Happy Halloween

I have to admit, this is not my favorite holiday tradition. I can't remember really ever getting into it but I am sure I did as a kid. I mean, who wouldn't with candy involved, right?

This was the first year that Kaylee seemed to enjoy most of it. She was a cat as hopefully you can tell from the pictures. I do have to admit one thing, this child is not afraid of the scary stuff. Our neighbors house had a few things that almost even scared me and she just looked at it and laughed.

On friday night, we went to a friends house for a party. Kaylee the whole way there, "we go to a party?" Even when we were there, she was asking it. We had to keep telling her that we were at the party. She wasn't too impressed, too many people for her I guess.


Halloween night, I took Kaylee to a few of our neighbors houses for them to see her. Of course, as soon as she found out that you go to someone's door and you get candy, she was hooked. We ended up walking around the block with our neighbors and their two boys. She loved it and she did pretty well. We have to work on her "thank you" though. She will do it for people she knows well, but not for just anyone.

Here is daddy and Kaylee with our pumpkin.

In case you missed the pumpking in the previous picture. Brian has been wanting to do Nemo in a long time and since his daughter is soooo into the movie, he thought the timing was right. All the neighbors loved it.

I will have to admit, I did enjoy walking with her and getting a few pieces of candy. I think next year we may try some of the trunk or treat activities around our neighborhood.

Like father like....

daughter? Isn't it supposed to be like son?

The other day, Kaylee's flashlight quit working. So daddy took her downstairs and together they fixed it. Kaylee has been hooked ever since. She (and he) was so proud!! I told Brian as long as she will be my girlie girl, she can follow in his engineer footsteps.

It was quite funny though. The next night, Kaylee decided it was broke again and wanted her daddy to come in and help her fix it again. I am just counting the days until she starts taking things apart on her own, hopefully they are actually broke when she does that:)

Chopsticks

One of Brian's (and possibly mine) favorite place to eat is Huhot. It is Mongolian food and you can go back up as much as you like to make different dishes. Brian insists on eating most of his food with chopsticks. While there, they gave us training chopsticks for Kaylee. I didn't have my camera on me that night, so one of the next mornings she wanted to use them to eat her pancakes and sausage. She has gotten pretty good at it.

not much happening

Not much happening around our house these past few days. I have some pictures from this last weekend to upload but right now we are all under the weather.

Kaylee has a double ear infection and a sinus infection. I let it go for two weeks thinking( and hoping) it was just allergies, but then finally took her in. She went on an antibiotic for a week and then seemed things got worse lats sunday. Took her back in (to our normal doctor this time) and then infection was still pretty bad. She is now on a stronger antibiotic and should hopefully feel better soon.

Brian missed work last monday with not feeling good and over the weekend seemed to be doing better also. Then Sunday night, he started to not feel good either. He headed to Walgreens clinic this past monday and was diagnosed with an ear infection and upper resp stuff. Yesterday, seemed to get worse and have labored breathing so we took him to a different clinic (thanks, Kelli) and he now has bronchitis and was put on even more meds.

Me? I called my OB and told him what was going on and that my ear was raging also. They called in amoxycillin for me too. Ear seems to be on the mend but today, I seem to have lost my voice. I do have to say that none of this has slowed down this baby boy though. Yesterday, I couldn't get him to be still for anything and I am already thining today is going to be the same.

So here is to hoping your household is feeling better than this one and to pray for a quick recovery in this one. None of us seem to be very good patients around here:)

Another busy weekend

Brian's brother and his family offered to come for the weekend and help get some projects done around the house. Of course we took them up on it!!!

I finally have a kitchen sink and dishwasher again!!!! Two weeks was enough for me:)

Here is Kevin and Brian putting the sink back in, with Kaylee looking on. Kaylee needed to get in on the action:

Laura with her daughter, Emma, and Kaylee. We just HAD to get the girls out of the house and go shopping:)

Thanks again guys!!! We got a lot done and any time you want to come back to finish our list would be great!!!!

I will get more pictures of finished projects when we finish a few detailed projects. The house is really coming along:)

Weekend in Review

We have been continually (slowly) working on the kitchen and some other projects around the house. Some dear friends of ours volunteered to take Kaylee for the day so we could get a full work day in!!! Awesome idea!!! Of course the weather wa wonderful all week until saturday, and Kaylee woke up not feeling the greatest. I ran and got her childrens claritin to see if that would help. She perked up by the time they got here and said, "I get my backpack and go." Ok, she was ready to go, to the ZOO!!!


Here are a few pictures they took.




I guess they also took her to petsmart and let her hold a puppy. They told me they got her one, but was glad to only see my daughter getting out of the car. I am not ready for a puppy yet, someday!



While they were out having fun for the day, Brian got the tile laid for the kitchen counter!!! I will get pictures later this week when he has done the backsplash and grout. I am so excited to have counters, and my kitchen sink and dishwasher back!!! He took the kitchen sink out a week ago to get prepped and I have been missing it oh so much!!! It just does not seem the same to wash your dishes in the bathroom sink. I have been trying to grill out more so we don't have many dishes to do but just can't wait to get it back. It looks so good too!!



I painted our basement. It had not been painted since we moved in and was the boring dark beige color. I will also get pictures of it when I finish two area. I have to have Brian help me get one wall done and then it will be complete. It helps to watch HGTV, I painted it a grey color since it is our entertainment area. I LOVE IT!!! I only wish I would have done this 3 years ago when we moved in.



On sunday, Kaylee was still not feeling well, but we tried to head to Church to see how she did. I was pretty sure it was just allergies since there was no fever and such. She perked up once we were there. After Church, we headed to one of Brian's coworkers house for lunch. They have been redoing their kitchen also and wanted to show it off. We grilled out, played some ping pong, and had some good conversation. I was excited to get home though to get comfortable and just lay on the couch for the evening (of course watching the Bears also!!)

That wraps up our weekend. It was very busy, but very productive!! Now I have to run to HD to get more supplies for my husband to finish the grout stuff and take care of a sick kiddo:( Hope you all had a great weekend.