Hattie's 1st Birthday Party

This past Saturday, the boys and I along with mamaw traveled to Athens for Hattie's birthday party. She is the daughter of my cousin Barbara and she turned 1. They went all out with an adorable pumpkin party. We left papa and daddy home to continue harvesting. The boys had a great time playing with balloons, taking pictures inside the big pumpkin, decorating pumpkins, playing in the sand table, watching Hattie open her presents, roasting hot dogs, and eating cupcakes. It was a gorgeous day and we are so glad that we were able to help her celebrate!

            He was so proud of his decorated pumpkin!

                                       Birthday girl with Great Grandma D

I just wanted a cute picture with my boys and this is what happened! Oh well, it still turned out pretty cute!

Helping with Harvest

Bryce loves to help with harvest. It is his favorite time. He waits all year for this. Daddy also loves helping with harvest, and rushes home from work so that he can help haul in wagons for papa. I love looking out my kitchen windows seeing Bryce doing what he loves. He is definitely our little farmer. Blaine loves riding in the combine with papa but is not quite as interested in helping papa everyday like Bryce is. He has more fun playing in the basement with Bianca and Karina.

Tanner's Orchard

This past Monday, I had a random day off from watching the Swanson girls so I decided to take the boys to Tanner's Orchard for the morning. It was a gorgeous day to be outside and the boys had a blast of course. It is so much cheaper to go during the week than on the weekends. It only cost $3 for Bryce to get into the play area. Blaine and I were free. If we went on a Saturday or Sunday it would have cost us $8 per person no matter what age. We brought our lunch and had a picnic in the van which the boys thought was pretty cool! While we were eating lunch, Bryce kept saying, "This good idea mommy, thank you for bringing us here. We having so much fun." He was just so appreciative, it was very sweet. Their favorite areas included the combine, (of course) the fire truck, the blue tractor, putt putt golf, and mining for gold. They always seemed to be going in different directions so I do not have many pictures as I was trying to keep my eye on each one. The other good thing about going during the week and getting there right when it opened was the fact that we pretty much had the area to ourselves. I just love spending each day with these two little cuties!

23 Weeks!

This picture was taken last week as I am now 24 weeks pregnant. Past the halfway mark, yeah!!!I am feeling pretty good lately and I can feel my stomach muscles expanding if that makes any sense at all. My belly button has popped out again just like with the boys and it sticks out far! You can totally see it if I wear any type of shirt. It also gets bumped quite often and gets sore. The boys are starting to notice my belly getting bigger and Bryce made the comment the other day. "You're cheeks (he was touching my chest) and belly are getting big!" Shane and I laughed pretty hard at that one!