Reece is such a sweet boy. After baths tonight, I told him to find his silky and he got it and climbed right into bed all by himself. I hadn't even said anything about putting him to bed, although that was my plan, and he just crawled right up and laid down. I love how cooperative both of my kiddos are about bedtime, sometimes I wish they would LET me rock and snuggle them to sleep, but I'm so grateful that I don't HAVE to rock them to sleep every night. Doesn't Bubba look so sweet in these pics, my baby's getting so big, WAAAAHHHH!

Pumpkin Carving

We finally got around to carving our pumpkins last night. The kids had so much fun pulling all of the "guts" out, I didn't know how Reece would respond to this part because of his sensory issues, but he had no problem with it.

Opening his pumpkin for the first time, he has kind of a disgusted look on his face.

Opening her pumpkin, she couldn't wait to dig in.
She cleaned out her own pumpkin and then did most of mine.

Helping daddy pop out the pieces of her Jack-O-Lantern.
The final product.

I let Reece help me do the cutting on his pumpkin, so he basically designed it himself.

Mine is the monster on the left, and Dave's is the haunted house next to mine.

Red Robin

After the pumpkin Patch yesterday the kids and I went with Marshall and Nichole to Red Robin for lunch. I always dread taking the kids out to eat by myself because they can be pretty naughty, but they were actually really good, and I got some really cute pictures of them too.

These pics with the basket on their heads turned out really cute.

This is probably the only bite she took of her grilled cheese sandwich.
What is it with kids and balloons?

Makeshift floss.

Tanner being a cutie.

Carter never smiles for me.

Punkin Patch, Lots of Pictures

The kids and I made a trek to the pumpkin patch today. It was a lot of fun. The kiddos had never been before, I don't think I've been since elementary school so it was a good experience for us. I took so many pictures, 96 actually, when I got home and downloaded them to the computer I couldn't believe it. I loved the way most of the pictures turned out. Reece and Sierra were being so photogenic. There's even a few of me in there, which we all know doesn't happen that often. For the most part we had fun, I couldn't stand how dirty the kids got, next time I definitely wont put them in some of their cuter clothes, but I wanted them to look nice in the pictures. We took Piper along too ,which might have been a bad idea because she couldn't come to the second patch we stopped at so she spent a good amount of time stuck in the car, and it was hard to wrangle her plus 2 kids. the kids had a blast and are down for naps now even though it's already after 3 o'clock, our schedule is going to be a little messed up tonight I guess.

More Pictures

I had to post some more of these old pictures, they are just so cute. These 2 of Reece are so funny, he was sucking on this alligator just like a binky. In the second one you can see how he's keeping it in his mouth all by himself, it was so funny.

This one is so sweet, I love how Sierra is looking at Bubba.

This is one of my all time favorite pictures of Reece. I made that hat for him and he looks so warm and snugly, with the sweetest look on his face.

Sierra was trying to pretend to sleep in this picture. I actually took a picture of her where she wasn't smiling so much and than I made her laugh and took this picture. She look s so young in this picture, she still has her baby face.

So I really suck at blogging lately. I just haven't been in the mood to post anything and I feel like I haven't had much time to sit down at he computer and write. It doesn't help that I'm not the best typist so it takes me forever. I wanted to post a quick update about the kiddos. Reece will getting braces put on his legs sometime in the near future. He had and evaluation at the therapists last Thursday and he said that Reece compensates for the sensory issues by trying to keep as much of his feet off of the ground as possible while he walks, he basically tries to walk on is heels because his toes are the most sensitive. He also has naturally weak ankles which doesn't help the issue. The braces will go a few inches up his leg and to about the arch of his foot.
Sierra hasn't been doing much lately, she's had some behavior issues which we are trying to work on, mostly listening and obeying and not being a pain in the rear.
I'll be working part time starting next week, I'm so excited about this. I feel like I'm just drained from being up at 5 every morning and I'm ready for a change. I'll be working from 7:30 to 12 every day, which means I'll get to sleep in an extra hour and come home to put the kids down for naps. Having the kids nap at home is going to be so awesome. I'll be able to get so much done while they're asleep, and probably get some naps in myself. Yea!

Just some quick pics from the past. We're headed out on a date.

I just spent the last 3 hrs transferring pictures from our old, broken computer to our new one. I thought these pictures might be lost forever since the computer was so crummy, but I figured out how to put them on a flash drive, which I made a spur of the moment trip to Walmart for. It took me forever to figure out how to get them on the flash drive and than forever to do it. i transferred over 1200 pictures. Now the fun begins, over the next few days i get to organize all of them into folders, that should be a really good time. Not to mention taking out all of the red eye. here are a few random pictures I came across. I'll probably post some of these evey now and then just to remember the old times when my babies were still babies.