Daddy of the year

About two months ago I became a Pampered Chef Consultant. After some prayer I decided that it would be a great way to contribute financially to our family and I thought it could be fun to own my own business. It has been great so far. One thing that goes along with that is heading out in the evenings for the shows. Kevin has been nothing but encouraging all along the way, even though it means more work for him one or two nights a week.

October has been a particularly busy month. Not only am I busy with Pampered Chef I am also on our Nursery Committee at church and we are in the process of moving into new facilities, I'm also on the board for my MOMS club which means extra meetings, and I had 2 fun social things on weekends this month. So, Kevin has been 100% in charge almost every weekend this month. And, he did it all without complaining.

No matter what kind of day he's had Kevin always comes home ready to play with the kids. He gets tackled by Ethan for at least a half hour every day when he gets home. Ethan and Morgan's faces just light up as soon as daddy walks through the door. He patiently listens to Ethan's day and answers a bazillion questions between dinner and bedtime. Speaking of bedtime, Kevin always bathes and puts Ethan to bed. It's been their special bonding time for a long time now. I know he treasures that time with Ethan.

Even girls can play football! "Look I'm standing all by myself, I may even walk someday!" Note Ethan in the background and you can only guess what happened next.

Funny faces with Daddy!

Pumpkin Patch

We headed over to the pumpkin patch last Saturday. We decided to try a new one by us, it's more than just a pumpkin patch. It's kind of like pumpkin patch meets Disneyland. You can take train rides, hay rides and horse rides. You can jump in jump houses or ride down zip lines. You can go through a corn maze and feed some animals. You can ride go-carts or shoot pumpkins out of a pumpkin gun. Oh yeah, and pick out a pumpkin. Being the geniuses that we are we headed there at about 4:30 on a Saturday afternoon....along with the rest of Northern California. It was crazy busy, but we gave it a try and saw a few things. We got a picture by the pumpkins and Ethan got to ride on a horse. We decided that the other little pumpkin patch we've gone to the last few years is just perfect for our kids for now. We have a lot more time to do it the crazy way when they get older.

Morgan loved looking at the horses.

Ethan loved riding the horse! I had to walk along beside him most of the way, but he wore a pretty big smile the whole way.

Picture update

Sorry it's been awhile since our last post. We've just been busy doing life I suppose, nothing major to note, but we have taken a few pictures so here they are.

Miss Morgan is finally getting some teeth in. A couple weeks ago she was pretty miserable as she got 3 teeth in one week. Here she is showing them off. Two on the bottom and two on top. The third one on top is almost through.

The other morning while I was washing dishes Ethan got a couple bowls out and was "ice skating" California style. He even had to wear his mittens because it was so cold, nevermind that he is bare foot.

Eating some yummy cookies together.

Just some pictures of our happy little girl. She's modeling her birthday outfit from Uncle Ryan and Auntie Jessica. Last week it was actually cold enough to wear it...not so much this week.

Morgan LOVES to climb up onto our little chairs. I finally let her the other day since Ethan was up on one playing in the water. She thought she was pretty cool!

Children's Museum

A couple weeks ago we went to a Children's Museum with my MOMS club. There were a lot of different "grown up" things that were designed for kids to do. Ethan had a lot of fun and Morgan enjoyed herself too.

Making sandwiches in the grocery store.

Morgan was picking pears from the pear tree.

And here is Morgan doing what she does best these days...climbing.

Ethan driving the John Deer tractor.

And driving the CHP motorcycle.

Driving the fire truck too.

Ethan also drove the boat, complete with life jacket...safety first!

Ethan and Morgan are starting to play more together during the day. I can leave them alone together more and more and know that they will get along ok. On this particular day they were having a great time emptying the toy box.