Halloween

Our first Halloween in our new house!! We got a surprise visit from Aunt Mary, Uncle Patrick and Cousin Addie!! We were excited to meet some of our neighbors. We had a grand total of like 15 kids!! So different from going to the Monners where they get several HUNDRED!!

I love little kid costumes. They are so sweet. We had farm animals in our family this Halloween. Connor had fun picking out his costume at Ragstock. It was one of the costumes that he will be able to wear again. One of his favorite things to wear is his top hat that we got him for our wedding. He went trick-or-treating in downtown Hopkins with his friend Gilbert. They had a good time running around... oh, and getting candy :)

Here are some pics!!

Scary Connor:


Cool Connor:

Here are the little ones. Addie the chicken and Evalyn the cow.

Funny Addie!!

Hmm... is Addie's cheek soft??

The beautiful babies!

Here is Evalyn outside on the front step... with the pumpkins.

Crawling

So my life had changed quite a bit!! Evalyn is now crawling. It's so cute to watch her move around! I was checking email one morning (as usual) and Evalyn was playing on the floor with her toys. I looked up to see her and, to my surprise, NO Evalyn. She had crawled into the kitchen. She was happily playing with a pair of my shoes. These shoes now get dragged all around the house.

Gus and Bear are not so keen on the crawling. Bear is better, as long as he is not sleeping. He lays there and lets her tug on his ears and play with the tags on his collar. It's so sweet. Of course, he gets to clean her ears and face while she does it! Gus just gets mad now, and leaves.

So, here is where she ended up the other day....under a chair in our family room!!

She was also moving around at Addie's birthday party.

Connor's Championship Game

Connor played football in Big Lake this year. It was sometimes difficult to get him there, but Chris and Kevin (Connor's Step-Dad) managed to work it out.

Connor's team made it all the way to the championship game. They came in 2nd! It was a really tough game. The Rogers team that they played was undefeated, and the ONLY team that Connor's team lost to. He had a great season, made some friends and had a good time. Connor is really fun to watch play, he's really good!!

Here are some photos!

Evalyn's Dedication

We dedicated Evalyn on October 4th, 2009. We were blessed to have family and friends attend. She is very loved and has many people that are praying for her, and are excited to teach her about Jesus.

Connor, the Hasketts, and the Monners all came up and prayed for her and pledged to teach her about God.

It was such a wonderful event. I cried through most of it because it was so amazing and I felt so blessed to have so many people there that love our family and little Evalyn.

Did I mention that Connor is Evalyn's favorite person!!

Pumpkin Patch

We took Evalyn to her first pumpkin patch. We had lots of fun getting pictures of her. She usually wants to touch everything she can get her little hands on, but was not interested in touching anything at the pumpkin patch.

Connor was hanging out with Uncle Jim working on a retaining wall. He is very much in the teen years and wanted to earn money. He did well that day! Jim was very happy to have the help of a teenager too.

Daddy had a good time showing her all the different pumpkins and squash.

She wasn't real sure she liked sitting on the pumpkins. It was a little strange, but so cute!



Mommy and Evalyn posing for Daddy.

Getting Bigger

It is so amazing how fast babies grown. Evalyn is almost 6 months old now. She is about 15 lbs and growing every day. She has changed so much in the past month, it's so awesome to watch.

It seems everyday there is some new thing that she is doing. I love to watch her change and learn new things. She is grabbing for toys on her tummy now, and she can move around in a circle. She is sitting pretty good, she just needs a little help to steady

herself. She loves to chew on my fingers and puts them in her mouth every chance she gets. Good thing she doesn't have teeth

yet! She bites hard!

We gave her rice cereal for the first time today. She did pretty good, as long as she could suck on the spoon too. Hopefully that will continue to go well. Dad is going to try tomorrow night :) She is so interested in our food that we need to get her going before she tries to eat ours!! She intently watches you put the food into your mouth and then go for more. It's really funny to watch.

She still loves to stretch and stand. She loves to talk to her toys a lot. She gets frustrated when she can't shove them into her mouth.

Father's Day Weekend

We all went up to the cabin for Father's Day. Chris, Connor, Evlayn, Lowell and myself. We had lots of fun. We went and got ice cream, the boys went to the races, we went for a boat ride and Chris and Connor played video games. Chris and Connor even braved the cold water and went swimming with Bear. Evlayn and I hung out on the boat, she can't wear sunblock yet. It was so beautiful on Saturday. Sunday it rained, but that provided father/son bonding time for Chris and Connor... playing video games.