaths we scored for free/cheap at the end of last season.

Happy Halloween!

Max has let us know numerous times that he doesn't want to wear his penguin costume. He flat out says no and moves on. 

Well we borrowed a friends penguin and flamingo costume thinking if we dressed up like him that he would go for it. Nope, he was more nervous that we were wearing them. This pic was just practice, I wouldn't wear that shirt although it's clear a shirt is necessary. We've been practicing trick or treat and putting candy in his bag. He likes to reach in and put the candy in himself. Looks like he will be a Skelton tonight as I think that's all we will get on him. Maybe next year he can choose his own! 

Don't you love what my mom made for our door? 

Boo! As Max says now. Have a great Halloween night. Hope your weather holds out as poor Hadley will have real bad storms for her first treating experience. 

We are back!

We are all back in one place after our week of traveling. My work conference in Destin was busy but we had a good time. We then went to Macon so David could take his PE exam Friday. Results won't be in for 2-3 months. Saturday night we went to a Halloween party where our group went as breaking bad. Pic is on Instagram but I didn't want to broadcast my costume. Let's just say it looked like I was a bag of blue skittles. Sunday we went to Alabama to pick up Max, mom and Molly! David and I also  listened to Divergent and Insurgent (almost done) on the ride. David's addicted. Big shout out to Molly today as she turns 8! Enjoy some pics I stole from my sister (who apparently is Max's best friend now).

Pumpkin Carving

I am on my way to a work conference in Destin, FL for a majority of the week and my sweet little Max is with Gigi at Auntie Michelle's house. We drove half way Saturday to drop them off. I was so glad they were able to meet us and we could do the swap. I feel better knowing Max is playing with Hadley and has so many people who love him. I am going through serious withdrawls though. It will be a week and 1 day that I won't see him. The most I've spent away is 1 night (24 hours). David is with me since he had the week off already to study for his test on Friday so he can study in FL.  I have starred at these pictures more than a normal person would because I miss my buddy, but he is just so cute. We carved pumpkins last week and he was pretty into it. Hope you all have a great week and I'm counting down the days!

 Michelle and Hadley joined in on our fun.  Max would take pieces over to show them what he was doing, it was cute.

 I love this photo! Max kept starring up at David watching him work, it was adorable!! 

 So sweet.

 We bribed him by putting in a wooden spoon so he could scoop out the inside. He just retrieved the spoon and didn't want to actually touch the guts.

 Here Daddy have a taste. 

 Yummy! 

 Love his faces.

 "Anybody in there?"

 Popping out the pieces. 

 The finished pumpkin. We went the traditional jack o lantern face. 

 I have no idea why he made that face, but it's funny.

 I decided to be in a photo since I was behind the camera for most of it. I wanted to put a bat on the pumpkin that I had a cookie cutter for. Max was into hitting it with the mallet so he was all for it. 

 He just loves to give the cheese face.

All finished and lit up on the porch. Tada! Love that he is old enough to sort of participate these days! Next up, see if he actually will wear his Halloween costume.