Monday, October 14, 2013

A few more Pictures to Share…

Found a few more pictures on my phone that I thought I’d share and than I’ll officially be caught up for the first time in a really long time. Yay! Okay, here come a little recap of our last week :)

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Aside from our random snow last week, the weather here has actually been really nice lately which means we play outside ALL the time! Bike & Scooter Riding, Playing Football, Digging in the sand box, and their favorite….Side Walk Chalk!

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Owen and Luke are still managing to sneak in lots of play time together despite their completely opposite school schedules.

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BFF Picnic Lunch in the living room :)

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Last Monday was a fun family day. We went to the park in the morning, had lunch at Costco after shopping, and after we got Owen from school we decided to go on a nice long family walk along the Platte River. We forgot to take the camera, but WOW was the walk beautiful with all the lovely fall colors (we snapped a few pictures on our phones to try and capture the beauty). I absolutely LOVE this time of year.

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Park time fun!

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Owen started collecting fallen branches along our walk and ended up making his own little tree…

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Silly boy!

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I love this picture. Autumn’s Sass and Owen’s cluelessness as what to do about it. Lol!

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I can FINALLY French braid Autumn’s hair. I have wanting to do this for so long now, but her super thin fine hair has made it very difficult. She loves it and asks me to braid her hair everyday. It’s so fun having a little girl!!!!

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Here are a couple success pictures. YAY!

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We have been getting together A LOT with Owen’s new friend from school Brayden, his little brother Brycen, and his mom Brittany. They are a super sweet family and the four kiddos get along perfectly. So much fun making new friends.

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Owen & Brayden are such great big brothers :)

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This past Friday, Owen went on his first ever bus field trip with out ME! They ended up with way too many volunteers so they had to draw names from a hat and unfortunately mine wasn’t picked. Any who, I was SO nervous for my baby boy to go on a big bus ride and be at a pumpkin patch with a stranger parent responsible for him. Seriously, I was a wreck. I cried dropping him off. It was worse than the first day of school. It was ridiculous. But despite my craziness the day was perfect. Owen had a blast and I survived without a massive panic attack. Owen assured me multiple times at drop off that’d he’d be just fine, and he was. I dropped him off at 8:30am and picked him up at 1:30pm. He rode the bus and got to take a sack lunch so he was thrilled. He came home with a cute little pumpkin and lots of fun stories for me, he even got a pony ride!

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Before the trip & After the trip.

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Every Friday after school the kids and I make a trip to the Public Library to check out a new book. They love this and LOVE checking out their books at the computer with their very own library cards. A fun thing for them to look forward to each week. It has just worked out that every time we go we run into someone from Owen’s class. This week we ran into Gwen & her little sister Anna. The kids had a blast together on the computers :)

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And this past Saturday the kids and I attended Owen’s friend Keelan’s 5th Birthday Party. It was a swimming party at the ridge rec center and we all had a blast. Happy Birthday Keelan!

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Autumn & Eisley. They are the cutest!

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Lauren, Luke, Owen & Autumn.

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Apparently we sing too loud for the Bday boy. Lol.

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I think that officially sums it up and I am all caught up…..until tomorrow at least! Have a great week y’all!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Behind on Blogging Massive Picture Catch-Up!

Here is a random compile of pictures I found on my phone that I am clearly way behind blogging on….

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I’ll start with a couple pictures of Autumn that shows off her many levels of awesomeness. Seriously, she’s amazing!

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We attended a 30th Birthday Party for one of our dear family friends Kylee. It was a Cocktail Party and we were encouraged to wear ‘Cocktail Attire’. It was a really fun night with an excuse to dress up :)

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Happy Birthday Kylee. Love ya lady!

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Kylee is Travis’ (Brandon’s childhood BFF) little sister. The Morton Family is the Best Ever! Thanks Traci for throwing a great party.

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No words are necessary to describe how proud we are of our Broncos!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Brandon and I Celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary. We didn’t really do much (like date night) because if I am being 100% honest, money is really tight right now. Between Brandon moving to a new community with work and all my medical stuff, we just didn’t feel like spending unnecessary money. Plus we have a really fun Date Night coming up the beginning of November to go see the Book of Mormon Play, so we decided that will be our belated Anniversary Celebration. So we spent the day just being a family. After we got Owen from School we headed to a Park where Brandon surprised me with some delicious Klondike Bars (I am an addict and I would DO A LOT for a Klondike Bar) and we let the kids play. After the park we headed to Rib City for a family BBQ dinner night out. It was a lot of fun and I am beyond honored to be the wife of such an amazing man who will do any and everything for me and our family.

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Awe, such sweet memories. Hard to believe this was SEVEN years ago! Love you babe!

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Throwing rocks in the creek with Dad!

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Fried Okra (Mine & Autumns Fav) & BBQ Sauce Cheers :)

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And we ended our special day with a nice relaxing Family Movie Night!

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Owen had Spirit Week at school. Each day they had a certain attire requirement (it was optional of course) and Owen LOVED it.

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Tuesday was Favorite Hobby Day, Owen chose his Tball shirt since he LOVES tball.

Wednesday was Mismatched Day. I have to admit for my very type A personality this was a really hard one for me. I think we did pretty well despite my minor panic attack as I helped him get dressed :)

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Thursday was Crazy Hat Day. He chose his hat from his Halloween Costume last year, Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba.

Friday was Favortie Sports Team Day. Owen chose to wear his Colorado Avalanche Wind Suit.

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We got our first really light snow of the season last week. Yay!!!!!!!!! It only lasted a few hours, it didn’t stick since the ground was still too warm, and we are back in the 70’s a couple days later, but I LOVED it while it lasted :)

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Autumn is still loving gymnastics….

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I have an obsession with baking Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Raisin Cookies. Seriously, as soon as we run out I bake more. They taste like Muffin tops, goodness they are amazing.

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YUM-O!!!!!!!!

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Owen completed his 5 weeks of Roller Skating Lessons. If you remember my rant about his first lesson and how he wasn’t liking it and/or trying very well. I have to say he came a LONG way in 5 weeks. I am so proud of him for sticking it out and actually skating. I knew he could do it if he just tried!

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He’s so super handsome!

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Go Owen!!!!!!! By the end he was FINALLY skating all by himself. I’m truly proud of him.

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What a turkey…

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Literally.

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And a little annual comparison of the kiddos.

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Left: October 2012 & Right: October 2013

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Left: October 2012 & Right: October 2013

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To say I am blessed is a complete and utter understatement.

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Thanks for stopping by for a little random update on The Burgess Family!