Trunk-r-Treat

This week we had our ward trunk-r-treat at a family farm. We had hot dogs, hay rides and the trunk-r-treat! Since Blake was a Dalmatian puppy Tanner and I decided to be fireman!

Family pic at the farm. Surprise face is Blakes favorite right now.
Here's our trunk and it says fire station. we had a emergency light that was going and reflector from our car emergency kit:)
Blake was done trunk-r-treating after he got one sucker.
He loves to play with George and they looked so cute in their puppy and lion costumes.
We are on the hay ride with Kolby, Jess and George! It was a fun halloween trunk-r-treat!

Fun at the Park!

Blake and I went to the park with a few friends (not an unusual occurrence) and my friend Paige decided to bring her camera and snap a few pics. Then she gave me a copy of the ones she took of Blake. Here are a couple that I thought were cute.

I love that you can see all 6 of his teeth!
Surprise face!
Sweet little boy! He loves going down the slide! that is when she got most of his pics with him smiling.

Boo Zoo

The Louisville Zoo has a trick or treat in their zoo every weekend in October. This past weekend we got Blake a costume and took him to the zoo. This year he is puppy because he loves dogs! He says "pupp, arf, arf!". He doesn't love the hat but he keeps it on for a while before he gets sick of it. We have a few things we are going to this month where he can wear his costume so he should be use to it by halloween:)

I fell in love with this costume when i saw it because its so dang cute. I got it at pottery barn kids and probably paid to much for it since its little kid costume, but i justified it by saying he will wear it a bunch this month. tanner said its ok, he will just be a puppy for the next three years! JK:) Both of his grandparents sent him surprise packages this month with money for a costume so he could be the cutest puppy on the block! Its great to be the only grandson!
can you find the puppy(Blake) in the hay maze?
I didn't get a chance to take very many pics while we were at boo zoo because i notice about half way through my camera was missing! i was so sad:( It had so many pics i hadn't downloaded yet. So i called sunday, they didn't have it; i called monday, they didn't have it and i was worried; when i called tuesday they had it! I was sooo grateful that someone had turned it in! I'v had my camera for years and love it! So we went today (wednesday) and picked it up. Since we were already at the zoo blake and i stopped in for a visit for a couple hours. Here he is staring at the tiger. I think he thought it was the biggest puppy he'd ever seen!
This was a statue of a pig he was scared of... so i sat him on it and took a pic! He wasn't scared anymore.

sunny acre farms pumpkin festival

Tanner, Blake and I went to sunny acre farms for their pumpkin festival this past saturday. It was only about 20 min away and they had animals you could pet, bounce house, hay maze corn box, little tractors to ride, and pumpkins everywhere!

Here is Blake and Tanner checking out the horse. Blake was so interested especially because it kept neighing. He wanted to put his arm through and pet it but whenever it got too close he would get nervous and pull his arm back. It was a huge horse!
Blake the farmer on his tractor and daddy the work horse pushing him through the fields.
Blake in the hay maze he kept getting stuck at the dead ends. This is his surprised face he does. I use to do it to him all the time and didn't realize it until he started doing it back to me:)
this pic cracks me up! mommy is having way more fun then blake here! i dont think he wanted to be a cow right then.
ohhh look at those muscles! he thought he was so cool cause he could lift the little pumpkins over his head.

First 'real' hair cut!

Blake had his hair trimmed when he was 11 months old but that was just around the sides, none off the top. A couple weeks ago we started to notice just how long his hair was getting not only around the sides again, but especially on top. So we borrowed some clippers and tanner got to work!

Here is how long his hair was in the back before we cut it. I probably could have put it in a ponytail!
This was a better shot of the front and how long it was. Its also morning and he just woke up so the bed head doesn't help. He is playing with halloween stickies for the window.
We let him feel the clippers so he knew they were not scary. He thought they tickled his hand.
Still a little scary but he did great! Didn't move or complain the whole time tanner cut his hair.
Finished product! He's a little traumatized! Just Kidding we don't even think he noticed his hair was gone this is just his surprised face he does when we thinks something is cool. Anyway, i LOVE it! I think it makes him look sooo cute and older! i can't believe i kept it that long, for so long!

Schimpff's Confectionary (Candy Shop)

We went to the cutest candy shop in Indiana about 20 min from our apartment. It was open in 1891 and is still in the same building and has the original machinery. We were able to watch them make 12 inch suckers, get a tour of their candy museum (not of old candy but of containers, machines etc.), buy some yummy candy, and get a scoop of the best pumpkin pie ice cream i have ever had! When we first got there they gave us a sample of their chocolate and Blake stuffed the whole thing in his mouth then tried to grab mine out of my hand! The lady gave me two because im eating for two:) We were able to go with our friends Kolby and Jess and their son George, one of Blake's good friends. Unfortunately i forgot my camera so i was not able to take pics. of everyone. The candy shop is located on a cute old street right near the river and they are doing a trick or treat on the 25th we might go too. It was a fun and yummy trip!

Deere Farms

We went to a pumpkin patch on Saturday Oct. 9, 2010 called Deere Farms in Indiana. It was so fun! We went with our friends Keith and Natalie and their little girl, McKenzie, who is almost 2 and one of Blake's friends. The farm had a hay maze, corn maze, corn kernel box (like a sand box), jump house, tube slide, ponies, hay ride, and a pumpkin patch! We got to do everything and Blake just loved it!

Here he is in the hay maze stuck in a dead end. Blake would run through it as fast as he could then all of a sudden get stuck at a dead end, his face is so confused.

Blake and Mckenzie in the corn Kernel box. They could have played in there all afternoon. What a good idea it was so nice to not have to clean sand off the kids. I want one of these in my back yard!

Here are the two pumpkins we picked at the pumpkin patch. We had to pull his socks up all the way to his knees cause the pumpkin patch had tall plants we had to walk though.
Here we are on the hay ride on our way back from the pumpkin patch to the hay ride.

24 weeks

I went in for my 24 week appointment and everything looks good! The baby is moving so much now! It already feels like she's doing flips in there. I feel good, not sick anymore, and not too uncomfortable yet.

15 months

Blake had his 15 month check up and i can't believe he is getting so old! He's still a baby but its still surprising how fast he is growing up! Here is a little about Blake... He loves puppies, the wii, outside, park, running, reading, bath time, fruit, friends (george, kenz, brynlie), playing in dirt and puddles, laughing, dad, and many more things but thats what i could think of off the top of my head. He has 6 teeth now, 4 top, 2 bottom, blond hair and brown eyes. Says momma, dadda, hat, and ba for bottle, bath, ball and bug. Theres a slight variation between each b word so i can tell the difference but i don't think anyone else can. He starts a word but has a hard time finishing it. i think he says more but i can't think of any right now. He moo's for a cow and arf arf for a dog/puppy. i can't decide what he should be for halloween a puppy because he loves them or a monkey because the costume is so cute! decisions, decisions... We have lots of fun things planned for the month of october so many fun posts to come!

Its finally starting to cool off here in louisville. We are so glad to be breaking off from the 90 degree weather.
Blake loves books! i often catch him in his room by himself looking through all his book or he follows me around the house saying momma momma trying to hand me a book. Of course i stop what im doing and we read a book, hopefully this love of books lasts!

Out with friends

A couple weekends ago tanner's dental school held a ball on a boat called the bell of louisville. Its a landmark for louisville being 95 year old cruise ship. Now people can go on it for dinner and tours, and events. We were so excited to go until we found out it was going out on the water at 8pm and not coming back until 11pm. Then we found out there was not going to be dinner but light snacks and an open bar. Since we didn't have any to watch blake that long and we didn't find the open bar appealing, we decided not to go. Instead we went to dinner with all of our friends in the same shoes as us. It was a great restaurant right on the river. There was a big deck outside where most people ate that lead right down to the water. The boats even docked at the restaurant and you could get off and eat there or they would bring your food to you on your boat. It was such a fun atmosphere and we had a party of 10 good friends. After we ate dinner we went and got ice cream with everyone and by the time we were finished we had to rush home to pick up Blake from the baby sitter. Its always fun with food, friends, and freedom!