So remember my latest blog post from last week titled “The Beauty of Fall”? It was beautiful, and then we had a giant wind storm that knocked down all those beautiful gold & burgundy leaves off all the trees. I know that happens (hence the name of the season Fall) but I did not realize the amount of work that all those beautiful leaves could create. Needless to say, raking leaves is an insane amount of work. I decided one afternoon that it would be nice to surprise my vey hard working husband by raking up all the leaves in our front and back yard so he wouldn’t have to on his days off without realizing just how many leaves there were. So,
13 (39 Gallon Lawn & Leaf) Bags, 2 sore arms, and 1 thrown out back later the majority of the leaves are raked up courtesy of me. And no that was not a typo, 13 bags!!!
And I am so glad I made my beautiful fall post and raked up all the leaves when I did because fall didn’t last all that long and now winter has hit,
Crazy, right?! Okay, probably not crazy if your from here, but I don’t think I have ever seen snow in October?!
Needless to say, we are LOVING this weather. Ask me this same question in Feb and I am sure my attitude towards the snow will change drastically, but as of now we are going to enjoy this beautiful white powdery snow and very cool temps.
Here I am last night frolicking in the snow as we got our first snow storm of the season. I got invited to a girls movie night out so I got to drive home in this loveliness and it made me so happy :) Driving in it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Well, that was until I couldn’t get the car up our extremely steep driveway, my car was sliding all over the place. I finally had to park in the street, walk in with my head down and ask my hubby to assist me. O well, better than ramming our vehicle into either our rental house or our other car right?! Okay, that’s just what I have to tell myself instead of feeling like a total loser. Haha. Did you also catch that I was at a Girls Night Out, I am finally making some friends here and its wonderful. They are wonderful. This Colorado life is growing on me :)
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So what else has happened this week?
Autumn got a much needed hair cut. The ends of her hair were getting pretty scraggly so I took her to this cute hair salon for kids called Cool Cuts 4 Kids. It was great. Autumn had a great time sitting in the Fire Truck seat watching Barbie Princess Adventures while getting pampered and Owen got to play video games the entire time. Win win.
Owen was SO bummed when we had to leave. This kid likes video games WAY TOO much for a 4 year old. Guess that is what happens when his Dad is a HUGE gamer nerd.
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The kids got some very generous Halloween treats delivered to them from their Great Aunt Rose. She is so sweet and absolutely made their day…
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We got to spend an afternoon with Mimi & Cousin Bailey while my sister in law was out of town for work,
Bailey had a blast in her first adventure on the swings. Cutie Pies!
We kept Miss Bailey up a bit past her normal nap time so she passed out on the walk back to Auntie Megan’s house.
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This is kind of a random picture, but Owen absolutely adores his Daddy Time on Brandon’s days off. I love to watch the relationship between a Father and a Son. So sweet!
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We had a family dinner out. I know this doesn’t sound very big or exciting, but for us it is. We rarely ever eat out at a restaurant other than fast food places because it can get a bit crazy and stressful with a 2 and 4 year old. Well, Monday night we decided to cash in a gift card to Olive Garden that we have had for way too long and enjoy a nice family dinner out. So glad we did. It was a sweet time spent as a family and our kids shocked us and were on their absolute best behavior. Yay!
Here they are coloring while we were waiting on our food. Goodness, we are so blessed!!
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And this morning Owen had his very first Play Date since we moved to Colorado. I have made some really good friends, but most of them are newlyweds with no kiddos yet. Not a big deal, but it doesn’t benefit the kids all that much. Any who, Since Owen started school he comes home talking about his Best Friend from school Luke. Well, Luke’s mom came up to me a couple weeks ago and said Luke talks about Owen non-stop too. We decided since we are both stay-at-home mom’s that we HAD to get the kids together outside of school. So we decided to take the kids to Chick-fil-a for lunch today after we picked the boys up from school. I am so thankful for Luke. He is such a sweet boy and has been a great friend to Owen. His mom is great too and I can definitely see a good friendship for me starting their. Yay. Up until this point in life, Owen has mainly just had friends based on who my friends were because we would get together for play days that way. That’s not a bad thing and he had some great friends, but it is so sweet to see Owen create this friendship all on his own. Owen is 7 days older than Luke and they get along SO SO well and have become inseparable in school. Luke is about a full head taller than Owen (his dad is 6’8’) and he has an older sister who is 7 and is in second grade. Every time I go pick up Owen, him and Luke are always attached at the hip. He was beyond excited today to get to play with Luke outside of school, and I was very grateful for the adult conversation I got to have with Michelle, Luke’s mom. She is great and we talked each others ears off without a single ounce of awkward silence which is a sign of a great friendship.
Here is Owen and his BFF Luke. The other picture was because Autumn was very upset that she wasn’t a part of the first picture. Haha. Poor little sister didn’t want to be left out.
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Other than that we are very busy trying to potty train our very stubborn 2 year old little girl. I’ll blog more on that later so I can have some record of this milestone for Autumn, but she is doing pretty well so far :)
Here she is playing on the iPad while trying to go “tee tee”. Lol!
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All in all we have had a FABULOUS week! Thanks for checking in :)
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