Love it

In July of 2008 Ethan and I began work on what is now the home that I love. With the incredible help of Ethan's family we were able to get our home to "move-in" condition by the middle of August. At that point most of the inside was complete but a lot still lacked in our yard. It may be hard to believe but this picture is a HUGE improvement to what it was like when we bought the house. If you look at the line where the grass stops (right before the tree) from that line back to the fence was completely over grown with several large trees and who knows what else. The men worked very hard on clearing it all out. This was picture taken about this time last year.

And this is what it looks like today!...
I LOVE my home! I love looking out my back window to this beautiful yard. And pretty garage :). It's not perfect, but it sure is a Big improvement! And its a safe fun place for my little man to play! Landon loves being outside exploring and swinging on his swing.

It was so overgrown in the back that we did not even know,

that we had a shed!

It's amazing what a new roof and grass and can do!
So if you look to the right of the shed you will see our compost,

which grew a butternut squash plant!

It produced Massive squash!!!

What a fun magical place our backyard is becoming!

Fun Fall Festivities!

What a Glorious time of year! I LOVE Fall! I love all the seasons all for different reasons, but I think Fall is my favorite! It's when we were blessed with our Landon, it's when Ethan's birthday is, the weather is crisp and cool but not cold, the trees turn beautiful colors and who cannot forget about Halloween and Thanksgiving!!! Two food centered Holidays- YUM! I just love Fall! So far this year's Fall has been awesome!

Here's a fun Landon story. Sunday mornings are always busy with Ethan gone at church meetings I'm always running like a mad women trying to get everything ready for church. This Sunday while I was doing my makeup Landon came into the kitchen for a snack... He found the bag of sugar in the cupboard pulled it out of the grocery bag and onto the floor. Luckily it was a new bag, but a little bit of sugar spilt in the mean time. So when I came into the kitchen Landon was carefully picking up sugar off the ground and putting it in his mouth. And as I got closer to him to see what he was eating he kept eating faster! haha. So my son had straight sugar for breakfast, and I wonder why he had a hard time napping that day :).

If you look closely you can see specs of sugar on his chin.

If you look on the left you see a little bit of sugar still on the ground.
I gave him the bread when I found him, hoping he would want to eat that instead!

One afternoon I got Landon from his nap and this what I saw...

A pretty fun crazy hairdo!

I decided that their weren't enough pictures of me and my baby.

So I took some myself of us!

We sure love each other!


He is such a sweetheart!

He doesn't really like hats...


Ethan didn't have any school on Columbus Day so we were able to go play at Huber's Farm with some of our friends. We had such a fun time!!!

Landon is kind of heavy, we have found it easiest to carry him on the shoulders.

The weather was so perfect that day!

I don't think we could have picked a better day to spend outside.

We went to a pumpkin patch and searched for our perfect pumpkins.

We came back with these two.

We especially liked the lumpy ones.

We're thinking of calling it Pago the Pumpkin..haha

Sitting in a pumpkin Patch!

What do you think? Does he look like his mama at all?

We are about the same age in the picture!

Landon wasn't sure what to think of the loud tractor pulling us.

We found a fun spot for Landon to play in the grass!

His dad was playing horse shoes and thought it was hilarious!

He loves being outside!

I am so lucky to have a baby who is so much fun!!!

Family Photo at the Pumpkin Patch!

We had such a wonderful day!

It was the perfect way to spend a free fall day!