Other happenings

We have been having a good time living up here and Idaho. I dont know if Im really used to it yet, but its been good so far. Jon has a really great schedule right now and is able to be home every afternoon and evening, plus he has sunday and monday off. So its really great! Makella is taking dance right now and Loves it! Plus, its in our garage, so it doesnt really get more convenient than that. *For those that dont know, there is a dance studio in the garage that my sister in law runs* There will be a recital in december and she will be super cute! She is also taking an amazing athletes class and learns how to play hockey, football, volleyball and everything else. She has had a lot of fun so far! Im trying to put in her as much stuff as I can right now instead of doing preschool because she already knows pretty much everything they learn in preschool and she has a whole other year and a half til kindergarten, so we will do preschool next year! Here she is in her little dance outfit!


They have a neat discovery kids museum down here and right now they are doing a free friday thing, so I decided to take the kids to it. It was just me and the kids, so it was a little crazy, but it was fun! Noah wished he could be out of the stroller a bit more, but there was a lot of people and he runs a little too fast for me. They had a green screen that you could play around with and makella thought it was pretty cool to see her body disappear! Her other favorite thing was a little pulley system that they sit on and then pull themselves up. She kept putting her hands up and pretending it was a roller coaster. It was pretty funny. She thought she was pretty strong when she pulled up herself and Noah at the same time.




We have also been enjoying the Great fall weather by playing in our leaves! Noah thought it was pretty great that we got to jump right in a huge pile of leaves! Makella did a great job of covering Jon too. He had to lay there for quite a long time til he was TOTALLY covered. Ive got such cute kids! its wonderful! I really really love this time of year, I wish it was like it all time! If it went straight from fall to spring and then back again...that would be ideal!








If you havent already noticed in my last posts, I dyed my hair! I have been wanting it to be darker for a long time, so I finally just gave in and did it! I really love it and am glad I did it! I went from this..(dont look too long at the really ugly picture):

To this:

Halloween!

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! We went to out ward Halloween thing on Friday and it wasn't that great for us, but makella had a good time and I guess that's all that matters! Then on Sunday we went and hung out with Aaron and Kelly. We had chili and cornbread and then did a little trick or treating down their street. Yeah we are probably bad for going on Sunday, but that's just how it worked out. Makella loved it and probably would have gone all night if we had let her. I really liked their costumes! We didn't really come up with them until the middle of the week (we are super indecisive), but they turned out really cute! Makella was a fairy, or a garden fairy as she had to point out to everyone, and Noah was a little biker boy! I made him a little leather vest and some leather chaps! It was so cute and easy! These pictures don't do it any justice though. I put a cool studded skull on his back and a couple tattoos on his arms...it was pretty cool! My camera was pretty messed up, so these are all I got on my camera. My sister in law has a lot more on hers, so Ill have to get those. It was just a fun family night and everyone had a great time and ate lots of candy! Happy Halloween!

Noahs Birthday!

Yeah I know…it was a month ago. I’ve had all kinds of things on my list and blogging was at the very bottom! But I finally have some time and I thought I would start off with my little boy! He is oh so wonderful! He turned one on the first and we had a little monster party! Noah has been such a wonderful part of our family. He is nothing like I thought he would be, but everything I wanted! He has white hair and blue eyes! I never thought I would get a blue eyed baby, so I was happily surprised! He is so happy and easy going! Since he was born he has always been able to make me smile! On bad days or in the middle of the night when he wouldn’t sleep and I was exhausted…I just had to look at him and it always made me feel better. He had little droopy cheeks that I loved and now he has this goofy grin and a goofy little walk and I just cant get enough of him! I just want him to stay little forever! He doesn’t really say any words yet, but he is so quick to figure things out! It doesn’t take him long to figure things out. Some of his favorite things are:

His bottle…He loves this thing and demands it regularly…I know he probably shouldn’t have it anymore, but Im a little stuck on how to do it. He seriously loves it!

His doggy…This was a stuffed animal that Makella got from Uncle Aaron and Aunt Kelly, but when Noah was really little, he saw it and immediately grabbed it and hugged it and loved it. From then on it was his and he sleeps with it every night! There are so many night when we check on him and he is snuggling with it. Its seriously cute!

He loves to climb…His biggest frustration is when he cant get up on something. He is forever finding ways to get on the table or the top of the couch, Im pretty sure it will only get worse as he gets older! Im a little scared!

He loves to be outside…Now that he has kinda gotten over the habit of eating rocks, I let him outside a bit more and he will wander around out there for as long as Ill let him.

Balls…we have a really big purple ball and he loves to grab it and carry it around. He also likes to try to lay on top of it. He hasn’t really been too successful with that, but trying is all the fun!

He loves me! Since this is my blog, I can write what I want and I totally know he loves me best! J He’s a momma’s boy and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Here are a few pictures from his first year! Love this boy to death!

Love you Noah! And just in case you didn’t think I put enough pictures in this post….here are just a few from his birthday party! Then I will be done, I promise :)