Mobility; A Double Edged Sword

Well lil' miss Ellabelle is officially mobile. It's nice to have her get around on her own because she is more content, but...

She is now getting into things. She shut herself in the bathroom and was entertaining herself with the toilet paper. Wyatt is now not the only one we can blame things on. I do have to admit that my intitial reaction is 'where is my camera?' and then she gets gently reprimanded. I think she is so cute.

Josh said "Uh oh, we have another kitchen helper." Indeed we do. Wyatt still helps with the dishwasher. He likes to spin the sprayer. I'm afraid he is just beginning to see the encroachment upon his territory.

Update

Hey Everyone!

Sorry its been a while. Life gets kind of crazy sometimes. So we went down to visit Grandma Jiggs and Grandpa Kelly after christmas. We built a snowman and had a lot of fun. Wyatt loved the snow machine just as much as he did the motorbike. It was great to visit. We also got to see one of Josh's Uncle and Aunts that we've only met once previously. Enjoy a few of the pictures as well as the one of the budding photographer.
I got to take Wyatt skiing. Josh's mom works on the ski patrol at Mount Spokane so she gets great prices so we went up on a week day. I never thought one of my children would be one of those little tiny guys on the ski hill, but he looked pretty cute. He liked to ride on the swing(the chair lift) better than he liked going down the hill. He had fun and he wants to go again. I also got in a few solo runs and it was great to get out and do something physical. It helped a lot that it was a beautiful clear winter day up on the mountain, when the valley was covered in fog. I even got a little bit of a sun tan.
Well we're just gettin' by one day at a time. Enjoy the pictures.

Christmas Already?

I can't believe that Christmas is already here. Honestly I'm not feeling all that excited about it. The holiday has recently become more about money that the actual gift giving and I find that frustrating. Anyway while I do feel that way I am just a little excited to break out the decorations and watch Wyatt experience Christmas. That I guess is what makes it all worth it.

Well it has been a busy couple of weeks. Three weeks ago my mom and dad and grandma and grandpa came up. Which was fun. Here are a couple of pictures. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving I know that I have a lot to be thankful for.


Joceyln at Riverfront Park


The view from one of the suspension bridges at Riverfront Park. I think that is Maple Street bridge.

Josh and Ella on the Island in between Suspension bridges


A Picture of Everyone at the park.

Lil' Punkins

Well Halloween has come and gone thank goodness! I am personally not in love with the Holiday. However, I do not dislike it so much as to deprive my children of the coveted candy. Wyatt caught on really quick and was absolutely giddy about the whole experience. I'll tell the story and post the pictures at the bottom.

Grandma Jane, and Wyatt, and Ella, and I went to pick pumpkins on Monday. We had a lot of fun. Wyatt didn't want his picture taken, but we still had fun. Then for FHE we all carved pumpkins. Everyone was supposed to help, but Tess and I were the only ones who ended up with them. Wyatt did a little. He liked the little electronic pumpkin carving knife which he used under the supervison of Grandma Jane.

On Friday we went to the Trunk or Treat, and then took pictures afterward. We have been having candy after every meal, and sometimes before, since.

The [pictures of Ella were taken outside while I was working on painting my very green bench. It isn't quite offensive and I actually like it. Now I can identify my house by saying, "The one with the obnoxiously green bench, you can't miss it" Everyone needs something like that right?

Enjoy the pictures. (Sorry about the music)

Apple Picking Grandpa Style

I got the chance to go down south to visit my family. We did apple sauce and apple pie filling and peaches. It was great to visit and see everyone. We even vaccinated some calves while I was there. It was just like old times except for my job used to be filling the suringes and now dad has a gun type thing to do that for him so I got Chad and Jesse's old job to push the cows up into the shoot. I only got kicked once so not too bad. Anyway we were picking apples for pie filling up to the park place and my dad or Grandpa helped us with the backhoe.

Wyatt enjoyed that.
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Ella had fun too chewing on Jocelyn's cowgirl belt. It must be a sign that she is going to be a cowgirl some day. Ya know chewing on a leather belt. I'll take whatever I can get.

Wyatt on the Tractor saying "Make it doh" or make it go. Pretty darn cute!