Pre-Christmas happenings

We have gotten a couple of great pics of the 3 boys all together lately which is funny because it is normally so hard.

Christmas is coming and you can tell by the number of trees we have put up. So here are some pics of those too.

We also went to see Santa this year. I can't express how excited I was after we got the pictures taken I totally did a little dance. ALL THREE BOYS SMILED!!!! I know crazy right! Last year Shawn wouldn't go anywhere near Santa, Wesson screamed the whole time and Gabe just dealt with it. This year good pictures from ALL of them I still can't believe it. I only have hard copies of the pictures so I will have to snap some of them, so I can post them.

And I have Christmas lights on my house for the first time since I moved out of my parents!! That's right my totally awesome fiancé, Patrick got out and put them up!! I was so excited!! I love coming home to a house that glows :)

Halloween

Here is a picture of all the boys in their Halloween costumes and one of Gabe at the pumpkin festival. Sadly we didn't get to take all three boys this year.

Shawn's birthday

Wow! How behind am I? Shawn turned 6! It's just crazy how fast they grow up.

Busy week!

:Wesson is now 3! It is crazy that we have two 3 year olds right now. They boys are sure getting big.

: I took Gabe to Home Depot and he made a fire truck.

:We went to St. Louis to the Ameren Safety Fair and the Science Center

: We went to Lorelai's B-day Party I cant believe she's 2 already.

It's been a crazy week, and a very crazy weekend!

Real Family

Shawn & Wesson's mom went on vacation so we had all three boys for 10 days. I totally felt like a real family it was kinda awsome.

So I had a school kid. How wierd is that? We had to pack lunches and drop him off at School and pick him up from school. Totally new experience. Not to mention I was having to get up earlier to make sure all three of them got dropped off at their three different locations on time.

They were also more well behaved if you will believe that. I think that them staying for 10 days instead of two was really good for them and us. I am sure they have different set of rules at their moms then with us, that is bound to happen anywhere and I think being with us longer helped them adjust more.

Anyway I really enjoyed it and was actually kinda sad to see them go. I miss the little buggers. This experience def made me realize more than I already did that we need a bigger house. Oh and a laundry maid. I still haven't been able to catch up ahh.

So behind

Well first off I want to appoligize for being so behind. Things have been a little hecktic but hopefully I can get you caught up. I will try to get back into the swing of things, and blog more regularly

:Well Patrick and I went to the cabin, he and the hunting buddies were wanting to get moved in to the "new" cabin (shown below). Well it's new to us anyway. It needed a little love but is looking pretty fancy compared to when we moved in. We had a great weekend I love going North it is so peaceful up there. :)

:Patrick has been on a we need pets kick. He got a free fishtank and of course has been working on it non-stop. Actually we have one upstairs and one downstairs (it's kinda crazy). This is Gabe looking at the first one we got set up. Patrick keeps buying more fish but I guess we have room in our 100Gallon tank but now they are having babies like crazy.

:Gabe and I went to a family reunion (my mom's mom's side of the family) Everyones in this pic except my dad because he was taking the picture. It was fun seeing everyone and Gabe loves that we have it at the park where he can slide all he wants.

:Oh and you rember what I said about Patrick being on a pet kick right well we were at the petstore looking at fish stuff (normal occurance lately), when I saw the reptiles. Now I sat there and looked at them because I have always wanted one. You see I went to this Critters in the classroom summer school class probably 10 years ago and came home wanting a newt but nope mommy says no. Anyway me being the nerd of the two of us you know when it comes to budgeting and stuff convinces myself I dont need it. So a week or 2 goes by and we go back and of course I'm still looking at the little guy, but this time he's on sale. Oh and Patrick knowing that I wont buy him for myself pretty much tells me that we are taking him home :) So I had to pick one out :D Anyway This is my Leopard Gecko. I haven't named him yet actually I don't even know if its a boy or a girl (I need to work on that). I kinda like freckles one because he has spots duh and two because being a redhead I have always been proud of my freckles. Patrick kinda laughed at me and thought it was to obvious or something. He totally hurt my feelings, so nothing offical has been decided. Gabe just calls him the lizard. Anyway I think he's cool and totally cute!

Well I think that's enough rambling for now.

Happy Blogging

Goings on

Well we had a garage sale and Abbi an Lorelai helped. Gabe and Lorelai like pricing stickers :D

Gabe is doing sumersaults now.

We took the boys to Home Depot again. This time they made cork boards for their rooms.

My mom went back to the place she was born, but the hospital was replaced with apartments.

Patrick, Gabe and I went to a BBQ and Gabe made some new friends.

Shawn started  kindergarten! So of course his dad had to embarass him in front of the rest of the class.

Fair

We went to the County Fair. I had never been to the Fair before so I was obviously clueless and was a little concerned with what I was going to do. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

It all turned out well, even though I went straight from work and was wearing heals.There were tons of animals and Gabe and Wesson loved them all and had a great time.



The guy who owned the goat Gabe was looking at, took it out of the cage so he could get his picture taken with it. He was really excited. (even if the goat looked away, lol)



Wesson really liked the chickens.



Then Grandma paid for the boys to go on horsey rides. Wesson didn't stop smiling and Gabe just kept saying "I'm riding a horsey, I'm riding a horsey"

And all that other stuff

Finance update: Well the debt snowball is rolling! We paid off the last of the three vehicles last week :D and next week we will have another bill paid off! I am super excited! We aren't done but we are getting closer. Thanks Dave Ramsey. Oh and they redid FPU which I think could be fun. I love the motivation. 

Gabe update: Well he is singing his A-B-C's now he needs a little help in the L-M-N-O-P area but we are almost there :)

We set a date for the Wedding! May 18, 2013. So now for all the planning. Haven't done much yet I have a date and a reception place. We haven't fully decided if we are going to have the wedding there too. Other than that it is all to come. I still have about 10 months left so I haven't gotten stressed yet. I did the last one in 3 months so I figure this one should be easy, I hope, lol.

Home Depot

We went to home Depot Last weekend and they boys had a great time as usual. They made little moving trucks!

 They had stickers to put on them but we had to wait for the paint to dry. They couldn't wait to play with them.

I absolutely love that Home Depot does this once a month! Nothing makes little boys happier than hammers.

Patrick's Birthday

We went on a fishing/float trip. We had a great time and other than the millions of bug bites all is well.

When we got to Bennett on Friday Morning the first thing Patrick did was fish.

So I went on a walk and took pretty pictures :D

After my walk waiting on my fisherman.

Chris & Scott on the float trip

The Birthday boy! He wouldn't let me take a picture of his biggest catch but I did get to take a picture of his smallest. lol

My bday

Well I have had a very hard time trying to figure out when I should do my birthday post since the festivities aren't over yet but I figured I would do it today and after the last party just add an extra picture.



So on my Birthday I took the whole day off and spent it with this little guy.

My parents and my grandparents took me out to Bandana's for dinner. Yum!

And I got Apple Pie at work. Yum again!

I think we eat a lot, lol.

Fathers Day

On Fathers Day Gabe and I went on a Fishing Trip with my Daddy! We always have a good time fishing :D

Friday night my boss's band Faded Youth was playing bar here in town and most of my fellow employees and my family went to watch them play. It was a good time. It isn't very often that I go out at night I am typically in bed when the kiddos are. Here are a few of the Dancin fools: