I'm just expanding his imagination!

It always amuses me how Oliver can turn anything into a play thing. He loves turning his food into cars...fries, sandwiches, chicken nuggets...Whatever he eats ends up being a car at some point. He also loves stacking anything that can look stackable. I was wondering why he turns these non-toy items into toys, when I realized what I have him play with in the bath...That's right...his baby soap, a rubber duck in a bikini (it was for Lily, but I felt bad that he had no toys), an empty soap bottle, a tupperware bowl, and a hair serum tube. The boy HAS to use his imagination with toys like these!

Future Architect?

Oliver built this stucture all on his own the other day. He loves to build things and then run out of his room clapping because he knows he's built a master piece! I love seeing his imagination at work!

Halloween Happenings

My little Candy Monster!

Farmer Brown

Baby Chick

Farmer with his just hatching chick!

Helping PopPop carve the pumpkin

Even though we didn't end up trick or treating (Oliver was just too tired!) we still had a super fun Halloween! We went to a party with Oliver's little friends, then we surprised PopPop in our full costumes! Oliver helped him carve a pumpkin. For dinner we had burgers and brats and for dessert we had pumpkin streusel bars. After sucha big day, Oliver went to bed early like a good little farmer should!

Lily's Blessing

On Sunday Lily was blessed by Shane. She looked so pretty and Shane gave a beautiful and inspirational blessing. He blessed her with a life full of service and talents. It was so nice. Afterward, Shane bore a very heartfelt testimony. I'm so grateful for such a righteous and well meaning husband.
Both my parents and Shane's parents were able to witness this event. After church mom and dad made us all a delicious dinner of lemon chicken, potatoes, and artichokes, as well as asparagus. It was a great day and I'm grateful to all who participated in it.

Apple "Picking"

Last Friday afternoon we headed over to Demerritt Orchard, about a 5 minute drive away, to finally get some apple picking in! Much to our dismay, when we got there, we saw a sign that said they were open, but the PYO apples (pick your own) were done for the season! So we had Oliver "pick" a bag of apples from the country store. They were cortlands, DELISH! There was a minimum amount for a credit card purchase, so of COURSE we had to buy some freshly made cider donuts aswell! Yum Yum Yum!
Instead of picking apples we went out on the grounds and fed some goats, said hi to some chickens, played on the wooden train and bus, and just enjoyed the cool fall weather. It was a great afternoon!

SUPER Birthday!

A couple of weeks ago our friends, the Camerons, invited us over for murder mystery dinner with a super hero theme for Mike's birthday! It was lots of fun figuring out our costumes. Not surprisingly Shane got quite excited about dressing up as a superhero. His character's name was Vampo-Man and he drew his powers from the dark side. I was Stingmata and my character drew on powers from poison. Our friends the Siebachs and the Olsens came along aswell. All the men got VERY into their costumes, as you will see from the pictures! Some enjoyed the spandex undies aspect more than others and we'll leave it at that... Ariane did a great job at planning a really fun night with friends! It was definitely a memorable birthday!

Chubby-kins!

I took Lily to get weighed yesterday on her 1 month birthday! She was 10 lbs 5 ozs. Thirteen days ago she was 9 pounds even. That means she is gaining at a rate of 1.6ozs per day. At this rate she will weigh 36.5 pounds next year! That is 5 pounds more than Oliver weighs now! Luckily, we know she'll slow down eventually...but we certainly don't have to worry about having a scrawny baby! Hooray for chubby babies!