Lot of updates!

I guess we have been pretty busy around here, so I have a lot of updates!

We have decorated our house for Christmas! My favorite time of year (well to decorate at least!). Here is our new armour! Actually it was my parents but it didn't fit in their new house so we got it! I love it and it goes great with our new floors and furniture! The snowman on the top was a gift from Seth last year, he gets me a snowman every year and that was the one he got me last year! On the shelf is my Willow Tree Nativity Scene, my mom gets me a piece every year for it!

Dylan is hanging out in daddy's new chair! It is so comfy!
We got up Saturday morning and decorated the tree, it is so much more fun when Dylan gets to help!
This is our snowman family! The little one is half K-State and half KU! Dylan calls them mommy snowman, daddy snowman, and Dylan snowman!

Dylan's table is decorated for Christmas too!

We have a VERY loud train that goes around the tree, a lot of fun but noisy!
Dylan found our snowman kit, so he decided to dress himself as the snowman! He has on the hat, scarf, carrot nose, and the pipe!
Dylan has been wanting to wear his cowboy lately! Here he is at Lowes when we picked out our Christmas tree. He wore it to Wal-Mart today and we saw another boy wearing one, but he was in cowboy gear head to toe!!
Shop til You Drop!!
Friday morning my mom, sister, and I met in Lawrence at 4 AM to shop! It was a blast! We said we would only do it once, but we already have plans for next year! We shopped from 4 in the morning until 1:00 in the afternoon! I haven't laughed that hard in so long! I am so lucky to have such a great relationship with my sister and my mom! We get along so well and have a lot of fun together! As you can see in the picture, we seem to have similar shirts on, that is because we do!! My mom and I bought the 3 of us Christmas shirts about a month ago. We told my sister that we all had different ones and that we are all going to wear them shopping! My sister thought it was a great idea but we had a surprise for her...when we saw my mom Friday morning (at 3:45) Ashley looked at me and said I think mom has on the same shirt as me then I unzipped my jacket to reveal that I also had it on!! Ash had some choice words for us but we all laughed so hard and she was a good sport!!

Go Wildcats!

What an adventure Dylan and I had Saturday!! The two of us headed west and went to the K-State game! We met my aunt, uncle, and cousins there and tailgated with them and sat at the game with them. On the way there Dylan and I stopped to get him a K-State stocking cap--as we were leaving the store I said, Go Wildcats and my fabulous son said...no Go Jayhawks!! He would only say go wildcats a couple times, every other time it was go jayhawks!! Seth swears he didn't teach him that, I had a talk with our nephews and they take the blame, but they are very proud!! Dylan loved hanging out in the parking lot before the game and during half time. He played football with his cousin Brady and his friend Connor. He has so much fun playing with the big boys. At one point Dylan stopped playing and some college boys were playing with his football, Dylan came and got me, took me to were they were playing, literally pushed me in the middle of the game and said, "go get my football mommy". I asked for it back and that boy was not going to give it up to anyone! It was so much fun and I can't wait to take him to a game every year so he can understand what his mommy loves so much! I know he may like KU more, but I will make sure he is always respectful towards K-State and is a good sport.

Leaves, Leaves, and more Leaves!

What a week! Monday morning we left our house thinking we wouldn't return until Friday and we would have beautiful original hardwood floors...not quite!! By 10:30 Monday morning the flooring guy had already called Seth with problems. The previous owners had painted the floors white because they must have had very naughty pets, there are stains everywhere. They are black and basically won't go away even with sanding and staining! So, we stopped the work and we are going to have the guy lay new floors. This won't happen for a week or 2 though.

While our floors were going to be getting done, we were going to stay at my sister's house. We stayed Monday night and Dylan and I went over there for a while Tuesday while Seth bowled. This is what Ashley and I found Dylan and Uncle Brad doing---looking at pictures of tractors on the computer!

Last weekend we spent the morning raking the leaves in our front yard! It was a lot of work, but Dylan loved helping and jumping in the big piles!

Seth would probably kill me if he knew I was posting this for everyone to see, but oh well!! I was in my bedroom after work and here comes Dylan down the hall, only a diaper, "big socks" (that is what Dylan calls them), and my high heels!! I thought it was too cute!!

Another cute one, this is how Dylan feel asleep the other night-hugging his Elmo!

Happy Halloween!

Dylan and his cousins getting ready to go trick or treating! Dylan is the scary skeleton!

Here is my very scary skeleton! He kept telling everyone he was a scary skeleton for Halloween! He didn't like the mask too much though! This morning (Monday) when we were getting dressed he told me he wanted to wear his costume!!

Daddy and Dylan in the parade at my school!

We (the other 2 3rd grade teachers-Tiffany and Erin)dressed up as Cat in that Hat. The students got a kick out of our outfits!

This is Daddy and Dylan at the beginning of the KSU-KU game. All decked out in KU. I had no choice, I came home from an errand and this is what Seth had picked out for Dylan.
Dylan and mommy after KU scored twice in the first 10 minutes! I didn't want to make cupcakes, but Dylan got out the cupcake liners, sprinkles and the box-so we made cupcakes!
Dylan and mommy by the 2nd quarter! I got up and went into work for a while, there was no use staying home and hoping for a comeback at that point!

Saturday we went to my parents to help them in their new house. We had to go to Lowes to buy some new things, and this is how Grandpa and Dylan left the store! Dylan got his own tools to help out with!

cupcakes, cupcakes, and more cupcakes

Ashley came over Thursday evening and the 2 of us (well, Dylan helped too) decorated lots of cupcakes! We love to bake and decorate for the holidays (or just for the heck of it)! We found some cute ideas and recreated them ourselves.

This first one I did all by myself, and I even thought of the idea! I thought it turned out pretty cute!

This one may be my favorite! It was on a cupcake, but we decided to make a cake! So cute, and very easy!

Here is a mummy cupcake (with Frankenstein in the background)!

These didn't turn out that great, we will work on them some more next year! They are supposed to be Frankenstein! And here ate the bats! Cutting the peanut butter cups was hard, but so much fun because I got to eat the left over pieces!

The best helper ever! This boy loves to help in the kitchen, and I love his help! Such a fun time for the two of us!

He was inspecting our cake, making sure it looked just right!

Dylan helping Aunt Ashley with the sprinkles!

Carving Pumpkins!

Last night we carved our pumpkins for Halloween. It is so much fun and a tradition I know we will continue as long as our kids allow it! I can remember drawing on paper how I wanted my pumpkin to look when I was younger then my dad carved it out EXACTLY how I wanted it! It was always so much fun. The part I hated was waiting to carve them. We would always get our pumpkins early in October but we wouldn't carve them until the week of Halloween!

This year we found some cool face piece that Dylan could use to decorate his pumpkins. They were like a Mr. Potato Head!

Here is one of his pumpkin creations! So cute! We let him pick out what piece then we put them in. It was a little tough.
This was so fun last night! When Seth opened up the pumpkins Dylan wasn't sure what to do. All he could say was ewwww! It was so cute. After a while he was sticking his hands in there and a spoon to help clean it out (that is why he is shirtless!). After he realized it was fun, he couldn't stop cleaning them out and touching all the inside slimy stuff! He would say, Dylan will do it!

This one looks like he is picking a prize and had to close his eyes!

I was done carving my pumpkin so Dylan and I went outside to put it on the porch and see it all lit up. When we came back in we noticed Seth had his drill out and was using that to make dots or something??!! So...Dylan had to get his drill out and do the same. It was too funny, Dylan didn't even think twice, he just went straight to it like his daddy!Our Jack-O-Lantern masterpieces! We bought lights that go inside that flash red or switch different colors. Pretty fancy compared to the candles we always used!