November Happenings!

Time is flying by!! One of Evs first times sitting in the grocery cart, he looks thrilled doesn't he? I don't think he knew what was going on :) Sweet buddy! Connor was excited to have him next to him for sure!

Helping me hang molding in the dining room, it looks so good!

I love a sweet, sweet sleeping baby picture. It is way too much for me to handle and makes me want at least 7 more babies!! :) 

Ev started doing this squishy face and I love it! It was hard to get it on camera, but he was being cheesy one morning when he woke up. Poor buster at 8 months still doesn't have any teeth. I will say thought that this nursing momma doesnt' mind too much :) 

We took so many walks this fall, it was amazing! I am so thankful we did because this winter has been brutal!! We only made it down the street this time and ended up playing in the leaves. It was a pretty fun way to kill some time :) 

Learning to crawl up his closet step! He is so funny the boy LOVES to crawl up and down the steps, I think he would do it all day if I let him. Thank goodness for gates!

Sweet boy LOVES the bath too! He sits in there and splashes away. It is really cute he just starts splashing away whenever Connor gets in, he already knows its their little thing to do together in the bath :) 

Silver Dollar City!

Jess and I packed the kiddos up and took a trip to Branson and Silver Dollar City! It was SOOOOOO much fun!! We had the best time and we are already planning our next trip :) We lucked out and had a perfect weekend to go - it was chilly but not too chilly and the kiddos were so great.

We started out with a little trip to Bass Pro and Connor was in heaven with all of the big boats and ATV's he could sit on. It was pretty much a kid heaven! 

Then we were off to SDC - I don't know who had more fun, the adults or the kids! I think we were screaming just as loud on all of the rides :) 

Thankfully Jess's mom came with us and we were able to juggle all the kids, not everyone could ride alone so we needed the extra hands for keeping Evan and riding with kiddos! 

We were there for the lights too and it was SOOO fun, it got me so in the mood for Christmas. We ate so much bad food and had the best time. We got to the park when it opened and didn't leave until it closed, we definately got our money's worth out of our trip!

These sweet buddies had the best time, it was so fun to watch them. This area they could just run around and ride all of the rides themselves, it was perfect for them! 

Evy man was a trooper, he did such a good job hanging on with all the big kids. It was so fun and I was so proud of him :) 

We ended the trip with a trip to the park to burn off some energy before heading back to STL. Such a fun weekend!

8 Months!

My sweet, sweet precious boy how on earth is this month 8?! I guess it really is true, time flys when you are having fun! You are just the sweetest, happiest, most laid back baby around. I know I say that every month, but you really are! You just fit so perfectly into our crazy little family :)

You are a moving machine!! I am seriously wondering if you will make it until your first birthday before you start walking. You roll over immediately when you are on the ground and you are pulling up on everything. I have a few pictures of you swatting at the camera :) You are starting to wave hi and bye, and I swear sometimes it sounds like you are saying "hi!". You are an eating machine, you are starting to want less of the pureed food and more of our food, but you need to get some teeth first! You really haven't found a food you don't like yet and you still LOVE sweet potatoes. I swear we could buy stock in sweet potatoes :) 

You are taking two good naps a day, nursing four times a day (and anytime you wake up at night, which really is rarely.) and you are eating all three meals with a little snack in there. You are so good in the car, you love looking out the window in your carseat. You have the sweetest face and disposition, we are so lucky to have you. You are finding your voice more and yelling and screaming a little more, I love all the extra noise, it makes me smile. You are your brother are interacting more and it's so fun to watch. 

You are a joy, you love to play with your toys and be with your family. You are still a total momma's boy and I am not complaining one bit about that :) You are such a precious little man and we love you so very much! Can't wait to see what month 9 has in store :) 

Connor likes to be involved in the montly shoots, and he is good at getting you to smile! I love these pictures of him, we will call these his last pictures before he turns 5 next month :) He is still such a great big brother to you, I am so blessed!

Happy Halloween!

Jake the Pirate and Evy the Fox! We had a great halloween - we had a party at the Diehrs, and a party at our house! I thought the kiddos looked so cute, it was so fun getting them dressed up :)

I am totally biased, but he is the cutest little fox around :) We got some good wear out of this, we had three halloween parties to attend! 

How cute are these favors? Annie is amazing! 

Someone was finished with pictures, can you tell :) I guess it tough being a pirate on Halloween!

We had our neighbor friends over on Halloween and had some dinner and trick or treating! It ended up being a really rainy night so Ev stayed back to hand out candy and the dad's took the kiddos out, but only for a bit! 

World Series!

While the Cards may not have won the world series this year we had a great time watching the games and cheering them on!

Connor is such a die hard fan he slept with fred bird the whole time! :) 

I just had to put this in because he is cute :) 

My boys :) 

This is how you watch when you don't have cable :) Ha! Bj looks thrilled doesn't he!? :) 

We took advantage of all the nice days we had this fall! Now that I am sitting in freezing weather with ice on the ground I am so glad we did :) 

Catching Up!

I keep going back and forth with this blog and what I want to do - blogger can be so finicky sometimes! I am going to try and keep it updated though, I have found myself so much the past few months going back and looking up what Connor was doing at Evan's age, so I want to be able to do that with Evan too :) So, here goes!

Just a few more fall/end of summer pictures!